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joint in charlotte with a rousing rallying cry for democrats and a passionate plea for a second obama term. >> i want to nominate a man whos cool on the outside, but who burns for america on the inside. >> platform, poor form, a clumsy 24 hours of talk about god and jerusalem creates an awkward moment for the convention chairman and feels more fire from the right. will president obama try to close that loop on this tonight? florida florida florida, republican turned independent turned ...

University/charlotte observer poll says [ inaudible ] outside the margin of error. what is the strategy for democrats to catch up? joining me now, north carolina governor, our host, bev purdue. thank you very much for having us here. there is a challenge here in north carolina. your unemployment is 9.6%. the president only barely won it. it is a real battleground state. its a state mitt romney really has to win and theyre working very hard to do that. >> not as hard as were working. look at this...

Until then, find us on facebook. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. good afternoon to you, andrea, live from charlotte. good afternoon. thanks so much. coming up live here from our wonderful charlotte house, democratic leader nancy pelosi will be joining us live at this great location along with convention host governor bev purdue and chris matthews, charlie cook, mark halperin, jonathan capehart and michael steele. all that next right here, "andrea mitchell reports." this country was built by...

if you have a coach thats 0-23 million you say its time to get a new coach. its time for america to see a winning season again and were going to bring it to them. >> meanwhile, president obama is gearing up for his convention with a four-day swing state route, one that included iowa and colorado this weekend. today, he holds a rally in ohio, then will tour hurricane damage in louisiana before heading to virginia tomorrow. the president is portraying governor romney as a monday morning ...

osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. >> republicans have already started their counter offensive. >> 23 million people are out of work or stopped looking for work or underemployed. if you have a coach thats 0-23 million, you say its time to get a new coach. >> paul ryan is shadowing the democrats here in north carolina, campaigning this hour across the state in greenville, where he will be speaking moments from now. good day. im andrea mitchell live in charlotte. obvi...

antonio villaraigosa. and also, we will be joined by eric fehrnstrom and also the other star of the republican national convention, ann romney. and we will be joined by "washington post" chief political writer dan balz and jessica yellin, cnn chief white house correspondent. all on this special edition of "state of the union." the president is running for re-election on difficult terrain. no president has won re-election in this economic climate. no president has retaken the presiden...

mark omalley, beth purdue and antonio villaraigosa. and also, we will be joined by eric fehrnstrom and also the other star of the republican national convention, ann romney. and we will be joined by "washington post" chief political writer dan balz and jessica yellin, cnn chief white house correspondent. all on this special edition of "state of the union." the president is running for re-election on difficult terrain. no president has won re-election in this economic climate. no pres...

To bear that burden privately. now imagine lodging the incorrect vote, the deciding vote in another important election and have everyone know that you did it, you were the one that did it. late last night in the north carolina assembly, when most of us had gone home, state lawmakers were voting on whether to override the governments veto of a pro-fracking bill. bev purdue veto ed it, she said no to fracing. on monday, republican lawmakers set about trying to undo her work. in the general assembl...

aisle to make the country better, that freedom is the most important freedom, then you think about the children and the freedom, and et cetera, et cetera. meanwhile, they got done ten minutes before that meeting with six mega donors and theyre voting on the amendment because theyre settling a score they have been nursing since the 2005 budget fight. mitch mcconnell is not really like that. he tells you whats going on. when he speaks i have learned to listen. in fact, of every politicia...

off these proposals because we thought that the only way the american people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. you know what? mcconnell was correct. i think thats one of the most profound things anyone has said about politics. what he understood is what makes a bill bipartisan is not the ideas in it or the spirit in which it is offered. its whether any legislatures from the other party sign on. if they do, by definition, the bill is partisa...