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While in iowa, more than a third of the electorate have already early voted, in wisconsin, only 6% of the electorate have early voted. theyre voting for obama by a huge margin, but there just arent have many of them. so president obama is winning by a lot more in iowa than he was winning in wisconsin, but still he is winning in both states. that is some of the state of the race right now, but were going to be talking in a moment with bob herbert, talking about how the machinations of the electio...

Voting in this country is not supposed to be scary of confusing. you are not supposed to get how and when you vote or whether there are days for hispanic americans or non hispanic americans to vote. you should not believe that someone would try to spend you to jail for voting. that is what it is coming down to though. joining us now is bob herbert. bob, thank you for being here. i feel like those examples are almost unbelievable. i almost thought that it was a photoshop hoax, but it is really ha...

Precincts of columbus. and these have been popping up in black and latino sections. voting in this country is not supposed to be scary of confusing. you are not supposed to get how and when you vote or whether there are days for hispanic americans or non hispanic americans to vote. you should not believe that someone would try to spend you to jail for voting. that is what it is coming down to though. joining us now is bob herbert. bob, thank you for being here. i feel like those examples are alm...

0 fathering two african-american children in wedlock. it is an honor to be here with al smith. i obviously never knew your great-grandfather, but from everything senator mccain has told me, the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. so. >> that was barack obama in 2008 at the al smith dinner which is happening tonight. right now about two blocks from here in new york city. we are waiting remarks from both mitt romney and president obama. and we are supposed to say that they ar...

0 edge of what is okay to say this close to an election. theres only one case in which a joke made by a politician at one of these events came back to haunt him, and it was this. >> this is an impressive crowd. the haves and the have mores. some people call you the elite. i call you my base. >> now, maybe he meant manhattan catholics? but when that ended up in michael moores film "fahrenheit 9/11" and ended up in a john kerry campaign ad, the white tie there said everything he needed to say abou...

0 in an election this close, its possible us getting to see them like this makes a difference to the election. how a person tells jokes is part of his personality. people make personality-based decisions for voting. i mean, for example, 2008, john mccain at this point in the election in 2008 was probably so far behind that he was never going to win. but john mccain was legit funny at the al smith dinner in 2008. and that made him more likable by virtue of being funny and in a close race that kin...

was the first catholic nominee for president. this dinner, which is a benefit for catholic charities here in new york city, has ended up becoming a really important thing in american presidential politics. honestly, the biggest reason it is really important is because of its timing. there are other dinners like this. the gridiron dinner in washington or the alfalfa dinner or the correspondence dinner. there are other dinners that are fancy politics proms, essentially. where you get a s...

of debt and partisan bickering and the overextended military and plain ole fiscal irresponsibility and sound familiar? today the u.s. has record debt, $16 trillion and fuelled in part by stimulus spending and tax breaks for everyone and expensive wars abroad and whose fault is that? >> the presidents policies have not gotten america working again. >> our goal was to turn it around. >> and the president has to stand up to take responsibility for it. >> we inherited the worst economic an...

after collapsed under the weight of debt and partisan bickering and the overextended military and plain ole fiscal irresponsibility and sound familiar? today the u.s. has record debt, $16 trillion and fuelled in part by stimulus spending and tax breaks for everyone and expensive wars abroad and whose fault is that? >> the presidents policies have not gotten america working again. >> our goal was to turn it around. >> and the president has to stand up to take responsibility for it. >> w...

Her husbands clinton global initiative. lets bring back the panel, bob herbert, kelly wallace and nick. i think thats a preview of what well hear from the president. tyranny of a dictator over dictator over a mob. he seems to be almost wanting to punt it because hes not setting up any events, just ignoring it. >> he was asked what will your second-term agenda on entitlements? and axelrod said, ah, later, well kind of get into that. so again, like if youre him, why change the game right now? why ...