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Policy. how much of an impact do you think a 90-minute foreign policy debate can make on the election at this point? >> its a good point, krystal. you have "monday night football" on and game seven of a national league world series. these are huge chunks of american people watching those things. i think people are interested and engaged generally in the race. it does represent the last time we talk about the conventions and the three debates as the only time the whole country sits, stops and wat...

He was the national republican senatori senatorial committee chairman. another race thats within the margin of error and will be right until election day. we dont know what the electorate will look like on election day. thats what it will come down to. is this an electorate that looks like barack obama wants it to look like or one that looks like what mitt romney wants it to look like. the virginia race will very much be affected by that. >> does it say anything about us that we sit at home at n...

Gillibrand and long. ill be moderating and carried on c-span. >> october in an election year on c-span is senate debate heaven. i love it. thats it for todays edition. tomorrow full debate analysis. coming up next, chris jansing. this is your business travel forecast. a nice quiet day ga. very mild, too. 70 and 80 degrees. even up in minneapolis, its 70 degrees. east coast will be a little breezy as the cold front cleared out, but it will be a dry with plenty of sunshine. next couple of days, ...

The past couple years. over the weekend, my saturday night was spent watching c-span and i was watching some of the old debates from 2008 and during those debates barack obama was aggressive with john mccain but he was polite. i think because he largely knew he had that election in the bag. so he was a lot more secure going into those debates. what we saw in the first debate this time around was a barack obama that nobody had ever seen before. he essentially slept-walk through that debate. so no...

We love about it is were all allowed to televise it. we are not allowed to televise real governing. this is what we get to show. there are things you will derive from it. youll absolutely get in many cases a much better understanding of a candidates position. thats very, very helpful and predictive as to how they will make those decisions when theyre making governing decisions. rachel, i was just talk to one of the members of the debate commission about the rules and the reasons why they change ...

>> the dinner we get. >> spaghetti and meatballs? >> probably not. >> i did have to give them television. the judge many years ago said you have to have tv and never said what to show. so i decided what to show. im sure not going to show this series to them. so i show them the weather channel, the food channel and c-span. really have to watch all these politicians. thats all they get. theyre still getting television. >> and one of his latest innovations when we were there was this idea of this, ...

>> thats not true. theyre both members of congress. they have a lot of debate -- thats what you do in congress whether its in committee or on the floor. i think they will both be more skilled, frankly, than either of the two presidential candidates who did not have that kind of a background. so im not sure that they dont know how to do it. >> heres the difference, though, with all due respect. theres a big difference. we have 67 million people watching on wednesday night. were going to have mill...

But the question is, how do you win a debate if you dont fight it. >> i think you do have to fight it. i think the president, from my vantage point and again, i didnt see it on tv, i saw the barack obama that ive seen over the last four years is somebody thats been consistent about the policies. consistent in the way he describes his health care stuff. consistent in what he said he believes that romneys positions dont add up. and he did call him, maybe too generally, on the question of the deduc...

48%. theyve heard him going into this debate. this provides them a chance to say, listen, that guy you saw in the video, thats not me. im a different type of person. he can reset in that sense. im sort of with al on this. i spent a lot of time over the past week watching all of romneys debates from 2002. i watched every single debate. there were five of them. i read hundreds of clips in 2002. he was against a democrat. >> you really should get a life. >> i know, its pathetic. >> i was going to s...

>> wow! >> hey, willie, weve got some anchors we need to warn. >> that is bad news for a lot of people. lets move right along. the results suggest indoor tanning is responsible for about 5% of non-melanoma skin cancers, the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the u.s. >> i dont know what you guys are laughing about. "the wall street journal," for the first time since 2008, beer sales are on the rise. shipments rose nearly 2% in the first eight months of 2012. draft beer sales are up 12%. willie,...