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Voters. first day in 2008, this is in miami-dade county. yesterday 22, 625 voters. leon kelly hillsborough county, as well, we talked to folks saul of them saying that they saw higher numbers, higher early voter numbers than four years ago. >> i know we in the media have been critiqued in part for a narrative about lack of enthusiasm and suggesting that we dont have the same sense of like america history changing, momentum that the president had in 2008, but with numbers like that, at a minimum ...

Radical islamist more like world war i or world war ii or korea or vietnam or is it more like the cold war? i would submit it is much more like the cold war. it is idealogical battle and to prevail in that, we have to be persistent. we have to engage in the battle of ideas as you suggest. how do you do that? well, its not easy, but what you do, first of all you decide who the enemy is. the enemy is radical islamists who are willing to go out and kill innocent men, women and children because they...

Thought that it wasnt al qaeda linked in the beginning, and now we have seen that play out. >> to that point, peter king has released a letter. chairman king calls on president obama to release intelligence community reporting that led to the administrations changing characterizations of the benghazi attack. so mike murphy, we now have the intelligence community putting out basically everything it knew at the time as well. what did we learn? >> well, one, is the world is very sloppy, as tom said...

Linked in the beginning, and now we have seen that play out. >> to that point, peter king has released a letter. chairman king calls on president obama to release intelligence community reporting that led to the administrations changing characterizations of the benghazi attack. so mike murphy, we now have the intelligence community putting out basically everything it knew at the time as well. what did we learn? >> well, one, is the world is very sloppy, as tom said. presidential campaign season ...

In many ways has been decimated, has been severely beat back. that doesnt mean that al qaeda has disappeared from the world, and the administration has never claimed such a thing. no question process has been made. its chaos on the ground. for every report about one group participating, theres another report that it wasnt organized, it was a terrorist group but not necessarily linked to al qaeda. there is so much confusing information. and the reason that the administrations story has evolved ov...

>> we do not need characterizations like shame in this chamber from the senator of massachusetts. >> believe it or not, today, the daily flashback, it was this day in 1991 when after an intense, sometimes bitterly personal debate on the senate floor, clarence thomas was confirmed to the supreme court by a vote of just 52-48 with a bunch of southern democrats putting him over the top. all right, were just under 36 hours until tuesdays town hall tussle. president obama and mitt romney are taking...

The optimism and the eloquence. defensive, halting and verbose, he looked tired, and that made his presidency look tired. so what about the news coverage? joining us in on our news watch panel now, judith miller or, a pulitzer prize-winning author. kirsten, do you think the media got it wrong in their characterizations of this debate? >> actually, for once i dont. [laughter] it was interesting as the debate was going on and it became pretty clear what was happening, that it was undeniable that r...

National polls have had the race as much as 10, 14 points. we had a poll that showed the race 5 points a couple of weeks ago. it will be interesting to see what happens in the next 30 days. you hit the nail on the head when you said romneys performance among hispanic voters in new mexico will be absolutely critical. jenna: anything in the debate you think will particularly resonate with the residents of new mexico and maybe even that voting block? >> one of the things that i thought was effectiv...