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Where you should be. today, new york city is about the same as it is in dallas, hard to imagine. >> clayton: thanks, rick. >> alisyn: its an age-old lesson in discipline, you make a mistake on the field, you take a lap. now one state says running around the track field is actually corporal punishment. >> peter: and mitt romney rising up the in the swing states. so what do the latest poll numbers mean for the election? well break it down with the political panel. theyre coming in next on "fox & f...

For the troops and i roux inspect that for you, i dont know how you can defend that position now. >> remember, "saturday night live" of course, didnt want to answer her own questions, aski asking her own questions instead of answering the moderator. >> she was attacking the record and youll see both do in the next debate. ryan will attack the current president of the president and biden will attack ryan for his positions as well. >> jane hampton cook, presidential historian, thanks for joining u...

Still tied with romney. so its not gotten him anything and i think thats a significant indicator. now weve watched surge in florida, iowa and heading in colorado now. >> clayton: can we make too much of the polls? some of the headlines, really that these republicans in these swing states are now coalescing around mitt romney and the independents remaining the same for president obama, thats unchanged, but its now that republican enthusiasm gap that wasnt there before. they saw wednesday night. t...

>> no, its not. you pay into it, but you dont pay into it what you get out of it. >> some people pay more. >> you pay in a cumulative effect-- >> no, no. >> the hydraulic chair there, or platform was funny because bill oreilly is 6:5. >> and he dominated. >> clayton: he-- >> he dominated. >> alisyn: and thats what-- >> he dominated. >> alisyn: to hear the crowd at george washington university and you can imagine the college students were leaning towards jon stewart last night. >> clayton: and jo...

Now, but he had-- >> thats good, you want a 20th anniversary, thats a pretty big number. >> alisyn: its a milestone and their prerogative. its interesting in the crunch moment as hes slipping behind-- >> would you demand of that of your husband. youre running for president, but-- >> no, not going to run for president and i dont remember our anniversary this year, so, im not sure. >> peter: you know, anniversary or not, governor romney or not, the presidents anniversary, he jumped back hard as he...

Keep both safe and he told cbs news that its unbelievable to him that the state department decreased security in libya when he did, because he said he showed the state department how dangerous, and volatile and unpredictable the environment in libya was with at least 13 security incidents before september 11th be backing up his case and we expect to hear about that in a lot greater detail on hill in the next few days, back to you. >> alisyn: we need to hear a lot more in greater detail. thank yo...

Gaffe and make up for some of the mistakes his boss made last week, he needs to seem engaged. he needs to answer those hard questions without being defensive and so, they both have challenges going in, but it should ab really great debate. >> clayton: its interesting if you look back as a historian, 2008 and beyond. vice-president biden, then candidate biden crushed hillary clinton and barack obama in the debates. he was the one winning the debates. >> hes a very strong debater. im sure that tha...

Economy, jobs is number one across the board, but each state has its own individual priorities as well and barack obama has failed on all counts there as well. >> clayton: brian, the final word on ground game. its interesting in these states, people are reporting-- political reporters talking about florida and a ground game, than president obama does and ohio getting out the vote, early, early, bigger assets for president obama. >> look at iowa and absentee ballots and ohio early voting and demo...

Deal. and the tea party said absolutely not. couldnt get a fair deal done last year, but lets talk about where the president is right now. the president is now looking at a situation where unemployment, 7.8%, and i know some republicans are saying the numbers are not right, but if the numbers were going up, theyd say the numbers are right. the unemployment is going down and were moving in the right direction, if americans feel theyre moving in the right direction, hes going to do well. >> in som...

(laughter) >> wait, wait, wait. wait! and what would you like for christmas, little boy. >> clayton: i dont know that well see nance nancy pelosi sitting on john boehners lap soon. >> peter: christmas in october. >> alisyn: that was our friend and former "fox & friends" colleague e.d. hill playing the role of moderators. >> clayton: and almost played the jim lehrer role at the beginning couldnt get a word in edge-wise and bill says i dont care, im going to give you a three minute monologue. >> p...