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And so the question is not a game of battleship where were counting ship, its what are our capabilities. >> the debating is over now and weve only got one final fortnight standing between us and election day. will the race change again in the labs 14 days? only time will tell, but one thing is for sure, this will be a mad dash to the finish. mitt romneys game of battleship -- sorry. souning me is msnbc contributor and former u.s. marine, goldie taylor and karen finney, also the former communicat...

Going to overshadow sort of whether its the playfulness of the al smith dinner or the performative aspects of the debate. let me be clear i think thats good. you know, maybe its not good at this particular moment for this particular campaign, but the fact is that the kind of theatrics we see in debating, while interesting and fun and enjoyable for us to sort of have a little bit of political theater have little to do with governing and so because the challenger is not currently running a governm...

Spending so much time with their candidates doing debate prep. mitt romney did zero campaign events yesterday. he spoke at the al smith dinner but that was it. today hes got precisely one event on his schedule and it is not until 8:30 p.m. president obama has been doing more events than mitt romney, but today he had that one big event this morning, the big rally where he did the rom dnesia riff but thats it because they are locked down. nobody thinks foreign policy is the central issue of the ca...

Debating, but were working on it, you know. well keep on improving as time goes on. ive got one left. [ music ] >> and that one left comes on monday. its on foreign policy. to give you an idea of how seriously mitt romney is taking it, until then, other than tonights rally, he has only two public debates -- two public events prior to that debate. the rest devoted intrier entireo preparation. >> it was good to get through that with the song going behind you. thank you, sir. there was a super ch...

Im asking for your vote. in iowa, you can vote today. today. as long as youre registered before october 27th, you can vote right up to election day. in fact, you can go vote right after this event at the cole library. so -- and anyone can find out how to register and where to vote at vote.barack obama.com. iowa, are you going to vote for me today if you havent already voted? i need you. i need you. now, as many of you know, we had our second debate last night. you know, im -- im still trying to ...

Bill that he put before the republican house of representatives in october, which included components that republicans had supported before but because they didnt want to give the president any victory, they turned it down. and each and every component of it is good. it involves cutting taxes on small businesses, increasing investments in our infrastructure. those are things the presidents proposed, and i think he would propose in a second term. but i also think he should use this as an opportun...

Facilitate the discussion. as things stand right now more voters have a favorable opinion of mitt romney than president obama, but only by a hair. and in a poll that was taken after the debate, a fox news poll. mitt romney had 52% favorability rating. one point higher than the presidents 51%, but 4 points higher than before the debate in denver whereas the presidents number didnt budge before and after. in the second round of debating could maybe the numbers flip again since this format leaves b...

Not to interrupt when someone else is speaking. they seed its rude and displays bad breeding. i thought the vice president was not only rude, but he exercised an old debating tactic that when you interrupt somebody, youre hoping you will throw them off message and the people who are listening in the audience wont get that message, wont pay attention. i thought it was condescending. he didnt have to do it. he could have made his points. he did have equal time, as martha raddatz pointed out. and a...

>> yes. and i think the bar is much higher for joe biden. i think thats because president obama set it that way because of his pathetic performance. in the words of joe biden himself, steve, tonight is a big bleeping deal. so he has to come out of the gate. the problem is, he has a really weak script. while i dont think hes going to have any foot in mouth foibles like he typically does because the stakes are so high and campaign aides have probably cautioned him against that, i think the gaffe t...

Debating suggested obama wasnt telling the truth. this is not a one-way street. lets not act as if one campaign is doing it. word liar was not actually used. no way problem any can make the math add up if he was going to be revenue neutral. in one sentence he said he would not lower taxes on the upper income americans and rather not raise taxes on upper income americans but he would lower the tax rate from 35, 40 to 35% or to 25%. how can both be true? you cant say im lowering tax without loweri...