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Which, of course, leads me to the next question about early voting. combine those two. what about the money, what about the early voting? >> well certainly money has some impact, but ed, in ohio, money is not going to buy governor romney love. ohioans understand who stood by them, saving the auto industry. women in this state understands who believes in them. the president signed the lilly ledbetter act, the affordable care act helping young people in tough times being able to stay on their pare...

Ohioans understand that and thats why this state is still going toward the president. so, no, money is not going to buy governor romney love in this state. >> so you know president obama. ohioans know what he has done for the economy. >> we. >> and the pack of lies, nobody is -- everybodys going to see through exactly what romney was doing last night? thats the take? >> thats the take, ed. you know, republicans talk about a president who has been trying. well, yes, he has been trying. you know, ...

Im joined tonight by david k. johnston, pulitzer prize winning columnist and author of "the fine print: how big companies use plain english to rob you blind." david k., glad to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. >> after last night, do you have a better grip, a better idea of what romneys tax plan is all about? >> no, because hes never been clear about it. as you showed, hes, on the one hand, saying ill cut everybodys rates 20% which works out over the next 10 years to about $5 trillion...

Thats more than twice what he paid in federal income tax in 2011. if hed taken all of his charitable deductions it would have been more than $6 million. so were he to get this through, and i cant imagine the people backing him are going to be in favor of that by any stretch of the imagination, there might be some effect. but how many people do you know, ed, who make enough money to take $25,000 or $50,000 as a deduction? take a look at your tax return, folks. see how much if you itemize and only...

The president is going to have to bring it the way he should and the way he knows that he needs to do it, but hes going to be here in cleveland tomorrow. the president has visited here 22 times. he will keep coming back because he knows ohio is the heart of it all. >> all right. ohio state senator nina turner, great to have you with us again tonight. thanks so much. thats "the ed show." im ed schultz. im a believer. our locker rooms okay. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, ...

Well, has been pushed before. by senator john mccain when he accepted the republican nomination four years ago. the five points were in a different order, but in the speech, exactly the same thing. theres really no real difference. four years earlier, here it is, an almost identical five-point plan was offered by president george w. bush when he was accepting the republican nomination for re-election. now, the five points were in a different order in this speech, in the actual speech. small busi...

If that means saving the auto industry and proviing a safety net for people who are in need, if that means stopping and averting a great recession from going into a great depression, we will take trickle-down government any day of the week. the governor -- the president is trying but the governors doing a whole lot of lying. >> should the republicans worry about voter turnout? >> absolutely, they should, ed. and all the voter suppression, tactics that they are using in the state of ohio is just ...

>> they havent changed one bit. they know the truth and can tell a liar when they see one. >> now, what about president obama saying he wants to lower the corporate tax rate on manufacturing to 25%? what does that mean for workers? >> well, whatever it does, ed, we can help create more jobs in this country. what i like what he said about basically, were going to reward people that put jobs here in america and were going to make sure the tax is an incentive for people who send american jobs overs...

and so we got jfk with makeup and no fever, we got richard nixon with no makeup and a fever. what we got on tv in the first televised presidential debate in our nations history was beauty and the beast. right? of course, jfk went on to win that election that year, whether or not it was because of the debate, i dont know, but thus was born the entire school of punditry that says its all about the optics and watching things with the sounds off and all that existentially exhausting stuff ...

and no fever, we got richard nixon with no makeup and a fever. what we got on tv in the first televised presidential debate in our nations history was beauty and the beast. right? of course, jfk went on to win that election that year, whether or not it was because of the debate, i dont know, but thus was born the entire school of punditry that says its all about the optics and watching things with the sounds off and all that existentially exhausting stuff we still say today. but here i...