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Afghanistan. people want someone who is safe, secure, basically strong enough to stand up to our adversaries but at the same time is not going to do anything reckless, and i think that was the presentation he made last night. megyn: susan, talk about that as somebody whos run a campaign. when these candidates go on stage for a presidential debate, have they done focus groups? have they -- [laughter] internal polling that tells them, look, the one thing you have to do tonight is appeal to women, ...

Saying romneys trying to sound doveish, like hes not a warmonger because he isnt and also doesnt want women to think he is. its all about these women voters because president obama has a very, very lead with them. and then they said president obama was likely to make his game plan about ohio voters, trying to craft his message to them. >> my sense is they both have lots of focus groups, and in all probability the focus groups said youre both a little aggressive, we didnt like this particular for...

>> ron, ive watched all four of your focus groups and even though theres a lot of undecided it was the most decisive. thats very useful to us. it corresponds to all three national polls who said obama won tonight. youre in very popular company. its great to do this with you. thank you so much. his focus group was great. this is coverage of the final presidential debate. >> if im president of the united states, when im president of the united states, we will stand with israel. if israel is attack...

Moderate stance on foreign policy? is this all about women? the women vote and focus groups who have said that men and women in america are really weary of war. >> because i think that first of all, yes, especially the war wariness is an important point you made which is one thing that mitt romney kept mentioning was peace. i want peace. we want peace. i do think thats to speaks to the whatever you think our foreign policy should be, there is a wariness in this country after iraq and afghanistan...

Governor romney started to make gains with that group. president obama still has a lead with that group but is not overperforming in the way that he was a month ago, and if you look at where governor romney has made gains systematically across the board, its mostly with that group. its fascinating because you have two really different contrasting views about how to talk to that group of voters, between the two campaigns. they are both totally plausible. president obama has focused on planned par...

H ingram, others thought the same thing. the further i get away from it, i saw the focus groups on msnbc, its almost like voters -- they werent turned off by romney, and im wondering whether theyre so hungry for a strong leader that they even liked him being intemperate by debate standards. >> i think its pretty simple. this doesnt mean romneys going to win, but we said four months, as did the presidents advisers, they cant win on the presidents record. they must destroy and eliminate as a viabl...

E-mailing me going god, hes got to back off. hes got to back off. and he did eventually back off. but guess what? afterwards, you look at all the focus groups that the shows were doing. and well just take msnbcs. a lot of people -- and i was really surprised -- a lot of people said that they watched the debate and were moved mitt romneys way. what does that say? does that say that people maybe want somebody that is getting in the presidents face? >> i think its -- there was a big gender issue. i...

Women comment. you can have a debate whether it was a real effort he initiated or something sort of pledged forced on him. about his effort to increase diversity in the work force. i thought that was an interesting point. both of the candidates making their pitches to women. governor romneys pitch was the economic pitch. president obamas pitch had to do with defending planned parenthood, notice he threw that in with the big bird example. and about access to contraception. and those are crucial. ...

The question has been whether she will follow-up or rephrase and that is basically the deal going in the campaigns believe that she wasnt going to do that according to the rules. well see what actually happens. the bottom line, though, its a much different format, and as bill mentioned its ability bit tougher for the candidates to get aggressive. the focus groups apparently say theyd like to see a good husband, you know, empathetic, listening, show leadership. one columnist i read to morning sai...

You everything about how people reacted to this debate. >> i think he came off as being very strong, ee mowing nal, and i liked the looking@camera aloo the camera. >> i thought there were smears and everything. >> im guessing we found one obama voter and one romney voter. it was like, thats the way democrats saw one thing, democrats saw another. >> even having joe biden win the cbs but not by a huge margin and then the cnn poll among all voters, paul ryan had the advantage. it was almost a split...