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Pro-obama than they do pro-romney from october. up for grab voters now the job approval rating of the president 48% to 41%. the feelings to the president 46% to 29% positive to negative. but look at this. mitt romneys feeling thermometer was 22%/49%. this is about 10% of the electora electorate, people undecided or only lean obama or lean romney. you look at those numbers and it tells you what, fred? >> i look at those numbers and its going to be a very close election. every pundit, pollster, an...

ayotte. and theres senator dick durbin, the presidents home state confident and one of the first people who pushed him to run for president. plus, if you were gambling on the gridiron predicting tuesdays winner, you may have to think again just like the country. alabama and lsu and the redskins gave us a 50/50 split. good morning from democracy plaza it in new york city. one day left, folks. one day morning. this is "the daily rundown." im chuck todd. to my first reads of the morning. ...

Not sum it up. john p. coke tweeted this. the registered voters numbers would seem to indicate that obama can improve by closing enthusiasm, while romney needs to persuade. would you rather be obama or romney? im going to put the question to both of you. fred, you first. would you rather be right now obama or romney? >> i would rather be president obama. i mean, look. i think all of us, bill mcinturff and the republicans included, all of us thought this would be a close election. i think the num...

Bill mcinturff, fred yang, ive got to leave it there. gentlemen, always good, i always wish i had more time. this is a great poll. people spending all their time reading before the debate. the market rebound from todays drop. plenty corporate earnings come out today. c nblss becky quick with the market rundown. i cant overdo the cross talk or bower is going kill me. >> well go through quickly, im fascinated by the poll numbers too. this morning, a struggle for wall street, looking at mixed mar...

Partner, said something really powerful yesterday. he said, which of these candidates could get 52% of the vote? not 48, 49 and 52. and what he said was, and hes right. its the challenger, mitt romney. and that tells you that potential that still exists for this race to be a little unexpected. and i think in that way, romney is -- >> youre saying basically -- that romney has a higher ceiling than the president. >> i believe that. i think thats true. peter hart said it, and i think its a very pow...

reads of the morning. with just hours left until tonights final debate, our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows how competitive this race has become. an important slice of undecided voters still are not persuaded to rehire the president. but also not convinced, it seems, he needs to be fired. will anything tonight help these folks decide? well, the candidates prep their surrogates spoke out sunday, previewing tonights lines of attack. >> the american people have gotten to see...

>> this is what president obama said the jobless rate would be if we didnt pass the stimulus. but this is what the jobless rate actually is. 8.1%. the difference, about 3.7 million jobs. obamas spending drops $5000 deeper in debt and now we have fewer jobs than when he started. what obama promised versus what he delivered. >> what this ad does is it holds the president to account for a very big promise he made. when they were se...

This campaign spending. >> im with you on this, bill. fred, do you believe days of bounce s considering where we ae in the campaign and how well defined the campaign apparatus is, those days are gone? >> if you have a bounce for more than 30 minutes, youve done a good job. i think in terms of the ryan pick, its late august and the ryan pick did help mitt romney energize the republican base. >> well go through a couple things. we tested 15 traits between obama and romney. obama led on 12 of them....

They dont break equally. they break heavily toward a challenger and it becomes a coin flip election. >> fred yang, this was the argument that many democratic pollsters said on the john kerry campaign back in 2004. >> i agree with bill. when you look through the data, it will be a very close election. as bill mentioned, some of the structural questions in the poll, right direction, wrong track, state of the economy, its a tough environment for the president, for any incumbent. there is news in he...

Favors the republicans and we know how many points it takes to throw out a congressional majority. this is not enough margin for democrats to in this poll to be having a conversation thats going to happen. >> fred, are you prepared to say publicly its out of reach for the democrats? >> ask me on november 7th. i think were going to get some gains in the house. how much obviously is an open question. it is interesting the reelect is higher. i dont want to do too much from the past couple days. thi...