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Poised to be on the preface of getting this passed. >> thanks for having me. ultimately, what we have seen in colorado is an ongoing discussion about marijuana, about the fact that its less harmful than alcohol and the failed policy. its occurred over the last eight years or so here, thanks to ballot initiatives. we are now at a point where people are ready take that step. they are ready move forward and take on a more sensible approach. >> this is the capstone on what has been a long trajectory...

Point in the campaign. this is their graph over time showing each candidates chance of winning. you can see after the first debate at the beginning of october, president obamas chances of winning went down at that point. romneys chances went up. you can see the presidents chances improving again and romneys declining after the second debate in the middle of october. will obamas win last night help him further in the polls? his campaign marathon help get the bump? nate silver today did underscore...

Be campaigning. so thats one blunt way to tell where the race is coming down to from the different campaigns perspective. if you ask the polling firms, nbc made a decision to pair down its map of the battleground states from nine states to seven states. nbc dropped north carolina off the map of battlegrounds. and they dropped nevada off the battleground list into the democrat column. with the race this close, this late, is there anything else that might move the dial? last nights debate was the ...

Challenges the world is presenting. they always claim we need to ramp up military spending. what mitt romney is doing now is strict out of the george w. bush campaign and the ronald reagan campaign. and what president obama said about it last night is pretty much straight out of this book. in making the point that it is pointless to compare individual budget items in the defense department budget over time, like, say, the number of ships in 1916 versus the number of ships today, al franken, then...

Something. something very significant has happened in the weeks since then. all year from april to the end of september, barack obama led in the real clear politics polling average. we might have the graph. im not sure. for the first time in the entire campaign mitt romney pulled ahead in that average and kept a small, very small but a lead in that since then. i guess my question is, can we finally put an end to this idea that debates dont matter? >> we should. we should have all along, steve. m...

We have a graph that shows this. this is the options on the table. the green line is mitt romneys idea. this is base spending. it doesnt include wars or security. if you talk about security spending, you get a larger amount of money. barack obamas proposed leveling and the see quest ration. larry, you worked on this issue for a long time. what has changed? >> what has changed, i think the late senator mcgovern pointed out. we dont have a threat, yes, we have a threat with terrorism. you are not ...

Minuscule compared to coal mining communities. its a way of life for us. we greatly depend on it. >> one of the ironies here, forget about barack obama, forget about climate change, theres been -- the level of coal production and level of coal employment have been moving in opposite directions for years. we have a graph to show. coal has gone from very labor intensive to a capital intensive process, partly because of mountain top renewal. if you go back to 1993, that on the left part of your scr...

Just over a trillion dollars. and heres what it was last year. president obama actually cut the deficit by more than $200 billion from the year before. heres the budget deficit that president obama was handed when he walked in the door. your eyes are not deceiving you. you hear the republicans talk about how president obama increased the deficit? he cut the deficit during the four years in office. this graph was put together going through the data. and over the last four decades, only two presid...

Presidents are good on the deficit. when, in fact, the exact opposite is our modern history. we learned the budget deficit topped a trillion dollars for the fourth year in a row. heres the context for that. heres our budget deficit in 2012. just over a trillion dollars. and heres what it was last year. president obama actually cut the deficit by more than $200 billion from the year before. heres the budget deficit that president obama was handed when he walked in the door. your eyes are not dece...