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>> mark haleprin, cant get much closer everywhere. >> i mean -- >> and minnesota, minnesota is not even a key swing state. youve got bill clinton going in because a new poll shows mitt romney within the margin of error in minnesota. plus, you have some information about some space where the republicans are about to start rushing in and putting up campaign ads that are not states that the obama team thought they would have to worry about one week out. >> were going to go into election day not kno...

Barack obama and the republicans spending money in pennsylvania, and you have the republicans back on the defense in north carolina with a poll there. do you see any trends that were missing? >> no, i think youre right. i think its the drifting back and forth without any real purpose. the voters are back and forth on this. and people, of course, in the middle are back and forth. i think theres been one major event in this general election season, and that was the first debate which the president...

So how can we have these two extremes? i dont understand, how can you have these extremes? especially, you know, gallup, and we talked about nate silver, somebody i read on twitter, a liberal said he was garlic that liberals are waving around from the threat of vampires being mitt romney. >> they put a lot of faith in nate silver. his calculation is not like the gallup calculation. hes put different things into it. >> witchcraft? >> no, im not going to say that. but its not reflective of the gal...

Ahead or fall behind. were doing well right now, so early voting makes a difference. >> mark haleprin, early voting does make a difference right now. the presidents people very -- very positive. >> they were counting on -- >> about ohio, feeling good about other states, iowa. how does it break down? >> well, i mean the numbers are kind of mixed and you cant tell everything from it. and you can slice and dice it in lots of ways. but in ohio and iowa early voting for the democrats is going okay an...

For the next four years, do your job. >> do your job. >> get it done. >> chris, thank you so much. were going to be watching "hardball" today at 5:00 and again at 7:00 p.m. >> thank you, chris matthews. good to see you. >> one final thought, mark. >> got a week to go. its exciting. >> yeah. well, great. >> thats a great final thought. thank you. still ahead, new jersey governor chris christie is going to be with us. >> read the prompter. >> on what his state is facing in the aftermath of this ...

He still needed to go out just as he did in the second debate, forget denver, im aggressive, fighting for this job. and he believes having studied mitt romneys statements on foreign policy its disqualifying, he shouldnt be commander in chief and he wanted to prove it on every answer, every opportunity to say you guys need to focus on this man. his statements are too inconsistent, much like george bush and john kerry. >> i think you may have seen with the president a man who believed that his opp...

Toward the center. but theres two weeks to the election. early voting starts here in florida on saturday. and were not hiring an investment portfolio manager in this election. were hiring a president. there was only one commander in chief on stage last night. it is too late for governor romney to once again move his positions dramatically and begin as you put it to develop a romney doctrine on the fly, on stage, what was striking was that yet again a completely new governor romney showed up last...

Recognize that we have to do as the president has done. i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going after the leadership in al qaeda. but we cant kill our way out of this mess. >> governor romney, im glad that you recognize that al qaeda is a threat. because a few months ago when you were asked whats the biggest geopolitical threat facing america, you said russia. not al qaeda, russia. the cold wars been over for 20 years, but, governor, you know, when it comes to our foreign poli...

Money and hes very selfish. >> dylan, you sit tight. by the way, dylan, dont worry about that. she also says that about her own daughter, her republican daughter. lets take a look at the morning papers while mika plays with babies. the "washington post" says apple is set to make a major announcement. the screens expected to be about 2 inches small eer than t current model. there are major questions about the features the device will contain. apple sold, by the way, over 84 million ipads so far, ...

Mitt romney. >> my brother ian did a great job with that. >> when they went to israel, benjamin netanyahu did everything but come out and endorse mitt romney on that tour. if you want to be selective about it, you can be selective about it. but theres no doubt that barack obama won on points last night. my question is this, is it a cop out to say and mika answered this, as well, is it a cop out to say that both candidates got what they wanted out of last night? >> i totally agree with that. i th...