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Because you could have a real discussion almost. >> bob schieffer, by the way, did you notice, mark haleprin, they didnt screw with bob schieffer. like they knew they werent going to cross schieffer. >> theres a reason for that. >> because they knew that this tart -- as dan rather would say, this tart texan would come right back at them and hit them hard. they showed schieffer respect and bob schieffer ran the best debate by far. >> well, the president had an extraordinary command not only of hi...

Funny tweet saying theyre in severe agreement on iran. i actually thought that was quite a lot of consistency. >> and again, you know, we always go back to the 1980 debate and make some comparisons because its such -- it was such an important debate. >> right. >> mark, mitt romney did the same thing ronald reagan had to do in 1980. we remember the 80 debate, those old enough, and everybody loves to talk about how ronald reagan wiped the floor with jimmy carter. he didnt. he had a couple of extra...

Watch "morning joe" while youre still in bed and you watch "morning joe" while youre shaving and you get in the car and youve got that tv screen right in front of your steering wheel and we love that. >> right there. >> hey, sirius xm, joe. >> exactly. exactly. >> no doubt. >> but you know, david, weve been talking about this gallup poll that shows this growing momentum for mitt romney in the key battleground states including florida, ohio, virginia. and it actually has mitt romney pulling ahead...

Plausible alternative. made him a plausible alternative. and as a result, you now have places like ohio and other states very much in play for governor romney. the president of the united states, again, from speaking to people yesterday and looking at the internals of their own polls, appeared not to want the job as much as governor romney did. and it had a huge ripple effect apparently within this country. so were at the point now where tonight is just as you indicated as important debate as we...

Here that one of the chief strategies of the campaign, to disqualify mitt romney as an alternative is starting to break down. and it was the fundamental flaw of that first debate that they let romney back in, they gave him an opportunity to get a second look, and romneys doing a lot with that second look and the polling bears this out. that hes running as a businessman. somebody with a strong business record who can get things done. showing more of a pragmatic side. and so you see this tightenin...

Hot one night. it takes one clutch hit, and that thing can turn around pretty darn quickly. >> you have to believe theyre going to start hitting at some point. it might be too late. >> you know, dream, dream, dream. >> its a-rod youre talking about. >> if only we could hang a slider, we could come back on that. it aint over. it aint over. coming up next, behind the scenes of the campaign trail with paul ryan. mark joins us next to explain why he says paul ryan cant lose. [ lane ] your anti-wri...

So i think its been hard to do. i think its been more of a sense that this is someone who can do it rather than someone who can or is doing it in the day-to-day. >> hes not been on the ticket that long. but have we seen of your observation any evolution or growth in paul ryan as a national candidate? >> i think so. i mean, i think he really was pretty much ready fairly early on. hes been a national figure for a few years now. i think hes been used to doing town meetings in a national forum and d...

Debate. and i think the president will admit he did poorly in the first debate. but to hear the sky is falling, thats what you heard throughout the fall of 2007. he was terrible at debates, he wasnt punching back hard enough, he wasnt tough enough to be president of the united states and somehow he managed to become president of the united states. >> president of the united states. >> is history going to repeat itself again tonight? >> look, i think youre going to see an exceptionally strong deb...

Because everyone else in the party kind of has to hang fire until she decides. everyones frozen in place. when she looks at six months from now and shes 50 points ahead of every other democrat and the partys begging for her to run, its going to be hard to say now and shell more or less get the nomination by acclamation. >> mark, i wanted to ask you, if, in fact, ryan cant lose, hell be bucking a historical trend. because the last vice president who really sort of had a second act was george h.w....

High. move on. but the romney people are not pleased with what happened over the last week. >> it goes without saying that romney has to win florida. but also the state of ohio. i sat here with mark haleprin yesterday and hes got an electoral college app on his ipad and went through all the scenarios. to win for mitt romney without ohio is very difficult. >> very difficult. >> hell have to get both of those. he could do it without ohio, but hes got to win almost everything else. >> richard nixon...