know that that ad is not true, and they think that in these closing days of the campaign, alex, it s helped the president. you re going to bet you ll hear about the auto industry in mentor. chris, this is certainly one element of the ground game. the president getting face-to-face with his potential voters that will be pulling out the vote for him. but in terms of the sense of momentum there, do you get a feel for the ground game, in which direction it is going? do you agree that the president has that slight lead as according to our poll? it does feel when you go out and about and talk to people i i was at both campaign offices. don t talk to any of the campaign workers that ask them to say we re in trouble. both side believe in these closing days if they make enough phone calls, if they go door-to-door they can make a difference in this race. mitt romney s side, 21 times as
but we re not going to go all in and fall for the bluff. that s what they re doing, alex. they re bluffing if they think they re going to win pennsylvania. i ve heard others call it a head i heard others call it a head fake. what do you make of this, amy. is there time and money better spent elsewhere? obama campaign is basically calling it mind games is what they were saying yesterday. i think they are. they are confident about their chances in pennsylvania but that doesn t mean they are not worried about it. that s why you re seeing bill clinton stump there. he has four events there tomorrow. dr. biden stump there tonight. so they are a little bit concerned just not enough to bring in the big guns. topic two reality check. amy, both the obama and romney camps say they are winning and there are two respective analysts giving opposite predictions. does anybody know what s going to happen here?
drents white. so no surprise the president brought up the auto bailout and criticism of an advertisement by mitt romney that has been widely discredited. let me play for you a little bit of what the president had to say. look. i understand that governor romney s had a tough time here in ohio because he was against saving the auto industry. you know, it s hard to run away from that position when you re on videotape saying let s let detroit go bankrupt. and people cheered again when the president said you don t have to scare voters to scare up some votes. he also got maybe the most sustained applause when he talked about women s rights and women s health. so this is a very excited crowd. i ll bet there was one, too, about 20 miles from here in cleveland where a surprise appearance was made by stevie wonder who showed up at an early polling place and said, i ll tell you what. you go in there and vote and i ll do a concert. i m guessing he had more than a few takers. mitt romney will b
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tony, can i just ask you a quick thing. the money that was spent in ohio, that has a lot to do with those auto ads that have been widely criticized. do you think that was money that was poorly spent when hindsight is 20/20 here? i always say that campaigns that have too much money end up spending stupid money. so i m glad to see they re spending some of it in smarter ways in some of the other states. that s always a problem with too much money. but look, forget about ohio is a great example. you know, look, at the end of the day there was a question coming out of the primaries because the primaries seemed to be so divisive that the gop wouldn t rally behind romney. they ve consolidated really well behind romney. and they thought well, that was going to turn off independents. he s actually doing very well among independents. so there s a lot of conventional wisdom that has been knocked down in this campaign. and one of them now is that enthusiasm for obama in ohio