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By most accounts split of the electoral vote versus the popular vote. in which this has happened four times in history where a president is elected based on the electoral votes but not the popular vote. how does this play out in the past? >> well, usually it undermines a little bit the new president. perhaps the best example of that recently, obviously, was 2000 when al gore got the popular vote, george w. bush got the electoral vote. but even in an election that was resolved in as poisonous an ...

Resources? ripe for drilling and mining and exploiting. anyway. >> wow. thats one way to commemorate the low lights of the campaign by romney. also, its officially crunch time for get out the vote initiatives. here is actor steve carells final pitch to encourage his fans to head to the polls. >> why are you taking such an attitude with me? why are you yelling at me? i dont think you should be yelled at to vote. you should want to vote. well, i actually have billions of young fans, not millions...

Click here. no, wait, click here. >> wow. got to love that deadpan delivery, but his point is a serious one obviously. finally, total blackout. last month i told you a few days before the election george w. bush would give the keynote speech at a conference in the cayman islands, one of the offshore tax havens where mitt romney has invested millions of dollars. not ideal timing for the campaign of romney. the event went on as planned yesterday, but dont expect any kind of review of w.s speech....

Delivery, but his point is a serious one obviously. finally, total blackout. last month i told you a few days before the election george w. bush would give the keynote speech a the a conference in the cayman islands, one of the offshore tax havens where mitt romney has invested millions of the dollars. not ideal timing for the campaign of romney. the event went on as planned yesterday but dont expect any kind of review of w.s speech. according to nbc, quote, the keynote speech by the former pr...

Who respond effectively. we are joined by presidential historian doug brinkley. obviously, doug, the first thing that comes to mind is hurricane katrina. bringing up a disaster in recent memory with questions and reactions of the government and the leadership. but here you have president obama with an interesting juggling act and that hes running, of course, and keeping a tight campaign and on the ground today with a surrogate for the rival assessing the damage in new jersey. >> well, president ...

Hearts. >> he got up, stepped in front of me as i was signing soldiers in. >> sounded like somebody just started yelling out allahu akbar. >> approaching the scene, i could just see soldiers running in all different directions. >> the first round of bullets, one hit me in the chest. i had to go down to the ground to get cover and i, obviously, couldnt breathe because id been shot. >> its not workplace violence. thats terrorism. and i pray every night that somebody, somebody will finally care eno...

The week afterwards in the vp debate. democrats this year are hoping for that same kind of dynamic to play out. so honestly, the stakes for tomorrow nights debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan could not be higher. and no one on the obama side is trying to play down this debate as if it is not important. the romney/ryan side did make a kind of hilarious feint this week at trying to play down how well paul ryan is expected to do at this debate. this is mr. romney trying to do that...

Dissipated, partly on the heels of dick cheneys strong performance against john edwards the week afterwards in the vp debate. democrats this year are hoping for that same kind of dynamic to play out. so honestly, the stakes for tomorrow nights debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan could not be higher. and no one on the obama side is trying to play down this debate as if it is not important. the romney/ryan side did make a kind of hilarious feint this week at trying to play down h...

Bounty basic is stronger than the leading bargain brand. everyday life. bring it with bounty basic. affordably priced. tested by everyday life. and try bounty napkins. you know, i dont know how paul will deal with this debate. obviously, the vice president has done, i dont know, 15 or 20 debates during his lifetime. an experienced debater. this is, i think, pauls first debate. i may be wrong. he may have doing something in high school, i dont know. >> yeah, he might have done something in high...

Kind of hilarious feint this week at trying to play down how well paul ryan is expected to do at this debate. this is mr. romney trying to do that on cnn yesterday. >> i dont know how paul will deal with this debate. obviously, the vice president has done, i dont know, 15 or 20%s during his lifetime. experienced debater. this is, i think, pauls first debate. i may be wrong. he may have done something in high school. i dont know. >> high school? really? paul ryans first debate? as abc news noted ...