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About how well he did in the debate. are you worried about overconfidence at all depending on the battleground polling shows in the next 24 hours, 48 hours from now. >> i think its encouraging. in the george washington poll shows republican enthusiasm is higher than on the democratic side. gallup is still surveying regular voters. they make the switch in october, but when they do my guess is romney is not ahead nationwide. its going to come down to swing sats. >> michael, whats your take? nomina...

From his first answer was not the version of mitt romney i think he practiced against. so all the prep he did -- and he didnt do as much prep as he might have -- all the prep was against john kerry channeling the mitt romney weve seen for the last five years. >> whats interesting, mika -- >> we ought to be looking at that. >> we have steve schmidt on yesterday. steve schmidt would call me during the 2008 campaign. and it used to drive him crazy, and the mccain campaign crazy, about how arrogant ...

And are able to vote, to drive them to the boards of elections. this is a choice election. this is about electing a president who believes in building an economy from the middle out and not the top down. this is about voting to reelect the president who does believe in the 47% or voting for a governor who has a disdain for the 47%. so we will not relent in the state of ohio. were going to come out. were fired up and ready to go. we will help president obama make history again. >> senator, what a...

Polls? you have some enthusiastic people behind you tonight. but president obama has had a good lead in ohio and now its been opened up in one poll by nine points. are you concerned about overconfidence? the columbus dispatch ohio poll has obama at 51% and romney at 42%. how crucial is early voting when you look at this this number? >> its very crucial, ed. although im pleased the president is up by nine points. its important folks come out to vote. the final count is when people cast their ball...

>> its fair to understand exactly what the threat assessment was before the attack and to understand what preparations were made and these are the kinds of questions that should be asked, the bipartisan senate foreign relations committee letter from late last week came out with that type of request and the intelligence community, the state department, they are certainly most interested in ensuring that nothing like this happens again. so that needs to be understood. apparently there was an effec...

Theyre going to do some things in the past and sometimes 24e have and havent. if you listen to his words, it might get quieter on the fund-raising front. given what weve seen in the financial reports recently, we understand why hes campaigning so much, and especially whether it comes to maul donors. hes not as flush as we thought he was. theyve had tough choices about how to deploy the candidate and to date theyve chosen to emphasize fund-raising and now we hear theyll do more campaigning. >> it...

News on the polling front that democrats have to guard against overconfidence. it is not in the bag certainly. >> or in the jar. >> the voter suppression effort, the phrase driving while back, people are familiar with. we could have voting while black. it is not what this country should be about. if the president is going to win by any significant margin, these suppression efforts will only be on the sidelines and they wont change the outcome. if this is a close election, these kinds of things c...

Their minds. theyre playing it very safe right now. i was out on the road with him this week and you didnt see him do many otrs, as we call them, off the record. you saw him sort of do his campaign. theyre playing it very safe right now. i think safe is the key word in the obama camp. >> okay and if we look at the latest daily gallup tracking poll it shows the president leading mitt romney by six points. the president has built an edge a little bit in some of the key swing states there. is there...

Is not on fire like it was before. and if we start to see this being a longer-term crisis and the president looks likes hes unable to quell it or its out of hand in some way that could put a serious dent in him politically. >> molly, i want to ask your reaction to just released gallup poll. shows president obama ahead of mitt romney by 4%. do you think theres overconfidence with these polls within the obama campaign? >> the obama campaign has always been a very confident campaign. i think more t...

It to go. i was thrilled for his support. >> so chris, did using clint eastwood at that time, as michael says, you know, putting him right there at the prime time start, did it make your day? and waste an opportunity for a campaign that really has no room for overconfidence? >> yes, i think he made democrats feel lucky. the reality is when you look at the republican convention, there was good, bad and ugly. i think you saw the ugly with the clint eastwood speech. in all seriousness, when you hav...