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22 times. he will keep coming back because he knows ohio is the heart of it all. >> all right. ohio state senator nina turner, great to have you with us again tonight. thanks so much. thats "the ed show." im ed schultz. im a believer. our locker rooms okay. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ed. great show tonight. it was epic. thanks for staying with us the next hour. televised debates have existed in this country since 196 o. that was the really, r...

Context? there isnt that much historical context, right? like, this is a very knowable thing. honestly, that first one, that first one in 1976 where incumbent president gerald ford faced off against challenger jimmy carter, honestly, this one shouldnt even really count as part of the context like the rest of them because this one was almost too unusual. in terms of the reaction from that first debate, you want to know who won that debate? well, watch. >> good evening. heres what did it. a capaci...

>> hi, rachel. >> how does president obama counter the strategy of mitt romneys to unveil whole new ideas or deny he ever held the ideas that he plainly has held? its one thing to have a truth squad fact checking on pooinlli. how do you counter that at the podium? >> one is im rubber, youre glue, bounces off and sticks to you. trickle-down, to confuse everybody, throw up a lot of smoke about that word, trick trickle-down. >> he did that with war on women, too. >> he did it with war on women and ...

The spirited debate they had last night on terrorism in iraq, but this time they were not on a common stage and kerry had the kind of confidence that comes with polls and pundits agreeing that he won last nights showdown. >> did you watch that debate last night? >> this was john kerry today. bolder, declaring victory, relieving worried democrats. >> yesterday he showed me hes ready to leave this country. >> reporter: in pennsylvania today, the president tried to overcome doubts about his debate ...

Debates won by an incumbent president facing his challenger on tv is basically zero. well keep this as a running tally here, right? so zero wins at this point. zero wins, one losses. incumbent presidents are 0 for 1. how about the next one? 1980. all right. at that point, the incumbent president was jimmy carter. the challenger was ronald reagan. everybody knows how the election came out that year. thats not what were talking ant here. what were talking about is who won that first debate. incumb...

Possible. >> the pool audio from philadelphia has been lost momentarily. we hope to have it back any minute. we dont know whats happened to it. >> it took 27 minutes to get that sound back. so the first time we had incumbent president face his challenger on tv in a debate in american history, it was totally novel to the country, it had never happened before, and the verdict to the extent that there was any clear winner or not, nobody really seemed to think there was a clear winner. frankly, it w...

House officials did a terrible job of preparing the president. giving him too many facts and failing to organize his answers. one top official said mr. reagan did four mock debates and every time was as bad as he was last night. as mr. reagan celebrated columbus day, aides expect his lead to shrink with democrats pushing back to mondale. they wont change, s. for them the worst thing is a strong reagan performance might have clinched the election. what happened last night gave the democrats new l...

0-2. then theres 1984. at this point the incumbent president is ronald reagan and his challenger is the mighty, mighty walter mondale. you can call him fritz. you know, we look back at reagan versus mondale in 1984 as reagan having dominated mondale because he did beat him so soundly when it came to election day. were not talking about election day. were talking about that first debate and in terms of that first debate -- it was completely the opposite of the way it was on election day. watch. >...

Race. today everything is different. >> reporter: while not claiming a flood of overnight conversions, mondales aides argue millions of voters finally are listening to mondale and rethinking their support for reagan. >> the seemingly unstoppable reagan bandwagon hit a bad rut last night and the president seemed to know it. asked who won the debate as he left kentucky, all he said was, im smiling. at a north carolina rally, mr. reagan brought up the debate, himself, and was downbeat. >> whether i...