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President obama --. >>eric: how can you tell that? >>doug: you have history, experience, and judgment. the current numbers the "wall street journal" is projecting suggest that the electorate is more democratic than they were in 2008. eric, common sense tells us, that is just not the case. john: last week, that poll dominated the political scene. everyone assumed those numbers were accurate. we believe the rasmussen numbers, which are likely voters, they have romney ahead. you are putting that on...

confident dick durbin of illinois and one of romneys possible vp picks senator kelly ayotte from new hampshire. >> and mitt romneys company were pioneers in outsourcing jobs. >> barack obamas record is the worst record since the depression. >> and we will talk about those ads with our cnn political analyst ron brownstein and "time" magazines michael sherer. an incumbent president still in peril, and measuring optimism about the economy has fallen to the lowest level this year, and p...

Dot-com to look at the math and i will continue to do so, where you lay out the states and when way they are leaning. i am curious, we talk about the republicans and democrat and it is independents. is there any way to measure right now the undecided? >> well, we do get the undecided. like today in the -- in the gallup daily trabbing poll, i think the undecideds are 9 pmpls we are likely to see 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 be there for a while because, look, the independent voters, the swing voters are goin...

Romney, where i suspect it is. >> greta: you say 8 to 9% undecided now. 4 years ago, 8 yearst about the number at this time? that unusually high, low? >> it is lower than normal. but not a lot. it is not always the same approximate 8%. some temporarily make a decision for one and fall back into the undecided category. you know, an interesting way to watch it is by looking at the electoral college map. if people want to get a map, go to rove.com and sign up. i send out a weekly escblaft will incl...

>> much higher. >> this is the first time -- fir presidential election $200 million has been spent on negative advertising. >> 35% of republicans with barack obama in the white house are not enthusiastic? that tells you more about mitt romney than anything, hes not an attract attractive candidate. >> but the incumbent is unattractive. >> i understand that but mitt romney is about the worst candidate you could put against barack obama. >> why are you spending so much money and sweating it and -- ...

Romney, where i suspect it is. >> greta: you say 8 to 9% undecided now. 4 years ago, 8 years ago, 12 years ago, is that about the number at this time? that unusually high, low? >> it is lower than normal. but not a lot. it is not always the same approximate 8%. some temporarily make a decision for one and fall back into the undecided category. you know, an interesting way to watch it is by looking at the electoral college map. if people want to get a map, go to rove.com and sign up. i send out a...

Dot-com to look at the math and i will continue to do so, where you lay out the states and when way they are leaning. i am curious, we talk about the republicans and democrat and it is independents. is there any way to measure right now the undecided? >> well, we do get the undecided. like today in the -- in the gallup daily trabbing poll, i think the undecideds are 9 pmpls we are likely to see 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 be there for a while because, look, the independent voters, the swing voters are goin...

A lie. he did not explain the context of barack obamas remarks. he said only that critics would allege that mitt romney was twisting barack obamas -- but its not -- critics will allege that because thats true. we will have to see whether mitt romney will be able to get away with it as put it aptly, lying about what barack obama says. >> i think a normal conversation you wouldnt get along with someone if they took two sentences and dumped them and put the first and fourth together to make what th...

>> much higher. >> this is the first time -- fir presidential election $200 million has been spent on negative advertising. >> 35% of republicans with barack obama in the white house are not enthusiastic? that tells you more about mitt romney than anything, hes not an attract attractive candidate. >> but the incumbent is unattractive. >> i understand that but mitt romney is about the worst candidate you could put against barack obama. >> why are you spending so much money and sweating it and -- ...

This, and the very adamants in which he says, im never going to release them, nothing is going to set off journalists more, nothings going to set off democrats more, but whats really interesting, it set off a lot of republicans. there are an awful lot of republicans who have gone out there and said, release them. i dont know if any of them want them out before the convention so they can dump him, i doubt that. but its really remarkable how many republicans have said, you know, this position wont...