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Guys? >> steve: we dont like that heavy snow idea. thank you. >> gretchen: one of the biggest voting blocks in america, parents. so what do they want come tomorrow? >> i want my son to have a future because i dont want him to be burdened by this enormous debt. i want him to be able to go to college and live the american dream. >> steve: so youre going to meet the parents coming up next. >> brian: the black panthers showing up at the polls in 2008. how a group of navy seals will make sure that do...

Romney is seriously competing in these states, should they have spent money earlier to shore up those voting blocks, to make sure it wasnt even close? that they cant make a real play? >> you know, listen, i think when you look at this battleground map, and this has been one of the most difficult races to get kind of a handle on because you have national polls, you know, most of them showing a small, narrow romney lead. you have battleground polls showing a small, narrow obama lead. it is a very ...

Its important that in tomorrows debate, in the tuesday night debate that president obama, who had such a problem last time needs to steer the conversation to florida specific to topics ill name two. everyone is concerned about jobs everywhere. two issues that resonate here particularly are medicare and immigration. we didnt hear much of either of those in the first debate. jenna: its interesting you point out the two issues as well. obviously they are geared towards certain voting blocks. when w...

Now, young people, ages 18 to 29, generation opportunity put this together by analyzing bureau of labor statistics data, the rate for the age group is 11.8 percent. generation opportunity which studies economic numbers among americas youth says the situation here is even worse. >> we have an additional 1.7 million young american whose is dropped out of the labor force. if you take that number and roll it into the 11.8 percent, the nonadjusted number would be 16.6 percent for the labor force part...

Comments? >> i think that is a major drama within the drama of the debate tonight, how he handles that obviously, he is going to be asked about it. i think he needs to apologize in a way. it goes beyond inn elegant it is impossible for him to explain away the words. what he has to say, i think, is look, i was speaking as an insider to other insiders. i made the mistake of talking in cold, mechanical terms about votes and about voting blocks. of course i care everybody. i was speaking in a techni...

Enthusistic voting blocks. obama beat mccain by more than 30 points in 18 to 29 demographic. since taking office the president visited a college or high school 132 times. at norfolk state university today. but are young voters still as enthusiastic about him as he is about them in we spoke with some at dnc in charlotte bp lets listen. >> i think is bound to happen. i think that he represented so many things that my generation believed at that time, it was fresh. good to that someone understand w...

Focus on the rnc convention, ever held by republicans. you talked to l.a. mayor villaraigosa but how hispanics feel about the democrats. >> scbem hispanic, two of the key voting blocks that the republicans went after and the democrats will go after this week. >> shannon: in a race this tight, every vote in those two blocks counts. chris have a great time in charlotte. thank you for the inside look on fox news sunday. >> cant wait to get there. >> shannon: see you soon. you can catch the intervie...

Election. >> bernard, do you agree? >> i take a different view. i think that seniors and women are going to be the key voting blocks. seniors vote to a higher degree than anyone else. and seniors have shown 2-1, they dont trust mitt romney and paul ryan. and women in a large margin believes that the president cares about them, more than mitt romney. so i think, as you look at the two key groups of women and seniors, there is a lot of trouble on the horizon. >> 20 seconds here, how much can your ...

To pay for obamacare. what would candidate say about president obamas medicare cuts? >> it aint right. >> no, mr. president, it aint right. >> reporter: the romney campaign believes it can win on the issue of medicare, pointing to a house race, where a candidate came from behind by hammering on this idea that the obamacare plan would cut more than $700 billion from medicare, it was a winning issue then. they think it could be a winning issue now. >> lots of battles yet to come. thank you. >> joh...

Motivation. >> that just -- that news just came out today. so we dont have any reaction yet but theres no question that politics runs a pretty strong course through this entire debate. >> theres a new poll that shows this washington post poll that came out at the beginning of last week showing that 74% of people that 23% say voters should not have to show id. >> no doubt the polls show whelmingly that people do support the idea of presenting a photo id at the polling booths. i think the reality,...