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Florida, nevada, new mexico, texas, et cetera. >> jose, you and i have been talking about whether the democrats and president obama can get that enthusiasm from latino voters. i do think the obama campaign is hoping that that announcement as well as everything that they were doing in june on that issue really gets latinos fired up for the election. thats the one thing to watch in all the polls. whether theyre as enthusiastic as other voting blocks. >> no better poll on this issue than the nbc wa...

Everywhere you turn. secondly theyre going to go after him and this is going to look like the ryan/romney ticket. third, ryan is actually a trifecta of alienating voting blocks. hispanics, women, older people. older people last time were the backbone. its got much narrower if you look at the aarp poll in florida. the whole ryan plan is going to drive those seniors more toward the president. i mean, it doesnt matter whether youre talking about outlawing contraception, medicare, taking away studen...

And majors in efficiency. so whatever they save, you save. hassle, time, paperwork, hair-tearing-out, and yes, especially dollars. esurance. insurance for the modern world. click or call. and the big finish, the republican effort to block the vote continues. its their top priority. the gop legislative efforts to suppress the voting blocks in a number of states and we told you about florida, pennsylvania and ohio. in michigan, voters are being turned away because they refused to check a box ask...

What romney has the policy with. >> and president bush at 48 1/2%, at this exactly point. he got reelected and john kerry with numbers like that. can you see it play out that the president does. >> i think the president will be reelect adden i think its largely economic numbers, but largely the voting blocks. he is very he, very hard to defeat a president who gets an enormous percentage of the african-american vote consistently across the country, the union management and that no matter what the...

we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romneys surrogates complaint that the president should "learn how to be an american." lets go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. weve been saying its getting ugly. >> report...

Well. so it -- according to the associated press, just about an hour ago, apparently the president is going to be sending joe biden to do a rebuttal to what mr. romney said yesterday. so why doesnt the president go because according to his schedule, he doesnt, you know, his calendar is open. people are asking jay carney about that yesterday, heres what he had to say. >> its the presidents decision not to go to the naacp maybe suggests that he takes the black vote for granted? >> well, for campai...

And democratic interest groups and big democratic donors have to be very concerned that mitt romney could end up outspending the president and winning. >> jimmy, our latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows that enthusiasm is down among the presidents key voting blocks from 2008. down 17 points among those between 17 and 34, 11 points among independents. jimmy, is the fund raising lag a function of that lack of enthusiasm? or are some donors simply deciding to wait until later to give in...

Least put him on the short list. i dont think we can necessarily rule at the possibility that he may still be 0en that short list and there may be early stages of vetting going on without his knowledge. in other words, doing the baggrounding before they go to him and request documents detailing his finances and personal history and the like. so i wouldnt be surprised to see this, the veep sticks circle bag around and include him again and a lot more speculation until mitt romney actually choosin...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> we begin in wisconsin where voters have three more hours to cast ballots in an effort to recall their republican governor scott walker and replace him with the democratic mayor tom barrett. both parties see it as a potential weather vane for novembers election. the exit polls are fascinating to begin with, number one and number two show a very close race and how polarized and partisan the electorate is. we mentioned governor walkers efforts to l...

Its not fair, okay? i was the first one that said it should be legal, but now youre the one getting all the credit. >> thats not true. >> oh, yeah? oh, really? then why are you all dressed up? >> im going to a gala with lady gaga and elton john. >> oh, see? that should be me. vice presidents never get to go anywhere! >> jason sedakis as joe biden may be right. maybe vice presidents do deserve a little more credit. according to a study in kansas, selecting your veep is a critical decision. when d...