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0 than 6,000 miles in 37 hours. that s a road trip four. with 11 days to go the president continues to campaign with a round of radio interviews. after the election and i believe i ll win to bring the republicans together with my administration and democrats and say to them the election is over, we still have some big problems to solve, and the goal of making me a one term president is behind us. let s bring in times deputy washington bureau chief michael crowley. how are you? we just saw the president talking to michael smirkonish, he was on rock center, the tonight show and morning joe. he s doing a lot of interviews. meanwhile romney said no more interviews for the ref of the election, what do you make of these two different strategies? well i m a little surprised because i think that all though it seems like the popular vote right now in the polling is at least tied and romney may even have a little bit of an edge, i on the other hand remember when paul ryan was picked a lot of democrats gleefully said and it was partly spin but some was sincere a lot said paul ryan is a game changer in our favor. this guy can t elected running on the ryan plan. it s a disaster. i wrote a story, i went down to florida and saw ryan there and at the time several weeks ago i thought the medicare thing, the medicare sort of voucher component that the ryan plan of hurting romney and that want stems have blown away. the dynamics of the race have changed. we re not hearing so much about ryan and the ryan plan. maybe not. i think if he doesn t carry wisconsin and ohio, romney lose ohio by a point there will be that second guessing. michael in my view two contradictory things have been taking shape. one we ve gotten arguably the best economic news of barack obama s presidency in the last month. housing starts are up. the unemployment rate back one 8%. mists saying they see good in addition key to it and related to what i just said his discussions of the tax plan and he s doing this in the debates have beat back this narrative that he s favoring the rich his jepd is a huge tax cut for the wealthy. taxes will be a lot lower under mitt romney than president obama that s the reality. but romney has done a good job of reframing in his own terms his tax plan and making it sound like it s a broad tax reform. i m not favoring the rich and i think that people probably just trust him more. he s beaten back a narrative that he s this vulcher capitalist. it does beg the question if romney s strategy of going quiet in terms of media is smart since he has done a better job of articulating his economic plan but i want to ask you about an october surprise, something late in the game could totally shake things up and change the results on election day. our friends wrote in reuters point out election day is happening in a lot of places across the country and in fact one in three americans will vote before actual election day. so in some ways doesn t that mitigate the possibility of any real october surprise and make the case so it s already baked? it s funny. i was about to use that phrase the cake is partway baked. i think you re right. i would say thank goodness for that because, you know, in some ways i see the whole election now is like a guy at a bar who needs to be cut off. last call, go home because you re just saying dumb things. candidates all around the country, congressional and senate races that i won t mention specifically. they need to stop talking. we know where everybody stands. what this comes down to now is gaffes and gimmicks and quotes taken out of context. it s for the best. a lot of people who work for john derry in 2004 believed when osama bin laden came out and made a videotape statement on the friday before election day that that really had a potentially pivotal effect on the race, that it did push a few voters over the brink. in hindsight that statement meant nothing. fewer people who are exposed to irrational and emotional stimulus in the last few days and changing their votes the better. we are miare mitigating this oc goofiness. i love it. michael crowley, thank you so much. up next our state of the day. here s a hint live free or die but first speaking of granite, i felt like granite yesterday. yesterday, professor steve kornacki had a debate over a musical selection. it was the four tops, he was right. so this one is dedicated to steve. so i test. a lot. do you test with this? 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