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Momentum because there were doubts -- new doubts were raised about gerald ford. and he actually didn't move forward for five days until he finally apologized for making this misstatement. and then he started his momentum again, but he ends up losing 50-48. and had he not made that mistake or if he had fixed the mistake more quickly, he very well may have won in 1976. >> and gene robinson, this morning mitt romney, of course, backing off. he's not talking about -- not talking about the killing of the ambassador, not talking about -- not blaming barack obama for apologizing any more, certainly n...

>> they can hold it. >> contiguous. >> right angles to each other. orthagonal. >> do we look at polls? >> a couple other things going on here, bernanke. trying to do whatever he can do to force a job recovery. it's certainly not happening out of washington, d.c. so the fed's moving very quickly. and the middle east turmoil spreads. but i think one hopeful development -- i guess one of the things that i was really surprised by, we were talking yesterday about how mitt romney made that terrible mistake in our opinion, at least in my opinion. i won't speak for anybody else. i was really stunned w...

Shows five, six points there. this is a terrible run for romney. of course, we have to remind people that dukakis was up by 19 percentage points after his convention. but we don't have the same electorate here, do we, chuck? there aren't that many undecideds left. >> well, that's what's amazing here is that there's almost no persuadable voters. i grouped together all of the undecided vote in the three states. these undecided voters, they're people that around going to vote. that's what you get the impression on. that they're not very enthusiastic. they have low opinions of both the president, ...

Rallied to the president in time of national crisis. after december 7th, the american people could deny fdr nothing. after the missile crisis, they could deny -- jfk goes on to actually win seats in the congress in the election of 1962. they rallied during the failure of "desert one" in the summer of 1980. they rallied to jimmy carter -- >> jimmy carter went up 10 percentage points after "desert one." >> yes, exactly. but this whole thing, too, brings to mind another historical analogy, and that's 1976 when ford, in the second debate with jimmy carter, said that there was no soviet domination ...

tomorrow. desperation in syria as reports of more government atrocities mount. syrians swarm the newly arrived u.n. monitors. and a new warning from the u.s. to assad's regime. plus, a perfect game for number 41. we'll bring you the final pitch that led to last night's victory. and later, "the new york times's" nick kristoff joins us to talk about his column. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west. a lot to tell you about this morning so let's get you straight to the news. we start with a look ahead. tomorrow former presiden...