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Definitely the enthusiasm, right? the crowd reaction that you heard to that whole exchange. juan williams getting booed for even suggesting that maybe calling the first african-american president the food stamps president might possibly have racial connotations and newt gingrich getting thunderous applause for doubling down and calling juan williams juan in his patronizing way. that's what the romney campaign wants to get its hands on right now. the crowd reaction, the crowd just lapping that up. >> in recent days, we have learned that four different women have accused you of inappropriate beh...

And by barack obama. let's worry about the character of the candidate as a whole new set of voters are getting to learn about you. and what's just amazing here is they alternate between these strategies and then they discuss it publicly or they have their friends tweet it, friends like that you don't need. and so, you know, we have this dialogue here, the few times he comes off of vacation saying, well, i don't want to be a flip-flopper, then flip-flopping, then not flip-flopping. it's just amazing. every time he's coming off vacation he's making a mistake. >> nathan, it was a little torture, ...

seriously. the national spelling bee champ wins with the word most of us have likely never used, maybe not even ever heard of. >> the answer to that is probably no, right? these kids are really bright nowadays. >> nothing surprises me anymore. every year they get smarter and smarter. good morning, everybody, welcome to "early start." >> we're really happy to have you here this morning. we are bringing you the news from a to z 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let's get started. up first, john edwards likely off the legal hook for good after a jury acquitted him of one count of campaign fin...

led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending prett...

Consistent, stands up for beliefs, 41 to 30. this is an nbc wall street journal poll showing how people think of both of them. >> look, this election will be decided on the economy. so there are other things that trump all of those issues. voters are being asked to vote on character issues. likeability is not the most important thing out there, but you have to live with them in your living room for four years and they will represent your idea of what this country stands for. if you're failing on those, no matter what your economic policy is, you're in trouble. >> thank you both for your time t...