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>> among latino voters obama beats romney now, believe it or not, by 50 points. but the tricky part maybe their enthusiasm level again. now 59% of latinos call themselves extremely interested in this election, at this point in 2008 that number was 18 points higher. mayor, you come from that background, they represent a lot of people emotionally and politically as well. what is it? is it a lack of a long history of voting, habit-forming voting rather than just phenomenal voting, only when it's exciting? i think that's true with a lot of democrats -- >> a lot of young voters, a lot of voters low...

Enough to trial cast a vote? >> eric: that 15% undecided is about standard for presidential election, between 10 and 20%. but the important thing to note is as that certain to vote one way or the other so close, that may bring out the undecide vote, the enthusiasm level goes up when the vase tight. that's why some of these other polls that are skewed and sometimes they're skewed on the way they administer the polls to look like president obama is winning five, six 7%, it brings back that enthusiasm level for the undecideds. that's why polling is important, especially like you mentioned, likely...

Campaign. president bush won by three points. jenna: very interesting. we see senator kerry on the screen. a lot of things we talk about, larry, is turnout when it comes to this election and how important turnout really is going to be. do debates affect turnout? >> absolutely because the turnout battle is really a battle of enthusiasm in the two party bases and, you know the romney people have been pretty frank. paul ryan was very frank over the weekend in saying the ticket has had a tough couple weeks. when you have a tough couple weeks you're enthusiasm level can decline. a good performance ...

Enthusiasm level of rank-and-file democrats. i think it started with michelle obama's speech went off the charts with president clinton's speech. >> robert traynham, let's talk about this thing in denver this weekend. the first presidential debate. it will be the first opportunity that mitt romney has to reach an audience, unfiltered, tens of millions of people watching. what do you hope we're talking about thursday morning and what do you think we'll be talking about with regards to his debate performance? >> well, that's an interesting question, craig. i agree with the governor, that governo...

President was frank and spoke clearly about the fact there's a ways to go it wasn't surprising. i don't think they were looking for a big bounce because it's very close. i think this is going to come down to the debates and milt romney has a history of not doing well. look what happened with him with ted kennedy. he was up doing well and he went into the debate and fell apart. when you speak very clearly to the american people about what you're going to do, if you're not clear you're going to lose. >> here is a little detail nugget here i want to share with you, susan. a lot of reporters just ...