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Size doom if it a deal isnt cut by years owned. But washington, both side have dug in their heels, and the answer may be that suddenly the sliding down the fiscal slope does not seem that bad. Maybe thats why the republicans leaders like speaker of the house john boehner were able to put off making a counter proposal to the president s offer until today. Crossing the red line on the talks by rejecting the demind that the republicans accept a hike in the marginal tax rate for those with income over a quarter Million Dollars a year. My view . Obviously i agree with the white house on the substan...

The breaking news. The abc News Washington post tracking poll now has mitt romney ahead by three points and more crucially, hitting the 50 mark for the first time. In our own cnn poll of polls, governor romney currently enjoys a onepoint lead, 4847. As you no doubt know, the race will boil down to a few key states and tonight, we also have new numbers from the nbc wall street journal poll in colorado showing the race there tied. In nevada, the same poll has president obama out front by three, whereas in virginia, new polling from fox has mr. Romney up by two. Thats a ninepoint swing in his fav...

President obama out front by three, whereas in virginia, new polling from fox has mr. Romney up by two. Thats a ninepoint swing in his favor since september. Now, not coincidentally the campaigns in the last several days have stopped in all of those states. Take a look. How would you like to have this as your flight plan . This is a map of the last 48 hours of Campaign Appearances for president obama. Now heres governor romneys itinerary. Nevada, colorado, virginia, iowa and of course, ohio, ohio, ohio. About the only nonswing state stop, president obama today who touched down in chicago to vo...

Discussion on a topic familiar to him, journalism. The panelists are john avhon, editorinchief of the daily beast, marisa buchanan, dave cullen, a freelance journalist, matthew far welshing writer for Rolling Stone, alex gelber, citizen nyu journalism school, lou san reid, eric bates, editor at first look, the intercept, ruby cramer, correspondent for buzzfeed, will dana, jack grey, senior producer at cnn, anderson coopers 360, and jeremy. Here to act as the emcee is ben smith who was hastings last employer and editorinchief at buzzfeed. Since joining the company in january 2012, ben has built...

Joining me today, correspondent for the Guardian Anna marie cox and former director of speech writing for the president i cant get the words out, im so excited, columnist for the daily beast and cofounder of fenway strategies, jon favreau and Washington Post columnist and msnbc Political Columnist eugene robinson. Joining us now is chuck todd who is also, of course, host of msnbcs the daily rundown. Before we get into the actual policy here, i want to talk about the sort of birdseye view as far as what the president is doing on this great middle class tour if you will. To me it seems like hes ...