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reads of the morning. with just hours left until tonight's final debate, our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows how competitive this race has become. an important slice of undecided voters still are not persuaded to rehire the president. but also not convinced, it seems, he needs to be fired. will anything tonight help these folks decide? well, the candidates prep their surrogates spoke out sunday, previewing tonight's lines of attack. >> the american people have gotten to see mitt romney up close as he offers his vision of the future, and what he would do as president. bu...

>> this is what president obama said the jobless rate would be if we didn't pass the stimulus. but this is what the jobless rate actually is. 8.1%. the difference, about 3.7 million jobs. obama's spending drops $5000 deeper in debt and now we have fewer jobs than when he started. what obama promised versus what he delivered. >> what this ad does is it holds the president to account for a very big promise he made. when they were selling the stimulus, your talk about how bad the economy is today, the president had a plan to fix ...

This campaign spending. >> i'm with you on this, bill. fred, do you believe days of bounce s considering where we ae in the campaign and how well defined the campaign apparatus is, those days are gone? >> if you have a bounce for more than 30 minutes, you've done a good job. i think in terms of the ryan pick, it's late august and the ryan pick did help mitt romney energize the republican base. >> we'll go through a couple things. we tested 15 traits between obama and romney. obama led on 12 of them. eight of them he led by double digits. bill, the one that jumped at me, 22 points about caring ...

They don't break equally. they break heavily toward a challenger and it becomes a coin flip election. >> fred yang, this was the argument that many democratic pollsters said on the john kerry campaign back in 2004. >> i agree with bill. when you look through the data, it will be a very close election. as bill mentioned, some of the structural questions in the poll, right direction, wrong track, state of the economy, it's a tough environment for the president, for any incumbent. there is news in here that suggests maybe one reason why the president still maintains a lead is there are certain op...

Favors the republicans and we know how many points it takes to throw out a congressional majority. this is not enough margin for democrats to in this poll to be having a conversation that's going to happen. >> fred, are you prepared to say publicly it's out of reach for the democrats? >> ask me on november 7th. i think we're going to get some gains in the house. how much obviously is an open question. it is interesting the reelect is higher. i don't want to do too much from the past couple days. this is an economy election. the republican party is talking about abortion. >> anything other than...