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Running ads right now tying the president's medicare plan to the overall health care plan. so there's actually ads in these states that are pushing this into people's front of mind. but remember, megyn, for all the challenges the president faces in selling his health care plan -- and let's be clear, it's been a tough sell for him over the last couple years -- in all three of these states he's winning handily. and right now he's still winning the election, and mitt romney, as chris said earlier, chris stirewalt said he's got to do something to change the dynamic if he's going to win. megyn: he ...

Obsessed with cutting tacks that they're going to blow a hole in the deficit and starve the country of needed investments. i think that's where this is going to be debated. the health care debate fits into that because amazing to me right now that the republicans are claiming they're fiscally responsible when they want to increase spending on medicare, defense and cut taxes. they're the ones who become the fiscally irresponsible party. barack's being attacked for cutting an entitlement program right now. i thought that's what we all wanted to do -- megyn: barack. [laughter] can we call him bar...

Perino was making last week, she was saying it may have been a brilliant move if it was thought out to this extent by the romney camp because obama got a pass. president obama got mostly a pass on the cuts to medicare when obamacare was passed because even was so focused on what was happening to the health care system. and now with paul ryan joining the republican ticket and the focus on his medicare plan, it sort of gave the republicans another chance to go back at what obamacare did to medicare. >> right. and, of course, paul ryan actually in his budget has the same cuts to medicare as barha...

Medical device tax is already causing businesses to cancel plants and lay off workers, and three-quarters of small business other thans say obamacare's hurting job creation. so romney's going to make the case that obamacare's bad for the economy. when it comes to medicare, as you point out, that's a huge issue for these voters. it's going to blunt obama's senior scare strategy because t very hard for obama to say that romney and ryan are threatening medicare when he's the one who cut $716 billion out of medicare to pay for obamacare. it's going to be very hard for him to say romney and ryan wa...

Lot. we've also got our hands on polling on one of the most controversial issues of all. voters in three swing states weigh anything on the president's health care overhaul and separately on the issue of medicare. in ten minutes we'll show you what voters are saying on those issues in three critical states. fox news weather alert on isaac, and four days out now from the republican national convention, the city of tampa is preparing for the worst case scenario. the city's mayor says he is prepared to order an evacuation of the city if what is now tropical storm isaac strengthens to hurricane ...