question is why is mitt romney doing this? i think he wants to be secretary of state. do you think there could be a patriotic element in this? i m giving him the benefit of the doubt that people have said look, a real adult has to be part of this administration or we re doomed. so you re it. i don t know. i don t know. they could give him a lesser position to test his patriotism. what do you think john? is this the same old political donkey act or whatever? what is this thing? on romney s part. if romney still believes he s dangerous it makes sense to serve in this administration. carry out his orders. well to be part of the team of rivals jason talked about earlier. and from trump s perspective he wants someone who has that wing of the party covered and i don t think it s a bad idea. obama which romney does he believe? the one that trashed him when he was down or kisses him when he s up. i would believe the one that dumped on you when you re down. i don t think it matt
doing this? i think he wants to be secretary of state. do you think there could be a patriotic element in this? i m giving him the benefit of the doubt that people have said look, a real adult has to be part of this administration or we re doomed. so you re it. i don t know. i don t know. they could give him a lesser position to test his patriotism. what do you think john? is this the same old political donkey act or whatever? what is this thing? on romney s part. if romney still believes he s dangerous it makes sense to serve in this administration. carry out his orders. well to be part of the team of rivals jason talked about earlier. and from trump s perspective he wants someone who has that wing of the party covered and i don t think it s a bad idea. obama which romney does he believe? the one that trashed him when he was down or kisses him when he s up. i would believe the one that dumped on you when you re down. i don t think it matters. trump is trying to assembl
something to deal with the fiscal crisis. crisis has a tendency to be the one driving force that can bring people together. in government we say, don t waste a good crisis, because it s an opportunity to get things done. i think we re facing such a dangerous path that i think people will have to govern together regardless of who wins, whether it s governor romney, president obama re-elected, whatever the congressional makeup is. so i wouldn t worry about that, but i do think we ought to take a hard look at the electoral college in this country. the time has come. governor, toure mentioned some of the animosity, the questions about legitimacy that would occur if the vote is split, and i think he s probably right. let me ask you about the other possibility, that romney wins. can you tell me with certainty that you won t hear obama supporters crying foul and blaming two things, voter suppression and racism, on romney s win?
developing now, you re looking at live pictures of air force one. it s getting ready to take off on a post debate swing state. he s heading first to iowa and then later in the day to ohio which, of course, brings us to less than 500 hours and only one debate left before the election. how about that? 500 hours. president obama heads to the midwest to campaign in two battleground states today, ohio and iowa. obama has 237 electoral votes, romney at 191. let s take a look at the critical states of flo-va. we saw romney narrowing the president s lead to six in ohio, pulling ahead of the president in virginia, basically pulling even, if you will, in the
facilitators to their message. i thought romney came the closer with romney. and it seemed to have an effect with jeremy. i think obama started off sort of slow and took a while to find his footing. he seemed a little nervous at first but there was a moment where he realized he was getting under romney s skin. romney is not at his best when he let s somebody get under his skin and the president seemed to do that last night. the other thing is, we always go back to bill clinton. bill clinton knows how to behave in the performances and town hall is great for him but not just town hall. bill clinton is good on his feet and i think both of these candidates that we have now are guys that are very thoughtful, very smart, but they have to be prepared. they have to practice to be good on their feet. yes, exactly. let me sneak a break in here. the trivia that we asked, who is the only president to win a second term with fewer electoral votes than his first term?