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Plus ann romney on leno last night telling jay about the thriftiness of her super rich husband. that clip later in the show. first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. and we begin on the campaign trail where exactly one week out now from the first presidential debate. and there is brand new polling this morning from three key swing states that will raise major concerns inside the romney campaign. of likely voters, president obama now leads mitt romney by 10 percentage points in the state of ohio. that's a double digit lead in the state no republican has lo...

47-39 over reagan? >> right. now, part of this is, yeah, and the gallup. >> bill: that's amazing. >> we forget about it now. i remember at the time people -- i was the director of the reagan campaign in texas historically democrat state at that point. and i can remember people saying well, we're losing to this guy. how can would he be losing to this guy with the economy as bad as it is? now, one of the reasons is the polls have a false scientific provision. take a look at this. this is on the 129 of september. four national polls, cbs news, "new york times" had 13 points more democrats than re...

47-39 over reagan? >> right. now, part of this is, yeah, and the gallup. >> bill: that's amazing. >> we forget about it now. i remember at the time people -- i was the director of the reagan campaign in texas historically democrat state at that point. and i can remember people saying well, we're losing to this guy. how can would he be losing to this guy with the economy as bad as it is? now, one of the reasons is the polls have a false scientific provision. take a look at this. this is on the 129 of september. four national polls, cbs news, "new york times" had 13 points more democrats than re...

47-39 over reagan? >> right. now, part of this is, yeah, and the gallup. >> bill: that's amazing. >> we forget about it now. i remember at the time people -- i was the director of the reagan campaign in texas historically democrat state at that point. and i can remember people saying well, we're losing to this guy. how can would he be losing to this guy with the economy as bad as it is? now, one of the reasons is the polls have a false scientific provision. take a look at this. this is on the 129 of september. four national polls, cbs news, "new york times" had 13 points more democrats than re...

Of the phone banks and everyone said we are going to lose. of course, we din. one of the things we need to put in context here is the polls we endow them with the precision they do not have. they do not predict the outcome of an event in 49 days from now. there is a structural problem in the polling. this is just an example. 9/12, four national polls showing advantage for obama in one and cnn had ten point advantage for obama, and six points from the abc-washington post, and dead even among the two with rasmussen, and in 2008 it was seven points for democrats and dead even in 2003. who thinks ...