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Has it faded? >> this rush to judgment is truly breath taking. there's so many people who basically declared the mitt romney campaign over. six weeks before the election, before four debates, before an october jobs report. and i think if you really want to get a sense of where this race is, paul, you need to forget the headlines and look at the data. there are a number of good websites that aggregate the data. real clear politics and pollster.com. if you do that, what you'll discover is that the obama lead over romney in june, as an average of all polls is 2.3%, in july, it was 2.5. in august,...

Both -- both men and women are concerned. men believe we can't afford it and women believe it will adversely affect their family's health. when you get to the meta-question, do you think the president's policies have helped or hurt -- there is little difference between men and women, two-thirds of them think that the president's policies have, at best, not hurt and more likely have actually -- excuse me, not helped, but at their best -- have not-ed and at worst have hurt the economy. and there is not much difference there. so the question is whether the issues of reproductive rights and access...

Both -- both men and women are concerned. men believe we can't afford it and women believe it will adversely affect their family's health. when you get to the meta-question, do you think the president's policies have helped or hurt -- there is little difference between men and women, two-thirds of them think that the president's policies have, at best, not hurt and more likely have actually -- excuse me, not helped, but at their best -- have not-ed and at worst have hurt the economy. and there is not much difference there. so the question is whether the issues of reproductive rights and access...

Break. >> and romney's been saying that too. >> shameless plugs? >> my winning is on saturday. so south dakota. >> south dakota? >> south dakota. >> destination wedding. >> steve? >> pollster.com, visited -- >> right now? >> absolutely. and read what real pollsters are saying. >> cameras in courtrooms. i'm really glad we got a look inside the courtroom in colorado yesterday. >> is that a good thing? >> i really do -- i was a little taken aback at the beginning, but i do think it was a good thing. aren't we glad we got a chance to make that decision, assail t assessment ourselves? >> it's inter...

Ed newport and mark bloomenthal, founder of pollster.com and the man behind that analysis that we did. frank, my friend, let me start with you. what do you say to the criticism and critique of your methodology? >> i'm glad you are talking about this. it's a complex cross. you need about an hour to explain it. >> we use a special report. it's good that we're all looking at it. it is so complex that we think race is not the only variable involved. when we are rating polls, the most complex thing is cell phones and we plan to intrusion 400 up to every 1,000 based on cell phones. we have to wait a...