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Kind of holds his own, isn't clearly blown out of the water or anything like that, that people say he exceeded expectations. so what looked like a draw ends up being interpreted by the viewers or the media, or if the media is looking to sell the horse race angles, maybe they start portraying the draw as a romney win. the expectations for his performance were so low, kennedy outdebated romney but the effect of that was mogfied because the expectations were so low. that might be the biggest risk here for the obama people that the expectations of the voters and probably the press too that obama w...

Of our nominees. >> so perry, some analysts say mitt romney needs to connect on some sort of a hail mary in the debates to turn things around. is that putting too much pressure on him? >> he does have a lot of pressure on him. right now the numbers are showing he's behind about three or four points nationally. the other thing, gallup research showed last week that essentially twice in the last 50 years has a candidate basically been losing before the debates but then after the debates been winning. it's very hard to change the dynamic completely. as we've seen in 2008, the president may know d...

Labor and the power that they have in those urban areas and the ability to turn people out. it's critical. you can win the state by just winning those urban areas, in fact, the last time around the president won the state of pennsylvania, by winning the urban areas. >> there's a bit of common wisdom that there aren't any blue states, there are only blue cities, and the cities are big enough, powerful enough and mobilized enough to carry the state or not. >> it's a real contrast in pennsylvania. you can see it you have the cities, the rural areas and suburbs, and those areas that carry the stat...

Kkk in some instances, comments like that underscore this is about racial tension and sure there is a piece of it that is -- just about winning, think we want to win. this something interest in going to this racist jim crow type of south. people of color not afforded the same rights and same opportunities as everybody else. and that's a bigger conversation that we need to have. >> we heard attorney general holder use poll tax to describe what was going on with the voter i.d. these are wards that are predominantly minority. >> pennsylvania is so stark. we have the speaker of the house getting u...

>> many believe reporters pick sides. >> many people think most reports are trying to help barack obama win and 9% think they're trying to help romney win. >> there is conscious an unconscious bias. >> bill kristol thinks reporter bias is pronounced on the broader social issues such as abortion. >> there are very few mainstream reporters that understand are at all sympathetic to conservative position on social and culture issues. the bias really hits on issues like same-sex marriage an abortion rights. >> chuck todd conceded to laura ingraham the flap over todd akin's comments about "legitimat...