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Leaders are trained. these are places where we're going to have to learn the kinds of skills that you need in the workplace. more in just a moment. first it's time for a preview with "weekend with alex witt." >> we're talking sandy everyone. it is a hurricane and again taking aim at the northeast. the storm is coming quicker than we first thought. live reports up and down the east coast. more fallout from john sununu's remarks. what do richard nixon, bill clinton and ronald reagan have in common with a state up for grabs in this election? we'll get to that. in office politics, i spoke ...

The unemployment rate here is hovering around 9% higher than the national average, and because barack obama won this state by a thin margin, the republicans, mitt romney and paul ryan think they've got a good shot at picking this state up, 15 electoral college votes. we do expect him here in the next few moments, then he will spend the night in north carolina doing a lot of local media. that's how important those 15 electoral college votes are to the romney/ryan campaign. then believe it or not, they will head out west into some very blue territory, going out to oregon and washington. those ar...

Seven states. they have to worry about shoring up electoral votes in other places. for example, i don't think the president can take pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin for granted. we have them leaning to him, but a lean is not a sure win. and give the fact that president obama and his team are putting such emphasis on arizona, even though i think arizona very likely to remain republican, the romney team will want to make sure they have the proper resources there. jenna: larry, we'll leave that super swing state map up, when you look at new hampshire, just this little subtle state up in the ...

Earning 1 million per year. republics called it a show vote staged to score cheap political points in election season and fundamentally bad economic policy. democrats cast the buffet rule as a matter of basic fairness and wondered why the republicans blocked a state up or down vote on it. >> it's been said on this floor that this is a tax on investment and that this is a tax on job creation. that is wrong. this is a tax on one thing. income. >> for the president, fairness is about taking from some and giving to others. it's about taking from taxpayers and giving it to solar companies. >> so st...

>> it turned out -- i was one of those, i talked about on the show, was saying get out, senator clinton. you're harming the party. after north carolina, we've got a mathematical certainty of obama winning the nomination. it ended up being great for the party because you had democrats in awful these states where they might not otherwise go. illinois is a place where in the general election, there is not going to be a big ad buy, right? people are going to assume that illinois will go to the president. is this an opportunity for republicans to now -- get attention in that state in a way they hav...