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Night. we've seen it before. you might as well have watched it on tv with rabbit ears. >> reporter: look at this video of the romney campaign bus is here in tow lead owe as well with the president. they've been circling this high school and beeping the horn and they have a megaphone and they've been saying take a look at mitt romney's visio future, his plan for the future. a lot of obama fans waiting outside the high school have been shouting back at it saying go home. here we are labor day, both sides fighting it out in the battleground state of ohio. doesn't get any better than this. bill. b...

Secretariry for the obama for america presidential campaign. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. martha: you watched report when we were in tampa last week. the thrust for the romney-ryan campaign was we deserve better. we can do better than with we're getting right now. what do you think?. >> the question is what they are offering? we certainly didn't hear much about that last week. we didn't hear about their budget plan which would turn medicare into a voucher program. if you're a student would be harder to get a loan. didn't hear about their $5 trillion tax cuts for the wealthie...

Charlotte with details on that. what is bracketing? >> reporter: call it bracketing, counter programing a counter convention. republicans are here making sure their message particularly the one they drove out in tampa, does not get lost in the huge megaphone of the democratic national convention in addition to paul ryan being here. they have nikki haley from south carolina. oklahoma governor mary fall lynn and virginia governor bob mcdonnell, all pushing the theme, are you betting off than you were four years ago. here is what sean spicer, communications director for the rnc told me about thei...

Conversation between 2008 and where we are today and the fact more work needs to be done. we were losing 800,000 jobs when the president came into office. manufacturing was in decline. the auto industry was on the brink. american retirement savings were being wiped out in the market. we made a lot of progress. businesses created more than 4.5 million jobs. gm was reborn into the number one automaker into the world defend. manufacturing is coming back. more than 500,000 jobs. the question where will we go from here? the president will lay out how we invest in education and research and developm...

Conventions. i suspect they are going to watch the debates. you do find that in polling that a lot of people are sick of the ads, they think the convention are shows and they are looking forward to that real test when they are side-by-side, they can do their comparison shopping april watch botand watch both of them take the tough questions. martha: it comes down to a very subtle question that happens that very last moment when they walk into the booth and say, do i want to stick with this guy or give this guy a chance. it's a big huge question for some of them. it will be a last minute kind of...