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We saw how gays were treated in the military for decades and decades. we saw how women had been treated in terms of their equality. we saw how there was no integration in the military until finally president truman made it happen. so all these are civil rights battles. these are human rights and civil rights, and, you know, people forget that half of the victims are men. it's not a women's issue. it is a violence issue. >> senator, could i -- >> it's a criminal issue. >> senator, i want to play a little bit of sound from one of your colleagues who voted against your amendment today in committe...

175,000. that means that mitt romney has to improve performance over what john mccain had in some of those collar counties that went republic. that's a high bar to clear. if he had been able to double that or, you know, go at that two-prong way where he increased the turnout and increased his performance, that gives him the better shot at it. so now it looks like it's just down to performance in those counties. county by county and trying to pick up votes to offset what it is that barack obama will pick up in cuyahoga and overall with the early vote as well. bret? >> bret: steve, thank you. >>...

President, he will stop to sequester those automatic defense cuts. listen to this. >> the strong american military, so strong no one would think of testing it. so strong that people would rather meet us on the bargaining table than on the battlefield that is essential to us and to the world. unlike the president, i will will restore that funding to our military. >> mitt romney has also been in virginia to help george allen get elected to the u.s. senate. allen is a former senator and governor of virginia. and he is trailing right now in the real clear politics average of polls to another forme...

Here later on this afternoon with former president clinton. we expect to see mitt romney at least twice in the last three days. we have been seeing a the love the president lately and seeing a lot of mitt romney. he was in virginia beach a few days ago, talking to their very big military population and he was basically telling them that if he is elected, he will put a stop to the sequester, those automatic defense cuts. the stronger american military. so strong no one would think of testing it no one would beat us battlefield. that is essential to us and to the world. unlike the president i wi...

Closeness of the presidential race is driving some of these close senate races? >> i think it's very close and i do feel that the president strives for it. i think what we've seen in the past week since the debate started it's really helped in some of these states. for example, in virginia, we've seen george allen who was a little bit behind jump out ahead now of tim cane and i think george allen is in great shape in virginia, and i will say this, too. i think it's much more likely to be in control of the senate if they were to win the presidency and i think we'll control the senate. >> karen,...