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>> no, that's right. for much of the summer we were talking about the historic likeability gap between the two candidates. president obama is always likeable figure and remains so despite voters don't necessarily like some of his policies or the direction the economy is going in. romney, his likeability, numbers were way down. he was trailing obama by 15, 20 points. that gap is now gone. they're basically tied. if you look at our average of the favorability ratings of both candidates, it disappeared, that first debate performance again for romney managed to undo hundreds of millions of dollars...

In 10 key gaat he will ground states, identified as competitive by "politico". that is according to a "politico" george washington university poll. joining us executive editor of "real clear politics", tom beavin. tom, according to your distillation of these polls, at this point in time it is advantage romney but just by a hair? >> well, certainly at the national level that's true. and that "wall street journal" poll that you mentioned was taken after the deck debate. so looking, sort of at the data set in total, it certainly president obama may have slowed romney's momentum, and stopped it br...

Jon: well, while the president only mentioned governor romney by name once, he repeatedly attacked republican plans for medicare, defense spending and taxes saying their policies would take america in the wrong direction. tom beavin, executive editor for "real clear politics". let's talk with him now about all of this. the president said i'll tell you the truth. those jobs numbers that are out this morning throw a big wet blanket on a lot of what he had to say last night, don't they? >> they do, jon. that is one of the worries of the white house they have known this jobs number would coming ou...

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Effect on the election. it is really sort of fixed right now on the economy, on jobs. that remains good news for romney so long as the jobs numbers sort of stay where they are. the president is hoping that the jobs picture improves but there is no indication that it will be that. so again, you know, barring some sort of external event, you look around the globe, there are a lot of hot spots where foreign policy could in fact become a major part of this election down the road. right now the things that are resonating with voters is all about the economy, the deficit and jobs. that is why the on...