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President in the last 48 hours. you have a bunch of centrist kind of pseudo republicans, who knows where they are politically, but the cumulative effect i think is powerful. >> is there obama momentum right now, chuck? you score these pretty straight right down the middle. >> it's funny. i call it -- there's sort of the campaign insider's zeitgeist, if you will, and there's this assumption whether you heard haley barbour say it publicly, i talked to strategists on both sides, on the republican side worry about it privately and the democratic side hopeful for it. they think there's some sort of...

To the piece. topics like mitt romney's tax return fails to quiet critics and mitt romney and the 47%. i guess it could have been worse. up next, we'll delve into some of the hottest senate races around the country and senator claire mccaskill will be here with her closing arguments against todd akin. coming up at 8:00 eastern, coming together, a benefit telethon to aid victims of hurricane sandy. featuring the great bruce springsteen and jon bon jovi. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. with her closing arguments

We rise or fall as one nation and as one people. >> that was, of course, president obama today on the campaign trail in ohio reflecting on the damage hurricane sandy wreaked on the east coast, still wreaking damage. president obama's response to the storm has been seen as overwhelmingly positive. newspaper editorial boards have been praising the president. from "the new york times," quote, a big storm requires big government. usa today, quote, sandy clarifies federal government's role. the seattle times, praise for barack obama. chris christie's bipartisan approach to hurricane sandy. in the o...

We showed you the averages of the polls from battleground states. let's take a look at some individual numbers. in wisconsin our new nbc news/"wall street journal"/maris poll shows obama with a three-point lead. in new hampshire our poll has the president two points ahead. in iowa our poll has president obama up by six, 50%, 44%. in colorado a new cnn/opinion research poll shows the president leading by two. finally to michigan where a new epic poll shows the president ahead by six, 48%, 42%. we'll be right back. who sent it to cindy, who wondered why her soup wasn't quite the same. the recipe...

Sides, on the republican side worry about it privately and the democratic side hopeful for it. they think there's some sort of bounce for the president on sandy. nobody can point to any metric yet to prove this, but when you think about where things were a week ago, a week ago there was this assumption that, boy, all the intangibles here at the end were going to -- >> let me -- >> -- to romney. now it feels there's intangibles that may favor the president. >> i get the sense that the love of romney by the right and other political players is based on sand in this case. and guys like the govern...