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Progressives overplayed their hand asking for too much. they have now backpedaled. house speaker nancy pelosi says they are still on course to vote this week but it takes time to get a price tag from the cbo and the joint committee on taxation so maybe next week or thanksgiving in the senate. and if they don't finish soon it could be part of the biggest bill of all time in december. that bill would avoid a government shut down and raise the debt ceiling. bret? >> bret: ugh, december, that will be something. >> december to remember. >> bret: on the way out the door to christmas. chad, as always...

Governor. mitt romney raised nursing home fees ability times an his budget cuts medicaid by one-third. >> joining me now, former spokesman for the democratic congressional campaign committee doug foreign nell and from the now romney superpack. so we could really walk out on the house debate. ann i want to put up our top ten markets, these are the most saturated ad markets for the eighth through the 14th. norfolk, cleveland, florida, virginia plus ro colorado. flohva and then colorado, iowa,

Obama won the state in '08 by taking most of its populated areas. can he pull off the same feat four years later? joining me is nbc news senior political editor, mark maurray. if we look at the spending for campaigning, there are three virginia locations among the top eight. so explain to all of us the stakes that virginia holds for each, for president obama and mitt romney. >> there's no surprise that the campaigns, the obama and romney campaign plus all the outside groups, are descending on the air waves in virginia. this is a very important state. in past elections, we talked about florida,...

>> another route, described by the re-election campaign, win ohio and iowa. both of which president obama won in 2008 and senator kerry lost in 2004. the president had extraordinary success in the midwest last time around, but that was before three straight years of high unemployment gripped the country. and then there is the south. or at least the up parts of the south. north carolina plus virginia plus senator kerry's 251 electoral votes equals the presidency. now, the president won both states in 2008 and the democrats' convention is in north carolina. but both north carolina and virginia s...

Among the lawmakers who have already announced plans to retire kent conrad of north dakota and jim webb of virginia plus the independent senator joe lieberman of connecticut and jon kyle of arizona, kay bailey hutchison of texas. president obama is on his way back to washington right now after visiting some of the country's biggest tech gurus out on the west coast. today he visited intel, the computer chip giant. the president picking up where he left off in his state of the union address, pushing his plans to use technology to help america, as he put it, win the future. james rosen live on th...