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>> you went through a thorough review. you have taken it on the chin. i've been among those that have been very publicly critical of what gallup was doing over the years. let's start with what you believe is the biggest problem you faced and that happened to be it appears number one on your list is this likely voter screen. >> i would even broaden that up and say likely voter process. how do we actually figure out who is going to turn out and vote. that's a moving target. that's changing. we're using a model that was developed decades ago. it's probably outdated. probably needs to be changed. ...

Good morning to both of you. what do you i this, tony. new game. what do you think?. >> the proof is in the pudding. i'll say this is not something that was anticipated a week ago. many people thought governor romney at best may be able to hold his own during these debates. we actually thought governor romney would have to face the fact that the media would have given the debate to president obama regardless. now you see completely counter narrative from both sides universally agreeing that he hit the knockout blow on president obama and a five-point spread in one week in gallup. i know you wi...

That big debate number one. the crowds are getting bigger at campaign events. about 12,000 greeting him in port st. lucie, florida, the east coasts atlantic side. 3,000 in the overflow rooms. the republican nominee getting rock star treatment there and sensing that the white house could be within his grasp. >> you will have the chance to hear his answers or his nonanswers. [laughter] now of course, days later we're hearing his excuses. next january we'll be watching him leave the white house for the last time. chaup [cheers and applause] bill: from gallup the race a dead-heat after heat number...

Just as quickly if in the next debate president obama does very well. so i don't know that this is something that you should take as being, a permanent shift but it is definitely gotten mitt romney, back in the game i think before it was sort of drifting, the momentum was drifting toward obama. certainly if you looked at the battleground states and now you're seeing there is a battleground poll out today, they're neck-and-neck. so i think, a race is on what i would say. bill: i see. what rasmussen was saying last week. give me sunday morning or monday because you need three days of rolling ave...

President up by five. what does that mean? >> yeah, first of all, you know, you always take one poll in isolation or even two can be problematic. the best thing always on these is to look there's a few sites that do polling averages, real clear politics, "huffington post," they average all the different polls and put them together. if you want to look at these two right now, they might kind of both be true and it's because of this. the gallup one measures seven days. it's still got a number of predebate days there when oen was ahead. it's got the immediate post debate when romney seems to have...