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Theres a storm brewing, a hurricane thats been building for months, maybe years, one so big america cannot escape it and will make landfall all across this great nation on november 6th, a direct hit that will change the country forever, im talking about the election. What did you think i was talking about, that literal storm thats taking aim, hurricane sandy. Theres that too. They are calling it frankenstorm. More on that in a minute. In preparation for the frankenstorm romney camp cancelled a weekend rally in virginia. Hes back in ohio after pushing his economic plan earlier today in iowa. This is an election of consequence. Our campaign is about big things because we happen to believe that america faces big challenges. And together we can bring that kind of change, real change to our country. Speak being of change, president obama is taking a breather after clocking more than 6,000 miles in 37 hours. Thats a road trip four. With 11 days to go the president continues to campaign with a round of radio interviews. After the election and i believe ill win to bring the republicans together with my administration and democrats and say to them the election is over, we still have some big problems to solve, and the goal of making me a one term president is behind us. Lets bring in times Deputy Washington Bureau chief michael crowley. How are you . We just saw the president talking to michael smirkonish, he was on rock center, the tonight show and morning joe. Hes doing a lot of interviews. Meanwhile romney said no more interviews for the ref of the election, what do you make of these two different strategies . Well im a little surprised because i think that all though it seems like the popular vote right now in the polling is at least tied and romney may even have a little bit of an edge, i think obama has the electoral advantage. My analysis of the race is that romney needs to work a little bit more to get it, to get over the top and it looks a little bit like obama is the one working it harder. May make the calculation that romneys to gap ratio is higher so maybe the stakes are lower from the obama camp to go out and do that. The thing that strikes me more is that visual you played, its probably artificial and manufactured but great for the campaign, the president running on the gang plank with his sleeves rolled up, jogging down the tarmac. Hes after that first debate where people were so disappointed and a lot of talk that he didnt want it, he was half awake. They are putting out the perfect photo op of a guy working, jogging, sleeves rolled up. Part and parcel of that heres a guy working for it. People you got to turn out and rote for him because hes working hard and you got to work for him. Thats all about optics. Speaking of which the media may have been looking at the wrong thing the last few years. Chuck todd points out we look for what was previously a big swing state to be the big swing state. In 2000 we were surprised it was florida. In 04 it was ohio. In 08 it was virginia. This year were running for the presidency of ohio but chuck todd says maybe were running for the presidency of colorado. Maybe colorado will be the thing that makes the difference. Do you think that the media in focusing on ohio is focusing on the wrong thing and maybe there will be a different state that on november 6th say look it was all about this state. Well if youre kg me do i think that when all the media is focused on one thing it end up being another thing i would say frequently yes. We always get it right. Right. I think theres some truth chuck has been talking about this for a while. Its an interesting theory. He said there might be some time zone bias, colorado is further away, harder to get to and not as interesting to people. I think theres some truth to that. However, ohio has more electoral votes and really does seem to be incredibly close and its also this coalescing of so many of the really Critical Issues in the race, china, the auto bailout, the economy is getting better. The one thing that it doesnt have so much of is the hispanic voters that are really important in colorado and do i think at the end of the day they could be the defining story in this election if the president wins or if their turnout is disappointing and he loses and thats huge in colorado. Thats an importanter to line. You dont get as much in ohio but in colorado and other swing states. Michael, one of your tweets earlier today just one . Do we think portman, rob, on the ticket might have been enough to tip ohio and thus the race to romney . Its an intriguing question and i think if romney doesnt win paul ryans wisconsin or ohio, he will probably look back and have a similar thought. But i want to reference one of our show favorites nate silver in the New York Times who said look Major Party Nominees for president since 1920 have carried the running mates home states only 65 of the time and overall theres a net gain of two points for the top of the ticket in the vps home state. In a year like this, two points in wisconsin could be big, but really is paul ryan going to have that much impact over what happens to mitt romney . Well, i think possibly not. You know you make a good point. Before the vp pick i think i wrote a couple of things telling tomb settle down. Im familiar with hat nate silver wrote. We are looking at a vote in ohio that could come down to two points or even less and it could be consequential. On the other hand remember when paul ryan was picked a lot of democrats gleefully said and it was partly spin but some was sincere a lot said paul ryan is a game changer in our favor. This guy cant elected running on the ryan plan. Its a disaster. I wrote a story, i went down to florida and saw ryan there and at the time several weeks ago i thought the medicare thing, the medicare sort of voucher component that the ryan plan of hurting romney and that want stems have blown away. The dynamics of the race have changed. Were not hearing so much about ryan and the ryan plan. Maybe not. I think if he doesnt carry wisconsin and ohio, romney lose ohio by a point there will be that second guessing. Michael in my view two contradictory things have been taking shape. One weve gotten arguably the best Economic News of Barack Obamas presidency in the last month. Housing starts are up. The Unemployment Rate back one 8 . Mists saying they see good things coming on the horizon over the next couple of years. And theres polling evidence as well more americans are saying yes we are better off than four years ago. Yet in that same time, in this past month obama is standing against romney on the question of who do you trust to hand tell economy has dropped. They were learning even on that question when obama was ahead now in the latest abc tracking poll the advantage for romney on that question is nine points. That want seems to be driving the come back he had in october. How do you acquire those two things . You know its a bigamistry and i wish i had a simple answer for you. I think one part of it is romney has gotten better at presenting his economic platform. He talks about this fivepoint plan. I find the five points to be extremely vague and it sounds like a more coherent plan that it really is. A lot of it is five aspirational things like energy independence. Hes done a pretty good job at presenting it in the debates and in addition key to it and related to what i just said his discussions of the tax plan and hes doing this in the debates have beat back this narrative that hes favoring the rich his jepd is a huge tax cut for the wealthy. Taxes will be a lot lower under mitt romney than president obama thats the reality. But romney has done a good job of reframing in his own terms his tax plan and making it sound like its a broad tax reform. Im not favoring the rich and i think that people probably just trust him more. Hes beaten back a narrative that hes this vulcher capitalist. It does beg the question if romneys strategy of going quiet in terms of media is smart since he has done a better job of articulating his economic plan but i want to ask you about an october surprise, something late in the game could totally shake things up and change the results on election day. Our friends wrote in reuters point out election day is happening in a lot of places across the country and in fact one in three americans will vote before actual election day. So in some ways doesnt that mitigate the possibility of any real october surprise and make the case so its already baked . Its funny. I was about to use that phrase the cake is partway baked. I think youre right. I would say thank goodness for that because, you know, in some ways i see the whole election now is like a guy at a bar who needs to be cut off. Last call, go home because youre just saying dumb things. Candidates all around the country, congressional and senate races that i wont mention specifically. They need to stop talking. We know where everybody stands. What this comes down to now is gaffes and gimmicks and quotes taken out of context. Its for the best. A lot of people who work for john derry in 2004 believed when Osama Bin Laden came out and made a videotape statement on the friday before election day that that really had a potentially pivotal effect on the race, that it did push a few voters over the brink. In hindsight that statement meant nothing. Fewer people who are exposed to irrational and emotional stimulus in the last few days and changing their votes the better. We are miare mitigating this oc goofiness. I love it. Michael crowley, thank you so much. Up next our state of the day. Heres a hint live free or die but first speaking of granite, i felt like granite yesterday. Yesterday, professor Steve Kornacki had a debate over a musical selection. It was the four tops, he was right. So this one is dedicated to steve. So i test. A lot. Do you test with this . Freestyle lite test strips . I dont see. Beep wow that didnt take much blood. Yeah, and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. So easy. Yep. 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Year after year. Its the reason why we dont have customers. We have members. American express. Welcome in. 11 days. That music is weird. Ill just say it. Its weird. Thats the whole point. Very 70s. Motown weird. 11 days out and were focus on the seven states to watch. Your Election Night cheat state. Today New Hampshire is in the spotlight with four electoral voes. With the National Race as close as it is those four votes could mean winning the white house or going home empty handed. New hampshire is in our backyard at least for me and steve. Im heading back up to the state this weekend for another round of wood cocking grass hunting. Obama has a narrow lead only. 8 percentage point in a state he won by 10 points in 2008. Libertarian is on the ballot here. Lets bring to it the table. You know, guys, romney is not taking New Hampshire for granted and i think the fact that its close means he thinks he can win it, and hes microtargeting in that state in an interesting way, hes got a new ad up targeting Ship Builders. Lets play a little of that. The state of our navy, the state of our entire u. S. Military is crucial for america. Our freedom depends on it. And so do many of our jobs, 3600 in New Hampshire alone. Does president obama know how much his defense cuts will hurt us . Sure his flippant remarks insult mitt romney, but do they also expose how president obama views the world and americas place in it . So obviously, i mean if there were any sort of hurt feelings over the bayonet remark mitt romney is doubling down in New Hampshire. I was up there for the primaries, and during the republican primaries it was all ron paul all the time. His signs were every where. Ron paul fans are big in New Hampshire. And im just wondering back to that gary johnson sideline who is going to get all of those vote votes. Some will go to gary johnson, some will go to mitt romney and some will go obama. Those are what i think are the votes up for grabs. Its interesting. One thing about New Hampshire that people dont realize its the designated three state. Its zionism for libraertarians. Its like boca. The estimate was last time i looked a couple of years ago about 2,500 people had done this. New hampshire itself even before the free state had been unusually friendly to libertarian candidates in elections. Would you have gubernatorial gubernatorial races where a libertarian candidate can pull 5 of the vote. I do think theres a factor there. My take on New Hampshire is first of all it has been decisive before. We remember the 2000 election. We say florida. It was actually New Hampshire. The margin was 7600 votes bush versus gore. Only state in the northeast that went republican. If bush didnt win by a tiny majority he wouldnt have been president. It was one of the most republican states in the country as of 1988. Gave george bush sr. A 26 be point lead. Its basically friendly to democrats since then but still is a place where there are more registered republicans than democrats and if you look in the southeast part of the state the two most populace counties across the massachusetts border theres a legacy of people there that fled massachusetts, moved into these bedroom communities. They are actually, they are the people romney is counting on because they dont like taxes or government. This guy i go hunting with said to me last weekend, you know, these ron paul voters, they are great but too busy writing their manifestos to take time out to vote. You pointed out how close it has been in. These elections. New hampshire has gone democratic in the last four out of five elections. Its hard to flip a state. One of those historic moments of flipping, obama won this by nine points in 08. Silver has obama up by two and a half points. These people know romney really well. If they still havent come around to say its romney then i dont know what will do that. Speaking of coming around you said that with smiling face at the top. No that was rolling stone. I only heard a few bars of it. Two bars. You requested it. Of course you know who it was. I only knew it last night. Have we settled this. Were back there. I have to say im fascinated by this libertarian colony. You pointed out something yesterday about how in some ways this election is coming down to discomfort with the economy versus discomfort with the Republican Party in a mitt romney on social issues and to me New Hampshire is the perfect example of that. It has a long history of feminism. It was the first state to ratify the era. If the democrats sweep this time around youll have for the First Time Ever a state whose entire congressional delegation and governor are all women which is an incredible thing which may help them. The president has a huge gender gap in the state. While romney is microtargeting Ship Builders im confident the president will be targeting women, suburban women talking about social issues, reminding them of the extreme position of the Republican Party and Richard Mourdocks comments didnt help. Dont discount the influence of kelly out there. Shes got a big voice in New Hampshire. Straight ahead well gate check on the very latest projection for hurricane sandy, the monster storm threatening the east coast. [ male announcer ] rogaine is proven to help stop hair loss. And for 85 of guys, it regrew hair. Save up to 42 now at rogaine. Com. Hurricane sandy is leaving the bahamas right now after cutting a destructive path through the caribbean killing at least 34 people. South florida got a glancing blow with rough surf, high winds and heavy rain. Now all eyes turn to the rest of the east coast. A wide area from new england all the way down to the Midatlantic States including maryland and my home state the commonwealth of virginia. Weather channel hurricane expert Bryan Norcross has some answers for us when it comes to who can get the worse and when. Whats the latest . The bottom line is everybody will get a tremendous storm here. Were looking at, at our forecast when have we last seen one like this. We never have. The next comes somewhere between as you said virginia and on up there to new york but the extent of the storm is the entire area and look at the timing so this is overnight monday into early tuesday that were thinking the center will come ashore but the winds will actually pick up through the day on monday. For your planning all preparations, all getting ready for having your power go out, everything youre is going to do has to be done on sunday with the winds increasing on monday. We have an alert up for every where from boston down the carolinas for extensive power outages, probably millions of people without power and we have an aware up all the way up to the Canadian Border all the way over to ohio and down further south for potentially very heavy snow out in the mountains well inland, flooding from extensive rains perhaps up to a foot of rain and just continuous winds lasting a day to a day and a half including new york city and boston and potentially a threat at the high rise levels of buildings that well talk about as we go here. We do not have a storms to compare this to in terms of our forecast. Now we can hope that its weaker than we see but all indications are this will be a monster storm that may exceed anything weve seen in terms of the scope of it across the northeast. Okay. Bryan norcross, thank you so much. More on this powerful storm all this weekend here on msnbc and the Weather Channel but now we move on the power of twitter. See what we did there. Theres more evidence than of this election season nearly 24 million tweets were cents during the three president ial debates. They launch ad Viral Campaign that took on lives of their own becoming part of the National Conversation both on and off line. We have big bird, binders full of women and of course horses and bayonets. These names are funny but sparked conversation about important topics like womens reits and military spending. B. B. Conley is the Senior Editor and in the guest spot today. So we on the cycle have ourselves had some fun with these means. Particularly enjoyed eastwooding which came out of the Clint Eastwood speech. We took our pictures with chairs. Do these names actually have an impact on the election that matters other than just serving as fodder . They are a way for people to feel comfortable engaging with the conversation around the campaigns. Certainly the campaigns themselves have jumped on them, you know, to pick up the horses and bayonets within an hour after that debate ended both the romney and Obama Campaign gone online and purchased the promoted tweet associated with searches around horses or horses and bayonets. Its having an impact in the way people wren gage. There was a twitter study that found people who viewed political content in their stream were more likely to then visit donation pages for various candidates. Do you think thats the future of political donations, and is that sort of democraticizing the process . You look at, pew came out with a study that looked at donations that came through mobile or apps. They are seeing a rise. The fcc approved that. They are not nearly on the scale on mobile thats nonpolitical. People are using their phones in a way to donate. I do have a question here. To set this up properly. Its interesting to me. I generally continue to follow politicians on twitter because their press secretary is just saying i like warm weather. Here we are in x county. Great crowd. Right. I want taxes to be lower. Whatever. But there are some who really embrace the media and tweet as themselves as any random person would on twitter. Anthony weiner . Thats an example how you can get in trouble. Claire mccaskill. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley. He tweets sometimes just bizarre and baffling observations, it raises more questions than answered or garbledsyntax. This tweet came up from Chuck Grassleys official and said we hit a deer. Then we continued to farm. Assume deer dead. What . Weve all been there. This is classic. Everybody is talk. Of course what happens on twitter when a politician does that we got the grasslys dead deer started his own twitter page and asked in all caps why did you kill me . I will haunt usual dreams. And to give you, keep going, one more chuck grassly. I could do these all day. This is classic. This is from about a year and a half ago. Tell me if you can make any sense. Itc of cedar rapids had their employees around iowa come to headquarters for town meet. Large number. Lots of issues. Nerg big. Energy big. Toure can translate. Thought he was sending a signal. He speaks grassly. I guess the question i ask is, is Chuck Grassley on to something here where a key for a politician to use twitter is to engage personally, maybe not about dead deer . Yes. Yes. Your cohosts are speaking up there. Listen hes using twitter in a way that makes him feel comfortable. Whether to give an update about a frightening deer encounter he had or a town hall meeting. The success on sorl immediacial bei being authentic. We talked about those debate names. The next viral one could be your us. Find oout how to create it. Up next do you remember your first time . Oh, my god. 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When you take a look at colin powell you have to wonder if its an endorsement based on issues or whether he has a slightly different reason for referring president obama. What reason would that be . Well, i think when you have somebody of your own race that youre proud of being president of the united states, i applaud colin for standing with him. You know, steve, thats so gross and disgusting, and nakedly racist and just trying to say this endorsement doesnt matter because a black person is automatically bias. Only a white opinion matters. And, you know, if you try to say maybe sununu supporting romney because of race thats weird. The black guy supporting the black guy because of race that makes sense. Totally disgusting thing and also note that the interviewer there didnt follow up it was news worthy, it was racist, he didnt say anything. He said goodbye thank you for that. Ironically sununu was trying to delegitimize the powell story which would have been a one dayer to. And now he made it into a multiple day story. John sununu is a 73yearold man who was governor of a small state 30 years ago and now one of the top faces of mitt romneys campaign. This is a guy that made one of their public face. Hes been in hot water before. Last night Rachel Maddow suggested that powell was the last endorsement to get in this campaign. Rachel is right technically but i think people like Michael Bloomberg and Joe Lieberman both of whom have said they would not endorse would be if they were going endorse big gets. I think lieberman with the jewish vote on the line, states like florida as battlegrounds, i think lieberman coming down on romneys side would be really big news. Coming down on obama side would be big news for another reason. And i think bloomberg because hes a national figure. I think would have a pretty good endorsement. But i dont think were going to get either of those. Dont think that the National Jewish community would go oh, lieberman said that so lets roll with him. Theres a big red line between obama and romney on israel. I mean for a generation now, this is the year the jewish vote turns on the democrats. Joe lieberman cant endorse theres not a jewish guy in the race. Colin powells endorsement has gotten a lot of attention. Many other endorsements fly under the radar. George bush im for mitt romney. This was not captured on camera. Too bad. Others maybe getting a little too much attention the red carpet roll out for mitt romney in february. Some do matter those of local newspapers in battleground states theres one thats yet to weigh in thats the Des Moines Register. Talk about all the different paths and iowa is a swing state. The key to the Des Moines Register endorsement which will be coming out this sunday, theres a lot of talk who will it be, its a newspaper that has a reputation to be a swing newspaper. They dont endorse republicans or democrats the editorial endorsement has more weight or when the newspaper does something thats against type. If the liberal paper endorses democrats ice big news. When obama gave that off the record interview to them and asked them to keep it off the record they ended up getting their way. Most papers dont do that. I want to give one quick endorsement biggest one Still Available is legendary kansas state football coach bill snyder. Big game this weekend. Until he in play alabama. Speak of endorsement, speak of bill snyder, girls writer Actress Lena Dunham talking about her first time. Your first time shouldnt be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. It should welcome back a guy with beautiful, somebody who cares about and understands women, a guy who cares whether you get health insurance, specifically whether you get birth control. The consequences are huge. You want to do it with a guy who brought the troops out of iraq. Or who thinks that gay people should never have beautiful complicated weddings of the kind we see on bravo. Who your voting for . I dont want to tell you. Who are your voting for. Think about how you want to spend those four years. In college age time its 150 years. Did you vote . No. I wasnt ready. My first time voting was amazing. It was a line in the sand before i was girl now i was a woman. I went to the polling station, i pulled back the curtain, i voted for barack obama. Great ad. Graetd ad. One of the things the people like about president s campaign is he has a sense of humor. Used to be one of the criticisms of feminists they were humorless, too pc and didnt have a sense of humor. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Conservatives have been outraged by this ad. Wheres the sense of humor. Im not outraged. Its funny. Pretty clever. Reaching the audience its meant to reach. And i actually didnt find it all that offensive. I was just glad she was clothed because ive seen girls and theres a lot of nakedness in that show. Shes awesome and im glad she did that and her star is rising to the moon. Theres actually a great tradition of this. 1980 Ronald Reagan was running as a republican an he told people, you know, it can be tough to vote for a republican. I used to be a democrat. He said the first time he said it hurt for a few seconds and then it felt really good. That was 1980. So lena dunham taking a page from the gippers playbook. Redefining what it means to tell another dude to man up. Well meet an inspiring poet and author who is on a mission to redefine manliness. First before the giants took the lead over the tigers there was an inspiring moment on the baseball field. A war veteran and purple heart recipient, nicholas marine kimmel join by willie mays to throw out the first pitch. Lets take a look. Enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. I decided enough is enough. 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If youve had enough, ask your dermatologist about enbrel. You want everything the only thing. If only everyone on this earth could feel as you captain crunch cereal. That wont end and im 4. In a onesies and transformers is on. Thats poet carlos gomez talking about love but also i think implicitly challenging what it means to be a man in society by showing his true emotions. My fathers generation had a much easier time to show their masculinity. Nowadays manhood is in flux. Can we be in touch with our emotions and still be men. Can we cry and still be men. Women have long known the importance of sharing your feelings. Thats critical in a moment when men have been losing jobs in whats called man session, jobs for working age men are disappearing and depression is all too common. Some in the modern generation say i want to be emotional and masculine. One of those is carlos gomez author of man up cracking the code of modern manhood. Welcome. Thanks for having me. How is modern manhood in your eyes different than what our fathers defined i want as . I think theres a Critical Mass of men right now that realized the old model that maybe my dad your dad tried to fit within is really, doesnt serve us in the nature of the world right now and a lot of people want to break out of that suffocating box and be thing we were ashamed to be when we were younger. I know a lot of by interactions with other men were two rams butting head and competing and cant get to those nurturing relationships that women can get to more easily. Do you think the way we interact with each other is important to create this new brand of masculinity that youre talking about . Absolutely. In man up, a lot of it is giving permission to open up so guys can talk about what they are feeling, they can be in touch whats happening inside, be emotional literate, ask for help and be better advocates for healthy relationships with other men, women, with everybody. Carlos, previously men had an advantage in the workplace just through merit of brute strength and of course system structure so that men were the only ones allowed to work. Now theres an argument being made that the shoe other foot, that women and traditionally sort of feminine characteristics, things like consensus building, working cooperatively, they actually have an advantage in the modern workforce. Is that a thesis you agree with . I do agree with that. I think the fact were moving away from a manufacturing economy and its much more technologically based, service based, a lot of those traditionally feminized traits are important, theyre vital to that kind of system. I think it serves men now to first stop gendering those different traits and know all this stuff we have inside, all the things we are, its okay to embrace that and forget the old rigid gender binaries. Carlos, you outline a number of reasons why men have it pretty rough today. Toure talked about the recession. Be of course, unemployment. You talk about deployments abroad, you talk about high incarceration rates, but im wondering if you think men today really have to worse than men say, during, world war i or the Great Depression or vietnam or some other times when life was pretty rough. Absolutely. I think its not about me saying that maybe men right now have it tougher than any other time in history, but you do see specific periods where men are going through hard times and theres a necessity to adapt and change, and i think right now is one of those urgent times, especially with us having the recession right now, the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. So especially with the economy changing, i think its really time to know that its okay to adapt, change, and start to shift the definition of what were allowed to be. You know, carlos, there was a movement maybe in the 70s and into the early 80s, new age sensitive male was a term that got thrown around, the allen alda ideal, i guess, where parents were sort of encouraged to raise their kids, their sons particularly, to be more emotionally open and to be more sensitive. I can remember growing up listening to that marlo thomas album free to be you and me. Whats your sense of my generation . Are men in my generation more emotionally open than they were a generation ago . Has a lot of progress been made . I think there has been progress made, but i think what happens when you see these trends where maybe men are more emotionally literate, more open, better communicators, theres also reaction against them. I think you see that right now. The good news is more, both men and women, are defying the rigid gender roles but you also see a lot of people still clinging to the old, outdated roles. 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