0 today, dr. biden warned a florida audience about just how contagious romnesia can be. >> because it's romnesia. boy, i'll tell you what. i hope you all don't get romnesia. it's contagious. because all of a sudden, paul ryan, the budget hawk, the guy who introduced a whole budget plan that actually already passed, it already passed the house of representatives. all of a sudden he doesn't remember it. he doesn't remember it. ryan is saying his budget doesn't decimate medicare and medicaid and advice rate education. it's a little like mitt romney standing in an unemployment line in florida and turning to the guy and saying look, i didn't outsource your job, i offshored it. >> the vice president was welcomed to florida today by this editorial. obama has been tested by harsh circumstance and proven himself worthy for a second term for president of the united states. the tampa bay times recommends barack obama. "the denver post" editorial board writes today plf's comments on the 47% were a telling insight into his views and a low point of the campaign. obama on the other hand has shown throughout his term that he is a steady leader who keeps the interests of a broad array of americans in mind. we urge colorado answer to re-elect him to a second term. and in utah today, through a pair of presidential debates, romney's domestic agenda remains be rest of detail and worthy of mistrust. therefore our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds has guided the country through catastrophe set a course that while rocky is pointing toward a brighter day. obama has a 66.9 chance of winning and president obama will win 287 elect oral college votes and mitt romney will within 251. krystal ball, they take the convention to tampa, the local endorsement endorses obama. that very same newspaper comes out and says president obama should be re-elected. and then gou to utah. you would presume a stronghold area for mitt romney. surely he's going to carry the state. but there, big local paper says no, president obama has earned re-election. what do newspaper endorsements mean in a 121st century campaign? >> it would be easy to dismiss them to say they don't amount a whole lot, there's so much media out there, but i actually think for a lot of undecided voters, who you might call low information voters, their local paper is still a go-to source for what's going on. it's a trusted source, it's reporters they know, it's editors that they know. so it can mean something in a swing state to those voters who are kind of on the fence. i think it can make a dense. >> ari, 18 days to go and the president is beginning to make his closing arguments. let's listen to what he was saying today in virginia, that is something of a summation of his case. >> in 18 days you can let them turn the clock back 50 years for immigrants and gays and women or we can stand up and say we are a country in which everybody has a place. a country where no matter where you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, black, white, hispanic, asian, native american, young, old, gay, straight, abled, disabled, we have a place for everybody. everybody has has chance to make it if you try. if you're willing to stand with me and make some phone calls with me get your friends to vote for me, we will win fairfax county again. we'll win virginia again. >> that's the man we first saw in boston during john kerry's convention and the man who ran for president last time. >> it's a strong closing argument. it's justice and jobs. and there are areas where they've linked those really strongly like on pay equity for women. there are areas where you have to think about it a little more and the president has been explaining and really embracing obama care as something that can be good for jobs and good for your pocketbook. and then the negative side of it is one of those editorials was called too many mitts and this idea of romnesia that you can't figure out where romney stands because he can't figure out where he stands and joe biden says it's contagious. the next question is it an ftd, a fox-transmitted disease. because if it is. >> i think it may be. >> because if it is, because fox was attacking romney back when he was for regulated assault weapons, now they're supporting his claim that he's actually against that. they were attacking him when he was pro choice, and now they're supporting him saying he's pro-life. but you know what, in ohio and around the country, people are just relying on fox news. they are reading their local paper, hearing this message and when your local paper says there's too many mitts and joe biden says he can't remember where he is and the president says it and you watch a debate where mitt romney is running from his positions on abortion and can't figure out what his position is on libya, i think all that adds up to a strong closing argument. >> they came up and they said you're laid off, everybody, as of right now. >> what was i going to do dor my children? are they going to have a home? >> without president obama's rescue, ohio would have collapsed. >> that's exactly what i said. the headline what i said, let detroit go bankrupt. >> and for him to just say let them fail. >> how you can say something like that is just beyond me. >> krystal, that looks like something that will work in ohio. >> that's pretty devastating. ohio has been an outlier for the president. and this is the essence of the reason why. on the most important economic decision facing ohio, mitt romney got it dead wrong in a very obvious way that everyone can understand. so i think, underscoring that as much as possible between now and election day is critical and it's devastating. >> and ari, on the romnesia thing, doesn't it also sound like, it's not just forgetful and all of that, there's a kind of out-of-touch element to it. >> that's exactly right. it's what bill clinton said. they think you're stupid. they think they can run through six different positions and then say, no, i'm not the one. you're the one that wanted to go bankrupt and that's going to work. in this environment it doesn't work because people care about what's happening to this country. >> can i say how satisfying that democrats come up with such a great word. finally we have such a beautiful crystallization of exactly who mitt romney is. >> i think we'll all remember where we were this morning when we first saw it on twitter. oh, yeah. who wrote that? i mean, someone in the campaign is getting a little prize for writing that. >> absolutely. >> and so, going into next week's debate, i think one of the challenges we're going to talk about on the next segment, but foreign policy is not probably where this debate, this campaign is going to be won. they're going to have to find some ways to trick that debate into domestic issues, aren't they? >> there are a lot of ways that you can do it. things like climate change and energy certainly have internation and domestic implications. but i do think in terms of the impact of these debates, there's a little bit of drama gone because we've had them both have strong performances. it's 90 minutes of foreign policy and if you look at the town hall format and what questions voters wanted to ask, there was only one foreign policy question. i think both candidates to the extent they can cheat back to domestic policy will probably do so. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up, the most important news in the world. malala is back on her feet. she is standing with help now and is writing again after being shot in the head by pakistan taliban. the "new york times" reporter who knows her well will join me. the woman who is trying to save the world from bat crap crazy congressman joe walsh, democratic congressional candidate and war veteran tammy joins me. and in the rewrite tonight. lingerie. the kind that mitt romney hates the most. chinese lingerie. we will give mitt romney another little lesson from "the west wing." now find the most hard core driver in america. that guy, put him in it. what's this? 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