this is an important moment for him to stand on his own two feet. so i m not that surprised he d be happy the president is helping him help his state. does it prove those kinds of speeches we saw at the rnc, what a bunch of hogwash that is? i think their big difference are in health care. mitt romney at some point should come back to the issues. president obama should highlight disagreements with mitt romney on health care issues and other things. i think in terms of the hurricane, it s important that people work together. it s a good thing that we re seeing governor christie are working together on issues people need to see unified government. great bipartisanship when it comes to those issues. let s hash out the new round of battleground polling. our poll gives the path six-point lead in iowa. obama three points ahead in wisconsin. that is within the margin of error. two in new hampshire. again, within the margin of error there.
new mexico. now with five world records under his belt, he says he plans to retire. it seems like a good time to retire. absolutely amazing. the only thing that fell faster than felix, the yankees. here it comes. i knew that was coming. you knew it was coming. hey, willie, you want to do that this weekend? you and i were going to go parasailing anyway, that tandem parasail we do every weekend. i know, but let s do this instead. why not? holy cow. wow, that s incredible. willie is so good, i just kind of sit there and willie oh, it s a lot of fun. we do it right there off pensacola beach. it s a lot of fun. it is a blast. let s go to politico, our friend jonathan martin with a look at the playbook. hey, jonathan. hey, willie. you guys are writing this morning about the big three, the three states that are going to determine this race. we talked about your battleground polling at the top of the show. we re talking ohio, florida and virginia. how does it shake
about how well he did in the debate. are you worried about overconfidence at all depending on the battleground polling shows in the next 24 hours, 48 hours from now. i think it s encouraging. in the george washington poll shows republican enthusiasm is higher than on the democratic side. gallup is still surveying regular voters. they make the switch in october, but when they do my guess is romney is not ahead nationwide. it s going to come down to swing sats. michael, what s your take? nominally ahead? that s jonathan s prediction. nationally it wouldn t surprise me, but that s not kept pace or the swing states have not kept pace from romney s perspective with what s going on in the national surveys. hopefully tomorrow we know about the buckeye state and where it stands. without ohio it s a very difficult path for governor romney.
pressure that is on mitt romney to turn this thing around on a single night in an hour and a half, seems disproportionate to anything we ve seen in modern politics. do you agree with that? how off base am i? i want to start by saying given the quality that the panel here today, i want to try to set expectations low for myself. i looked at this group and thought if i can get through this today without actually passing out, dying on the floor, victory for me. without vomits blood. you did it last week and it was okay. going ahead. chris christie is speaking truth the other day. i don t like the expectations game very much. mitt romney is behind. what chris christie said, not the part about how it it s going to be a whole new race the next day, but saying this matters for mitt romney. and, you know, we ve been talking about it for two weeks now. the romney campaign knows they are on the wrong side of the battleground polling, they re we ve seen a little tightening in some of the
to the white house lead through ohio today as president obama and mitt romney literally chris-crossed that state with dueling speeches just hours from now. this is the president s 29th visit to ohio since taking office, far more than any other swing state in the nation. if you believe the latest battleground polling, the efforts are paying off. in ohio where early voting starts next week, the president leads by ten points. the president is also leading mitt romney by nine points in florida and in pennsylvania. the president leading by a full 12 points. 42% to 54%. all three state ace peer to be slipping from mitt romney s grasps sparking another round of political pundit hand-wringing this morning. take a look. that s quite a guy, isn t it? paul ryan. isn t that something? ryan, ryan, ryan. wait a second. romney, ryan. romney, wine. oh, sweet jesus. i m a stand-in at the campaign. we don t want to write