it s a net gain. if you look at bill clinton, i don t think he s hurt the campaign between the convention speech, exactly what liz said. i don t think that you could say that bill clinton has hurt this campaign. ramesh, you would rather be the nasty conservative or the flip-flopper? i think if the obama folks had gone after romney as a flip-flopper he d be slightly worse off than he is now and there would be articles saying why didn t the democrats go after imas a right wing extremist. shameless plugs around the table, lead us off. eric cantor has a new report on obama s constitutional records that builds in part on my work. interesting. i ll say go ohio state buckeyes beat penn state this weekend. they can t do anything with their undefeated record. oh, come on, had to throw it in there. the victory lap great book. i ve read it. and we have a shameless plug from chuck, for buskin in
the son of our most big-boned the son of our most big boned president, and a distant relative named kingsley taft, and robert taft jr. grandson to the former president. it was the third senator taft who once asked a senate colleague to declare cincinnati the chile capital of the world. you can read more of that story on our new and improved website rundown.msnbc.com. tafts in ohio are like kennedys in massachusetts. a very big prominent political family. what if there was a new way to deal with money that focused less on fees and more. on what matters? maybe your bank account is taking too much time and maybe it s costing too much money. introducing bluebird by american express and walmart. your alternative to checking and debit. it s loaded with features, not fees. because we think your money should stay where it belongs. with you.
i think we re seeing some evidence that might happen in wisconsin too so, look, most of these are going to break, you know, 95% of their voters are going to be the same but it s that last slice that s going to be the difference between brown winning or losing in ohio, baldwin, heller, mack and those things so it ll be fun to watch on election night. wisconsin, almost seems like they d want to have a split delegation and would fit the political acumen of the state. good to see you in cincinnati. our political panel will be here next and a programming note this sunday on nbc s meet the press a look at the ground game in the swing states where the governors of ohio, wisconsin and colorado. but first white house soup of the day, very autumnal. butternut squash. you can have it in october and november. you re watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. had is the song two days ago. zac brown s colder weather all about colorado.
big storm bearing down just a week before the election. folks, we have our october surprise. its name is sandy. good morning from cincinnati. 11 days till election day, friday, october 26th, 2012. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd and i m still living on the air in cincinnati. so let s get right to my first read. president obama wrapped up a 48-hour, 8-state battleground blitz in cleveland late last night and with a hoarse voice went after a message he s been dealing all week long. romney s trustworthiness. trust matters. you know what, ohio, after all these years, you now know me. you know that i mean what i say. and almost the exactly same moment 150 mys west mitt romney took the starj in one of the great names in battleground politics, defiance, ohio, and he