For the exact same amount of time before we get down to election day. Last night was our last collective moment as a nation, watching the same candidates at the same time in a way that was unmediated that brings us together as a country. This past july, mitt romney made the first visit of any candidate to the great totally nonswing state of montana. Montana has a close senate state, but for president , montana is not hotly contested. So the candidates would usually stay out of a state like that except when they had to be there to raise money. Thats when mitt romney was doing in july. At that fundraiser, mitt romney recounted an anecdote from his Business Career and related that to the presidency of Ronald Reagan. He told the donors at the event he had three rules when he ran bain capital. The first rule was focus. The second rule was focus. And the third rule was focus. Then mr. Romney pulled out this president ial historical anecdote to illustrate what he said he meant by that kind of
What a costume. As a champion for americas underprivileged ryan will likely attempt to hide the fact that 62 of the spending cuts he proposed in his 2013 house budget come from programs that help the poor. According to the center on budget policy priorities and while romney will say that every american should have the ability to rise to escape from poverty his budget would bring the cleaver down on programs that give the disenfranchised a shot including job dwrantss and pell grants. Under ryans plan, pell grants for 1 Million Students would be eliminated. Ryan will say in todays speech that, quote it is unclear whether that compassion includes steep cuts to food stamps as part of ryans budget plan 8 to 10 million americans will be kicked off the program that helps them feed themselves and their families. And finally, a new report from the urban institute finds the ryan budget would slash funding for medicaid by 1. 7 trillion and cut the number of people enrolled by 50 . Given this, dre
Candidates in a fight to the fin initial in the state that is matter most. The president racking up the miles on air force one hitting seven states in two days. This is the first stop on our 48hour fly around Campaign Marathon extravaganza. Were going to pull an allnighter. No sleep. Were starting here in iowa. Were going to colorado. Then were going to go to nevada. Then were going to florida, virginia, ohio. I am going to stop in chicago to vote. And right now, mitt romney is speaking in nevada. He and paul ryan focusing there hoping to sweet the spot of 270 electoral votes. Ohio is the key to that math with 18 votes on its own. More money has been spent on ads in the Buckeye State than any other. 177 million worth so far. Did it help anyone . Theyre polling neck and neck there as they are nationwide in the real clear politics poll average and look at the the Washington Post abc news poll. I think thats one person. Thats about as close as you can get in one of those polls. We start n
The campaign trail. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy whos running all the ads here in iowa, saying that hes going to get tough on china. Yes, except joe biden was not here in iowa, he was, here in ohio when he said that. See, if we could just call it ohioa, it would be so much easier for everybody at this point in the campaign. At this point in the campaign, we are essentially focused on a map of the country that doesnt look like this, it looks like this. This is the actually country that gets to elect the president of the United States. The combined population of this country is roughly 21 of the total population of the United States, but that conglomeration of states is who gets to pick our next president. Which means the equivalent of a country the size of france is deciding who the president is of a country the size of us. That little francesized country gets tons and tons of attention now, to the point where even smallish Population Centers within this tiny bollous of states ge
Killed the u. S. Ambassador in libya. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton comments on the latest revelations. Good morning from cincinnati. Its thursday, october 25th, 2012. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. I think were now under three hours until the first poll closed. Developing now, live pictures of an Obama Campaign rally in tampa, florida. The president in the middle of a 48hour nonstop Campaign Swing after an overnight flight from nevada. Hes hitting the trifecta today. Hell be in virginia and ohio later and then a stop in chicago to vote early before heading back to the white house for a little bit of sleep late tonight. The president is expected to speak any minute now. Of course Brian Williams has been traveling with the president. He joins me now from that tampa rally. Brian, im in Hamilton County perhaps the most important county. Youre in the most important county in florida. Reporter this county has 10 of the vote in. The last couple rallies since weve been on the