governor romney has raised serious questions about whether or not he can be trusted based on what he said over the course of the last three debates completely inconsistent with what he s been saying during the republican primaries over the last year quite frankly over the last six years he s been seeking the presidency. if you win ohio, do you win the presidency? i think it s puts us in a good path to do that, but as chris was pointing out and mark pointed out we re working hard in every battleground state. we feel good about each of the battleground states i was in north carolina last weekend, i m going to north carolina this weekend. we ve raised actually registered hundreds of thousands of voters in the state of north carolina. early voting has begun in all of these states. early voting has been strong. i think on from our perspective. we have the best ground game. knowing the presidential politics we ve surpassed what the ground game we had in 2008 which blew everybody else
chris, first to you, talk about what david said and the battle ground. when you look at it and looking at the cold eye of your editorial in political analysis, where should they all be, the dantss? well, i can continue to believe, andrea, first of all let me say, i take david axelrod at his word they re spending money in north carolina but i don t think that s a state they win. it may be close now. i don t see it. where will they and should they be spending time? call it a fire wall, whatever you want, but ohio is the most important state in the country. for both sides. mitt romney has very narrow paths to 270 electoral votes without ohio. there are paths, just not all that plausible. barack obama with ohio is almost to the 270 he needs, pick up a few states here or there, new hampshire and iowa, wisconsin, for example. so it seems to me there are
he can win, so where they choose tells you kind of as the playing field narrows in terms of the battlegrounds, where they go is where the battlegrounds are. that s exactly why asked that question of david axelrod. no visit to north carolina. thanks so much. i ll let you go, chris, so you can get your ipad mini. we hear you can hold it in one hand. and that s does it for us for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. thanks for joining us today. news nation is next, and tomorrow we re going to have james hoffa talking about ohio and the battlegrounds for the industrial midwest. see you then. at e-trade, our free online tools and retirement specialists can help you build a personalized plan and execute it with a wide range of low cost investments. get a great plan and low cost investments at e-trade.
spending more or less if you go byc cam clagss and what budget analysts calculate and what obama would not. romney says obama is cutting the defense budget by $1 trillion. not quite. so far he s cut it $500 billion over ten years, a leveling off of the defense budget. there is a big difference though the rate of increase. yes. basically keeping it flat over ten years, keeping it on pace with inflation. but romney, you know, would buy a lot of ships, build more ships than obama would. we heard that last night. he s going on about the navy being the smallest since 1916. obama came back with his aircraft carrier remark and it s the capability of the ships not the number that matter. and we should point out something that you and i were talking about off camera, remember chris cizilla, that the horses are still part of our military. remember the pictures of the cia guys calling in calling in air strikes. in afghanistan at the
beginning of the afghan war right after 9/11. and bayonets are still marines system get bayonet training as many republicans reminded me and everyone on twitter last night 37 it was clearly a prepackaged line like the 1980s called they want their foreign policy back. always or almost always with those lines, it sounds better in the moment than it might upon going back at it. but most people only watch it in the moment. they don t reanalyze these things. and replay as we showed today. right. thank you so much. thank you. the day after. chris cizilla. and roll reversal who was that republican foreign policy moderate on stage with the president on stage last night? former missouri senator jim talent. and still ahead more on the debate and battleground matchup from two people who have been there, michael gerson and michael feldman. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. with a low national plan premium.