set of eyes. when it gets busy, it s better to have somebody in the control tower, but you are correct. there are lot of airports that do not have control towers at all in the united states and there are some that have partially staffed towers. there are a series of rules pilots follow which basically amounts to an on air party line where you announce yourself a certain distance away, say hey, i m in this plaend and i m coming in. that s a simple way of describing how it works. generally speaking, it s pretty safe as long as pilots follow those rules and pay attention to where that other traffic is. it gets a little dicier at busier fields. in the end, this could have, could erode a little bit, the safety margins we have out there for general aviation. talk to us about the kind of human equation here.
dave: thank you, rick, the first full day today, my friend. get it straight. dave: 44 days out from the election and the report i read defiantly optimistic, many feel that the romney campaign is done with this, but look at the tracking polls, neck and neck down the stretch. clayton: if you look the at the national average, sure, the number that they re happy to report and rasmussen reports 46% to 46% and dicier on other state by state polls and the gallup poll, 47% to 47%. and go state to state and that s why president obama is spending time in wisconsin, rain drenched state that turned into a battle ground state now that paul ryan is out on the ticket and donors in san diego, trying to get
beforehand. both incidents reportedly in reaction to a little-known amateur movie produced reportedly in the u.s. which ridiculed the prophet muhammad. it gained some attention overseas in part because a florida pastor began promoting it, the same one who triggered deadly riots in afghanistan last year by threatening to burn the koran. we ll get to the politics of this in just a moment. tina brown, though, your first reaction as you see this this morning. this is a very dicey situation which could become much dicier if, in fact, reports are confirmed that the u.s. ambassador to libya has been killed. again, it does show how inflammatory and inflamable the islamic sensibility can be when something as random as, you know, a crazy bigot can post something on the internet and it goes wild, and it can make a crowd act in this way. it also shows, in my view, how incredibly important it is to keep our eye on this problem and
general the option to dip in if he thinks there s actually discrimination going on. how is that different and does the politics of that actually make it a little dicier? i think that yeah, exactly. what s happening in texas is they are going to wait and see and allow it to sort of happen and the idea has been that it s not a poll tax, as the attorney general pointedly put last week, as long as the i.d. is free. if in the implementation of it, they are disproportionately challenging hispanic voters, then you do get into an issue of historic discrimination where essentially the republican party sees the demographic cliff they re about to fall off of, they haven t been successful at attracting hispanic and african-american voters so let s reduce the number of players on the other side of the field. that s the way democrats see these laws. i want to pick up on that and play you something from the attorney general, because the law says the issue is racial discrimination but the attorney
it begun to look good a while back for president obama with the women s vote. we were crucial to his election in 2008. the senate has been dicier. state by state it s been a little dicier. to see these wide numbers, these wide leads that are being opened up in florida and in ohio, virginia, it s really encouraging and it s all on the strength of this women s vote that is turning against the republicans. i think as long as these issues are in the news, i think democrats are in good shape. ruth and joan, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much for being on the ed show. remember to answer the chemical weapon at the bottom of the screen. coming up, mitt romney and paul ryan. they are going around the state like they re relatives. is ryan auditions for larger role in the romney campaign?