iowa and ohio and that should do it. let s listen to what speaker of the house john boehner, who of course is from ohio, he gave his prediction on fox news this morning. forget everything i said about the obama ground game. the romney ground game is bigger and more enthusiastic than anything i have seen. polls don t decide elections. voters do. just to be clear, you re guaranteeing a victory? no question in my mind. for mitt romney in ohio? no question in my mind. the speaker seems to be saying two things, the romney campaign is more sophisticated than the obama campaign and then also says we have enthusiasm on our side. i think it s probably one or the other but in terms of the enthusiasm question, what do you make of it? is it really momentum or is fauxmemtum? i don t think it s momentum. unfortunately, the secretary of state is on their side who
forget everything that s been said about the obama ground game. the romney ground game is bigger and more sophisticated than anything i ve ever seen. polls don t decide elections, voters do. just to be clear, you re guaranteeing a victory for mitt romney in ohio? no question in my mind. the speaker seems to be saying the romney campaign is incredibly sophisticated, even more so than the obama campaign and says we have enthusiasm on our side. i think it s one or the other. but in terms of the enthusiasm question, what do you make of it? is it really momentum? i don t think it s real momentum. the other thing he didn t mention that they have in florida and ohio is the
better than the obama campaign and their game is even better than it was in 2008. so i expect we re going to win. i think we re going to win iowa and ohio. let s listen to what john boehner, from ohio, said today. he gave his prediction on fox news this morning. forget everything that s been said about the obama ground game. the romney ground game is bigger and more sophisticated than anything i ve ever seen. polls don t decide elections, voters do. just to be clear, you re guaranteeing a victory for mitt romney in ohio? no question in my mind. the speaker seems to be saying the romney campaign is incredibly sophisticated, even more so than the obama campaign and says we have enthusiasm on our side. i think it s one or the other. but in terms of the enthusiasm question, what do you make of
doing a lot of college events. they get the idea they face an enthusiasm gap, they need to re-energize students, young people to two out and vote like they did in 2008 because they helped them get their numbers up. he a s been doing college events a the university of miami, ohio as well. not surprising he s still going there trying to get people enthusiastic. debate is a good pivot with respect to generating that type of enthusiasm. mark, do you think sam makes a good point about enthusiasm and the first lady was in north carolina yesterday saying just get five other people you know to go out and vote, that s how tight these margins are going to be. the enthusiasm question, does the debate does the debate and does his debate performance have an effect, a market effect, on voter enthusiasm. i think it definitely can. i think almost, you know, conversely, i think the first debate performance just in how freaked out it made so many democrats had a effect in some way because i thin
the election with outcome of the election, right? alex, i ve seen democrats who are upset about what has happened, they re panicked. i have talked to a couple of donors they called chicago upset what s go on. it has changed it a bit. stewart, i would like to go back to you on this. i m not convinced it a bad thing for democrats to be worried and think this is race is closer than has been. in terms of the enthusiasm question it s always been a problem for the incumbent. the numbers in ohio, since that is sort of ground zero for the elections, i was surprised that romney s favorables were not higher or there wasn t more of a change. the nbc news/marist poll october 3rd, romney, 42%, unfavorables 51%. now favorables are 44%, unfavorables 50%. that s within margin of error. effective i will no change, was surprising given the debate performance. the data are very clear,