you guys can make some changes. we wish you the best of luck. thanks for coming in today. ladies, congratulations. great job. thank you so much. absolutely. that will wrap things up for me. see you back here tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern. stick with all the networks of nbc tomorrow for a special look at the devastating drought that is impacting much of the country. the drought of 2012. until then, follow me on twitter. don t go anywhere. girl empowerment continuing with alex wagner. what s coming up? i need to borrow them from your set. they are amazing. thomas, we have a lot coming up, including dodge-paul. governor romney avoids questions about his fiscal plan compares with his running mates. we will talk about paul ryan s liabilities including his not so secret florida problem when we are joined by the grand poobah of the sunshine state, jose diaz-balart. plus ever hear the one about the mormon and the catholic on a campaign bus? we look at how religion will
left turns. so we have the very latest for you from the campaign trail. kristen welker is in iowa and ron mott is in colorado with paul ryan. knowing that ryan was going to be there, will ryan continue to be the focus point on this trip or are talks today shifting back to the main candidate? i think the talks are going to shift focus back to the main candidate, thomas. in fact, one campaign official tells me not to expect the president not to even mention ryan during some of these speeches that he s going to give here in iowa over the next two day. he will continue to draw a contrast between his policies and those between the ryan/romney ticket. he s going to call on congress to pass the wind energy tax credit or to extend that tax credit. that is something that he has clashed with romney over in the past. it s something that is very
raising all new possibilities for the catholic vote. the obama/biden campaign unveiled its catholic vote. 52% in favor of obama over joe biden. mat trick murphy of pennsylvania, catholic president matt smith, it s good to have you here. catholics have voted for the winner eight out of nine of the last presidential elections. so why has there been such a strong correlation between the winner of the election and the winner of the catholic vote? well, thomas, thanks for having me on the show. i really care about both my faith and my country. so i appreciate the opportunity. and i think the reason why catholic is so important the catholic vote, because it s not monolithic. the reason barack obama and joe biden won four years ago is because their policies clearly
colorado and obviously they would be more prepared for it? reporter: hi there, thomas. i tweeted a picture of the folks waiting to get in to see paul ryan who will speak here in about two hour s time. they gave away 3500 tickets and it doesn t seem like they can sit 3500 people. there s a lot of excitement around paul ryan ever since announcement on saturday morning. you saw what happened there yesterday in iowa. i looked at the crowd yesterday in iowa and saw a lot of people wearing shirts about two hours before he was supposed to speak there supporting unions. i thought, this doesn t seem like republicans. today he s going to talk about energy which is a big topic here in colorado being one of the states on the leading edge of alternative energy and providing other sources to fuel. mitt romney has been talking about. he talks about five plans that he and paul ryan will put into place to get this country turned around. energy is the number one item on
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