obama, but i think among the sliver of people who, you know, probably voted for obama four years ago and are not sure now, i think this could help. how many do you think there are? standing next to chris christie helps. in cincinnati or waukesha, wisconsin it helps with the media though. it helps with our point of view. let me ask you, everybody goes by the polls and they tend to be 47/47 which means six people haven t made up their mind. i m asking you as a pro. aren t there a lot of people who are more like the group you described, voted for obama one, worried about him this time may go with the other guy if he has a good night. can they come back from the first debate saying i m back where i was? how many of them are there potentially? i think there are some out there. but the question is how many of them have early voted? the proliferation of early voting, there were some voting after the first debate, between the second and third debate. i think there are some of tho
so how many votes it s going to move in the midwest, that s a dubious question. it helps president obama refute the notion that republicans are making that he can t work across the aisle. and all three of us think of it going the other way, what would it have meant? that s right. it was the same with the colin powell endorsement. let s look at that. excuse me. the president s campaign today released an ad touting colin powell s endorsement. we ll be right back to chuck after his let s take a look at what he s talking about. will you endorse president obama? yes. when he took over, we were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression, and i saw over the next several years stabilization come back in the financial community, housing is starting to pick up. the president saved the auto industry, and the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been
devastation, and you really get a sense of, you know, how difficult this is going to be for a lot, a lot of people. welcome back to hardball. that was president obama earlier today. voters are overwhelmingly supportive of his handling of the storm. a washington post /abc poll shows 78% give him a positive rating for his efforts these past few days. during his re-election pause, if you call it that, mr. obama reminded americans he has presidential duties and also found a couple unlikely friends along the way, one being new jersey governor chris christie and now tonight a big one, new york mayor plikcle bloomberg. with both sides back to regular base what will sandy s lasting effects be meaning through tuesday? jeff zeleny is a national political correspondent for the new york times and howard fineman is the editorial director for the huffington post and an msnbc political analyst. let s look at new jersey governor chris christie just last night in a press conference where he co
over the weekend. he thinks he might be able to pick up there. that tells you a lot. i know a lot of republicans had hoped governor romney wouldn t have to be spending time in florida or virginia at this point. he could be focusing more on ohio and the pickup states. president obama, that map is a little bit misleading. where he s really spending all of his time in the last three days is in wisconsin, in iowa, and in ohio. can he win with wisconsin, iowa, virginia, and florida? clearly, he will win with all those. he could win without some of those things as long as he holds onto wisconsin and iowa he could lose a bunch of other states. that s his firewall. he s spending a bunch of time in the firewall states like nevada and wisconsin and iowa. that s the way that he holds on even if romney somehow runs the table in florida, virginia, and ohio. if he can hold those other states, he can still win. chuck, you go along with that? i do. we need virginia and florida? i have been
wow. we re back. the dirty angry money pouring into republican congressman joe walsh s race against tammy duckworth is soaring in the call pain s final week. walsh famously accused president obama of lying about the effects of not raising the debt ceiling back in 2011. let s watch that. president obama, quit lying. you know darn well that if august 2nd comes and goes there s plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of our social security obligations. have you no shame, sir? in three short years, you ve brup bankrupted this country and destroyed job creation. you re either in over your head, you don t understand what makes this country great, or you re hellbent in turning us into some european big government wasteland. well, whatever you think of