World if you will. 177 million being spent by the campaigns in that state alone. Followed by florida at 174 million and virginia, 136 million. And ohio is where in a few minutes congressman paul ryan will give what the campaign is calling a major policy address on poverty and americas promise. As for the top of the gop ticket, mitt romney will spend a second day campaigning in nevada. Now some other head leans off the trail right now. The Obama Campaign is now allowing a previously off the record interview with the Des Moines Register to be published and theyll stand by this guy Senate Candidate richard m ourdock despite the comment that a pregnancy of rape is a gift of god. Lets bring in the panel. Michael, well talk about this issue a little bit more in depth but this mourdock story line, the problem of the day for governor romney. He is saying that an ad thats up right now in indiana where he is endorsing him will not come down despite the fact the governor and the Campaign Strongly
And columbus in the next hour. Our campaign is about big things, because we happen to believe that america faces big challenges. We recognize this is a year with a big choice, and the americans want to see big changes and im going to bring it to this country. And ohio is exactly where the big number worth watching today is focused. Time magazine has the president up by five points in the buckeye state. When you look at women voters in ohio, president obama is up by 19 points. In early voting president obama has a 21 advantage over governor romney in early voting. Msnbcs Joe Scarborough says the new numbers scream advantage obama. If you were mitt romney running against Barack Obamas get out the vote machine, i would say five points looks more like a mountain than a molehill. Theres at least one poll from the ap that indicates the gop is closing the gap with women. The Obama Campaign is dismissing in latest number. Lets bring in the news nation political panel. Karen, thank you so much
Double digits. Republicans sitting under their desks saying no, no, this cant be happening, every step that the president took to regulate wall street, Reform Health care, equalize pay between the sexists to end the war in iraq and of course to cut off al qaedas head. This has brought so many storms, both natural and manmade stands on post near the same situation room where he directed the killing of bin laden. Hes the officer in charge through perilous times. The eye of the storm is expected to make landfall in southern new jersey or delaware within the hour. It will battle the northeast into tomorrow. Wind gusts between 60 and 80 Miles Per Hour have been reported along the coast. All the way from massachusetts down to mare land. Winds will get stronger throughout the night. Its caused massive damage. In atlantic city, part of the boardwalk is gone that we all grew up with. Widespread flooding with parts of ocean city, maryland, and delaware is under water. Midtown, manhattan, Police
There was a flier comparing the Unemployment Rate in 2005 to now. Now the rate is 7. 6 , with 11. 8 million out of work. What the flyer didnt say is the disastrous republican policies raised the Unemployment Rate to an even higher 7. 8 when president obama took office. Here is what the president had to say about that. Obama the income of the top 1 nearly quadruples from 1979 to 2007. But the typical familys incomes, barely budged. By the time i took office in 2009 as your president , we all know the bubble head burst, and it cost millions of americans their jobs and their homes, and their savings. The erosion of middle class security was laid bare for everybody to see. Michael much of the president s speech seemed to frame a series of future battles over the nations debt limit because he has had it up to here with republican intransigeance. But with this endless parade of posturings washington has taken its eye off of the ball and im here to say this needs to stop. Michael of course th
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. A source says Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. He did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. The president . The president did not. Im happy to tell him, he wasnt there. He wasnt at the meeting. The meeting with the russians. How can you be sure that the president didnt know beforehand . Youre saying its just a he said, he said. Nobody can be sure of anything. Earlier this evening, a long time former Trump Organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trumps knowledge. Based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. Always. I think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didnt amount to anything, it would have