and it s okay to vote. it s okay to fall short if you do. last night debate after a partial score said cutting the private deficit, millions would lose health insurance. that was the final straw for maine s senator susan collins. she s know officially a a no vote. the fate of graham/cassidy could be decided later today. are republicans running out of time to convince americans they can ever come up with a better plan for headaclth care. that s next. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin
glued to the first presidential debate. last night debate number two down a tad about it. but a lot of chances to win votes. former new hampshire governor june sununu and strong supporter of governor romney watched the debate and he s here. governor romney, governor. good evening, greta. how are you? greta: i m very well. how that you ve had time to digest the debate, think about it, tell me what you think. your warm-up act, sean hannity had a package there which i think highlighted the best part of the debate, where mitt romney laid out the failures of the past administration and really his agenda and plan for the future. i think to be consistent with one of the pieces you had in your package, he did a good job of showing that the last four years of obama was raw deal. i think it lays the foundation for the campaign over the next three weeks. greta: what do you make of the fact that some of the snap polls have shown that president
took the spotlight. he was asking to have an open marriage and i refused. he wanted an open marriage? yeah. that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. she says that you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair. she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? no, but i will. and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. i am tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. joe johns is at the republican leadership conference where gingrich is speaking at this hour. joe, gingrich got a standing o when he was asked about that interview. reporter: yeah, he sure did. i mean, this is you can say a lot of things about it, but i think probably the most important thing to say, kyra, is that this is the south. this is newt gingrich s home base. if there s anywhere these charges have
change from even last month when president obama had an 11-point lead. fox news senior political analyst brit hume joins us. a lot of polls come and go, but that one seems to be going in one direction. it s a piece of other polls we re seeing from the upper midwestern states. president obama has lost ground to mitt romney in ohio, in pennsylvania, although he remains ahead there, slightly ahead in ohio as well. so you re seeing this post-debate, post-first presidential debate phenomenon continue into this poll. this poll was taken before last night s debate, so we don t the effect it will have. it was also notable in this poll, the results it found, the impressions these voters had of the two vice presidential candidates. now granted, paul ryan s a home boy, as you well know from your home state of wisconsin, so you can expect him to have a lot of people on his side out there. but vice president biden s favorable ratings with these people plunged a bit after that