privatization. ryan wanted to start defending privatization and sort of checked himself. he went, wait a minute, that s not the romney position. ditto with abortion where he seemed to basically say i thought at first he was handling the abortion question well. then he said, look a ryan administration isn t going to do this. that s where he seemed uncomfortable doing that. i think that that was clearly part of the goal. i think what biden telegraphed is you re going to see the president cherry pick, i think, what worked the best in focus group and tests. biden threw everything at the wall. they re going to look to see what s the one the president should pull out and use to put romney on the defensive. i think that s how they re going to analyze this debate over the next couple of days. nbc s chuck todd, thank you very much. i appreciate it. bottom line, we said heading into this that the democrats wanted to arrest the momentum from last week. we don t have a lot of time. do you thin
one thing he missed was outsourcing. that s the economic model of mitt romney. very curious to see how what kind of performance we see from the president tuesday night. something in between, i suspect, his first debate performance and joe biden tonight. i think they arrested the women vote that was in some places they were saying trending toward romney. i think that stopped dead tonight. seniors, i would have liked to hear them talk about outsourcing and voter suppression. i think it was a good night for joe biden changed the conversation from how bad the president did last week to that s what the president s going to do next week. he s going to come in here and fight. i think that was an important moment for democrats. thank you, all. we re going to be back here again next tuesday for the second presidential debate between barack obama and mitt romney. right now, chris matthews continues our debate coverage from center college in danville, kentucky. thanks for being with u
gender gap that s been very strong in favor of the president. i think we ll continue to see it to grow. thanks for joining us tonight. good to see you. rachel, back to you. thank you, lawrence. there s been a snap poll in terms of results from tonight s debate. cbs news did a flash poll of uncommitted voters on who they think won tonight s debate. 19% of those voters said the debate was a tie. 31% say that paul ryan won. 50% say that vice president biden won. we re going to be joined in a moment we ve talked to a couple of people who are functioning as surrogates for the obama campaign tonight. we re going to be speaking with a supporter of ryan and romney in just a moment, congresswoman marsha blackburn in a moment. while we get her to a microphone, i want to get response from you guys to that poll. that comports my feelings about who won the debate. steve, as a republican, does
social security. that helps cut to the quick on this medicare voucher debate. essentially what they want to do is privatize medicare. these are the same guys that want to privatize social security. vice president reminded people if you d been a senior depending on that during the economic downturn you would have been devastated. he turned the whole $1 trillion recovery bill ryan has been running against right against him pointing out that, you know, paul ryan, himself, asked for money for projects for jobs in his district. when it came to the tax plan, all of us know a couple weeks ago paul ryan said he needed more time to get out the facts. tonight he was very clear, they don t have any facts and they want the american people to trust them. when this is a ticket, the romney/ryan ticket, that won t even show the american people the governor s tax returns for the last ten years, we d like to know all the tax breaks he benefited from. and the one thing we know about the romney/ryan tax p
as a matter of fact, one of the top romney people told me immediately after the debate joe biden did check off all the boxes. he said he tried to fit ten pounds into a five-pound bag. well, i do that. i think biden had a tougher thing to do. it was sort of a dive with more degree of difficulty. he executed it well. ryan had some good counterattack lines. biden is the one who had to do what he did and he did it. john, you know how i score these things? not with say who won, who won. it s how the polls move the next couple days thereafter. clearly the result of the first presidential debate was very helpful to romney. i will predict now, benghazi isn t going to move many voters. abortion rights is going to move a lot of voters, especially single women. you re going to see movement away from romney/ryan in the next couple days.