the states. the importance. the midwest firewall. let s give mitt romney everything except the midwestern states and watch this bar graph move up here. so there s colorado. let s slide over nevada. let s slide over the southern states, virginia. north carolina, florida, and, look at judd fwrgregg, he said s guaranteed, new hampshire. look where it puts them now, 267, three short. so the firewall ohio, wisconsin, and iowa would put you there at 271. so you see the importance of this and the fact of the matter is when you look at nevada right
peace, national security, and protecting americans and they will continue to get that over the next four years of my presidency. joining me now former republican governor bob, and david drucker, welcome all. this interesting nugget, daniella, who would do a better john on foreign policy, it was a 15-point advantage for barack oba obama. it is now a four-point advantage, according to this is the benghazi thump, if you will, for mitt romney. it s not surprising that after the attacks in libya there was some movement. i think after the last debate and we ll see what happens that president obama showed that he is the commander in chief and mitt romney flubbed the whole libya question at the last debate. so i m curious to see what happens after monday. governor, that seemed to be an opportunity for him and he messed up. he messed up.
you can carry a state with that. but barely. it s better to be ahead by four or five points than ten points if it was 45%/35%. lee miringoff, we ll have a couple more polls. we ll check out west next week before we drill down to what we think will be the closest race and be polling the living day lights out of them. lee, thank you very much. my pleasure. have a great day. back to the brink, no matter who wins in november, the looming fiscal cliff will be at the top of the agenda. is there any hope for a grand bargain and what does that bargain look like? judd gregg joins me next. we have a great roundup. a ton of big senate debates last night. we ll give you the best of it. shockingly these races are getting personal. who would have figured. first, mitt romney and barack obama as we told you where those two spend their time every day tells you where they
has to communicate. it s not so much here are 50 things i would do differently as comma commander in chief. it s the idea that you can trust me as a leader in dealing with a foreign policy crisis, in dealing with our national security. and i think when you re looking at the libya issue, in the last debate it wasn t so much that the president knocked it out of the park and put the issue to rest, it was that mitt romney flubbed it, which means it s still there for him if he tackles it right on monday. what i found interesting right after the debate they walked away from it. they didn t want to have it. they didn t want to relitigate. it seems like there is sensitivity to do we want to go down that route. and i think if that s what mitt romney has to do object monday he s in trouble. he hasn t done anything in the past two years campaigning to show that he is more trustworthy on foreign policy and i think this debate will be a problem for him because he has to lay out specifics. you a
he didn t have his we just saw tommy thompson, that happens at debates. you can flub and all of a sudden the best well rehearsed line, hey buddy, i don t know what you re talking about. and it s panic-stricken, you saw it in the eyes of romney. does that give him some pause on monday night? they can t get their story straight. the bottom line is they can t get their story straight, clinton looks uncomfortable. the first was bin laden. the second was libya. and they still can t get their story straight and that s the bottom line to the story and why you see the poll results. david, what does romney have to accomplish at the foreign policy debate? is it some sense of people know i mean, what s been interesting about his stances, they re not different from president obama. he tries to hug him on some issues, but he tries to rhetorically sound different. it s an issue of leadership and that s where mitt romney has an opening. but i also think that s what he