that both muslims and christians believe in the same god, allah is going to be real offended. i know. and at the university of missouri, in a criminology class, they bring in a democrat after an election and show clips taking mitt romney out of context. all right. watters will follow up on this and you re never going to stop wearing the collar up, right? no. it s very polarizing, though, i m noticing. watters on deck, cliches are taking over the national discourse and watters is not happy about it. when people say, i m reaching out forget about reaching out. joey, i m telling you, you ve got to do it. his world, up next. ght, so tl arthritis lasts 8 hours
welcome to our second hour of happening now. i m patti ann brown in today for jenna lee? i m jon scott. governor romney and his running nature paul ryan are focusing hard this week on the swing states. they are picking up the pace holding more events on the campaign trail. the governor saying last night on 60 minutes his campaign is on track to win. it doesn t need a turn around. we have a campaign which is tied with an incumbent president of the united states. can you win this thing? i m going to win this thing. jon: bret baier is anchor of special report. some would say given the readings in the polls these days the governor is expressing a little too much optimism. what are the trends, b r-rb bret? you look at polls and look as what s happened on the campaign trail and what analysts have said on both sides and you would wonder why governor romney is even still in this race, because you listen to what people are saying about this race, and you would think it would be over,
than to have people who can vote, to vote. patti ann: they say it puts heavy burdens on minorities that don t have the identification. the final decision will be up to a judge. tougher state voter registration and identify cause laws could factor into this year s election as voters dived along racial lines behind president obama or mitt romney in the presidential contest. jon: thank you, julie. patti ann: president obama hitting the campaign trail over the weekend in milwaukee visiting the state for the first time since wisconsin paul ryan joined the republican ticket. first lady michelle obama will be in the state next week, her second visit in four weeks. governor mitt romney met with his supporters in wisconsin on two occasions over the summer. let s take a closer look at some key facts. wisconsin holds teny electorial
truth in some of these super pac ads, don t you think. well, i think it is really funny melanie would bring up fact checkers because the campaign as well as their super pac, priorities usa, obviously endorsed by the president, he sent his senior advisors and campaign manager out on the trail to fund raise for them, they have just run despicable ads fact checked for taking mitt romney out of context. they have said that mitt romney, while at bain somehow was responsible for the death of a woman for not having health insurance which is just despicable but that is the kind of rhetoric we re seeing out of this president who obviously we all remember so well from 2008 as being for the hope and change sentiment that i think a lot of people now realize they re not going to get from president obama. jon: melanie, what about that joge if i can respond. the truth is that, if
than that? it may have to be something better than that if current polling trends continue. patti ann: how important is wisconsin to this election in. it s big. one reason the way i think about it is it s probably the republican s best shot as turning a state that s been consistently blue. i mean when you look at the problems mitt romney is having in a place like ohio, they need to expand the map, they need to move into blue territory and pennsylvania and michigan, the other candidates are not looking too good right now. in wisconsin i think they ve got more of a purchase on that state given what we ve talked about, the recent political history. without wisconsin it s one of these running the table scenarios where they just have to win the great preponderance of contestants. wisconsin sort of gives them more. patti ann: to victory. patti ann: we will she what happens. greg gilbert. the reporter for the washington seven ta knell. thank you for joining us.