no doubt with a lot of viewers and voters if we look at the millions of people who watched the debate fumpt live in a swing state you know the ads are running into each other. i understand the money chase is almost over. what do we know? it is. as a matter of fact mitt romney in palm beach is at his last fund raiser of the election cycle is more money spent in florida on television ads alone. over $166 million and counting tonight, we know how both candidates did in september fund raising it saw the president raising far more than mitt romney over $120 million to mr. mitt romney s $77 million and as they close out their fund raising drives, what matters most is the cash on hand. president obama has a
goes out and says these things. maybe we shouldn t have said felony. i think there is an issue there. could be. i think people have woo have given him as pavment let s move on. on the money chase, interesting stuff romney campaign and obama campaign brought in similar amounts of money. $49 million. the obama campaign is blowing through it pretty fast. blew through more than they took in last month by $10 million. what s going on there? no question that the romney campaign between the campaign, super pacs was going to outraise the president which we are seeing a little bit. laura: obama was going to be the billion-dollar man, don t you remember that billion dollars going to raise. come on. s you said, these ads are getting more and more negative. i think the american people are going to end up tuning them out. the super pac ads. the romney super pac can keep on buying air time. i think it s going to be so negative. the american people are going
goes out and says these things. maybe we shouldn t have said felony. i think there is an issue there. could be. i think people have woo have given him as pavment let s move on. on the money chase, interesting stuff romney campaign and obama campaign brought in similar amounts of money. $49 million. the obama campaign is blowing through it pretty fast. blew through more than they took in last month by $10 million. what s going on there? no question that the romney campaign between the campaign, super pacs was going to outraise the president which we are seeing a little bit. laura: obama was going to be the billion-dollar man, don t you remember that billion dollars going to raise. come on. as you said, these ads are getting more and more negative. i think the american people are going to end up tuning them out. the super pac ads. the romney super pac can keep on buying air time. i think it s going to be so negative. the american people are going
goes out and says these things. maybe we shouldn t have said felony. i think there is an issue there. could be. i think people have woo have given him as pavment let s move on. on the money chase, interesting stuff romney campaign and obama campaign brought in similar amounts of money. $49 million. the obama campaign is blowing through it pretty fast. blew through more than they took in last month by $10 million. what s going on there? no question that the romney campaign between the campaign, super pacs was going to outraise the president which we are seeing a little bit. laura: obama was going to be the billion-dollar man, don t you remember that billion dollars going to raise. come on. as you said, these ads are getting more and more negative. i think the american people are going to end up tuning them out. the super pac ads. the romney super pac can keep on buying air time. i think it s going to be so negative. the american people are going
the republicans don t understand the middle class. you had to pay $10,000 per couple to hear that message in person. money, as one california politico said ten years ago, is the capitalist. $45 million raised for obama, 11.5 million for romney. we act like this money chase is somehow normal. so why do we tolerate a system in which our leaders spend most of their time hustling for cash to get reelected, which means they spend every spare moment listening to wealthy americans gripe about things like taxes instead of everyday americans whose problems are far more serious? we start with politico s david lef en leventhal. give them the full picture.