This is the third and final president ial debate pitting mitt romney against president obama. Weve just received these pictures of romney walking through the debate site in boca raton, florida. Tonights focus, Foreign Policy. And for both men, the stakes could hardly be higher. The tight race has gotten even tighter and tonights contest could give either candidate the chance to pull ahead in these final critical days of this campaign. Cnns National Political correspondent jim acosta is in boca rattan getting ready for the debate. Whats the latest there . Reporter wolf, here in the debate spin room, democratic and republican operatives are predicting another feisty debate between president obama and mitt romney. A top Romney Campaign strategist tells cnn they are expecting another aggressive performance from the president. For mitt romney, debate night may be shaping up to be another fight night with president obama. While both men will be seated at a round table, a setting engineered f
States . Yes. Yes. Yes. Im afraid. A couple of days ago we had all of our computer models running. The Hurricane Center does. Ten of them turning the storm out into the ocean. One model turning it back up toward new york city. We went, wow. 101. Lets probably think the ten is right. Not. It just hasnt been how it happened. All these other molgzs are turning the storm become to the us. Anywhere from canada to washington d. C. Not just new york city. This thing could make landfall. We wouldnt want any type of a landfall at 70 or 80 miles per hour. Anywhere from d. C. To massachusetts. Its not the perfect storm. It doesnt work that way. Its not going to turn into a noreaster, per se. As a hurricane moves on shore, especially here in the northeast, with cold air being dragged into it from canada, it could turn into a snowstorm as well. At least on the back side. We are beginning to see the eye again. The eye went away as it crossed over cuba. I saw 118mileperhour wind gusts right there as
Weather center. Whats the latest on this storm, because honestly, im not sure is this for real . Because we hear so much hype about storms sometimes. You know, its the rub that we worked through last year with irene. We thought it was going to be such a big event for new york and it was a dud. It wasnt a big dud for vermont, New Hampshire, new jersey, because of the flooding. But this is what we have to work through right now. This storm that looks like that, like just literally nothing, still a small category 1 hurricane, but can this morph literally into something that will have 80 to 90 mile per hour winds, put 20 inches of rain down, and cause millions of people to be without power for days and probably some for weeks. Can it happen . Yes. All the forecasts say that it will happen. But you know what, all the forecasts said that irene would be a worse storm than it was and its not. Everyone im talking to believes that this storm will be significantly more impact for new york, new je
Twitter, debate one brought us 10. 3 million tweets. Debate number 2, the number fell to 7. 2. Last night it fell further to 6. 5 million tweets which is still a lot of people. Right after it was over we had a chance to do more normal polling and we asked debate watchers who won and here are the numbers. 48 gave the victory to president obama. 40 said governor romney got the best of it. As dana bash reports, regardless of the outcome, both men had a specific game plan to further their case. Mitt romney came wanting voters to see him as commander in chief. The commander in chief came determined to make sure that didnt happen. I know you havent been in a position to actually execute Foreign Policy, but every time you have offered an opinion, you have been wrong. Time and time again the president s Harsh Criticism dripd with sarcasm. A few months ago when you were asked what is the geopolitical threat facing america, you should russia, not al qaeda. You should russia. In the 1980s or now
Days from the president election, and nowhere is the Campaign Battle being waged more fiercely than in the battleground state of ohio. 18 electoral votes are at stake there. President obama took them in 2008. Our brand new cnn orc poll is just coming in and it shows president obama leading in ohio right now 50 to mitt romneys 46 . But thats within the sampling error. Its a statistical tie in other words. Our chief National Correspondent john king is joining us. John, break down the numbers for us. No state right now is more important than ohio. You can make that case. No state is more important than ohio. You mention its within the margin of error but yet another poll showing the president with a small lead in ohio. Hes had that pretty much across the general election season. Whats driving it right now . In a battleground state like ohio, the president is getting democrats, romney is getting the republicans. The candidate to win election day is likely to win the state and at the moment