version that ultimately passes. do you think that this model of mandatory arrest, which the law sort of incentivizes, basically. there s money for jurisdictions and it s a race to the top model. technically it s not mandatory but for a police officer it means the same thing. you don t take the chance. if there s an injure he ll arrest the other person even if they don t want the arrest. i arrested a woman once because she punched her man because he confessed that he was been unfaithful. when you take the discretion away from police officers you can make bad problems worse. although i think the case against that is that discretion in the past particularly with an overwhelmingly male police force was not a kind of neutral discretion. that s changed. that was a useful change from the idea that back in the 70s
incumbent. it was a sunday before election day, you d be very worried. how concerned are you about that right now, including the fact that in total romney seems to have an edge in the battleground states? well, first of all, david, i would say on the battleground state issue, you guys also issued polls in the last week that showed us with an eight-point lead in iowa. i think we had a lead in ohio. you showed us having a lead in florida. so i don t know how to square all of the polling that nbc is releasing. but i do think that this is going to be a very close race, and we ve said that consistenty. i think if you look back at your tape, every time i visited with you i have predicted this will be a close race. but we feel good about where we are. we feel we re even or ahead in these battleground states. and if you look at the early voting that s going on around the country, it s very robust and it s very favorable to us. and we think that s a better indicator than these public polls wh
we elected our first african-american. he really tried hard. but i just want to try something new. i think that s always been the most dangerous thing for him. and what romney has done in the two debates is hit that button directly. i think what obama has to do in the last debate is really come out with some real energy, excitement, and imagination about why he is going to create more jobs in the next four years. and i would just take every issue on foreign policy back to this fact. we can only be strong in the world, we can only have leverage in the world, if we are strong and resilient at home. and if i m obama, my message would be i have all of these plans, race to the top, innovation, entrepreneurship will make us strong at home to be strong abroad. beyond the women s vote, mike, take a moment and talk about state of the race and strategy on both sides. what does it come down to, and what do you make of 47%, 47%? unreal. i think it s moving toward romney right now. the debates
refuses to do, and investing in those things we need to grow this economy. we have a very specific agenda moving forward. on the other hand, what you hear from governor romney are a lot of chapter heads with no chapters and a plan to spend $7 trillion more on tax cuts and more money for the pentagon that they re not even asking for with no plan to pay for it. so if there s anyone who s running without a real plan here it s governor romney. let me ask you and to the extent he has one, david, it s going back to the same policies we had under the last administration. tax cuts for the wealthy, rolling back rules on wall street, and hoping that somehow if the folks at the top do well that the rest of the country will do well. we tried it. it doesn t work. we can t go back to that. finally, the state of the race at this point. first, we re beyond the debate expectations nonsense. what are the stakes, though, in this final debate of the serious conversation about differences about for
been fantastic for in terms of governor romney. second, governor romney has a plan. and that s one thing that you ve heard from a lot of folks already this morning on the show, is that the president is out there attacking a plan. now he s mischaracterizing it. but at least governor romney has a vision for the future. and he s got the plan to put america back to work. that s not what you hear from president obama. he s talking about four more years of the last four years. if you re an undecided voter in ohio today, that s not what you want to hear. you know things aren t going well. you know you want to change. governor romney laid out a change, and in these debates he s been able to lay out what he s for and how it works. thanks. we ll be watching tomorrow night. we re going to take a quick break. we re back with more, including a frompreview of what to expect tomorrow night. we ll talk about foreign policy and some of the other issues that will come up and look at the strategy and