Are literally counting down because in 16 hours barack obama and mitt romney battling in a Foreign Policy faceoff with the race for the white house about as close as it can get. Look at this new nbc wall street journal poll. Theyre locked in an absolute dead heat at 47 each. Editorial boards at newspapers across the country are coming out for their picks. Three endorsing mitt romney. The union leader calling the president president s policy a fantasy. Ago kron beacon journal and the plain dealer and the denver post calling the president the best pick under trying circumstances. Theres a lot to talk about and Paul Steinhauser with a preview of the showdown in the sunshine state. With the polls so close right now, theres even more at stake when president obama and mitt romney face off for the final time on the stage behind me at lynn university. Expect the two candidates to pick up where they left off last week in new york. When we have four americans killed there, when apparently we did
And banned him from the start. It follows the Antidoping Agency finding of overwhelming evidence that armstrong doped. We are here to answer your questions and to say to the cycling community, uci is listening and is on your side. We have come too far in the fight against doping to return to our past. Cycling has a future, and Something Like this must never happen again. But thats not all. Another sponsor, oakley sunglasses, announced it will no longer sponsor Lance Armstrong. Bill strickland is bicycling magazines aeditor at large and author of tour de lance. Its mind boggling, this colossal fall. Inevitable at this point. But mind boggling when you hear the words. The seven tours, look at what he has won. Now just a handful of races. Its going to be tough for people to deal with from here on out. Lance armstrong was at an event just yesterday. He didnt really address the doping agencys findings. He was at a livestrong event. Heres what he said. Obviously, its been an interesting, and
Hi, good morning to you, soledad. Thats right. When you look at that poll, 4747. Neck and neck, thats what this is telling us. Still a neck and neck race. Margin of error there about 3 1 2 points, and also continuing kind of the trend that weve seen in recent weeks which is a shift towards mitt romney. A couple of important things to point out that were learning from this poll. One, when you look at women, president obama still has a sizable lead, 5143 . You say, oh, thats obviously eight points. Thats pretty sizable. But actually this might be kind of alarming for the president. Because this is the smallest lead that hes had, and the other thing were seeing is that in battleground states, mitt romney actually having a little bit of a lead there. For their parts, the Obama Campaign kind of downplaying these new poll numbers. And the Romney Campaign looking at them more favorably. Lets also talk a little bit about some of the endorsements that the candidates picked up over the weekend.
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Syria for the assassination and pointing fingers at lebanons government which is linked to hezbollah. Syrias government and hezbollah have condemned the assassination. More ahead from beirut in this broadcast. At least 85 people were killed in syria today, including five children and five women. Syrias bloody sift war is more than 18 months old. The u. N. Arab league envoy president with Charles Assad in damascus. The envoy is trying to broker a ceasefire before an important muslim holiday begins on friday. Debate prep sunday as were one day away from the third and final president ial debate. Tomorrow night its about Foreign Policy. Candidates are likely to square off about the handling of benghazi and conflicting reports about Nuclear Talks with iran. Live coverage begins monday night at 7 00 eastern on cnn. Former United States senator George Mcgovern has died. His family made the announcement saying mac govern died before dawn at a who is spice in south dakota. A decorated bomber in