attack the president in the next couple of days, which is very smart politics, if you will, but it s the right thing to do. kimberly: he s a gentleman. bob: and they both called off the campaign events which is the right thing to do in the effected areas. so far, the politics, i say obviously it benefits to the president. but romney has inserted himself eric: can i interrupt? this is absolutely going to benefit mitt romney, because romney was on, he was getting the momentum. he had the gallup poll increasing in his favor and still is. what this did, what the storm did is put evening on hold. froze everything in place. he gets the bigger momentum. importantly, the female vote. the women vote was going, he closed that gap completely. now there is a freeze. bam become can t go obama can t go negative and romney can t go negative. if president obama starts showing up at these various places too often, people will say he is pandering. political pandering because these are the stat
in minnesota and pennsylvania. where romney has put additional resources in, because last week he said bob, watch where the money goes. that s where the money is going from both campaigns, does it mean they re more up for grabs? bob: romney spread out the electoral map no question about it. if obama were to lose minnesota, it would be a landslide for romney. they have to send him in to shore things up. he will get to colorado where he needs to be. what romney, though, is missing here is a lot of campaign events in ohio, which he desperately needs. dana: that s where he was today. bob: but he was doing fundraising there. which is fine. but he needs to do the rallies and other things. anytime you freeze something, it doesn t actually mean you come back to where it was when you froze it. eric: no, but it doesn t mean the momentum changes back. face it, president obama has had the best success at changing the polling. when he goes negative. when his negative ads about romney for ba
few of these states. we may be up very late. but obama is doing well in the states he had to win to get over 270 electoral votes. i think romney is hurt by some of the outrageous things that the senate candidates in missouri and indiana have said about a woman s right thochoose. romney hasn t been able to pull away from those candidates. i think there is issues that are working very much in obama s favor. we will see how this thing turns out. congressman, he holds a different position than those candidates his ads are still up in indiana. what s more important [overlapping dialogue] eric: we have the clock counting down. one thing s for sureto be a lon, election night, probably. thank you so much. jamie: eric, as each day goes by, new questions are raised about the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya.
and colorado. he did not anticipate having his final days of the campaign spent defending iowa, wisconsin and now possibly michigan, pennsylvania and now we have a republican ad in min mip. so that shows the trajectory. romney is on offense and obama is on defense in the final week. eric: obama on defense, he went to new hampshire and only got four electoral votes in new hampshire. he went up there to grab four. is that desperation or protection? it s protection. look, this race is going to be very close. everybody recognizes that. could come down to a few votes, a few states. i want to comment on what is going on with the weather. this actually has political implications. first of all, the public is going to be focused on the storm the next three or four days. it will take the focus off the election. it will be harder for the candidates to get their messages out. also, obama has the lead in
while romney made a point of not quibling he was mocking. i think governor romney hasn t spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy and we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. govern, we have fewer horses and baonettes because the nature of our military changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. we have the ships that go underwater and nuclear sub marines. it is so silly. and we have these things called aircraft carriers. he is really slow. we know what aircraft carriers are. who can for dwet this on the who can forget this on the expense of mitt? i am glad you recognize al-qaeda is a threat. when asked a few months ago, you said russia. not al-qaeda. you said russia. in the 1980s or now, calling to ask for their foreign policy back. that was my favorite.