do something to surprise us. she says, romney needs to look in the mirror, find his soul, i know it s in there somewhere and do something that we re not going to be surprised by. obviously i m not in the same party and percent situation but your father took some very courageous stands, afghanistan, same-sex unions. do you think romney has the ability to show that kind of courage? the debate right now would have been very different but we re not there, we re here. like we said, there s not very much time left. i think after the debates le show more substance, le show his plan, a detailed plan. erin, even wisconsin governor scott walker, hero to the right, expressed his concern about the romney campaign on fox news yesterday. let me show you this and get your reaction. i think you ve got to get off the hills and got to get out and charge forward. americans want a fighter.
he doubled down bauer. the quote is, voter fraud is rampant in urban areas. i m raising this to you, because you did the study. from your study and studies that you have also looked over and reviewed yep. have you found rampant voter fraud and is there any scientific data to support that the people voting for the president are people that are dependent on a check in the mail from the government and any of these other class and race-based accusations? absolutely not, reverend. those kinds of statements are not in keeping with american values. you know, in america, voting is a fundamental right. it is not a privilege. when you re at the ballot box, whether you are rich or poor or whether you are young or old or whether you are a democrat or a republican, you are ee fall at
people recognize he s not done the job they expected him to do and that he promised he would do. i m virtually tied in the poll, some days up, some days down a point or two. we re doing well in the swing states. the outcome is decided by the people in the middle. that brings us to our new nbc wall street poll. call is the triangle, the path 270 electoral votes run through these three states, florida, ohio, virginia. this morning our new poll shows president obama is ahead of mitt romney in all three of them. in florida the president leads romney by 5 points among likely voterings, 49-44. the president also siting with a five-point lead in virginia, 49-44. in ohio the president leads 50, seven points ahead of mitt romney. according to battleground map romney needs to capture at least two of these states if not all three to get to 270 electoral votes. the president could hit or surpass by winning just one.
a former pollster, state of the race now. romney behind? a little bit but not much. frankly, i think october is the decisive month. i think the real challenge that the president has, look, he s not going to win, if he wins, but as much as he did last time. he s lost considerable ground from the last election. if this election becomes do you want the next four years to be like the last four years, i think we ll win. no question governor romney needs to perform in debates and congressman ryan but i think we will. thank you guys for coming on together. you guys sound like you can get things done. i think we can. she s the speaker. she knows how to do things. thank you both. federal reserve make a move to get the economy moving. market rundown next. if cash is king, who is crowned in november. battleground spending. i m bringing up the map, by the way. question, who is the most recent candidate to win the white house
leave an impact on the race? you know, it depends on what happens at the debates. but sam stein, for all of those who were saying before mitt romney s convention, and there were a lot saying this before romney s convention, romney needs to have a great introduction to america in his convention. he s blown that chance. those people are now going to have to say, romney has to have a great series of debate performances. so poorly produced. they blew it. republicans blew it. and in part, it has to do with the fact that we nominated a candidate, and you felt it going into tampa, that our base wasn t excited about. i think that s right. this speech, this is not my thought, i forget who originated it, but this speech was someone who i think feels confident that he can win the presidency. very safe speech. so confident. i want to say, you know, in retrospect, the omission in the romney speech of any mention of afghanistan and the troops oh, my god. we ll go there. why did h