you can also join the conversation on the social media. come your question this morning is, how effective our political ads? meet the woman who might decide whether president obama or mitt romney will be the next president of the united states. she is the mother of three and a resident of ohio. she is more than a voter in the biggest battleground state. she is undecided about whom to support. although most of her friends have made up their minds, i just do not know yet. she and her fellow undecideds are the most precious commodity in american politics. the obama and romney campaigns are courting them on an historic scale. let s take a look at one of the ad on the airwaves right now. this one is obama for america. you made $20 million last year and you paid 30% and capital taxes. is that fair to the guy who makes $50,000 end had a higher rate? host: we are asking you have affected you think political ads are. before th you could join that conversation on facebook by looking fo
even though this does not yet reflect any reaction to the president s acceptance speech because it s just the first two days of the democrat s convention, at least from the first part of the convention, there s some evident obama bounce apparent to the naked eye. he went up one point to 48 points. mr. romney went down a point to 45 points. hey, arithmetic, the president got a two-point swing and leads by three now in what amounts to this national poll. so that s something. but that s not the election. national polling does not really matter because presidential elections are not won at the national level. presidential elections are won state by state. you win individual states, you get their electoral votes from those states. it doesn t matter how many votes mitt romney gets in california. he s going to lose that state and that s all that matters. it doesn t matter how many votes president obama gets in oklahoma, he s going to lose oklahoma no matter what. it s only the state
similarity there, and i think you could also throw in a little bit of dick cheney. i work on imitations. congratulations, rachel. thanks. that s awesome. and you did a wonderful job anchoring the coverage. it s not easy off the top of your head many times. most of the night, fabulous talent. very intelligent. honored to work with you. congratulations, and by the way, four years in cable is like eternity. keep going. thank you, man. so much fun this week. i can t wait for the debates. have a great weekend. and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. behold, the world s least exciting graph. look. this is gallup s daily tracking poll starting with the day before the republican convention. and continuing through monday, this past monday. see what i mean by least exciting? we showed this graph on monday night. right before the start of the democratic convention to try to understand if the republican convention last week gave mitt romney a bounce. that s
ginger zee, abc news. speaking of weather, the dallas weather took a pounding last night as severe weather swept in with hail as big as baseballs. crazy. the city s worst hailstorm in years. the falling ice piled up on lawns like snow. punching through rooftops, damaging hundreds of cars, the hail also led to delays at dallas fort worth airport. brutal. brutal. a look at your thursday forecast, everybody. a drier day, thankfully in the northeast. lingering showers from the carolinas to florida. scattered thunderstorms, along the gulf coast. you get that out of your ear, are you good? my ear hurts. my allergies are bothering me. i go like this. a wax issue or something. ha-ha. we are also, it will be windy in the upper midwest. omaha, kansas, showers into colorado, the rockies. busted. 103 in phoenix. 93, albuquerque. mostly 80s, the rockies and midwest. 70s in the northeast. my ear itched like my ear itches. i go like this. i have allergies. no, my ear itches. if
in the last 30 days. their third wettest march, april, may on record. ginger zee, abc news. speaking of weather, the dallas weather took a pounding last night as severe weather swept in with hail as big as baseballs. crazy. the city s worst hailstorm in years. the falling ice piled up on lawns like snow. punching through rooftops, damaging hundreds of cars, the hail also led to delays at dallas fort worth airport. brutal. brutal. a look at your thursday forecast, everybody. a drier day, thankfully in the northeast. lingering showers from the carolinas to florida. scattered thunderstorms, along the gulf coast. you get that out of your ear, are you good? my ear hurts. my allergies are bothering me. i go like this. a wax issue or something. ha-ha. we are also, it will be windy in the upper midwest. omaha, kansas, showers into colorado, the rockies. busted. 103 in phoenix. 93, albuquerque. mostly 80s, the rockies and midwest. 70s in the northeast. my ear itched like m