bigger crowd then. there are questions about how much support he has on the ground. they inside inside the obama catch he has enthusiasm on the ground. they believe the president will win popular and electorate vote but they suggest he may sweep all nine of the major battlegrounds from ohio to iowa, colorado, nevada. a bold prediction. he may reach 300 electoral votes. that s bold prediction for final hours. they believe he will win it. election ed, thank you for being here on the five. greg, to you first. the crowd situation. i was watching romney today. people waiting in line. last night, people were complaining they got frostbit
yeah. obama carried the state comfortably but not on election day. so they have to go into election day with a good lead in the early voting or they won t make it. here s romney today in iowa talking about people getting handouts. paul and i have not promised you bigger check from the govern in the and we haven t promised to take some people to redistribute to you. richard, is this another last ditch effort to appeal to white resentment? honestly, at this point, even a dog whistle doesn t break through. what matters is the ground came. the republican playbook is, they have the intensity. there are enough people who hate the president that they will show up anyway. you are seeing two different philosophies of how you get people to go out and vote. the obama campaign is playing that macrogame and find the
cornblut on this? they re similar to what governor romney says he would have in place if he were elected. the only real difference tonight where you would see the heat, if i should say, people are craving slib ya. i think it s yes and no. based on the romney today. not based on governor romney in the primary. it s tuesday, so it s a different romney. putting that aside, i mean, i think the reality here it s not just tonal but emphasis. i think the question whether it s afghanistan or iran, what are you emphasizing in the course of foreign policy? you re rattling sabers and that s your first course versus emphasizing diplomacy, you may say we want to do diplomacy, but that is a distinction with a major difference. i think what s going to happen here, i think that romney will go into this debate and try to hug the president where he can, and kind of pivot back to the economy. i think the president in this debate has got to be not just focusing on foreign policy, because that s the
numbers has won. we can have an entirely different conversation about whether that s the right way to elect the leader of the free world, but it s the reality. and people don t like him. and i don t know that giving the american electorate more of him is the answer. david corn and alicia menendez, thank you both for your time. tonight. and congratulations, david, your book is coming out in paper back this week. thank you, yeah. ahead, more republicans are running away from romney today. plus, the secret tape also revealed a fear of the women on the the view. the view is high-risk, because the five women all but one is conservative. but we ve got some news on romney s new personal strategy. and why are conservatives talking about this picture? yes, it s a pirate with the president. and yes, they got it wrong
walid phares joins us now to weigh in. walid, thanks a lot for joining us. some of this could have been predicted. the muslim brotherhood and a number of countries in the middle east. should we have expected anything different from them two years ago when this all began? absolutely not. actually it was projected ac books the coming revolution before the arab spring where we saw there is going to be a struggle, tucker between the forces of civil society those who began the arab spring, workers, women, students, muslim brotherhood. unfortunately the muslim brotherhood was win. part nerd with them. the muslim brotherhood have allies. they are behind the attacks the attacks embassies. you are mitt romney s middle east advisor. if mitt romney were president romney today, what would you