major developments on the campaign trail as governor mitt romney has extended his lead over president barack obama. look at this. according to the latest gallup poll romney now holds a majority 51% of the vote over obama s 45%. that is a six-point advantage, not even close to being within the margin of error. this bombshell poll comes one day after more than millions of americans witnessed the president of the united states mislead you, the voters, about everything from his own record to his opponent s views. now thanks to president obama, the truth went untold for more than 90 long minutes during the second presidential debate, and on hannity, we re going to fact check the president s claims. we re going to set the record straight. heated exchange of the evening, and that of course being the terrorist attack. here s how it went down inside the debates hall last night. on the day following the assassination of united states ambassador, the first time that s happened since
major developments on the campaign trail as governor mitt romney has extended his lead over president barack obama. look at this. according to the latest gallup poll romney now holds a majority 51% of the vote over obama s 45%. that is a six-point advantage, not even close to being within the margin of error. this bombshell poll comes one day after more than millions of americans witnessed the president of the united states mislead you, the voters, about everything from his own record to his opponent s views. now thanks to president obama, the truth went untold for more than 90 long minutes during the second presidential debate, and on hannity, we re going to fact check the president s claims. we re going to set the record straight. heated exchange of the evening, and that of course being the terrorist attack. here s how it went down inside the debates hall last night. on the day following the assassination of united states ambassador, the first time that s happened since
terrorist attack. here s how it went down inside the debates hall last night. on the day following the assassination of united states ambassador, the first time that s happened since 1979, when we have four americans killed know what happened, that the president the day after that happened, flies to las vegas for political fundraiser. the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror. i think it s interesting the president just said something, which is that on the day after the attack, he went in the rose garden and said that this was an act of terror. that s what i thought. you said in the rose garden, the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration. is that what you re saying? please proceed, governor. i want to get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days befor
terrorist attack. here s how it went down inside the debates hall last night. on the day following the assassination of united states ambassador, the first time that s happened since 1979, when we have four americans killed know what happened, that the president the day after that happened, flies to las vegas for political fundraiser. the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened, that this was an act of terror. i think it s interesting the president just said something, which is that on the day after the attack, he went in the rose garden and said that this was an act of terror. that s what i thought. you said in the rose garden, the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration. is that what you re saying? please proceed, governor. i want to get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days befor
(laughs) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. as of today we are down to the final four weeks of the presidential campaign. the focus is narrowing, not just to the nine battleground states but to one in particular ohio, which could tip the balance on election night. first the big picture. nationally, the latest gallup poll shows mitt romney leading president obama 49% to 47%. that spread is within the margin of error, so it s essentially a tie. in ohio, new polling today shows this: pollster a.r.g. has romney up by one point, 48% to 47%. but a cnn poll has the president up by four, 51% to 47%. either way, it s an improvement for romney who was falling well behind in ohio until last week s debate. both candidates were in ohio today where this is the last day to register to vote. our campaign 2012 correspondents reason there, too, and we ll go to nancy cordes with the obama campaign. reporter: scott, ohio is th