well. there s an effort by the obama campaign to make the midwest a firewall. not only talking about wisconsin and iowa, but also about ohio. that s their best path to maybe wrap it up. not as much of a focus on some of the states in the southeast like virginia and florida as of late. all right. mark murray, can t wait to see what the polls show us. talk to you about it tomorrow, i m sure. thanks mark. there are two senate debates tonight in races for them to win to gain control. in missouri senator claire mccastille facesed to akin. in virginia tim kaine is against george allen. to public second-guessing and private recripple nations at the finnish line are due to more than bad luck and a couple of underperforming candidates. the gop senate schal lengs more broadly are reflections of a
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how romney is spending his time. there is some view that he s spend time at fundraisers and he should be out there more. he does need to be out there more. no republican has ever raised more money than he has. he has to settle his staff down, it s not a democracy in a staff. every campaign starts coming apart in the closing days because you re tired and there is all kinds of second-guessing. at this point in time he s got to take charge, put one person in charge, say here is our game plan, figure out in the next 48 hours this is what we re going to run on for the section six weeks and don t get off message. martha: what about paul ryan. it feels like he s not out there that much. he is out there and you don t see him every day. that is the traditional vice presidental role. the only time he make news is if he makes an attack on the president. martha: is he an asset that could be used to a greater
wait a few days before having that kind of press conference? you know, joe, it s in the heat of the battle, you get all kinds of advice and you get all kinds of second-guessing. i m not prepared to do that. john mccain, not wanting to criticize romney directly, but clearly not coming to his defense, not supporting the posture that romney had taken the day before by doubling down on the whole question of the president s supposed apology, attributing a press officer s statement in cairo, six hours before a protest to the president of the united states was considered quite a stretch. yes. we all know that when these immediate statements are put out in an attempt to diffuse violence far from washington, they re not vetted in the west wing of the white house before they go out. look, there was clearly nervousness on the republican establishment, particularly
second-guessing. i m not prepared to do that, but i would like to point out and believe it or not, i watched you yesterday, and quite often your panel of people. the fact is the united states in the middle east is scene as weak and withdrawing and we are paying the price for that unraveling whether it be for iraq, the tension in syria, the tensions with israel, afghans, afghan situation unraveling. there is a lack of leadership there, and that s what i would be talking about. and i hope that mitt romney will be looking at the big picture. well, senator, as you know, when mika and i are off the show, morning joe turns into the young marks variety show. people like barnicle were running the ship. can i mention one thing about israel? i wanted to actually ask you about that next. the israelis, obviously, for some time have not had the