ohio talking, right? so, they clearly there is no love lost between these two. this has been a testy campaign throughout. this is the second debate. the first debate was no less contentious. you know, one of the things that i think is important to see here is what they re each doing is trying to paint the other as extreme as possible. tim ryan was just trying to say jd vance equals marjorie taylor greene. that s his approach here as they re both trying to court the vast middle of ohio, which is how you would win an ohio election. and, of course, on the other side, vance does the same and tries to portray ryan as completely left wing extremism from his party. part of what the dynamic you re seeing here, you noted or john noted at the top, this is a state donald trump won twice by eight or nine points. pretty red place. keeps trending red, no doubt about it, a pretty red state. and there is such a spending disadvantage on the airwaves right now. since labor day, jd vance
ohio talking, right? so, they clearly there is no love lost between these two. this has been a testy campaign throughout. this is the second debate. the first debate was no less contentious. you know, one of the things that i think is important to see here is what they re each doing is trying to paint the other as extreme as possible. tim ryan was just trying to say jd vance equals marjorie taylor greene. that s his approach here as they re both trying to court the vast middle of ohio, which is how you would win an ohio election. and, of course, on the other side, vance does the same and tries to portray ryan as completely left wing extremism from his party. part of what the dynamic you re seeing here, you noted or john noted at the top, this is a state donald trump won twice by eight or nine points. pretty red place. keeps trending red, no doubt about it, a pretty red state. and there is such a spending disadvantage on the airwaves right now. since labor day, jd vance and
than expected at 48 to 45.5%. mcauliffe owed a debt of gratitude to the female voters. the women were enough to carry mcauliffe to victory. virginia s election will provide the gop, which is quietly but undoubtedly, still ingaugengage civil war on some issues. in the wake of a republican-led government shutdown that furloughed thousands of virginiaens, 56% of those affected supported mcauliffe. but defenders of cuccinelli will note their candidate remained throughout the race at a major spending disadvantage and mcauliffe was aided by a libertarian candidate who siphoned votes from cuccinelli.
was not elegantly stated and then seeming to support it and last night softening it substantially to say i m for 100% of the people. it has given president obama yet another opportunity to come out, and we just heard from him to come out and say, i don t know if mitt romney has been around. i don t know if he knows what s going on out there. there s still plenty of time left in this campaign. we have the debates coming up. that s going to be a critical moment for both candidates, but time is running out. mitt romney has to get on message if he wanted to pull ahead. rachel, we talked all summer about mitt romney s $300 million summer. he was going to have more money in his campaign for the fall. now he had to borrow money over the summer, a lot of that 300 million was raised in conjunction with the republican national committee with other republican organizations. that romney himself can t spend it, and he may actually against obama be at a spending disadvantage. has the media just go
population. eight other states are leaning toward rejecting the expansion. look at the map here. seven of them have republican governors. the exception is missouri. that state s legislature and lieutenant governor s office are controlled by republicans. the obama campaign pulled in $71 million last month, less than romney s $106 million haul. second consecutive month they have outraised the president. what looks like a sizable advantage for team romney isn t there now. let me explain. romney can t spend any of the general election funds he raised until after he accepts the republican nomination in late august during the convention. until then the romney campaign is stuck with primary dollars putting him at a spending disadvantage during the summer months because obama didn t have a primary. he s still using primary funds to do the ads. romney had to use a lot of primary money on the actual