along with sam stein in washington and joining the table, managing editor of the washington post political section and behind the blog the fix, chris cillizza. out now with a new book the gospel according to the fix, an insider s guide to a less than holy world of politics. also from washington, nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of the daily run down chuck todd who can help us get through some of these polls and mitt romney s foreign policy speech he delivered. first let s look what happened with nbc news poll. let s go through these. some of them showing that the weeks of negative campaigning might be taking a toll on the images of both presidential candidates. first the latest head-to-head matchup. obama leads romney by 6 percentage points among voters living in 12 key battleground states the president s lead is 8 points, 49 to 41. that s pretty much unchanged from june. but one of the biggest take
re-election and the health care plan goes forward, then look to florida and i think what happens there, if scott loses and this is a large issue and i think it would be, other republican governors will quietly cave. chuck todd we ll see you on the daily run down after morning joe. could you be ready to go early? i don t know if i can make it all the way this morning. this is a lot for you, two hours. it s two hours of television. you didn t even have to do the three-hour. two hours of tv, that s half my work week in a normal week. you have the first word and lastword we re pushing the limits here. you re assuming he s working together. i am. i m actually going to do a 10:00 p.m. show tonight. hardest working man at msnbc for one day. dr. howard dean, we ll see you again in the next hour. ezra cliniklein stay with us. coming up democratic super pacs raise enough money to keep obama in the white house? can they do that? we ll talk to robert draper about his piece in
joe. jon meacham is with us, harold ford jr. here with howard dean, dr. howard dean to you this morning. also with us from washington, d.c., nbc news chief white house correspondent political director and host of the daily run down looking mad this morning, chuck todd. mad? if i m chuck todd i got a reason to be mad, right? the dodgers blanked dodgers can t score a run. not just a sweep, not just to the giants. it s not scoring a single run in the series? yeah. this is ugly. matt kemp, please hurry up. come on, man. come back. come back. look at that. you re killing me. by the way, your meat heads are getting tagged out by hippies by san francisco hippies. you know, san francisco don t get me started. that rivalry i was in the giants i really appreciate it, the one time you don t have your east coast bias is this week. really appreciate it. thanks. you know, we were actually
credit. he s a job creator. in singapore, china, india, he s been very good at creating jobs overseas. they say the president is out of touch when the president encourages young people trying to get manufacturing jobs. they said out of touch. out of touch. a prospect of a president with a swiss bank account and a retirement investments in the cayman islands? all kidding aside. did you think you would be choosing between two people running for president, one of whom had a swiss bank account? welcome back to morning joe live look at capitol hill on a beautiful morning in washington, d.c. here with us now, democratic senator from missouri. senator claire mccaskill and nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of the daily run down chuck todd. thanks. claire, my favorite senator. want to dig into your favorite senator and dig into
economy and jobs. i had successes and failures. but each step of the way i learned more about what it is that makes our american system so powerful. you can t learn that teaching constitutional law at university of chicago. all right? joining me now is nbsz news political director and host of msnbc s the daily run down am tell us how it happened, how he put it together in illinois. demographics. i want to say, it tells a story better than anything we can do. romney won because he just fit the state of illinois better. i m going to pick three areas and compare them to mississippi and ohio and keep these three percentages in mind. in mississippi, romney got 31% in ohio, 38%.