with a two or three point edge in the polls, which would mean a bounce of five or six. >> bill: you're heading to north carolina on sunday. do you expect a different tone from the democrats? >> no matter what they say, the republican convention was kind of optimistic and we're going to do better. >> right. we can do better. >> bill: different tone? >> it's going to be interesting to seem there are two choices. this will be about here is the vision of barak obama or is this going to be more of the effort to discredit mitt romney and paul ryan as extremists out of touch with middle class america? it's going to be a big choice. i think the former would work. the latter has not been working and not repeating it on national tv will do better. >> bill: we'll see new north carolina. thank you. up next, we'll talk with john mccain about what it's like to go up against barak obama. very interesting interview. i taped it earlier this week. later, insider details on actor clint eastwood's surprise appearance. "the factor" is coming rye back