Im going to do. Speaking about being all over the map, romney will pingpong back and forth between ohio and iowa the next three days. The republican nominee is casting the race as moving his way and a ground falling out from President Team obama. These debates have super charged our campaign. Theres no question about it. Were seeing more and more enthusiasm, more and more support. Weve gone through four debates with the Vice President ial debate and my debates. And we havent heard an agenda from the president. Thats why his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is full speed ahead. They both are insistent theyre winning. Like theyre both worried if for some reason that gravity will just drag them down. With the race down to seven critical states, 89 remaining Electoral College votes team romney is also hoping clint empty chair evidentwood can make his election day. Obamas second term would be a rerun of the first and our country just couldnt survive that. We need someone who can turn it around fast and that man is mitt romney. Theres not much time left and the future of our country is at stake. So lets dig right in. The president is speaking in iowa. Kristen welker is traveling with the president in this state. Kristin, an about face from the campaign this morning regarding what was an off the record interview with one of iowas largest newspapers and theyre calling him on the carpet for it. Why . Thats absolutely right. President obama spoke to the Des Moines Register yesterday. The campaign wanted that interview to be off the record. That really ruffled some feathers with the Des Moines Register and the folks in iowa, this key battleground state. This morning an about face as you say, the Obama Campaign releasing the contents of that interview. It is now up on the Des Moines Register website. Im going to read you one of the interesting parts of the interview, thomas. There are a lot of different elements. Take a listen to this. The president says in one instance, im going to be very blunt since this is off the record, should i win a second term, a big reason i will win a second term is because the republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the Fastest Growing dem Graphic Group in the country, the latino he community. An interesting perspective from the president about immigration. This was sort of an unwelcome were to the Obama Campaign as they stump here in this key battleground state of iowa. Kristen welker reporting for us in iowa. Lets listen to the president speaking there talking about iowa is where it all began for barack obama. Hes been running around saying hes got a fivepoint plan for the economy. Let me tell you, it turns out its only a onepoint plan. Folks at the very top get to play by a very different set of rules than you do. They can keep paying lower tax rates than you do, keep their money. Offshore accounts. They can buy up a company, load it up with debt, lay off the workers, strip away their pensions, send the jobs overseas and they still make a big profit while the middle class gets stuck with the bill. Dont boo. Vote. That was his philosophy in the private sector. That was his philosophy as governor. Thats his philosophy now. Its not a very inspiring vision for our country. So two weeks from the election, because he knows that if he actually told everybody what he wants to do, he probably wouldnt get any votes. So hes doing everything he can to make sure that you dont notice what hes been saying. And weve come up with a name for this condition. Its called romnesia. Romnes romnesia. I want to go over the symptoms with you in davenport because i dont want you to catch it. I dont want it to spread. If you say you wont give a big tax cut to the wealthy, but youre caught on video promising your tax cut would include the top 1 , then you might have romnesia. If you talk about how much you love teachers during a debate but just a few weeks ago you said we shouldnt hire any more teaches because they wont grow the economy, you probably have romnesia. If you sit on stage in a nationally televised debate saying how much you love cars, youre a car guy, except you wrote an article titled let detroit go bankrupt, then you almost certainly have romnesia. If you cant seem to remember the policies on your own website or the promises you made over the last six years that youve been are youing for president or the promises you made six days ago, you probably have romnesia, but dont worry. Obama care covers preexisting conditions. We can fix you up. Theres a cure. We can make you well as long as you vote, iowa, we can cure folks of this malady, of this disease. Listen, smart people who dont have a dog in this fight independent analysts, economists, they took out their pencils, they are the green eye shades and krujed the numbers. Turns out governor romneys economic plan is a sketchy deal. The results are not what youd want to write home about. The Washington Post calls his jobs plan a bait and switch. The bait is the promise that his plan creates 12 million jobs. The switch is the fact that his plan doesnt create 12 million jobs. Thats the bait and the switch. In fact, it wont even create jobs right now. Then governor romney wants to spend 5 trillion on tax cuts ta favor the wealthy, 2 trillion on defense spending that our military isnt asking for, and he wants you to believe that he can do that without adding to the deficit or raising middle class taxes. The problem is, youd need to invent a new kind of math to actually make this true. The an rith ma i can does not work. So we know governor romneys jobs plan doesnt create jobs. His deficit plan doesnt reduce the deficit. And we joke about romnesia, but all of this speaks to something thats really important and that is the issue of trust. Theres no more serious issue on a president ial campaign than trust. Trust matters. And heres the thing. Iowa, you know me. You know you know that i say what i mean. And i mean what i say. Theres some folks in this crowd who have probably been following me since i was running for the United States senate. And you know what . You can like this guy right here who i served with in the United States senate, george. And you could take a videotape of things i said 10 years ago, 12 years ago and you would say, man this is the same guy. Has the same values. Cares about the same people. Doesnt forget where he came from. Knows who hes fighting for. And you know what . I havent finished all the work that we set out to do back in 2008. But i have fought for you the every single day that ive held this office. And with your help, ive kept the commitments that i have made. I told you wed end the war in iraq, we did. I said wed begin the process of ending the war in everything an, we are. I said wed refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9 11 and we have, and a new tower rises over the new york skyline. Al qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama Bin Laden is dead. I kept that promise. President obama on the stump there in iowa today, a very busy day for the president going from iowa, colorado to nevada. But the president talking about the importance of the public trust and having the public trust and that mitt romney continues to distort public trust with romnesia. I want to bringing in todays political power panel, perry bacon, also editor for the grio, msnbc ari melber, also a correspondent for the nation and republican strategist alice store. Ari, i want to start with you. Its wild to watch as were down to the final stretch here. Take a peek. The race coming down to seven states. Jim messina of the Obama Campaign insisted yesterday theyre not cutting any states loose, but there are some swing states that you think the Obama Campaign has reconfigured. What are they . Look, North Carolina is a state where the president did very well last time. They registered a lot of voters. Virginia is another state where they won that for the first time for a democrat since lbj. Those are two places where i dont think theyre going to be as bullish. In contrast ohio is a place you have early voting. So that really locks in some of the gains that obama had from a week or two ago when you had people coming out and already getting involved and casting their vote up to even a third of people voting before the actual election day. You talked about early voting in ohio. Vice President Biden is basically camping out in ohio this entire week while the president continues on earlier in the show, governor romney is projecting a message of confidence talking up his momentum. He says the president is faltering. I want to play exactly what David Axelrod had to say about that yesterday. We know what they know and they know what they know. Im confident that were going to win this race, and well know who is bluffing and who isnt in two weeks. So alice, is the Romney Campaign projecting momentum where it doesnt exist hoping perception will become reality, fake till you make it. I was in ohio myself for several days last week. I saw the momentum firsthand. You can also look at the polling data in all the battleground states, were seeing things tighten significantly. We see romney ahead in key states like virginia, florida and missouri. In a statistical dead heat or tied in key races like ohio is critical. You can look at the early and absentee voting activity. The rnc is taking a close look at that. The republican early and absentee voting is strong. Our numbers compared to 08 we have an eight percentage point advantage in that area, and that shows right there momentum itself. So we have visuals on the ground in momentum, polling data and early and absentee voting numbers that show great moment for romney. Perry, one thing the president s campaign has been doing is emailing supporters with the in message i dont want to lose. Areunderdog on purpose to turn out voters in these final 13 days . They absolutely are. They are emphasizing the fact that he could lose this race and therefore, turn out to vote. A big Undecided Group of voters has not decided between romney and obama and people who might stay home or vote for obama, particularly young voters. For obama, he needs to portray voting is so important this year. Im the underdog. Support me. Another Senate Candidate is in hot water this morning. This time its indianas Richard Mourdock who had this to say about rape and pregnancy during a debate. Take a listen. I struggled with it myself for a long time but came it realize life is that gift from god. I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. We all remember the comments of akin and now this on the heels of that. The Romney Campaign quickly saying mourdocks comments dont reflect romneys views. They do reflect his running mates views. This candidate who romney endorsed mourdock in a Television Ad is playing in indiana now. Although they have disavowed ha statement, they have not disavowed the candidate. Does this present a problem with romneys efforts to close gender gap especially when it comes to public trust . Well, governor romneys done a great deal to close the gender gap beak because women are concerned about jobs and the economy. He has a tremendous record in the private sector on creating jobs in the economy but on this particular case, hes made it quite clear he disavows the statement and he also is very strong on his commitment to life. He only supports abortion in cases of rape, incest. Women of this country are not monolithic voters. Their number one concern is jobs and the economy. Theyre greatly concerned with the debt and president obama doesnt have the answers and the policies to create jobs and turn the economy around and the debt, has grown to 16 trillion under his watch is something that moms and women of this country are tremendously concerned with. And women and men across this Country Trust mitt romney to do something to create certainty in the economy and to turn things around and to create jobs. You want to jump in. Alice said that this candidate, mitt romney only supports abortion in cases of rape and incest. Thats not true. This candidate mitt romney also supports abortion in cases of massachusetts elections where he ran publicly and the video shows he was a prochoice candidate. Now, the problem for him is, that was a position at one point. Then he said he wanted to overturn roe, then he wanted to sign a bill that would federalize this issue and basically make it impossible for anyone to have an abortion. Hes had about five positions. And this is such a serious issue. Its coming up as you report because of these comments from a candidate who reflects the mainstream of the Republican Party. There are people who feel strong little about this who i respect more than mitt romney because they see it as a religious issue. Even i disagree with some of the religious leaders and conservatives on this, at least they have consistency. Thats something romney doesnt have here. With the c jernds gap being so important, the Democratic National committee is hitting romney for that endorsement of richard maur you can do. Planned parenthoods action fund is calling on romney to revoke his mourdock endorsement. Doesnt this boil down to which mitt romney is the real romney, conservative or moderate and which one could end up in the white house . This is a, this could be a really important moment in the campaign. Reason is because the undecided voters left are largely women and they are people concerned about the economy, not thrilled with the obamas economy and his views on the economy but theyre voters generally prochoice. This is a bad thing for romney. Any day were talking about abortion and not on the economy is a bad day for romney. I think hes got to figure out a way out of this. His position is in the minority of americans. Most americans do support abortion rights. Our wednesday political power panel. That i thanks to all three of you. I appreciate it. 5 million americans have already cast early votes in this president ial election. How the drive to get souls to the polls will impact the fight for perhaps the most critical battleground state of ohio. State senator nina turner joins me next. Plus, we want to know if perception sgs reality, who is winning the president ial election right now . Tweet me thomas a roberts. Well share your thoughts later in the show. 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In fact, campaigning there yesterday, governor romney and congressman ryan made a bold promise to get state unemployment down to 6 if elected. Its currently at 11. 8. In the allimportant buckeye state, the big headline from the columbus dispatch, ohio jobless rate lowest since 2008. Down. 3 of a percent now at 5. 7 percent, well below the national average. The other big story in ohio is early voting. State Officials Say i more than 00,000 voters have already cast ballots. In all, more than 1. 5 millions plan to vote before election day. President obama has a 13point lead among early voters and a fourpoint lead among ohio residents who plan to vote early. Governor romney has a fivepoint lead among voters who say they will cast their ballot by showing up on election day. Nina turner has represented cleveland, ohio, since 2006. First at city hall, now as a state senator. Its great to have you with us today, and the Obama Campaign touted its early lead there in ohio in the early voting yesterday saying its not going to let up. As we know, the Vice President is there basically all week. The race there will only get more heated with ohio now the top market in the ad spending. I want everybody to take a look at that. 177 million. Is president obamas early lead enough to buffer any gains that the Romney Campaign is expected to make on election day the Old Fashioned way . I believe so, thomas. I mean, ohio is the presi