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0 joke and get dressed up and have a night out. let s watch. win or lose, this is my last political campaign, so i m trying to drink it all in. unfortunately, mayor bloomberg will only let me have 16 ounces of it. in the spirit of sesame street the president s remarks are brought to you by the letter o and the number 16 trillion. here you are, where they are all dressed up and in a way that most americans cannot relate to but in a good cause, catholic charities, the amazing work they do there. what is the wisdom of the president going on jon stewart where he s speaking to his base and then getting a serious question as you will get from jon stewart, a serious person about benghazi, and adopting the answer the word optimal from jon stewart s question to give him that, but it s still shows a lack of command of the moment. take a look at this. i would say even you would admit it with you not the optimal response, at least to the american people, as far as us all being on the sam ....
to fix it. right. all of it. all of it. midwest firewall, 18 days to go our polls. today while romney preps for the final debate, the president is hitting him hard in virginia. we ve got to name this condition that he s going through. i think i think it s called romnesia. that s what it s called. i think that s what he s going through. i m not a medical doctor, but i do want to go over some of the symptoms with you because i want to make sure nobody else catches it. mitt romney and paul ryan are both in florida and they caught a key endorsement from the orlando sentinel today. and what a kick. that was a high schooler, a washington state high school football player kicking his way into the record books, nailing a 6-yard field goal. what a kick indeed. i m andrea mitchell live in washington. it is back to the battleground states after a night of comedy in new york. and white ties an tails. let s get back to our daily fix, joining me in person, chris c ....
Talking about binders full of women. he uses that as a bridge to talk about lily ledbetter, which is an issue where mitt romney has not only not known where he stood, but because he couldn t come out and say, yes, i support the fair pay act, people feel like he is extreme and out of touch. but abortion polling that shows folks on the left are a little uncomfortable with the celebratory language around abortion as well. there s an extreme on the left and right. that s not the debate. he s not talking much aut abortion on the stump. he s talking about women s health and contraception, health care access. because it s the mainstay of the dnc. i don t want to talk about abortion rights but the economy. that s the question he was asked about katherine fenton. he talks about fair pay and the binder. he said, i got to be 50 years old, and the governor of a state, and i did not know in my own rolodex i did not know women who are qualified to work with ....
Me. that sounds to me quite devastating. that s not what he said. it is exactly. what he said is i have to ask somebody else, which was a lie, t i have to ask somebody else to tell me who can work with me in the statehouse. if this person is going to be able to support women and help women when he gets into the white house? he doesn t know. then he has to, again, ask, which is untrue. the other part is katherine fenton is a 24-year-old kindergarten teacher and all she did was ask a question about fair pay. she s being attacked now, and this is the way that people who try to speak out. she s not an activist. she s not doing the sandra fluke thing. she s attacked and this is a way of silencing people to speak out. that to me is rather disgusting. okay. up next in the guest spot, renowned presidential historian michael besloh s of president obama s impact on the country. ....
and obama can t bring people. in the month of october they re pulling more than 10,000 people into rallies. the key take away here is the era of the national campaign is over. you have to think of it as a big pinball machine rigged with magnets to key states. these candidates don t focus on other states anymore. we look at a handful to spend a lot of time. that really new in the modern era? has that changed over time? it has. there was a great piece in national journal today that talked about how california used to be a swing state where places went back and forth. we see these things change. now this era of the end of the national campaign could change in the future, but for now it seems here to stay. chris, that national journal report talked about the president s team maybe pulling out of key states like north carolina, virginia, and florida while unwilling to concede that they might be losing in those states. let s play the what-if game, if you would indulge m ....