buildup. high stakes, mistake or break, you name it. but in this incredibly tight race between two presidents, each of whom casts the other as a danger to democracy, it does seem that the cnn presidential debate in four days might just live up to the hyperbole. let s face it, how many people in america haven t made up their minds between 81-year-old joe biden and 78-year-old donald trump, and which of these two men can exceed those all-important expectationses certified by the presses? if trump did some advanced spin by denigrating cnn s moderators. they thought i would say, no, i don t want to do it because cnn is so, you know, it s fake news. i ll be debating three people instead of one-half of a person. howard: sometimes debates can be decisive, in the first one in 1960, richard a anybodies son had a 5:00 shadow, and jack kennedy looked young and vigorous. sometimes a good zinger can turn the tide with a tense president carter against a relaxed ronald reagan. there you
day? well, i think it depends on who the voter is, jamie. clearly, if you re looking at it from the republican perspective as marry katherine was just talking about, i think there s so much anger at t legislation on the right that i think the repeal effort and i think romney s going to be very clear and he has been clear that if elected he would repeal it but if you re talking to voters on the left or even in the middle and maybe even more specifically to voters who are on medicare and medicaid, i think that they are going to say, you know, exactly how much is this going to drive up my premiums, is this going to increase my taxes, is this going to decrease my coverage in any way. and that s where the replace part becomes critical, and that could be an energizer for people on the democratic side of the ticket. jamie: mary katherine, given the price tag of this overhaul plan that president obama has laid out if it is struck down and all that money had been spent, we know we re not