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bounce in the polls? well it is real. the tracking polls that showed the race essentially tied have separated a little bit and president obama has moved up a little bit. talk to romney people said look, that is the definition of a bounce. a bounce something that goes up and comes back down. they re not worried about that. as far as the conventions are concerned they were right back-to-back, democrats went second and republicans say look the democratic convention stepped on any republican bounce there might have been. the fact is the president has been a little bit ahead in the race for most of the summer. it is now time if mitt romney will change the dynamic, time for them to do it. jon: this seven-day gallup tracking poll, i think we have results to put on screen, shows the president is up 49 to 44% now. that is pretty significant this close to the election, isn t it? well it is. you re going to hear a lot about the conventional wisdom that in the past the contende ....
president s post-convention bounce last? byron york is chief political correspondent for the washington examiner . is it real, first of all, byron, this presidential bounce in the polls? well it is real. the tracking polls that showed the race essentially tied have separated a little bit and president obama has moved up a little bit. talk to romney people said look, that is the definition of a bounce. a bounce something that goes up and comes back down. they re not worried about that. as far as the conventions are concerned they were right back-to-back, democrats went second and republicans say look the democratic convention stepped on any republican bounce there might have been. the fact is the president has been a little bit ahead in the race for most of the summer. it is now time if mitt romney will change the dynamic, time for them to do it. jon: this seven-day gallup tracking poll, i think we have results to put on screen, shows the president is up 49 to 44% now ....
their negotiators say they will come to the table and sit down and talk about giving up their nuclear program. meantime their scientists are hard at work enriching more uranium and working on trying to build a nuclear bomb. at that point it becomes an intelligence game. essentially what the defense minister here in israel has said is that the ayatollahs are working to the point where they can say to their scientists, go and within 60 days iran has the bomb. that is presentation little time for israel to strike. the israeli air force famously took out the iraqi nuclear facilities there in the 1980s. the syrian nuclear facilities a couple of years ago. however, iran has learned they have buried their nuclear facilities, spread them out. it s much harder for israel to hit. israel because of its limited capabilities would have to launch a military strike much sooner than the united states would. this comes back to the issue of politics. there s been a lot of thought and a l ....
another warning from the israelis to the world to get something out of these talks or we will do something, which is diplomatic code for a unilateral military strike by israel on iran and the timeline is very important. right now we are about two weeks away from the critical talks with iran in the next six months it is thought that iran would have muni sepbgs alley from an israeli air force strike if israel couldn t do anything about it. iran is famous for stalling and delaying tactics. their negotiators say they will come to the table and sit down and talk about giving up their nuclear program. meantime their scientists are hard at work enriching more uranium and working on trying to build a nuclear bomb. at that point it becomes an intelligence game. essentially what the defense minister here in israel has said is that the ayatollahs are working to the point where they can say to their scientists, go and within 60 days iran has the bomb. that is presentation little ti ....
keep in mind about the whole region, the last terrorist attacks, the mumbai attacks, the mumbai-style terrorist attacks on the hotel in mumbai those were ultimately traced, unofficially to the pakistani intelligence services. there are a couple of conclusions we want to make prior to making any real conclusions, probably is there a connection to pakistan unofficial or otherwise. is this the first attack that we re going to see and the only attack we re going to see? are there going to be more attacks in mumbai or other placesment third and probably most important, how does this affect pakistani-indian relations. that has been a border and boiling point for decades, the indiana yeah and pakistani relations. we are talking to the pakistanis saying, your biggest problem is not india, it s in pakistan and the taliban and terrorist attacks about you. the pakistanis always say, no, no it s india. who you worry about, jon, whoever s fault this is, this will increase tension be ....