You notice the administration quickly goes from talking about the death of the four americans to linking it to the video saying we don t, we don t, in our country, believe in this kind of stuff but we do have freedom of speech. you know, i think, i think in the debate, governor romney was on target. president obama was off target in asserting he called it an act of terror. certainly didn t call it act of terror when they sent out the administration s ambassador. bill: moment number two. thomas friedman called this story entirely contrived on meet the press on sunday morning. i listen to a lot of folks over the weekend. what they say governor romney has to look presidential. can t go for ticky-tacky stuff on round number two. do you agree with that? yes, i do. he needs, look he looked very presidential the first debate. he looked somewhat presidential in the second debate. president obama looked somewhat presidential. when they got up there
Who was a prisoner of war, calls the vodka for votes scheme, horrifying. if you suspect fraud at polls where you live here is our address, voterfrau voterfraud@foxnews.com. martha: people think this stuff doesn t happen. eric, thank you very much. bill: we re only 11 hours before the final head-to-head matchup. there is the stage in florida. what can we expect from both sides? brit hume is here to analyze. who better, right? martha: before the big presidential debate new polling from key battleground states. scott rasmussen tells us what he found from voters now. we ll be right back. why am i lowering taxes on the middle class? because under the last four years they have been buried. i want to help people in the middle class. i want to give middle class families and folks striving to get into the middle class some relief because they have been hit hard over the last decade, over the last 15, over the last 20 years. ve lately.
That? well i think you will see both. i think you will see governor romney express a deep understanding of the issues. i think he will put a policy forward that corresponds to where america wants to be. we recognize we re a superpower. we need to be strong economically and we have to have a strong national security structure. and, i think you will see governor romney contrasting that with the economic failures over the last four years, the lack of an agenda for economic success in the future. and the fact that the president wants to gut the defense budget and mitt romney wants to make sure we have the fund to keep our defense strong. you can not have a peaceful world without a strong u.s. economically and on national security. bill: you know how big the audience will be tonight. i think debate number three in 2008 had about the 62 million. so, you know, if you go off that number you re at least 60 million in viewership later tonight. that s right. bill: there is baseball game going
That the obama team wanted to have the foreign policy debate last, and that was negotiated. is that the case? was that true? i m not, i don t know that. i work awfully hard to stay ignorant, bill, so i can talk about what i care about and i have no idea what the negotiations were. bill: the logic would be this would be his strongest hand for re-election. yeah, he thinks, the president thinks this is his sweet spot. they negotiated this when he was still trying to tell us that terrorism had been quelled because he had just killed bin laden, and the whole process, he thought he had the upper hand. now the public knows what a disaster his foreign policy has been. if you poll countries like egypt, jordan, you see the lack of respect for the u.s., the negative perception of the u.s. has gone up tremendously under this president and he thought he was going to sweet talk the muslim world into loving america. bill: well, last debate, debate number two, the question was asked, who was it wh
World over. we got a glimpse of potential line of attack from paul ryan on the campaign trail. you remember when happened earlier this year when the president had the open mic moment with russian president dmitry medvedev. when you think your president is whispering to the president of russia sha, that he will have more flexibility on missile defense, begs the question, how much more does he want to give away? he already gave away technology that would have been online next year. reporter: both candidates in the debate are trying to move the needle just a little bit. that is what may make the difference between a win on november sixth and a loss. according to romney advisor, states like ohio said the race is tighter than a knife fight in a phone booth. bill. bill: not getting out of that thing. only one person survives. john roberts at lynn university in boca raton. martha in. martha: the race for the white house overall very