Well. I thought it was a really interesting speech. It s a rich text as we might say in a college seminar. Yes, you re not going to be tuning in you re going to be listening on your ifv as you re walking out. All of you out there, don t go any where. Elon musk is hiring everywhere. Arizona, nevada, mainly those swing states because the job is to canvas door to door for donald trump. Let me clarify. Technically it isn t elon musk who is hiring here. It s the super pack mr. Musk created and the one he funds and it s called the america pack. And technically this pack is not canvassing for donald trump. They re just canvassing door to door to convince people to vote for donald trump on their own accord. If those sound like meaningless technicalities that because they are. When you remove the layer that a super pack magically provides the reality here is that elon musk through his super pack is spending millions of dollars to do the campaign s door knocking for them. While the trump campaig
both for american politics and for the democratic party. what is your big lesson for the future of the democratic party? my biggest frustration, if you want to know what i went to bed with every night last year, i couldn t help enough candidates in states. i couldn t send posters to nonbattleground states. i saw someone today criticize me for sending money to chicago. i sent money to chicago because i wanted to help tammy duckworth. i sent money to my home state of louisiana because we had elections. i raise money and i went out and told state parties i want to help you. i don t want any state, whether you live in alaska or my home state in louisiana to go without resources and try to win elections. the democratic party stood up and gave money not just to the top of the ticket but they gave money to all of those delegate races. i think you can do her name is danika rome. i believe she ll be the first
political scientists will study that for years on end. the two campaigns continue to battle over the perception of which one of them actually is winning and has the momentum. today new quinnipiac/ new york times /cbs polls has the president up five points in ohio and then they have florida and virginia in a dead heat with the president up by one point in florida and two points in virginia. then you look at the romney mini surge in the nonbattleground states, maybe romney does have some momentum. think minnesota, michigan and pennsylvania. but then you have to look at the campaign body language and it s hard not to con chewed that r romney s campaign is acting as if they believe they are behind at least when it comes to the state of ohio. for starters, the romney campaign likely would not be airing this controversial jeep ad if they believe they were winning. both chrysler and gm are firing back at romney. chrysler ceo said in a statement jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in
romney s direction in the nonbattleground states. what does that mean? well, that s why so many people believe that there is a possibility for that split between the popular vote and the battlegrounds. it s a possibility, frankly, though, it is not a probability. all right, hurricane sandy is forcing wall street to shut down today. the first time in 27 years that the new york stock exchange has been closed due to weather. cnbc s becky quick is here for the market rundown. it s kind of surprising. did that happen because they shut down the subway and public transportation? you know, that was the first of many stages that went through it. wall street is down very close to zone a, which has been a mandatory evacuation area. it is not in zone a, but there was concern they couldn t get people there to the floor. that s why the nyse said that. then the nasdaq said they would not be doing electronic trade because it required people to get to different trading floors to make sure there
midwest. and david, that s where they feel like they have to pick off a couple of states. not just ohio. ohio plus something else. it s interesting, as i talked to the romney campaign at the etched of the week, they were emphasizing the momentum argument. they feel the debates gave him a second look in such a way that he can carry that through election day. the obama folks say look at the electoral map. we could be in for quite a finish here, if they re both right. they could be both right. we ve talked about the popular vote thing. we ve seen polling out today. if you look at the president s lead, for instance, on the west coast in california the lead has been cut in half. i ve done some math, can you see where mitt romney makes up some six to eight million votes. john mccain lost by ten million votes, he could pick up a whole bunch of votes in the nonbattleground states. let s go to our battleground map. i ll show you how easy it is. we have the president winning in virginia, w