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Virginia. neck and neck. obama 46. romney 44. chuck? the one thing i ve heard on this poll is democrats are arguing that northern virginia was under represented in the poll. that said, i mean we re talking a difference of a point or two. if you will. and it s sort of in the range of what you hear where virginia is anywhere from two to five points so the number was not surprising. chuck todd, david gregory, you look at all of these polls and, david, look at the fact, in ohio, even the romney people understand they re down six, seven, eight points. and they re down right now in north carolina, a state they were ahead in and not so long ago. it makes you think that newt gingrich is right, mitt romney needs to turn in a great performance in the first debate, or else the window starts closing. this is very clear. you get several big opportunities as a candidate to make your mark. ....
Campaigning next week, obama 51. r romney 44. chuck, why don t you break those down for us? look at north carolina and nevada, the two places that economically are doing worse probably than any of the other battleground states. so if romney s economic message is going to play anywhere it s there. he should feel given how bad his last ten days were that the fact that he is only basically in the margin of error in those two states is good news for him if you will if you can look at it that way. notice that the president s job rating in both of those states, lower than his number. he sits at 47 in north carolina, 48 in nevada. then new hampshire is acting like the rest of the battlegrounds we ve seen and that s got to be a little disappointing to romney since he spent so much time in new hampshire but frankly that one didn t surprise me. the surprising one to me was nevada that it was close. i expected there to be a little more of a gap there. suffolk university poll out late last nig ....
Martha: nice to see you. bill: the president is shown in the lead on another big issue. gallop poll just released asked hundreds of voters who they trust on medicare. voters trust the president, romney 44%. martha: early voting by mail is already underway in two dozen states. this is not lost on the campaigns, i assure you and in places ike idaho and south dakota folks can even vote early in person. one-third of americans are expected to take advantage of early voting. a lot of seniors tend to like to vote early as well and that may be a factor for all that early voting. bill: one of the big questions in the campaign, governor romney releasing his 2011 tax return a summary of what he paid in taxes over the last two decades. who can forget the democratic lead tere taking the floor saying he had a good source saying the governor had not paid ....
and you just watch it and shake your head. it s been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isn t doing so well is because of those last two debates. don t you think? for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. we can t beat the money power romney himself. we can t beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prepared to go out and prepared to stand for conservatism and prepared to tell the truth and we need to run a big truth campaign that beats the big lie campaign. jim acosta is following the romney campaign. let s take a peek and share the video of mitt romney joking with reporters on the campaign flight this morning, throwing bags of chips around, carrying a birthday cake. the images of a confident man. what are his people saying he needs to do as we show the pictures now? can t hear his ....
Place rick santorum. governor romney is in the driver s seat and he knows it. he not only wasted government money he made it more difficult for prep news and innovators to come one new ideas in the future. this president doesn t understand how this economy works. it s time to get a president who does. [ applause ] this election, this election is about the soul of america, folks. let s crunch these dramatic numbers and their big meaning with time deputy washington bureau chief, michael crowley. let s start here in new hampshire before the south carolina numbers. the wmur poll out, romney 44, ron paul, 20, santorum and gingrich at 8%, is the goal in these big weekend debate, i can t assume they are going to beat him, how low do they need to knock romney down? a peg or two from where he is now the remarkable thing, john, they need to lift themselves up. ....