in case there was an opportunity for a souvenir. he didn t work with strategists on this or working with a campaign. that s what s kind of thrilling about this story. how much money was spent to try to elect mitt romney president? i don t know, half a billion and a billions. what happened? a working class bartender who was driven ultimately by his passions, values and beliefs because of a 67 clip on a longer tape i don t know if it totally brought romney down, but it made it more difficult for him to win the election. you can have all the money in the world, but one guy with a video camera standing up for the principle of sacrifice and putting himself in the line of fire at some risk. well, look at the impact he had. it s hard to find a corollary to this. the impact from his perspective. also, a lot of people who are
for a souvenir. he didn t work with strategists on this or working with a campaign. that s what s kind of thrilling about this story. how much money was spent to try to elect mitt romney president? i don t know, half a billion and a billions. what happened? a working class bartender who was driven ultimately by his passions, values and beliefs because of a 67 clip on a longer tape i don t know if it totally brought romney down, but it made it more difficult for him to win the election. you can have all the money in the world, but one guy with a video camera standing up for the principle of sacrifice and putting himself in the line of fire at some risk. well, look at the impact he had. it s hard to find a corollary to this. the impact from his perspective. also, a lot of people who are political pros say in a campaign, steve schmidt talks
that makes it more difficult. learning tonight it was him acting alone, he didn t go in with any intention of doing this. he planned on having the camera in case there was an opportunity for a souvenir. he didn t work with strategists on this or working with a campaign. that s what s kind of thrilling about this story. how much money was spent to try to elect mitt romney president? i don t know, half a billion and a billions. what happened? a working class bartender who was driven ultimately by his passions, values and beliefs because of a 67 clip on a longer tape i don t know if it totally brought romney down, but it made it more difficult for him to win the election. you can have all the money in the world, but one guy with a video camera standing up for the principle of sacrifice and putting himself in the line of fire at some risk. well, look at the impact he had. it s hard to find a corollary to this. the impact from his perspective. also, a lot of people who are political p
coming among women voters. women voters are critical in those northern virginia suburbs. and you know, we ve seen some polls indicating a narrowing of mitt romney s deficit among women. in our nbc/ wall street journal /marist polls late last week in both iowa and wisconsin, we showed romney down 18 points. he can t expect to carry virginia if he s down that much among women. but if he can narrow that gap somewhat and mitigate some of the loss of votes the that he has in the northern suburban part of the state, the more conservative parts of virginia could tip him over the finish line. all right. great stuff. john harwood, thank you so much. cnbc chief correspondent, chief washington correspondent, specifically, thank you so much. you bet. all righty, one politician hoping the gangam style dance, it s really the key to reaching some young voters. wait until you we tell you who it is. and the battle for young voters. the new poll with surprising
could tell because first he looked at moderator saying, help me, help me, help me, fact check him, or, he physically got out his seat to try and quiet romney down. what appalled me the most is when the two issues where americans died the president did not answer the question. he did not address fast and furious and he did not give us a straight answer on libya. that is five americans dead. you give it to obama, and cnn did, but you hook at the issues, like the economy and health care and taxes and deficit and leadership, he kills. romney wins on the issues how does that work? it tells you something that in a situation like we are in now, any plausible republican should be ahead by seven or eight points, and the reason that it is tough to beat an incumbent president is you have to have someone to take his place when romney went through