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their hostility on the road. >> now to the campaign trail. >> both campaigns are stepping up their attempt to win. >> most voters are women. >> he never did answer the question on equal pay. >> when these young women graduate i want them to receive e-mail wa equal pay for equal work. >> campaigning for president obama in ohio. >> we are coming back. >> the romney campaign is fighting back hard. >> this president has failed america's women. >> i'm not running for office and i don't have to say what i feel flt. >> i would love it for you to get my husband on the couch. >> mr. romney cancelled on the the man who is afraid to do ladies on the view. >> i think i get the last word. "the view" sent his wife to do
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>> we are not getting the last "the view" alone today where word just yet. >> in 19 days you can stand up whoopi goldberg forced mrs. and say we are going to move forward. romney to defend her son's ♪ ♪ refusal to participate in the wars that they support. >> with 19 days until election the romney men are in tonight's tonight, president obama showed rewrite with a very special word one reason voters consider him for taggert romney and his more likeable presidential desire to punch the president of candidate and that of course is the united states. his sense of humor. they spoke at the 67th annual al hi, i'm phil mickelson. smith dinner in new york city. a speaking invitation democrat and republican nominees have been accepting since 1960. they are not expected to get too serious here is the president earlier tonight. >> this is the third time that governor romney and i have met recently. as some of you may have noticed i had a lot more energy in our second debate.
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i felt really well rested after the nice long nap i had in the first debate. [ applause ] >> although it turns out i've been fortunate to win on golf's biggest stages. millions of americans focused in but when joint pain and stiffness on the second debate who didn't from psoriatic arthritis hit, focus in on the first debate and even the smallest things became difficult. i happen to be one of them. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i particularly want to apologize i talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, to chris matthews four years ago and stop joint damage. i gave him a thrill up his leg because enbrel, etanercept, suppresses your immune system, this time around i gave him a it may lower your ability to fight infections. stroke. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, of course there are a lot of your doctor should test you for tuberculosis things i learned from that ex r and discuss whether you've been to a region experien where certain fungal infections are common. experience. for example, i learned that there are worse things that can don't start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. happen for you on your tell your doctor if you're prone to infections, anniversary than forgetting to have cuts or sores, have had hepatitis b, buy a gift. have been treated for heart failure, >> that was the president
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or if, while on enbrel, you experience persistent fever, speaking just 30 minutes ago. mitt romney spoke before the bruising, bleeding, or paleness. president. >> of course only 19 days to go [ phil ] get back to the things that matter most. ask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. until the finish line. [ doctor ] enbrel, the number one biolog medicine campaign full of surprises the prescribed by rheumatologists. other night we had a very fun debate. candy crowley websias there. let me tell you what i do. first refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the debate. second, find the biggest available stroaw man and then attack it. big bird didn't see it coming. and then by the way, in the spirit of sesame street, the president's remarks are brought to you by the letter o and the number 16 trillion. >> crystal, i noticed that romney kept going after the president and i got the count and it was my sense that romney
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did more jokes about the president and president aimed three jokes at his republican opponent and mitt romney aimed eight at president in the room. >> it was a little uncomfortable. to watch. because it was over the line and he even brought cardinal dolan into the mix and it was almost like he took things into his i'm here today because i'm stump speech and put them all concerned about women's rights i together in a row. don't have to tell you the i found it to be off tone. dangers to row versus wade. there were funny lines in there but i found it to be off tone. >> i thought that he started off >> yes, men take women's issues fine. he had a good joke about being rich are. which is a good place to go. si seriously too. in the spotlight tonight the war and that is the way to make fun over women's votes. of mitt romney. but then as he kept aiming them, sharp tongued. at the president, it was becoming increasingly political, and it was a little, just off. this weekend romney cancelled his appearance on "the view" and
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it was discomforting to watch. >> it was a notch below a left it to his wife anne. >> mitt romney has always been a campaign speech. i got the sense that i was pro-life person. watching a roast. when a decision came across. >> explain that to me. rather than a speech where the person speaking was supposed to >> when a decision came across make jokes about himself. even in the clip you showed, you this desk to use embryos for got a sense of what the president was doing. he was the main focus of his jokes, he was also the main experimentation, he could not have that on his conscience. focus of mitt romney's jokes and >> both campaigns are airing new as crystal tweeted, saying this is starting to make me feel adds now on abortion right. >> you know, those adds saying uncomfortable saying, i thought mitt romney would ban all it was just me. abortions and contraceptions >> me too. >> and i was ready to go with seemed extreme. it turns out mitt romney doesn't him because i've seen republicans do great in that oppose contraception at all. room. >> mccain was funny. >> and let's take a look at this >> seeing this from mitt romney, joke about you didn't build then take a look at this. that, that mitt romney throws at >> if row v wade was overturned the president.
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>> special admiration for the congress passed a ban on all abortions would you sign it? apostle saint peter to whom it is said upon this rock i will >> i would be delighted to sign build my church. the story is inspiring when you that bill. >> trying to mislead us is consider he had sceptics that said if you got a church you wrong. but only if you vote for him. didn't build that. >> as some of you know i went to >> annamarine, this thing that school here in new york. i had a wonderful experience here. anne romney said, i don't get >> i used to love walking through central park loved to go it. mitt has always been a pro-life to old yankee stadium the house person and governored when he that ruth build. rap as pro-choice. although he really did not build but when a decision came across that. i hope everybody is aware of we we what did she say? that. text book example. >> i think she said you can't a sense of humor is when you can trust him. >> she could have made it so make jokes about yourself. >> you need a sense of humor for much shorter. >> what he said was he has always believed one thing but that. campaigned another way until it became convenient until he
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campaigned a different way. as we can sort of see in this that line is out of his campaign one clip he has changed his mind speech. >> and he turns it on himself to a few times on abortion. great effect i thought. i have to say of those two adds, >> chris matthews was not the i'm biased but the obama one only huge tv star who was seems more effective to me. mentioned by president obama. and it is something that is he was very proud to announce important. and endorsement he got from we can joke about the binder another tv star. full of women and that has gone let's hear that. >> and we are getting to that viral, but the most important time when folks are making up their minds. piece of news today was the just the other day honey boo boo gallop poll that came out showing that women believe that endorsed me. so that was a big relief. reproductive rights is the most ultimately though tonight is not important issue facing women in about the disagreements governor this election. romney and i may have. >> let's take a look at it right it is what we have in common now. this is female registered voters beginning with our unusual taken before the debate. and the most important issue in names. actually mitt is his middle this election 39% said abortion. name. i wish i could use my middle
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the next one down is jobs. name. >> i thought that was one of his 19%. great lines. 20% lower 18% health care is >> could romney ever make a joke behind it and that is associated about his first name being with jobs and so, karen finny, i willard. >> the thing that the president does is he pauses for a moment have heard talk about the number and does that little laugh to one issue for women is the himself. he sells it. >> he enjoys it. economy. >> right, the over thing on that >> let's watch more of the good poll is of those women, they joke teller up there. favor president obama over mitt >> it's been four years since i romney. the other issue in that poll is was last at the al smith dinner. that access to contraception. and i have to admit that things have changed since them. another huge issue for women. i have heard people say barack they favor obama that is why you are not as young as you used to be. clearly the romney campaign, there is that smile and that pep in your step. i say settle down joe, i'm they have been trying to walk back from the extremist trying to run a cabinet meeting here. >> sometimes it feels that this positions. race has dragged on forever. she told you he is this but
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campaigned that way. but we have only been running for two hours and 50 something on the binders, here is why i minutes. >> that was one of only three think it hit a nerve with women. jokes. >> he did a version of that last time around. which shows you as much as things change, they stay the he didn't actually answer to say it is about binders of women same. i'm hearing you are not qualified to be the president. i wish that joe biden wouldn't without having the courage to say, i wouldn't have signed it. have said that. he didn't have the gut to say >> in monday's debate is that, instead, they are using different because the topic is foreign policy. the language to trick women into spoiler alert. believing that he is not the extremist that he is. we got bin laden. >> let's listen to the man who >> it is all there. and he is making fun of himself would keep a president romney in and about how of ten he is going line on the issue of abortion let's listen to what rush said to mention that in the debate. that is the second time he did today about what he says something where a campaign democrats really think about women. message gets out there. >> all they think you do is have bin las den is dead. sex, want birth control pills
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applause. and want an abortion afterwards. the unemployment rate is 7.8% and then, somebody comes along that is all i got to say. and asks for resumes of >> his line was i don't have a joke for that. which turned out to be a great qualified women for meaningful joke. >> so who ever helped the jobs and they will make fun of president come up with his material deserves an a plus. you. i think the romney need to birth control pills and abortion understand the difference that is all they care about. you are not even people to them. between a roast and the al smith comment. >> i got to say the obama speech >> he cares more about what rush writers are the most talented. >> i'm not sure how much they limbaugh thinks than what women had to get from the outside. think. >> thank you both for joining me >> thank you both for joining me tonight. tonight. >> coming up, the war over the >> coming up, early voting is women's vote continues. upheld in ohio and the result >> anna marie cox and ohio is the republican secretary of state is trying to put new limits on early voting. still trying last minute voter they haven't given up on voter supression tricks and in the
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rewrite tonight. supression in ohio. and the romney men are all mitt romney's oldest son says he wants to take a swing for combat cowards and have refused calling his sfather a liar. to serve in the military. but one of them, one of them wants to throw a punch at the commander in chief. mitt romney's son and me in the romney men are all in the mitt romney's son and me in tonight's rewrite.er. rewrite tonight. ♪ ♪ ♪
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with 19 days to go in the election president obama is holding onto the leads. new nbc news wall street journal in tonight's rewrite another episode of romneymen. out this evening shows president obama with an 8-point lead. the men who never met a war they didn't like but never dreamed observing in the military that is virtually unchanged from themselves. he is even afraid of going on last month. and in wisconsin the president "the view". leads by six points. >> the view is fine. although the view is high risk 51-45% in paul ryan's home because the five women on it, state. only one is conservative and
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bill clinton had something to four are sharp tongued and not say about the debates in another conservative. battleground state today where whoopi goldberg particularly. the president leads ohio. >> listen very carefully to the he sent his wife in his place debate and to the second debate. and thanks to whoopi goldberg the legend of romneymen came up. and mr. romney says i'm going to >> as first lady if you get the job, it is going to entail a lot do all this. i'm going to just cut taxes for of those things. the middle class i'm not as one of those things is talking to the mothers whose interested inri rich people the children are coming home in bags will pay the same percentage we from wars. i believe your religion doesn't pay now. he thinks we are dumb. allow you to go fight? >> no, that is not collect. if you cut everyone else's taxes >> we have many, many members of and we stay the same it means we our faith who are serving in the armed services? >> okay. um. >> and the funny part of that is pay the same. >> the future is rarely a tide what exactly what does anne rushing in. it is often a slow march inch by romney find funny? inch day after long day and i nothing.
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that is what she and her husband believe we are in the midst of do when they are very, very those long days right now. nervous in public. and i'm here because i believe when they don't like where the president obama feels those days conversation is going. in his bones for all 100% of us. well let's see where the conversation went. >> well, i say that, because vice president biden took the when i read about your husband. campaign in nevada today. what i read is that the reason >> as the president said the day that he didn't serve in vietnam after the debate, romney's plans was because it was against the were sketchy. religion. >> no, that is not correct. i think they were etch asketchy. he was serving his mission. and my five sons have also served missions. >> paul ryan was in florida none served in the military. today. >> if the president can't fix but i have one son that feels that he is giving back to his washington from the inside, if the middle class has been buried country where he is now a doctor for the last four years and the and taking care of veterans. economy is not fixed then it is time we change presidents and we find different ways elect mitt romney the next president of the united states. observing. and my five boys did not serve
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in the military. but they did serve missions. tonight the forecast is that the what kind of missions, cia president will win 287 electoral missions. anne romney just used the phrase college votes. servi serve missions three times without saying what they were. ari, the national polls are why didn't she say religious or different on who has what lead mormon missions. by how much. but it is the battleground they go out into the world and try to convert people into states. that lead is impressive. and there is a sizable lead in mormonism. ohio and i'm aware of what you that is what he was doing on a beach in france when hundreds of nailed in your rewrite the other thousands of men his age were night. >> tell me. being shot at in vietnam. >> what should these undecided voters have so much power? mitt and annes sons each reached >> there is a funny thing happening. it is moving to a mobilization military age during wartime and each of them like their father model. and what we are seeing now is, before them refused to even consider serving in the wars of and we are seeing mobilization their era that they support. they have supporsed those wars
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m mez sages to the base. they are saying you have to get not serving in wars. you don't support serving in people excited. we are seeing a bullish wars. not serving in a war that you attitude. don't support that is a and they don't need to focus as perfectly honorable choice. much on persuading. millions of americans have made they are kicking into a gotv that choice. mode now. during vietnam mitt romney's >> let's take a look at war, men were forced to serve something put out today. new video with sara silverman through the craft whether they supported the draft or not. a war that mitt romney did evade which is about getting out the vote. by using a draft deferment made >> in college mitt romney was so poor at harvard he had to sell stocks to get by. did you have to sell stocks to only by mormon men. get by in college liz? >> no, i sold plasma in college. anne romney is right serving in >> liz, you should have borrowed the military is not against the family religion. from your parents or from the but young mormon men were allo bank. >> this whole thing is that mit allowed to use a deferment to says corporations are people. >> the banks aren't bad they ar. avoid being killed in vietnam
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and avoid being one of the >> people for get. 58,000 men in vietnam. the banks don't toss families not all mormon med made mitt out of their homes they have to romney's choice and some did hall the cribs and swingsets to the dump it is a lot. their missionary service for >> yeah, it can [ bleep ] with their weekend. their church and served in vietnam. brave, mormon men were killed in >> sara silverman and the daily show creator liz winstead. vietnam. while mitt romney was sitting out the war in france. jean robinson how much stock did serving in war is not against you have to cash in when you the romney family reloiigioun b were in college. i can't finish the joke? >> i would have to say all of it is against the romney family none. >> all you know is you have no tradition of safely and always pursuing self interest. stock left when you finish college, right? mitt romney's father george did >> exactly. >> but, that is targeted for not serve in the war of his era world war ii and george romney's college turnout and getting that student vote out there. father never joined the milt and we are getting down to the because he spent much of his point now where this is going to be about turnout? life in mexico because they were
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>> right. >> you see the polls and hiding out from the enforcement different pollsters do the of the laws of poligamy. likely voter screens. this is about creating likely voters. if you can make your voters likely to go to the polls, if you can get them there in miles park romney fled the greater numbers than you win. country, never considered and the obama campaign has joining the military of a worked on this for years now. country whose laws he found so they have been working on this personally oppressive. since romney men have no idea get out the vote effort. what the weight of service feels >> there will be bad performance like, mitt romney was actually in a debate or bad poll numbers able to say this. he was asked how many of your for one side of the other. how does a campaign counter some sons are currently serving in the military? >> one of the ways my sons are of these issues that may depress showing support for our great the turnout? >> one thing the obama campaign has that we don't talk about country are helping is get me that much because we don't see it, is they have amazing elected because they think i will be a great president.
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ratings. if the obama campaign e-mail list was a television channel, >> that continues to intrigue in choiring reporters. it would have more viewers than >> all of you served your church all three cable network channels going on missions. did you ever consider serving combined. they say it has gotten larger your country by putting on a and the numbers show that. uniform? >> i think we can look at the everyone thinks about michelle guys who serve and say that is saying hey, lawrence can you the biggest sacrifice. give five more dollars, what we it is nothing that any of us did but we look to those guys with a are going to see is direct tremendous amount of respect. messaging through those e-mails >> do you regret that you never and keeping people moat rated. served? >> what is the campaign have to >> i look at my family and i spepd a lot of tie time at the do in terms of bucking up not va hospital. i get to work with vets who have only their supporters but made great sacrifices for this everybody when they start to see country and i look at their these national polls not going their way? lives and hopefully i get to >> the surrogates hit the air serve them a little bit too. >> notice that romne men did not waves and they get out the counter mess saage and they hitu care answer the question that with the e-mails an text was asked. did yyou ever consider serving
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messages for -- which is the way your country by putting on a to communicate with younger uniform and do you regret it. voters that are designed to buck and the romney men answer s are people up and create the exci you kidding me? excitement and they are working we are afraid observing in the the neighborhoods. military. everyone of us. they come around in northern and that is before we found out how much it pays. virginia and virginia thinki be the consistent combat cowardis big swing state every weekend. of romneymen makes today's >> and in the words of rob r threat of physical violence all the more surprising. mitt romney's oldest son was the eeflt reiner they are running for president of ohio. keep your eye on ohio. guest of honor on a north >> coming up. carolina radio show yesterday. ohio's secretary of state. after getting shot down in the united states supreme court is now trying to get around that what is it like for you to hear court's ruling and still has the president of the united some shenanigans scheduled for states call your dad a liar? how do you react to that?
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the early voting turn out. >> you want to jump out and rush it turns out that the romney down and take a swing at him. family considers sna s national >> but also because this is the service and the only national nature of the process. service worth doing president of we signed up for it, we got to the united states nothing less will do for members of the sit there and take the punches romney family that is coming upr and send it back the weather way. >> okay taggert let's have a talk. when i hear you taking a swing. why do i get the feeling that you have never actually taken a punch or thrown a punch. i didn't have that luxury in boston but in your rich boston life, with your father filling $100 million trust fund for you. i don't know. i get the feeling that things were different for you. now, i know you've got a lot a
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the obama re-election campaign won a huge victory this week when the united states supreme court ruled against efforts to prevent early voting in ohio. in 2008 more than 100,000 voters cast their ballots in three days. ohio's republican secretary of state john husted issued a
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directive ordering polling places to open but with more limited hours. on sunday november 4th, the polls will be open from 1:00 to 5:00. on monday the day before election day, the polls will open at 8:00 am and be forced to close. this. >> john this is in your face to the supreme court. saying you can make me keep them open, early voting appeals to younger voters, people who have l less thim in the workday. why is this so important. ohio, where do you vote when you voterly. you go to the elections office. so they go that appeals to
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democrats. it is an end aaround the supreme court and i think it has to be classed at voter supression. >> what should the turnout machine do in reaction to this? >> they are rare cranking up th vote. they plan to flood those polls on the line. in 2008 there were two and a half hourlong lines and they understand that 145,000 votes were cast in the last three days. they are worrying because they want to shut that down. >> it was ohio that gave us a second term a flip of 60 thous and votes would have changed it
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all. ken blackwell had the same reputation. there are groups through the vote. they are tea party affiliated groups that went good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" from new york. 19 days until the 2012 election. mitt romney's son, tag, wants to take a swing at the president of the united states. the disrespect keeps coming. tonight we'll show you who should really be in a fighting mood. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> what is it like for you to
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