a commanding 30-point lead in new hampshire, take a look at iowa, a statistical dead heat, not with rick perry, but herman cain. and when you poll just the tea party, who make up half of all likely caucus-goers in iowa, cain surges past romney, 31%-15%. joining me, nbc news deputy political director mark murray. mark, good morning. i guess for starters, the surprise isn't that the tea party is showing its muscle in iowa, it's that it's not putting that muscle behind, say a rick perry or michele bachmann. >> that's right. cain is one of the big highlights in this poll, that he's running neck and neck with mitt romney in iowa. and what's really interesting is how cain is being fueled by the tea party. among tea party supporters, cain has a 2-1 lead over mitt romney. and among tea party supporters who strongly -- republicans who strongly support the tea party, it's 41% cain, 7% mitt romney. so, you do see that there is a

very big opening on the tea party side as far as somebody to make a move in iowa. it's important to note that mitt romney's never been favored in iowa. he hasn't done much campaigning there, but this poll does show that there is an opening for someone to grab that tea party -- >> but not like herman cain, right? >> well, that is true. and not only is herman cain in second place in this poll, but rick perry is tied for fourth place, and that's why tonight's debate is almost a very big moment for the texas governor. >> obviously, things looking a lot better for mitt romney in new hampshire, in his backyard, essentially. his lead nearly double the combined total of his two closest rivals, cain and ron paul. so, at tonight's debate at dartmouth college, officials have moved cain center stage and have pushed perry off to the side. how important is that? >> well, it's important for rick perry. it shows the toll that the last few debates took on him. he was the tea party darling just about a month and a half ago. he was soaring in the polls.

in fact, he was in the 30s or 40s that you're seeing. he was just -- he looked like he was the person to beat in the republican race, and now he's crashed back down to earth and he needs a strong debate performance tonight to get back there. he raised some $17 million in the third quarter. he's going to have plenty of money to withstand a long primary fight. it's just a question of whether he begins to coalesce and get the tea party supporters and conservatives behind him and show he's the alternative to mitt romney. >> also in this poll, the news isn't so great for the president, either, under water in both iowa and new hampshire. so, we got some reaction on the "today" show from david plouffe this morning. let's take a listen. >> the election next year will be a choice between the president's policy, which is about rebuilding security for the middle class, versus republican policies, and you'll see that on the stage tonight in the republican debate in new hampshire. these basically would build a bridge back to the recession, let wall street write their own rules, cut taxes for the wealthiest.

>> that has been the administration's talking point, but is there any indication at all that that message is resonating with voters? >> short term, no. they're looking at the long term, to be able to note they don't face re-election with the voters for another 13 months, and they are hoping that there is a very long republican primary that takes attention away from them and gives them a little bit of breathing room, chris. >> all right. mark murray, always good to see you. thank you. >> thanks. >> i want to bring in msnbc policy analyst ezra klein now. ezra, another interesting part of this poll found that voters in iowa and new hampshire believe that electability and experience are less important than the candidate who shares their values. so, what might that mean for mitt romney? >> it means nothing good for him, right? but i'm not sure it's actually true, all right? everybody wants a candidate who shares their values and everybody wants a candidate who's electable, and voters tend to have an interesting way of telling themselves that two things are the same. so, people getting behind herman cain don't think he's

unelectable, they think herman cain shares their values, and herman cain in sharing their values is also electable to a broad swath of the country. he's not a politician, he's an outsider. so i wouldn't look too deeply into the distinctions, because my sense is it collapses when voters become supportive of a candidate. >> it does point to a couple places where the other republican candidates think they can hit mitt romney. that's on social issues. on things like abortion and gay rights, where he has changed his position, even though tonight's debate is about the economy, do you think they'll find a way to work that in? >> we'll see. i mean, i know "the washington post" is one of the folks putting on the debate. i know our moderators are interested in keeping it tightly tied to the economy, but presidential candidates are fairly good at sneaking their attack lines in. but as you say, there is a very rich line of attacks that seem to be levied against mitt romney and others have done it effectively. in t was done effective in '08, by ted kennedy also when he ran against mitt romney.

so it's been a fascinating thing to watch the other republican presidential contenders fail to lay a glove on him, but that feels a little bit -- romney's invincibility feels a little bit like a bubble to me, which doesn't say he's not the front-runner and the ultimate likely nominee. it just means it's not going to be effectively true that nobody is able to deliver an attack line against him when a microphone is turned on nearby. that doesn't seem like a sustainable equilibrium. >> well, you had a headline today, and we just heard mark allude to it, how important this might be for rick perry tonight. give us your sense of it. how big a deal is this debate tonight for him? >> it seems like a very big deal. i actually think the republican debates have been unusually important. it's hard to recall a recent primary in which the debates have seemed to do so much to the front-runner and destroy the other contenders. perry's bubble, when he came in, he seemed invincible, and within a couple of weeks, a couple of debates, and it seemed almost entirely driven by debate performance, he completely collapsed. that and a couple gaffs on the

campaign trail. mitt romney, meanwhile, a lot of his energy right now is coming from the debates, so a good performance from perry? i don't want to say it could turn things around, but it could certainly help him out. it's important to realize there's a while before the primary voting gets under way and it seems plausible to me that perry will mount a comeback, because i know herman cain is doing well, but perry remains an unusually plausible or notably plausible candidate as opposed to mitt romney, where in the long run, herman cain or ma michele bachmann isn't. >> and he's continuing to raise impressive amounts of money. >> right. >> numbers aren't great in the poll for obama in those two battleground states. he won them both in 2008. he is tied with romney in iowa, would lose to romney in new hampshire. how worried does the white house get into stuff like this? is this a window into the rest of the country? >> i don't think they're worried about this poll particularly, but i think they are worried about their overall standing.

mitt romney has basically taken up residence in new hampshire right now, criss-crossing the state, shaking the hand of everybody he can come across, so it's not surprised his poll numbers in the state are pretty good. i thought mark put it nicely, the administration has a while until they face re-election, and that's the period they're worried about. while the republican primary's going on, those polls are not going to be very reflective, particularly in the primary states where republicans are focusing and democrats are not really in yet why it comes down to a choice, when you see the numbers about the number of people who think america's on the wrong track or who aren't judging the president's job performance favorably, those are the numbers they're worried about because those are the numbers that have a national significance. >> ezra klein, thank you so much, ezra. >> thank you. with so many people out of work, what are some of the things you should be doing to keep your job? jobs expert adrian graham joins us with great advice coming up in our next half hour. in just minutes, president obama heads to pittsburgh to push for his jobs bill, which appears to be headed for defeat in a test vote in the senate today. so, what would be plan b?

>> piece by piece, i mean, each of these pieces has broad support among the american people. obviously, the payroll tax cut, which republicans have always supported. it's the kind of thing that they would often propose to get jobs going. but infrastructure has broad support with the american people and not laying off teachers. >> nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins us now. so, kelly, when can we expect a vote? >> reporter: well, senate aides are telling us, chris that we should see this happen at about 6:15 tonight, and there may be a lot of drama around it, but it appears democrats don't have the votes, but they've got to take this important step to get to that next phase that senator chuck schumer was just talking about. but interestingly, chris, house republicans are saying that that is the idea that they were putting forward just weeks ago, meaning taking the president's jobs bill, breaking it into pieces, and voting on each of

those various things that they might find agreement on, instead of doing a big, sweeping package. so, today, house republican aides are saying that senate democrats are just pretending to be fighting republican intransigents, when they say they've been wanting to break it into parts all along. so, both sides are trying to get the upper hand on this. jobs will be the big discussion, but how they get anything done is really the debate now. that big vote tonight will at least be an important step forward. and as you know, chris, it is an indication that the president's original plan did not have support, because what they will actually take that initial vote on tonight includes the millionaires tax, which would be a way to pay for the jobs plan. the president had had a much more broader set of taxes that he was putting forward. chris? >> nbc's kelly o'donnell. thank you. well, here's another way to get at the jobless rate. there are 3.2 million job openings in america right now. fill them and unemployment could go down by more than a full

point. so, what's the problem? well, cnbc's brian sullivan has been looking into it. what'd you find out, brian? >> you know, chris, it's an interesting story and one that's not often told, i think, around the job market. listen, we have 14-plus million unemployed people, millions more underemployed, but according to the government, there were 3.2 million open jobs as of the last data point during the summer. this is nothing new. to be fair, the last few years, we've had about this many million, but you think why in the world do we have 3.2 million open jobs and 14 million unemployed? so, we've been digging into that on cnbc. we spoke to a number of companies, both small, medium and large, and many of them point to the same thing. they say lack of skills. we've talked to the ceo of manufacture cummins, of seemens, a german company with thousands of employees here, air power systems, a number of different companies that make stuff here, and they've said we have job openings that we simply can't fill because the people that are coming don't have the skills that we need.

in fact, truck drivers. you know, you can't go an hour listening to the radio and not hear a company advertising for drivers, with signing bonuses. so, i think it begs the question of how do we get the skills back? and my take in the piece i wrote that you're referencing is basically this -- companies have to step up. you know, they talk about all these trillions in cash they have. don't look for the government to do these retraining programs. if you want workers, corporate america, train them yourself. train, don't complain is kind of what we're calling it here on cnbc. >> seems like a good investment for their dollar, too, boy. brian sullivan, interesting, interesting article. i'm not surprised you're getting a lot of reaction. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> and we mentioned this, that the president is going to be talking about jobs. he's heading to pittsburgh, an area, of course, that has been so hard hit, all of pennsylvania, the industrial midwest, by the closing of so many manufacturing plants. and the ones that are open, as we've heard indicated, we've heard from any number of

employers the difficulty they have in finding the workers with the skills. so, there is the president getting on air force one. he'll be heading to pittsburgh for his job push in advance of that vote in the senate a little bit later today. some new investigative moves in the case of baby lisa, the 10-month-old little girl from missouri who's been missing for more than a week now. at least four local tv stations have been subpoenaed, ordered to turn over raw footage of interviews with the baby's family and neighbors. meantime, neighbors say the fbi is questioning them about a homeless man who worked as a handyman in the area. >> we just know that he's somebody that frequents the area and we haven't talked to him yet. so i don't want people to read a whole lot more into that. the bottom line is, it's a 10-month-old. somebody had something to do with it. if it were a toddler, there is the remote possibility that the child could have just walked away. that's not possible in this case, we're convinced. >> investigators are following up on leads from at least 22 states. they say there are no formal

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mitt romney has a new line he's using to criticize the president on the economy, "where's waldo?" >> the obama economy is a "where's waldo" economy. it is -- finding a job, a good-paying job in this economy is harder than finding waldo in one of his books. >> sarah palin's everyman hero, joe the plumber, has filed papers to run for congress. his real name, samuel joseph rizle bocker. he's running as a republican in democrat dennis kucinich's district in ohio. meantime, scott walker dems are trying to give him the boot and vote him out of office. his attempt to stop collective

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and they have nothing in common at all with the protests that were being put forward -- or the demonstrations, you might say, that were put forward by the tea party. >> you provide hope instead of what this president has done, which in many respects is, you could argue, has incited this with the class warfare rhetoric. >> well, in boston, police arrested 129 people who refused to leave a newly renovated park. this morning, occupy wall street protesters in new york will hold a millionaires march, walking past the homes of some of the big apple's wealthiest. joining me now is john carlos, an iconic figure from the civil rights movement, when he did the black power salute on the medal stand in the 1968 olympics, inciting a controversy that would change his life. his new book is "the john carlos story." it's good to have you here. thank you so much. >> i'm honored to be here. >> you were down there last night with the occupy wall street folks, and you said "i am you." what did you mean by that? >> absolutely. i mean, the same causes that they're fighting for today, 43

years later, the vision that we had back 43 years ago, you know, in terms of being concerned about social justice for all people, making sure that we have an opportunity to earn a good day's pay for a good day's work, to make sure that we'll be able to obtain an education, not to overrun costs of education today. concern about individuals going to school who have received degrees, no jobs to be found, and at the same time, still getting letters in the mail looking for their student loan that they had to go to school. we're concerned also about the law enforcement that's out there because they have a mandate to do their job, but yet, still, we have to make it and take into account for all these individuals that's demonstrating that law enforcement is on the edge, too. their houses are being taken away and jobs are limited as well. so, we are all in this together. i've seen many people walk by last night and took a very serious look at what was going on. >> well, what did you think about the protesters themselves? you're not the first well-known person to go down there --

michael moore, kanye west and russell simmons were just down there. what was your impression of the folks who were down there? >> well, my impression is that many of these individuals are saying enough is enough. they're saying that you've taken our liberties away, you're taking our standard of life away. those individuals that's been making money forever, continue to make money while we're in this inflationary time. right now they're still making an enormous amount of money. but relative to spreading the money out on the table and say we're trying to help social programs or what have you, there is no concern and no involvement in that. there is no investment back into the united states. if you sit back and think about those so-called fat cats, they've made their money on the backs of these individuals that's losing out today, and these young kids that's out there today, all of those kids that's out there are not just kids of poor families. many of their families are well to do and they're actually telling their families that, hey, we're concerned about all people, not just what's happening in our household. >> you know what struck me in looking at your book, "the john carlos story," as you say that there are parallels that can be

drawn. i remember so vividly 1968, when you stood on that medal stand and the incredible controversy that it ignited and the price that you've paid, which is described in this book. do you feel much like then, the '60s, that we're in another defining moment? >> absolutely. you know, in the '60s, we had more concerns about the race relations, to now we have more concerns about the economic status of all people in terms of whether you're going to be able to survive the next day, whether you'll be able to support your family the next day. all people should be concerned about the wellbeing in this country. if we continue to let things go the way they're going now, the bottom is going to fall out. >> well, i have to say that i thought i knew a lot about your story, but we learned so much more. it is called "the john carlos story," and it's a pleasure to meet you and a pleasure to have you here. >> the pleasure's mine. it's an honor to be here. >> thank you so much. the first 100 games of the nba season, two weeks worth, have now officially been canceled, and the rest of the season is in jeopardy. more than seven hours of

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southeast along with that moisture flowing into areas of the mid-atlantic region. so, we've got a few showers here around 95 and 85 and 81, but again, it's not going to be a tremendous amount of wet weather, maybe some convective bursts here. not a bad day across the northeast, a cooler day for you today in new york, 72 for the high today. across the middle of the country, very warm in your northern plains. 79, that's well above average in minneapolis. not too bad in texas. scattered showers in the northwest and warm in the southwest, getting a lot warmer later in the week, probably about 100 in phoenix by friday. this is hurricane jova. it's a major hurricane coming into the southwest corner of mexico, probably as a category 2, maybe a category 3. could be catastrophic wind, rain and maybe some coastal flooding as well through the rest of today, and that will continue for the next few days as it slowly moves along towards the north. chris, back to you. >> all right, carl, thank you. now here's a look at other stories people are talking about right now. she didn't win the chicago marathon, but amber miller did end the day with something even better. just hours after crossing the

finish line, the 38-weeks-pregnant miller gave birth to a baby girl. and this isn't the first marathon she ran during her pregnancy. >> this was actually my eighth marathon, my third marathon pregnant. i've been running marathons for many years, so coming in to, you know, pregnancy, it was very normal for me to be running this many miles a week. >> and as you can see, amber and baby june are both doing well. the so-called underwear bomber charged with trying to blow up a plane on christmas of 2009 is going on trial today in detroit. he's representing himself, but he will have a lawyer with him to make sure things don't go completely off the rails. nbc's jay gray joins me now from detroit. jay, good morning to you. do we know anything about what the defense is going to say? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, chris. they haven't even got on the rails at this point. a slight delay in starting this trial. yeah, it looks like the defense will center on a couple of key ideas. first of all, that this was not an attempt to kill anyone, that he did not have enough

explosives hidden in his underwear to do that, to bring down the plane. instead, he was just trying to draw attention to his extremist beliefs and his cause. and it looks like that that is the tact that his defense team will pursue. we have learned that he will not make the opening statement this morning, that that will fall to his standby lawyer, though he will take an active role in his defense, we are told, a defense that continues to build as they enter this trial. so, it will be interesting to see what happens. again, a slight delay this morning as they discuss strategy. apparently, he and his standby attorney waiting to begin things here. >> nbc's jay gray in detroit for us. thank you, jay. settling scores. hank williams jr. fired back after he gets canned from espn's "monday night football." his new tune when we go "down to the wire" in 20. well, the senate is poised to vote on president obama's jobs bill which includes a 5% tax increase on the wealthy. just in time, salon.com has surveyed the super rich and most

don't agree with billionaire investor warren buffett's buffett rule. >> if you go back 15 years, the average income of about 400 top people was around $45 million. now it grew, the most recent figures, to $350 million. that is incredible, and it's nothing like's happened to the risk of the world. so, while they've gotten ungodly richer, the rate has gone down 11 points. that is a big tilt in the world, and i would go after the very rich. >> salon.com's peter finikero joins us now. you spent a full week, canvassed the 400 wealthiest people in america. what were the results? >> well, only eight people out of the entire 400 responded with a yes, but the important thing to remember is that that doesn't mean that 392 people said no. we heard back from a few others who were equivocating. only one -- >> equivocating, like maybe yes, maybe no? >> one was, it's not that simple. a few others were saying, you know, i'm fine with it under certain conditions, if we cut

spending. bernie markus, who is the founder of home depot, he said that he thought that he was okay with tax increases as long as we cut spending, which is the number one evil in government. >> so, most of them didn't respond. but for example, 29/29 ceo todd wagner likened it to a black hole. he is concerned about how the money was going to be spent. did you get many who took the time to write to say no, and here's why? >> well, we only got one no, and that was charles koch, but -- >> an unequivocal no? >> that was an unequivocal no. charles koch said that, you know, he thought his money could be better spent putting it into his business, non profits, that the government didn't know how to spend it. >> all right, so, tell me more about the process, because i think it's fass nacinatinfascin. you e-mailed all these folks? >> we called, e-mailed, we cast a wide net. we wanted to get it out there, at least get them an opportunity

to respond. you cast a wide net and some of them respond and some of those were good answers. >> were you surprised eight? >> you know -- >> i wonder what you were expecting or if you had any idea? >> it's sort of the reason we did it in the first place. if you look back to the buffett column, he was saying a lot of my billionaire friends i think would agree with me, and we thought that needed to be tested, so that's why we did it in the first place and i think we were expecting a lot of people were going to be withholding, but the thing is, it's an important question to be asked, because there's a debate happening and people on the right are saying this is a job-killer, this is going to hurt the economy. but the only people who know how this tax increase would affect the economy are the people who are going to be taxed themselves. >> all right, peter finicchero. people can read the article at salon.com. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> the price of an american culinary classic, the good old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, is going through the roof! cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. say it isn't so! pb&j is like a college cheap

staple. >> it really is. blame it on the weather, chris. we've seen another hot and dry summer and it's devastated this year's peanut crop, sending prices skyrocketing. for example, wholesale prices for big-selling jiff going up 30% starting in november. peter pan will raise prices as much as 24%, and skippy wouldn't comment on its plans, but some report that all brands are 30% to 35% higher than a year ago. what really hurts here, chris, is that while prices of food consumed at home, in general, broadly are up about 6% versus a year ago, the increase that we're seeing in peanut butter is just so much more. >> i eat peanut butter every single day. you don't believe me, do you, don? peanut butter and banana sandwich for breakfast, but -- >> ooh. >> no? let's talk about facebook, a couple new developments, finally an app for the ipad. >> and if you're a user, you may know facebook's website was not really built for a touch-screen

device and navigating facebook on an ipad has been rather difficult. but now facebook has announced its new ipad app with larger buttons for those navigating with so-called fat fingers, and you'll also be able to take photos or high-definition video from within the app. we're not done with facebook news, because walmart is also aiming to, i don't know, recreate the feel of a local store for its more than 9 million facebook fans. the retailer now offers facebook pages specifically tailored for each of its more than 3,500 locations. so essentially, you can get information on whatever new products are out from walmart, events at walmart or discount offers. so, it just goes to show how companies are using facebook to develop a deeper relationship with its shoppers, and hopefully, extracting sales from it as well. >> 9 million facebook fans. unbelievable. mandy drury, thank you. right now, president obama is heading to pittsburgh to push for his jobs bill and to accept recommendations from his jobs advisory panel. one recent report shows that employers announced nearly

116,000 job cuts last month. that's more than double the number in august. jobs expert adrian graham is here with some advice on how you can make sure to stay off the chopping block. she is the founder and ceo of the jobs networking site empowerme.org. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> okay, for the folks who still have a job, you say we need to network our butt off. what do you mean by that? >> yes. network your butt off. that means keeping your contacts straight, keeping your contacts in line and always keep in touch with them whenever you're not looking for a job, so that way when you do find yourself looking, you'll already have that relationship established and won't feel like you're begging or bothering them. >> i think a lot of people figure, if i've got a job, they don't go to network until the situation gets desperate, so great advice. next, you say create your own advisory board. what do you mean by that? >> yes. i'm a big advocate of that. a lot of people think that companies are the only ones that can have advisory boards, but you can have an advisory board,

that. that would consist of local recruiters who specialize in your area of expertise, also your mentors and your sponsors, career coaches is another good addition to your advisory board. also, people that you meet that help you along the way with your career, that can help you advance, kind of open doors for you. >> and toot your own horn, essentially, which i think a lot of people have trouble with that. they think they'll come off as egotistical or obnoxious. >> yeah, and there's nothing wrong with it. i get a lot of people who say, hey, should i dumb down my resume? i'm not getting jobs. what should i do? i tell people, do not dumb down your resume. i tell them to let them know what you have to best bring to the table because that's the best way to find a job. >> and you think people need to look for more responsibility in the job they have. >> yes, absolutely. there's a tendency when the market is down and people are worried about their jobs and that they just keep their head

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first stop, the rust belt. melanie barnes, the president's director of domestic policy, will be my guest. and a test vote is scheduled in the senate on the bill today. insiders say the president doesn't have the votes. dnc chair, congresswoman debbie wasser man schultz, will be here to explain what is plan b. and some u.s. cities are forcing illegal immigrants to flee. why is dayton, ohio, painting itself as immigrant friendly? dayton's mayor here to discuss it with us next hour. chris? thank you, thomas. it's issue number one, and tonight it's the only issue facing the gop presidential candidates. the economy takes center stage at dartmouth college in the key early state of new hampshire tonight. just as that new nbc news poll shows herman cain continuing to rise, rick perry on the down slide. let's bring in our company, msnbc contributor and columnist dave weigel, and "national review" columnist elise jordan. good morning to both of you. so, dave, our new nbc news/paris

poll out this morning, rick perry with 6% of the vote in new hampshire, half that of herman cain and ron paul and way behind romney's 44%. what does he have to do tonight? >> he has to, i think, be coherent. a complaint i've been hearing from republican voters, well, i guess the main complaint is what he actually said about immigration, but the secondary complaint is they don't think he's very good at talking or staying alert during a long debate, and that's problematic. because republicans, as much as they dismiss barack obama, would like to see their candidate on stage with him taking him on. i think those two things, the issue and then the more minor issue of how bad he looks on the stage are very responsible for this decline. i mean, a month ago, perry was second to romney in new hampshire, just from voters liking the idea of what his campaign represented. >> not only that, but he was front and center in the debates and now will be further to the edge because of these polls, elise. he's actually going to be moved out. herman cain will be moved in. look at a national poll from

gallup. it has him in second place among gop voters, behind romney, ahead of perry. do you think that herman cain's rise is for real? is he causing serious problems for rick perry? >> i think -- >> i think that herman cain is a huge problem for rick perry. i think that they're competing for the same voting bloc right now. and so, right now, romney has incentive to want perry's popularity to diminish and also cain does. and so, cain and romney are united on that front of attacking perry. and so, voters are going to watch perry's performance tonight, and in debates, he's just been, quite frankly, lackluster, and it probably will continue tonight, especially since it's the economy and rick perry has said nothing except he's talked about the texas miracle, but he hasn't produced a jobs plan since the florida debate like he promised. >> yeah, and romney's been steady as she goes, dave in all of these debates, and this is the issue that he really is

banking his campaign on. he has stayed away mostly as much as he can from the social issues. he's really put his business experience front and center. is this a chance for him to win over some of the skeptics who have been going the way of a herman cain? >> i think he just needs to keep going slow and steady on this. and i noticed in debates up to now, cain and romney have a sort of nonalignment pact, where they don't really attack each other. actually, romney will go out of his way to praise cain as a fellow businessman, and cain's been rising without -- i mean, he's been attacking rick perry more than romney. remember, he endorsed romney in 2007 when the idea of him running for president was just not out there. i think -- i could be surprised, but this could be just another debate where candidates fail to lay a glove on romney, because the best thing they have is what you saw in this nbc report today about the role romneycare played in building obamacare. republicans have not been very

good at attacking perry on that. there just isn't a candidate in this field who has the knowledge and wherewithal to wl grind into the details on the stage. >> is it, do you think elise, that they haven't been attacking him on obamacare? because they certainly have tried to tie him to what they call obamney care, or is the response, look, this is what happened for massachusetts, this is what you say you want. every state should be able to decide what works for them. is that they're not doing a good job of attacking him, or is his answer just good? >> i think what romney has done so far has been really successful, and romney has shown, slow and steady. he hasn't gone too far out attacking other candidates. he's stayed above the frey. he's looked very presidential, and he knows what he's talking about. on the substance, he clearly has been a star. he can talk in great detail and

nuance about really complex topics, such as the economy. and i think that tonight, romney will continue to do the same and distinguish himself. >> real quick answer from both of you. dave, who has the most to win or lose tonight? >> perry has the most to lose and to win. >> i think rick perry. rick perry has the most to lose and i think that herman cain has the most to gain. >> all right, david, elise, good to see both of you. thank you. >> thank you. >> and a program note for you. republican presidential candidate herman cain will be chuck todd's special guest tomorrow, 9:00 a.m. eastern on "the daily rundown." today is national coming out day. the topic is trending on twitter, so today's tweet of the day is from you. andy marra writes "be proud, stay strong and remember, you're not alone." andaid tweeted -- "strength and love to those who are struggling with being who they are." and barbara fisher summed it up with "today you are you who is treasure than true. there is no one alive who is

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