right now, let's bring in erin mcpike now and james paterson. erin mcpike of course is with real clear politics, and james peterson is a lehigh professor and grio contributor. erin, give me a sense, is ohio pretty much obama territory now? >> we think that it is. and all of the national -- or excuse me, the ohio public polls show that, yes, president obama is leading. he lost a little bit of ground, but he's made that back up again. but one thing i would point out, chris, is that the obama campaign is seeing very different internal polling than the romney campaign is seeing and republicans told me earlier this week that last week their polls showed mitt romney up four to five points in ohio. by monday, mitt romney was leading president obama in these ohio republican internal polls by just one point. so they've seen his numbers go down. the obama campaign tells me that he's consistently led two to four points in their internal polling. so you might say that it's spin, but these two campaigns are seeing very different data and that's why they're a

chris cofinis, erin mcpike and jonathan caleggio. thank you all for joining me.t me start off with you. i'll ask the question as quoted by politico. not my words but the question is, is the gop too old and too white? >> that's a very, very good question. i know that in that same article jonathan martin talked about how the bush margin with hispanics from 44% in 2004 to 27% in 2012. this is exacerbated by the fact that hispanics are act growinwa with a growing group it's a -- there's inroads with asians and outreach opportunity that is we have but something that we need to regroup and look at, not2014 part of a sustained effort and a sustained repositioning to do moving forward. >> so your answer is yes or no? i'm just being honest. you went on and on. >> i take the argument. i respect the argument and we do need to move forward. >> okay. i'm going to take that as a yes this. you were so confident and y had been since we talked with you. i think you were the last man standing at the dnc. everyone else rolled out of town and we were talking with chris and you were

erin mcpike back with us and david goodfriend, democratic strategist and contributor. thank you for sticking around. let's bring in the element of tom cole, a republican of oklahoma. doesn't get more red than oklahoma. let's play what he said regarding support and passing the middle class tax cut. >> in my view, we all agree we won't raise taxes on people making less than $250,000. we should take them out of this discussion right now. >> what is the issue with that? >> well, what congressman cole has really shown is that there's an imminent amount of good logic and sense in preserving the current tax rates for 98% of americans for a lot of reasons. one of which is the gdp dependent on consumer spending. 0% of the economy is consumer spending. if you take $2,000 on average out of pockets of consumers, it's going to hurt the economy so right away you have a low tax good economic rational behind it but there are politics here, too, of course, and that is the republican party just got she lacked in an election and learning that the only way to expand their popularity, expa

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doug haddaway, erin mcpike, and robert traynum. i've had my coffee and i'm ready to go. of the president's top three goals in the second term? >> i don't know about three but i think aside from the very obvious, which is to strike some sort of big deal on the fiscal cliff and get some sort of entitlement reform, the big three is immigration reform. obviously he didn't talk much about it during the campaign. i think that was strategic, though, and now we're seeing that republicans are making some noise that they are willing to do something as far as immigration is concerned, too. >> yeah. >> hey, how much when you're rolling out of the president's health care law figure into that? the full implementation may be a great achievement? >> absolutely. i think that will be a grounding achievement that was passed in the first term but now it has to be implemented. soon americans will be able to shop for health insurance that is affordable and can't be denied or taken away. that's a big deal for middle class americans and that's going to be implemented in the state and some of th

and erin mcpike from real clear politics, live in cincinnati, ohio tonight. both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> bishop curry, let me start with you. what do you make of latest voting problems in your state? >> well, i'm not surprised. even though the race is nonpartisan, the mayor is a tea party republican. so i'm not surprised by what's going on here in miami-dade county. but what i am happy about, reverend sharpton, is that people of miami die-dadmiami-da palm beach county, it doesn't matter how long they will stay in line. they will stay in line and cast their vote and protest for the right to cast their votes. >> i was with you last week as early voting start peestarted. we went through broward and miami-dade county. i worked with you with operation lemonade. now we see the reaction from those officials. this is exactly what you and the leaders there feared was wiley y they were cutting back souls to the poll chess should have been today. had to do it last sunday. because people do want it vote and they seemingly are determined to stop the

the president here in hilliard, ohio, i want to bring back jonathan, author of "the promise" and erin mcpikesee over our shoulder is that david axlerod is there. we were shouting questions at him. he told me he thinks they'll win ohio by 2% to 3%, but like the romney campaign, as well, jonathan, this is coming down to a handful of states on that one. >> i think with the jobs report, the external events, unless something really out of the blue, a real november is the drive, the external events now repeated and this is -- the election. it's about the level of turnout. we all know obama people can do organizational muscle on election day. and if they do, we should be okay in ohio. if they don't, if there's a big falloff in turnout and it's more like 2010, then mitt romney could win. >> we talk about the last few states that we're seeing. i've been hearing from republicans that wisconsin looks like it might be a better state for mitt romney at this point than ohio is. the obama state does feel -- i would point out that the romney campaign does, too, because they have different kinds of -- that b

. >> our power panel for this friday, erin mcpike, ted strickland and the reverend joe watkins, my thanks to all three of you. >>> want to show you live pictures we have coming into us from cairo this hour. tens of thousands of protesters in tahrir square right now standing in opposition to president mohamed morsi and the constitution that was approved earlier today. nbc's richard engel is going to join us live in a moment. >>> possible big news coming from the supreme court today on marriage equality in america. the nine justices are meeting right now. >>> and today's big question. fiscal cliff hardball. should the president be on the road or back in washington hammering out a fiscal cliff compromise? tweet me @thomasaroberts or on facebook. i love the holidays. and with my bankamericard cash rewards credit card, i love 'em even more. i earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% on groceries. 3% on gas. automatically. no hoops to jump through. that's 1% back on... [ toy robot sounds ] 2% on pumpkin pie. and apple. 3% back on 4 trips to the airport. it's as easy as... -[ man ] 1... -[ w