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next up, e.j. dionne on the moral hole of mitt romney's lies and his budget. >>> another big-time ceo gets caught advising his employees to vote romney or else. that story ahead. >>> in a new study out of ohio, shows america just how racist the state's anti-early voting effort really was. you won't believe these numbers. state senator nina turner joins me live in studio. >> if your hair is on fire, you need to act like your hair is on fire. by bright eyes you're not just looking for a house. you're looking for a place for your life to happen. or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later. oh, somebody out there's saying, now i get it! take beano before and there'll be no gas. >>> we share responsibility for creating an economy where parents with jobs earn enough to care for their families. in order to cut taxes for the wealthy, the romney/ryan budget would make it tougher on hard working americans. >> that was the democratic national convention last mont

sam stein, e.j. dionne on romney's style versus the president's substance. >> i like pbs. i love big bird. >> david k. johnston on romney's huge tax lie. james hoffa of the teamsters on romney's 108 on his feelings for the american middle class. and ohio state senator nina turner on what last night's debate means for the buckeye state. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. if it were just only a game, right? the presidential debate last night was ugly. it was an ugly night because the truth left the building. it took a beating. give mitt romney credit, though. he was an all-american liar last night. and the president seemed to leave his best material, his best game at home. for millions of americans, it was extremely hard to watch mitt romney lie the way he did and get away with it. >> first of all, i don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. i don't have a tax cut of the scale that you're talking about. my view is we ought to provide tax relief to people in the middle class. >> the lie is s

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carly fiorina, david brooks of t"the new york times," e.j. dionne of "the washington post." i feel like the final stretch is going to be dominated by the fight over the economy. it's what ultimately can tip the scales. we have seen now an argument from the president that is about trust. and this is how he lays it out against governor romney. >> there's no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. trust matters. you know, you want to know that the person who is applying to be your president and commander in chief is trustworthy, that he means what he says. that he's not just making stuff up depending on whether it's convenient or not. >> how is he using that argument to advance the cause of, hey, you can't trust what you're going to get that's going to ultimately lead to economic recovery under the republicans? >> i think that the president, as the race gets narrower and narrower, we focus on smaller places and smaller numbers of voters. we see that become a resonant argument. we're talking not just about the economy in the midwest, we're talking about the eco

. >> tonight e.j. dionne on the obama/billionaire hate club. >>> this is a story that really grates on me. for at least a few years now, we have been told how president obama is just alienating wall street. billionaires have got it so rough. they are going to turn against him to make sure president obama is not reelected. now that the election is just 35 days away and president obama, you got to admit looks pretty strong in the polls, some of these billionaires are beginning to whine a little bit. they don't like the environment of what's happening. here's sam zell, listen to this. >> how the, quote, 1% or the 10%, the top earners moved ahead of everybody. i wonder if there's any correlation between while they were moving ahead, the rest of the government was subsidizing, subsidizing more and more people. i think they are disincentive vised by if you don't pay for health care, that's another thing you don't have to worry about. >> he sounds like he could be sitting at the mitt romney fundraiser. his disdain o

joining me now is e.j. dionne, washington post columnist, and an msnbc contributor. ing here, e.j. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> what's the romney strategy? just say stuff that's wrong and hope it doesn't matter? >> well, you know, i think that has been for this campaign. i mean, i've been around campaigns for a long time and i honestly haven't seen somebody push beyond the edge of the truth so often and say things that are so flatly untrue. i was struck during the debate, for example, when he just sticks on this notion of president obama and economists are in broad agreement that it created something like 3 million jobs and helped the economy from collapsing. paul ryan wrote letters on behalf of a couple projects in his district and here was romney at a company that got help from stimulus money. but they can't just give it up. it's really -- i suppose it shouldn't be but i find it astonishing, still. >> to keep talking down the economy, it seems like whenever there is good economic news they give the obama team credit. the romney campaign released a statement

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but my friend e.j. dionne will be with us later on this hour today. he says, i was talking with an old friend who was one of the nonpartisan polling outfits. we were discussing the large shifts in some of the polls on the presidential election and the feedback he receives whenever he puts out new numbers that make one side or the other unhappy. he offered an observation so priceless it needs to be shared. he said "when you give conservatives bad news in your polls, they want to kill you. when you give liberals bad news in your polls, they want to kill themselves." whatever your persuasion, let that be a metaphor for you and also maybe a lesson. information is always your friend. joining us now is nate silver, the founder and editor of the new york times 538 blog. he's the editor of "the signal and the noise" why some predictions fail but some don't. everybody reading books right now is reading this. congratulations on the book. thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> you tweeted this afternoon we might be in the middle of one of the largest

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. >> speaking of out of touch, you told e.j. dionne that the president has gotten disconnected from the people he cares about. explain what you're talking about. you think the president is disconnected? does he need to reconnect? >> that's why we invited him to cincinnati tomorrow, but i think the debate last week evidence that he got really into his policy side when really the conversation needs to be about the people that are struggling in our society. tomorrow we're hosting one man from cleveland, wilbur hughes, who is raising six girls by himself. he's working hard, he's making ends meet. but it's really hard with a family and being a single parent, but he's so disciplined and so focused. and his girls are doing really well in school. >> why did you choose ohio? everybody knows how critical ohio is. why ohio? >> well, actually, it was the sisters here. we went through ohio in the original nuns on the bus, but what happened here was that the sisters said this is such partisan divide we need to lift up the 100%. we need to let people

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and e.j. dionne, columnist for "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. joan, let me start with you. what's behind these conspiracy theories? >> they just don't want to accept the realities that the president has made things better, reverend al. i think you forgot one. rush, when hurricane ivan was -- rush accused president obama of messing with the weather or the weather service. i'm not sure which. they impute all of this power to him. it's dark power. it's evil power. because they can't deal with the fact that he had a plan, he implemented the plan. he didn't get everything he wanted but things are better. for jack welch to take this here, it's a cruel political joke. talk about normal for someone like jack welch to be taking to twitter and then dumping down on it in interviews and everything else. >> e.j., as joan just said, he doubled down. he was just on "hardball" and chris matthews gave him every opportunity to, you know, land on earth and he doubled down. let me show you what he said. >> jack, do you want to take back the charge? >> no, i don't w