as always, it's florida, florida, florida. paul ryan is there today.p fairing in the sunshine state? >> an apology for america's values is never the right course. >> and did those comments by mitt romney this week put a dent in his campaign that can't be fixed some? we'll battle that question. multi-policy discount. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. [yawning] homeowner's discount. safe driver discount. chipmunk family reunion. someone stole the nuts. squirrel jail. justice! countless discounts. now that's progressive. call or click today. flo: every driver is different. we've got great news for them all. you can try snapshot from progressive before you switch your insurance. [ horn honks ] just plug snapshot into your car, and drive like you -- to see if your good driving could save you up to 30%. so try the way to save that's as unique as you are. now you can test-drive snapshot before you switch. visit progressive.com today. >>> here's a quick look at some of the stories making news. anti-u.s. protests have spread to nearly 20 countries acro

florida state will be heavily favored. they get to florida in the end of the year.n conference play, they are ahead of the game at virginia tech. they will have their chances without a doubt. >> brent: they're taking dead aim. they'll be in the conversation t the. as long as they stay unbeaten. oklahoma will drop out of it. there he go, there goes manuel. come on, e.j.! >> kirk: let's talk about jimbo fisher. because the baton was handed to him from bobby bowden. he's been recruiting great. it was a little bit of a -- kind of a difficult transition period. even some former players' weren't necessarily happy with the way bobby had a lead. jimbo needed a win like this. this is his team. fan face bought in to him being the head coach but he still need this kind of landmark win showing florida state can capable of whipping big games. >> kirk: he also rushed for over 100 yards in this game. okay? and there's a formation that the coaching staff wanted to see. the victory formation. 49-37. some are enjoying that final score more than others. two coaches throughout midfield

a lot of you like florida state. >> gary: and florida. >> verne: yeah, yeah. 34%. yes. florida had the huge win to open the year at a&m. >> gary: that really changed things for florida and allowed jeff driskel to emerge. they're going to get better also, and muschamp has sold to his team as we've seen, we're going to see corbin berkstresser right now. >> verne: berkstresser played the entire game last week in the win over arizona state university. that pass complete to marcus lucas. >> gary: he never asserted himself, whether it's play calling -- it could be coach telling him who to thro to but that position needs to assert itself more in this offense, the offense i watched when i was doing big ten football with drew brees, drew used to throw the ball to three and four guys. you have to make tough throws. >> verne: franklin for the day 11 of 18, 92 yards. he also carried it 15 times but only for a total of six yards. >> gary: i don't think we've seen anything from their number one back, dorial green-beckham. he was going it fall on the fumble. the only time we've notice

as always, it's florida, florida, florida. paul ryan is there today.p fairing in the sunshine state? >> an apology for america's values is never the right course. >> and did those comments by mitt romney this week put a dent in his campaign that can't be fixed some? we'll battle that question. >>> here's a quick look at some of the stories making news. anti-u.s. protests have spread to nearly 20 countries across the middle east and beyond. even sydney, australia. the fewer error over anti-islam videos broke out early this week. this morning two nato soldiers were killed. gunman believed to be a member of the afghan police force. so far afghan soldiers and policemen have turned their guns on 47 international service members. back here, teachers in chicago are rallying in support of their week long strike while negotiators are expected to reach an agreement tomorrow. if they're successful, 350,000 students will be back in class monday morning. >>> a new associated press poll finds more than eight in ten americans do not like all the cash corporations, un

we talk so much about florida. if obama plans to stay in the white house, is florida a must win? >> florida is one of those states if the president wins it, it will be very hard for mitt romney to find a path to the white house. that's because it is so rich with electoral votes. the president already has the advantage on the map that it gives him that crucial edge. there are other ways for the president to win if he loses florida, but picking up this state sure would make it an easier path for the president, randi. >> some base supporters say they are the ones, not the undecided voters, who will actually decide this election. a lot of folks agreeing with them. how true is this in florida, do you think? >> he certainly needs to turn out the original obama supporters including young voters and latino voters especially in this state. in florida he's got to get swing voters along the i-4 corridors known for its swingyness, if you will. he needs to win back those republicans who voted for him last time around. that might be one reason he's campaigning today with former governor and fo

if florida. the president is in florida. roc poll has obama with a four-point lead in the state, but still too close to call, of course. so, who has the advantage there and how important is the state to the final tally? maria, i'll start with you first on that one. >> sure p. to your point, it's a very close call right now. obama is up by a couple points, but that's within the margin of error. so i don't think either candidate has a huge advantage right now, but i thi moving forward, obama is going to have the advantage in terms of the messages, and specifically to the audiences that are so important in winning florida. and i think coming out of the convention, for example, he can talk about medicare. clinton was beautiful in terms of really setting the record straight on where medicare stands and the lies that romney and ryan have been perpetrating on that. and latinos, let's talk about latinos and where mitt romney is. i think that is going to be terrible for them in terms of their latino message, because they have none. w

. >>> y un alivio para decdenas de estudiantes hijos de indocumentados en la florida que dejarande pagarás costosas, comenzamos. >>> este es su noticiero univisión edición nocturna con ilia calderón y enrique acevedo y desde charlotte, sede de la convención nacional demócrata maría elena salinas ♪. >>> qué tal, muy buenas noches, desde charlotte carolina del norte, sede de la convención nacional demócrata, esta noche los hispanos han sido protagonistas de la convención, donde un hispano pronunció el discurso central, un hispano joven que vino a decirle a la gente latina por qué tiene que seguir apoyando al presidente barack obama, también el alcalde de san antonio julián castro presnetó a la primera dama michelle obama, luis mejid con lo más destacado adelante >>> buenas noches, maría elena salinas, en un ambiente de fiesta, los demócratas se reunieron para recuperar el entusiasmo de hace años, y para decirle a los hispanos que el presidete barack obama merece ser reelector. >>> abrieron la convención para pedir que se aumenta el impuesto a los ricos, para buscar la reforma migratoria, e

now into election news out of florida florida governor rick scott has restarted his illegal voter purge in the sunshine state scott's a list of voters to be targeted as non citizens and kicked off the rolls has been shown to be riddled with errors and overwhelmingly focused on minority voters who tend to vote for democrats but governor scott is pushing forth regardless and this isn't the all the way republicans are trying to steal the election in florida news broke yesterday on the brad blog the florida republican party's top recipient of funding firm named strategic allied consulting has been in the business of turning in fraudulent voter registration forms florida republican party has now cut ties with strategic ally consulting but not before dishing out more than one point three million in contracts to the firm this year also this firm continues to be operating in other battleground states around the nation and also has affiliations with the mitt romney campaign here to unpack all of this to explain why it's so important is brad friedman himself founder and publisher of the brad blog

he went into florida having to win the debates, having to win florida. he was in trouble. he won both debates easily and he did a fantastic job. i actually told him it was the best political week of his life. he did a fantastic job. he won florida and then he took it from there. he's very good under pressure. i think that the debates and especially the first debate will be vital to both sides. you know, don't forget, you're talking about mitt. the fact is most of the polls have him just about even right now and in some cases, they have mitt up and in some cases, they have the president up, but it's a very, very close race. and i have a feeling he's going to react very well under pressure, as he did in florida, piers. >> have you spoken to him since this whole secret video story blew up? >> i have. >> how was he? >> i think he's fine. it's a debate that is going to be had and it's a debate that should be had, and people are going to be talking about it and i think that's a good thing, not a bad thing. >> do you still believe fundamentally that mitt romney can win this elect

president obama kicks off a two day bus tour in florida.riding post convention wave with approval rating of a 15-month

it is a problem in florida.ent to elaine to meet a man that has pieced together a way to save the coral reef. >> this marine biologist talks about a proud parent when he talks about the tiny organisms living on limestone that he is growing off the coast of florida. >> i get really excited and i think it is great. i cannot wait to see what it looks like in five years. >> over the last decade he and a small team have developed new techniques to grow and replace coral, damaged by environmental changes. we go 30 ft. below the surface with him to see how he does it. >> is it doing better than you thought it would when you for started the project? >> theres a lot of coral there over the last two years. >> when you look at this, what do you see? >> i see hope. >> because of disease and pollution and warming ocean temperatures, the coral in florida have decreased from 50% years ago to 7 percent today. >> what happens if they die off? >> the tourism collapses, you know, the whole economy of the florida keys changes, the

president obama kicks off a two day bus tour in florida.

in florida, it was 8.6%. this july, 8.3% nationally, 8.8% in florida.und the midterm elections, 9.8% across the country, 12% in florida. it's positive, the trend. republicans will tell you florida's republican governor, rick scott should get the credit. what does this mean? the outcome in florida is harder to predict. >>> both the presidential candidates are making sure they get their messages out in florida. cnn chief correspondent jessica yellen has more on the convention momentum. >> reporter: president obama is in florida on day two of his post convention visit. the intended message, three and a half years later, he has bipartisan apeal. former governor crist may not have credibility with the state's republicans. expect president obama to continue drawing contrast with governor romney on their economic visions for the future. here is how the president has been making his point on the campaign trail. >> all they have to offer is the same prescriptions they have had for 30 years. tax cuts, tax cuts, gut some regulations, oh, and more tax cuts. tax cut

reportedly paid some two point four million dollars to this group down in florida florida republican party paid one point three million dollars they were the top expenditure of this year in two thousand and twelve for the florida republican party it was all going out to this firm owned by this guy nathan sproul who year after year old election after election in state after state has been accused of shredding democratic voter registrations changing addresses doing all of these things year after year but he keeps being retained by use retained by romney this year he was. hired by mccain palin in zero eight and bush cheney in two thousand and four they keep going back to the same well this guy who seems to be committing voter registration fraud over and over again and the republicans initially tried to say oh it was just one bad apple in one county in florida well n.b.c. news as i said is reporting late tonight that there are so far four different counties that are discovering are discovering fraudulent registration forms turned in by this same romney tied firm in florida amazing they s

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florida's 29 electoral votes. but something president obama said during a candidate's forum on univision through the most attention. >> you can't change from washington from the inside you can only change it from the outside. that's how i got elected. that's how health care got done because we mobilized the american people to speak out. >> reporter: mitt romney was quick to jump on that. >> president obama threw in the white flash flooding surrender again. he said he can't change washington from inside. he can only change it from outside. we'll give him that change in november. >> reporter: after campaigning during the day both candidates spent the evening in florida fundraising. and new campaign finance reports out this morning show the president has gained the lead in the money race. president obama out raised and out spent mitt romney in august, all tolled he entered the final three months of the campaign with $86 million left to spend. romney raised $67 million and spent about the same but owes $15 million on

and our polls in florida by point -- florida by 2 points and ohio by a point.e does have some ground to make up but very little. >> i want to be very very clear here. in the rasmussen poll in florida, the president is up by 2, not 10. 2. >> correct. >> bill: and ohio n. ohio the president is up by 1. both within a margin of error a dead heat. >> those polls are just taken over a week ago. they may have shifted in the president's favor, a lot of the numbers have in the last week or so. we are seeing a very close race in those states within the margin of error. these are states that mitt romney absolutely has to win. >> >> bill: when will you have new polling from florida and ohio? >> next week. >> okay. doctor, you have heard i think both rove and morris were pretty -- they made a pretty good case. that the polling we saw today isn't accurate and but it does have a definite effect on the perception of the presidential race. what do you say? >> well, i think karl rove made some good points. i have to admit i can't construct a grassy knoll as large as dick more no

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. >>> un juez de la florida dijo que universitarios estadounidenses de padres de fuera de la floridaar matricuals más altas a los estudiantes nacidos en estados unidos por el hecho de ser hijos de iinmigrantes indocumentados,según el juez michael moore, que a ese grupo de estudiantes los obliguen a pagar 3 veces más en sus matrículas viola el derecho que protege la igualdad, los niños son eestadounidenses,independienteme que sus padres sean inmigrantes indocumentados >>> esta decisión judicial le cambiara su futuro. >>> siento que tengo más oportunidades de estudiar, ahora sí me siento como un americano, ser parte de estados unidos. >>> su madre que celebra la decisión dice que ha sido muy doloroso. >>> tristeza ,porque ellos no podían seguir estudiando. e>>> esto podría ayudar a otros estudiantes. >>>e s decir ya hay un ejemplo positivo para los hijos de ciudadanos de personas inmigrantes indocumentados en el país, así que tien eun impacto grande en estados unidos. >>> si la decisión no es apelada por ls autoridades de educación de la florida, podría entrar en efecto en 90 días, y h

republicans lost florida last time but not by a lot. they would very much like to win florida this year. putting the convention there was no accident. since the '08 election, republicans have passed laws in florida that changed voting a lot in that state. for one, they cut the time for early voting. also the republican governor in florida has conducted a purge of the voting rolls. last july, they passed a law making it harder to hold a registration drive for new voters. they feared it would disproporlgztally affect minority voters who tend to lean democratic and they appear to be right. they released remarkable new analysis on voter registration in the state of florida. we talked about this a little during the convention, but i think this is amazing. have you seen this graph? coming into the '04 presidential election. before the '04 election, this is what the increase in voter registration looked like in florida. democrats in terms of registering new voters had an edge of 40,000 voters. in 2008, it surged again, this is the work the par

florida florida florida, republican turned independent turned democrat? charlie crist ready to address his democratic faithful and the florida gop is too eager to remind the sunshine state of a few things he has said over the years. good morning from charlotte, actual charlotte hornet coming after us, thursday september 6th, 2012. i have governor purdue, patrick kennedy, ted kennedy jr., senators menendez, koouns, my first reads of the morning. two months from election day the president will accept his president's nomination and lay out his best case for a second term while mitt romney's task in tampa was to get voters to know him and like him. the president must persuade the country to rehire him for four more years. expect some version of a bad cop/good cop routine. back-to-back speeches, the president can leave some of the tough stuff to vice president biden. senator john kerry will also speak tonight. remember he's going to play romney in the debate prep. expected to blast romney's foreign policy as naive and be another character witness to the presid

ohio and florida, new data out today. "the washington post" putting out new numbers showing president obama ahead by eight points in iowa and four points in florida. while the swing state map is what everybody is watching the swing states are the most important to keep an eye on because that's where you wrap up the votes that allow you to win the election, there's new national polling now for what it's worth. there's new polling every day. the republican leaning poll is out with their new national numbers today. their national tracking poll putting president obama up by one point nationally. the gallup tracking poll putting president obama up by three points today nationally. that's in big picture perspective of what's going on in the presidential race. for an even bigger picture perspective on those national numbers, i should point out to you that of the last 20 national presidential polls, of the 20 national polls taken in the month of september, every single one of those it 20 polls shows president obama winning nation

obviously once you put florida in and florida alone, that's big.ew hampshire and wisconsin and you see where that puts them at 307 where romney is outspending him, would get him up north carolina, virginia, iowa, nevada, only up to 231. that's what this florida move is so significant. right? if you take florida away from the president and give it to romney, the president would still be there. you see it brings other states in play. this florida move by the president to try to outspend romney there, force him into that state, take him out of other states is one of the more significant tactical things that happened this week. we know we're having a larger conversation, foreign policy, we'll see where that ends up. the tactical move with florida, the president's campaign decided to be not one foot in, one out, all in, potentially back to north carolina. significant move. we'll see how romney responds. global markets, u.s. futures get a big boost from fed's decision to launch qe3. how long will it last? the market rundown, cnbc's becky quick. somebody

. >> i hope florida understands what happens in florida can decide who the next president is. >> absolutely. appreciate your time. senator john mccain from arizona. >> i have no examples of anybody trying to suppress the vote. i think people should have to prove who they are. i cannot cash a check without a driver's license. but we are allowing people to vote without proof of their identity, who can walk into a boater's registration drive and say their name is tim tebow and get a valid. >> and you are saying there are some who are giving false names? >> we know they did it in 2008 and 2010. my expectation is they will probably do it again. >> enough already. what interests me is what has caused this mess. are they bumping into each other and not saying excuse me? are they failing to tell each other to have a nice days? >> of course not. america is a placid place. or maybe not. perhaps ordinary americans are the problem. many years ago, the late senator had a message for his fellow citizens -- you are entitled as americans to your opinions, but you're not entitled to your on facts. well, ame

she is on the ballot in florida.craig. >> we will move forward together. >> we are going to take the white house. thank you so very much. >> and president obama and governor mitt romney make their way through the battleground states one presidential candidate came here to oakland, california tortion talk about a special issue in her campaign. >> who pays for this failed system of endless is war, endless debt and endless debt? pot smokers. >> we caught up with domestic goddess turned presidential candidate roseanne barr during a town hall meeting at america's first candidate's college. >> locking up your own tax base is simply stupid. when the president and military in dust -- industrial complex is closed down we will be able to grow h e&s mohamed p which will save all of our assets. >> what made you decide to run for president. >> same thing that made we wanted to do a sitcom. sitting home and watching tv before i did the sitcom i thought i could do better than that. same idea. >> one of your major issues is the lega

jessica, the latest polls give obama a slight lead in florida. you were actually a local reporter there, so you're pretty familiar with the voters in that part of florida. what does the president need to do to widen that gap? >> reporter: hi, randi. well, i was, and since i was in this local market, the number of hispanic voters here has increased exponentially. and so, one of the goals for the president, no doubt, will be to target his appeal to those hispanic, latino voters. as you know, he passed a version of, used his own power to do his own version of the dream act, has gone over very well with latinos. and also, he has targeted parts of the obama care health care measure, enormously popular among latino voters as well, among democrats, democratic-leaning latino voters. so, those are two ways he can win some of the people in this i-4 corridor. that's exactly where we're traveling in the next two days, across florida from west to east, and this is considered the swing part of florida along this highway, where the most undecided voters live, a

florida, 29 electoral votes. today, the poll shows the president leading romney in florida by 5 percentage points. this is a fox news poll. this same poll shows a seven-point obama lead in virginia. that is as you know another huge electoral state that's being considered a toss-up this year and may be right now looks like tipping toward the president. also this, perhaps is the biggest news of all. president obama with the seven-point lead in ohio. cnn's peter hamby with me live in washington. let's start with that. ohio. because, you know, we say it and again. how key, you know, florida is to romney but ohio's right up there, too. the poll in ohio, how ominous is it for mitt romney? >> well, nbc had a similar poll a couple of weeks ago or a week ago, rather, this showed obama beating romney by seven points. republicans said that margin is bigger than we think and it is not seven points. well, this sort of reinforces that. it's a big problem and looking at the unfavorable numbers for romney, 45% under way. 50% vie

in 2008 hundreds of thousands voted early in florida. turn up in florida went up by 0,000 people.uy, the democratic nde for prident n florida and won the election. now that guy is on the ballot again this year. so they are not going to make the same mistake. who knows if it's connected, but florida's republican governor for this it electi cut the days for early voting almost in half. sterday a federal judge removed the last hurdle orids nelaw. itru florida voters are going to have fewer days this year when they can cast a ballot this big. even though the ballot they have to cast is totally, unprecedently giant. a new poll from the florida times union finds the president wi a sm le ovemitt ey ifla. the lead is built on support from african-american voters and hispanic voter who is are going for obama by 32 points. a new report from the nonpartisaadvancement project details legal changes put in place by republican state cifoisct chges at it will make it harder to vote in those states. voter purges and curtailing early voting and making it harder to register a showing documentation a

for sure, in the state of florida. there are a lot of people that have lost faith, motivation, and not only with the organization that we represent, but with our society and government, and our job, as organized labor, is to reinvigorate, educate, motivate those folks that have dropped out of unions. many drop out because they do not have a job. keep in mind, most union members in this country, when they lose their job, they are no longer union members. so a big part of the drop in membership is not from people losing interest but the jobs going overseas. the fact that the outsourcing focus that the romney-ryan ticket has as part of that issue, instead of insourcing that we could have, burning good jobs to the country, making jobs available for people to work at and join a union. host: rhonda is a democrat. you are on the line with mike williams. caller: first of all, i want to applaud you. the afl-cio does an amazing job for the unions. i am the president of my local union. we were in salt in the spring check card. 97

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