. >>> hello, iowa. >>> hello, iowa. hello, colorado. hello, nevada. how's it going, tampa? hello, virginia. >> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. those are some of the places president obama has been campaigning over the past 48 hours. the perception that mitt romney had some kind of momentum has simply dissipated. today former secretary of state colin powell joined the obama bandwagon again endorsing the president for a second term. powell was clear and cutting in his opinion of mitt romney. >> not only am i uncomfortable with what governor romney is proposing for his economic plan, i have concerns about his using foreign policy. the governor who is speaking on monday night at the debate was saying things that were quite different than what he said earlier, so i'm not quite sure which governor romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy. one day he has a certain strong view about staying in afghanistan, but then on monday night he agrees with the withdrawal. same thing in iraq. and almost every issue that was discussed on monday night

. >> in a key battleground state -- >> hello, iowa. >> president obama continued his debate with mitt romney. >> his tax plan doesn't add up. his jobs plan doesn't create jobs. his deficit reduction plan adds to the deficit. >> in chesapeake, virginia, governor mitt romney offered his own recap of highlights. >> i love these debates. these things are great. and i think it is interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. >> with less than three weeks until election day, the president and his republican challenger are running out of time to sway undecided voters. both are focusing on women. the president is running with governor romney's debate comments about recruiting women for his massachusetts administration. >> we got to tell you, we don't have to collect binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now. >> romney is focusing on how women have faired under the president's leadership. >> why is it that there are 3.6 million more women in poverty today than when the president took office? this

. ♪ ♪ >> hello iowa. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. are you fired up? are you ready to go?>> well, first of all, can everybody please give a big round of applause to rachel for that great introduction? i want to thank the rams for hosting us here today. i appreciate you guys. we've got your outstanding senator tom, congressman bruce, another congressman who has i guess professor right here dave, to of my oldest friends in iowa, your attorney general tom miller and your treasurer mike fitzgerald. [applause] and i'm thrilled to see all of you and i hope you're enjoying the warm weather. >> i love you. >> i love you back. [applause] >> i just want to know -- look, i'm from chicago and i campaigned in iowa in january so this is basically the warmest you will be for the next six months. now i've come back to this college today to ask each of you for one big thing. i'm asking for your vote. i'm asking for your vote. [applause] in iowa you can vote today, today, as long as you're registered before october 27, you can vote right up to election day. in fact, you can go vote right af

. >> hello, iowa. >> president obama continued his contentious debate with mitt romney. >> let's recap what we learned last night. the tax plan doesn't add up. his jobs plan doesn't create jobs. his deficit reduction plan adds to the deficit. >> in chesapeake, virginia, governor mitt romney offered his own recap of highlights. >> i love these debates, you know, these things are great. and i think it's interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. >> with less than three weeks until election day, the president and his republican challenger are running t of time to sway undecided voters. both are focusing on women. the president is running with governor romney's debate comments about recruiting women for his massachusetts administration. >> got to tell you, we don't have to collect binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now. >> romney is focusing on how women faired. >> why is it that there are 3.6 million women in poverty today than when the president took office. this president has failed a

. >>> hello, iowa! >> both presidential candidates headed right back to the campaign trail after last night's contentious debate. president obama flew to iowa this morning, and spoke at cornell college. then he moved on to ohio. he will speak at ohio university in athens at 6:00. >> please welcome the next president of the united states, governor mitt romney. >> virginia governor bob mcdonnell introduced mitt romney today in chesapeake, virginia. clearly a part of romney's campaign strategy. he will attend a rally in leadsburg tonight. his running mate paul ryan was in fredericksburg today. >>> the debate was the top political event of all-time in social media. the confrontations between candidates often stretch the truth. today we are fact checking the debate. here's nbc's dawn timmeny. >> presidential debate round two provided plenty of lively moments and once again both candidates were making false claims and misleading attacks. first, the exchange about september's embassy attacks in benghazi. gover

tomorrow he will visit florida, virginia, and ohio. >> hello, iowa. hello. is good to be back. this is about as close as i get to home these days. it is good to be back. are you fired up? [applause] are you ready to go? [applause] at the at sat, let's give cassandra a huge round of applause for the great introduction. [applause] we have got your congressman here. your mayor. and we have all of you -- i am excited to see you. [applause] this is the first stop on our 48 hour fly around campaign marathon extravaganza. we are going to pull an all- nighter. no sleep. we are starting here in iowa and going to colorado, then it nevada, then florida, virginia, ohio. i am going to stop in chicago. we have an early vote -- illinois, just like here in iowa. i had to stop in iowa to ask you for your vote. to ask you for your support so we can finish what we started. because this is where it all began, four years ago. on your front porches, your backyards, this is where the movement for change began. iowa -- you will once again choose the path that we take from here. you know, at this point

. >> hello, iowa!nders to find qualified, talented young women ready to teach in these fields right now. and when young women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work. that should be a simple question to answer. >> binders, huh? jessica yellin, our chief white house correspondent with us today from new york. and just in case anyone missed what the president meant what he mentioned binders, let's return last night, mitt romney. >> we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said, can you help us find folks and they brought us whole binders full of women. >> okay. so this whole binders full of women theme seems to be the theme for the day. good moment for mitt romney? >> no. not a good moment for mitt romney. it is because they're both, as you can tell, aggressively trying to court the women's vote. the sense is that the voters are most moveable right now. and the, you

. ♪ >> ♪ the more you see the less you know i knew much more then ♪ [applause] >> hello, iowa!ause] thank you. thank you. hey! are you fired up? are you ready to go? well, first of all, can everybody please give a big round of applause to rachel for that introduction? [applause] i want to thank the rams for having us here today. i appreciate you guys. go rams. we have your outstanding senator tom harkin. tom, bruce greenleaf, another congressman who is a professor emeritus right here. [applause] two of my oldest friends in iowa, your attorney general tom miller. [applause] and your treasurer, mike fitzgerald. i am thrilled to see all of you. i hope you are enjoying this warm weather. [laughter] >> i love you! >> i love you back. [applause] because -- i just want to know. look, i'm from chicago. [applause] i campaigned in iowa in january. so, this is basically the warmest you will be for the next six months. [laughter] now, i have come back to cornell college today -- [applause] to ask each of you for one thing. i am asking for your vote. i am asking for your vote. [applause] in

so we'll check in with a news man in iowa this morning. host: hello.aller: i've never called in before but it seems like i have a lot of opinions on this election where as the previous one i've only voted one other time tabbed previous time i didn't really pay much attention to. but in regard to the hurricane, obviously i'm in cspan.org, it's not like it's a threat to me, but i think that with recent events benghazi and whatnot, it really is going to be a testament as to how obama is going to respond to this. and maybe he might gain some votes back from people he lost them from depending on how he respond to it. and i mean, i think that it's kind of ify with all of the campaigning that is going on during this time but i think people would be good to understand that they still have a job to do, there is still an election to be won and it's still going to happen. and this hurricane, though it will, i think, impact some of the voting and people may not get their votes in or whatnot, then i think that people who are serious about this election have already

he did a marvelous job in iowa and he does a marvelous job with everything he does, senator mike blake. >> hello, virginia. let's give another round of applause to governor patrick. of all the places that the governor could be, him being in virginia 24 days until a election day shows how important virginia is. it shows that barack obama will win virginia. chairmen moran will be coming up momentarily. somebody who is committed and reminds us that this is not just about an election. this is about everyday lives. thank you to all of the volunteers here today. let's be very clear to. this is a very clear choice in this election about going forward or going back. 24 days from today, we have to re-elect barack obama as our president. why do we have to reelect barack obama? 32 million americans have health care right now off because he stood up to make sure that health care got done. in 24 days, we will tell you why barack obama needs to be reelected president. kids need to graduate from school because of a doubling pell grants. what is at stake is women's rights because women deserve to decide what th

iowa for a speech on the economy on his economic plan. according to the latest polling average, president obama holds a % lead in this state. this is about 35 minutes. ♪ >> helloverybody, how are you doing? you live in iowa and you live in a battleground state. let me say that again because i don't think i've said that in all the years i've been in politics. we're a battleground state this year and that makes it very important. and i'm glad i have the opportunity to welcome the next president of the united states. and i know it's cool and you feel the chill but also you feel the momentum of romney being the next president of the united states. [applause] now you folks all know people who voted four years ago for president obama. you know that he promised partisanship and to reduce the deficit by half, that he was going to give us accountable government, that he was going to reduce your health insurance by $2500. today we have would have 5 and 6% unemployment instead of 8 and 9%. that was all part of economic recovery, wasn't it? this president has not delivered on his promised of 2008 and that's reason for him to not be president of the united states. he has n

iowa and is closing arguments and his economic plan. president a bomb all the 2% lead in the state. -- obama holds a 2% lead in the state. ♪ >> hello, everybodyg? you live in iowa. you live in a battleground state. let me say that again. i do not think i have said that before. we are a battleground state this year. this makes it a very important. i am glad to have an opportunity for you to welcome the next president of the united states. i know it is chilly. you will feel the momentum of romney being the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause] you folks know people who voted four years ago for president obama. you know that he promised bipartisanship and to reduce the deficit by half. you know that he was going to give us accountable government. he said he would reduce the health insurance by $2,500. today we have -- we had promises of economic recovery. this president today has not delivered on his promises of 2008. that is reason enough to have him not be president of united states. he has not delivered. [applause] it is very clear that america cannot afford four more years obamanomics. and the abuse of power by pointing

hello. >> reporter: good morning. governor romney canceled all his campaign rallies today, several scheduled here in ohio and in iowa.disaster relief event. he's encouraging people to bring supplies and donations. that will be here in ohio. his running mate paul ryan will be doing a similar event in wisconsin. romney was briefed by fema homeland security, the weather service. he encouraged crowds in iowa to come together to say this storm is a time for people to put politics aside. >> the damage will probably be significant and, of course, a lot of people will be out of power for a long time. hopefully your thoughts and prayers will join with mine and people across the country as you think about those folks in harm's way. >> reporter: earlier in the day in northern ohio romney struck a somber tone. >> a lot of people are enduring some very difficult times. our hearts and our prayers go to them as we think about how tough it's going to be there. >> reporter: he also asked supporters to help those along the east coast with donations to organizations like the red cross. but the storm is taking romney off the trail at a

hello, gayle. governor romney canceled all of his campaign events today. he had several scheduled in ohio and iowa and instead he's going to be attending a disaster relief event. he's asking people to bring supplies, contributions, donations, that will be here in ohio. yesterday he also got briefed by federal officials, fema department of homeland securityservice, about the storm. the government's response to the storm and rallies, iowa yesterday, he urged people to come together to say this is the kind -- time to put politics aside. >> the damage will probably be significant and a lot of people will be out of power for a long time. so -- hopefully your thoughts and prayers will join with mine and people across the country as you think about those folks that are in harm's way. >> reporter: earlier in the day northern ohio romney struck a somber tone. >> lot of people are enduring very difficult times. and our hearts and our prayers go to them. as we think about how tough it is going throb. >> reporter: he also asked supporters to help those along the east coast with donations to organizations like

iowa back in the toss-up column. nevada is now lean democratic. north carolina leaning republican. let's bring in democratic strategist chris cafinas and republican strategist chip saltsman. great to see you guys. hello>> hello. >> great to be with you. >> chris, let's start with how this changing battleground map alters the strategy of both cam panes. what do the next 13 days are like when you see him leaning one way or another? how closely are these decisions being made to the time where they have to show up and be somewhere? >> you will be able to tell from the candidate's schedule and how often they go to a certain state or the next two weeks which states are in play. it is that simple. and i think what you start -- the other part you start seeing the campaign haves to start making the tough decisions, the decisions you delay and which is where you don't play, where you start shifting resources away from and in to. my guess where you start to seeing it more and more resources going to ohio, wisconsin, you know, iowa, colorado. those are probably going to be the key states, virginia. where both sides realize, okay, this is where we have to play the two weeks to have a shot for this. i think the sh

iowa colorado and nevada. the president addressed about 16,000 people. ♪ ♪ >> hello colorado! [applause] thank you. you fired up? are you ready to go? are you fired up? are you ready to go? i am fired up. thank you so much everybody. can everybody give a great round of applause for -- [applause] we have got good friends here today. your outstanding governor john hickenlooper. one of the best governors in this country, michael bennett. outstanding congressman diana degette. your wonderful mayor and my campaign cochair and former mayor. and all of you were here which makes me excited. this is the second stop on our 48-hour marathon extravaganza fly around. we are pulling an all-nighter. no sleep. quite a bit of coffee. we just have come from iowa and after this -- did we come from iowa? we are on our way to visit nevada. we are going to go to florida and we are going to go to virginia. we are going to go to ohio. and i'm going to stop in chicago. [cheers and applause] to vote. before this 48-hour day is done. i can tell you who i am voting for. it's a secret ballot. michelle said says she voted for m

city times -- iowa is the focus of our conversation right now with my glover, a senior writer for the associated press. let's hear from david on our independent line in texas. caller: hello. i believe obama has no problem. this is the media just keeping the news going. i am in texas. i am over 60. out of my whole family there are two of us that have landlines. i get maybe 86 or so calls per month on my machine. -- 8 or calls. being in texas, hardly any troop question is going to vote for romney, who is a mormon. he has no chance. host: let's get a response. are you seeing any of those concerns in iowa? guest: i can tell you this. i'm over 60 as well, so i understand that. we are getting phone calls in iowa. the issue of romney's religion is an issue i raised with him when he ran a pull your years ago and its initial history sensitive about man does not like to talk about. iowa republicans are dominated by evangelical christians. they are a bit leery of mormons. they don't understand it it. they don't like to talk about it. no one will say i am not excited about mitt romney because he's a mormon, but they are aware of it. so that is an issue. it goes more to not whether s

iowa. we will show this to you again tonight on c-span. florida is next, a republican. >> caller: hello. the speech from cairo, and i veggie chili is really inspirational -- iowa. a little reaganesque in a big is big ideas, big plans and that's what it's going to take to get us out of this swamp. >> host: which one of his plans appeal to you the most, what you heard? >> caller: reduce the size of government, reduce regulation, lower taxes, encourage small businesses, make the banking system a little more efficient so some of small banks can make loans to the smaller businesses to get us going. but this guy is an organizer. that's how he has been successful in his life. he has a unique exceptional ability to organize. organize the efforts of others'. >> host: how do you think about is going to go there in florida? >> caller: [inaudible] >> host: i beg your pardon? >> caller: romney will carry. >> host: have you voted yet? >> caller: just. >> host: so you did your early voting. >> caller: absentee. >> host: thanks for the goal. president obama became the first president to early vote. yeste

iowa. nevada and ohio. 51 obama. 45 romney. >> wow. >> bill: both good indicators here. let's say hellodown in charleston, south carolina. what do you say ike? >> well, i'll tell you what, brother, now you know the difference between a president and a used car salesman. i'll tell you what. that boy was sweating like he just found out that that undercoating is not needed. you know what i mean? >> that's a great analogy. >> caller: but also, too, you know, something that really struck me, i'm telling you i about fell out of my chair, i don't know how big of an this issue is going to be with people but somehow or another in the debate, did i hear him right? was romney talking about the poor peasants in china that needed jobs? or am i trippin'? >> bill: no, he was talking about that. bain capital has done as much as they could to give the poor peasants the china jobs by exporting our jobs. >> caller: well, you know, i tell you something brother i'm a refugee out of atlanta. i'm stuck in the wealthless state in the country. i would love to get back home but you know what? i can't get the job

hello to the two of you. as always good to have you. >> hi, alex. >> molly, so your latest article is about mitt romney's big economic speech there in iowa.iday. it is titled "romney's major economic speech that wasn't." so why wasn't it? what was the point? >> well, you just didn't hear anything really new in this speech. i think the point of it was just to have that headline in various places saying mitt romney gives a speech about the economy. the idea from their campaign is that if voters get this impression that he's all about the economy and if voters are primarily thinking about the economy, then that's when they win. especially among women, which are the biggest sort of up in the air group still. there's a lot of fluidity in the women's vote. a lot of women moved to mitt romney after that first debate and are still sort of up in the air. the democrats' belief is that if those women are thinking about women's issues, reproductive rights, abortion, then they will choose obama. but if what's on the top of their minds is the economy they may well lean toward romney instead. >> perry, we always hear that president obama's path to 270 i

iowa this morning -- one last call on this issue of what is driving your vote. will go to new hampshire on the independent line. frank, you are on the "washington journal." caller: helloi believe we have one chance to -- we could fix all the problems in this country right now if the two sides could come together with some compromise. i believe we have been way too liberal for a decade or even longer. we have to change some laws regarding entitlements spending on the other side of things, we have to enforce fair business practice in this country. people are just in it to earn that buck. they are being forced into a situation where we are not into doing things for the sake of being the best we can be at it. we are just there to make that buck and take advantage of anyone we can. we went to a fair system when we were growing, and now we are fighting over natural resources. i think the people who have the power are reckless right now. we are not solving the issues. i think we're going back to the middle ages where they want to take it all back. i think there should be some respect to sovereignty in this country. you cannot just let people come in here without a green card

iowa and ohio yesterday. yesterday, the president reached out to women voters. stressed his support for insurance coverage for contraception and reused a phrase from today's debate while criticizing mitt romney's economic plan. >> hello the square deal? mitt romney is trying to sell you a sketchy deal. >> also on mr. obama's schedule today, an appearance on jon stewart's show. both he and romney will address a bipartisan dinner here in new york tonight. >>> for his part yesterday, romney was also reaching out to women voters. he told crowds in virginia that the president has failed america's women, by not sufficiently boosting the economy. and romney promised that if mr. obama is re-elected it will be more of the same. >> i think it is interesting, with two presidential debates gone, the president still hasn't found an agenda for his second term. we have an agenda for our term. and our agenda is going to get this country working again. >> romney also said that over 3.5 million more women are now in poverty than when the president took office. he and the president have one more debate to go, monday night in florida, the topic will be foreign policy. they estimated one-fifth of the population was watching that second d

iowa earlier. later this evening, he will have the rally in ohio. he spends time in the state tomorrow. chicago is next. tony is there on our democratic line. caller: how are you? hellourn me off. host: we are not cut you off. please go ahead. caller: i watched the debate between mitt romney and president obama. mitt romney took over the debate. the moderator have no control over him whatsoever. it was almost like he was on some type of drug. i have fan voting for a very long time. i vote for my parents, but could not vote. i see no substance whatsoever coming out of romney's mouth. we have two wars that have not been paid for. he wants to lead us back into another war. are people paying attention? host: what can president obama do, in your view, to win the next debate? caller: he has to be a little more open. what happened was, he saw a man standing over there, not giving him an opportunity. was he supposed to come out and act ugly as president of the united states, when romney took it over with all the lies he has been telling? host: thank you for your call. you saw the president on stage at the oval at ohio state university. the c-span campaign 2012 bus has been t

city times -- iowa is the focus of our conversation right now with my glover, a senior writer for the associated press. let's hear from david on our independent line in texas. caller: helloeve obama has no problem. this is the media just keeping the news going. i am in texas. i am over 60. out of my whole family there are two of us that have landlines. i get maybe 8 or so calls per month on my machine. being in texas, hardly any true christian is going to vote for romney, who is a mormon. he has no chance. host: let's get a response. are you seeing any of those concerns in iowa? guest: i can tell you this. i'm over 60 as well, so i understand that. we are getting phone calls in iowa. the issue of romney's religion is an issue i raised with him when he ran a pull your years ago and its initial history sensitive about man does not like to talk about. iowa republicans are dominated by evangelical christians. they are a bit leery of mormons. they don't understand it it. they don't like to talk about it. no one will say i am not excited about mitt romney because he's a mormon, but they are aware of it. so that is an issue. it goes more to not whether someone will support mitt

iowa this morning -- one last call on this issue of what is driving your vote. will go to new hampshire on the independent line. frank, you are on the "washington journal." caller: helloieve we have one chance to -- we could fix all the we'll take you live to the pentagon now for a news conference with secretary of defense leon panetta. >> we wanted to open with a few comments and then i'll turn it over to the general for his comments and then we'll open it up to your questions. one of the questions that i've kstly been asked is how the u.s. military is going to be able to project power and to maintain presence in a global world, in an era of declining resources. we believe that the new defense strategy that we put in place, plus the budget that we have sent up to the congress is designed to allow us to accomplish that goal. but one important way that we are going to do this is to strengthen our network of defense alliances around the globe. indeed, i think it's fair to say that a vital pillar of the new defense strategy that we released this year is the important work of developing and deepening ties to other nations, developing their capabilities and building new al

hello, everybody and ohio! put your hands together, everybody! >> mitt romney earlier today supporting hurricane sandy relief efforts in ohio. the romney campaign is holding a political rally in the morning, iowa -- in des moines, iowa. his wife will stand in for him. ♪ >> i would like to rescue a question similar to that asked to the vice-presidential candidates. as a catholic, has your view on abortion been shaped? >> i'm not catholic. i am episcopalian. >> your husband is catholic. >> my husband is a catholic. i am an episcopalian. my children are catholic. we have raised their children as catholics. but i would be happy to talk about my view on abortion. my view on abortion is that it should be safe and rare. >> this is a valid point that is constructive and is a difference between us. we have babies in america and in iowa that are being aborted simply because they are little baby girls because the mother wants a boy instead of a girl. we have evidence of that. it is coming in from the asian community as well. we have legislation that prohibits sex-selective abortion. she thinks that it is ridiculous to talk about it and that it does not matter in iowa. i think it matters. >> find a key ho

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city times -- iowa is the focus of our conversation right now with my glover, a senior writer for the associated press. let's hear from david on our independent line in texas. caller: hellot of my whole family there are two of us that have landlines. i get maybe 8 or so calls per month on my machine. being in texas, hardly any true christian is going to vote for romney, who is a mormon. he has no chance. host: let's get a response. are you seeing any of those concerns in iowa? guest: i can tell you this. i'm over 60 as well, so i understand that. we are getting phone calls in iowa. the issue of romney's religion is an issue i raised with him when he ran a pull your years ago and its initial history sensitive about man does not like to talk about. iowa republicans are dominated by evangelical christians. they are a bit leery of mormons. they don't understand it. they don't like to talk about it. no one will say i am not excited about mitt romney because he's a mormon, but they are aware of it. so that is an issue. it goes more to not whether someone will support mitt romney or not support mitt romney but the enthusiasm level they will bring the campaign. that diminishes i