iowa is a tossup state. >> iowa is gaining importance, bret. one reason is that the math, the electoral map is starting to shrink. with michigan and pennsylvania, i think sort of both campaigns are pulling out a lot of the tv money to move it to other states. those states moving to obama column. the next state i think that is moving is north carolina. which is starting to lean to romney. even with that bounce that karl talked about. that makes me put that sort of in a lean romney situation. if you have most free states doing that, it is putting increase pressure and spending on state like iowa. those electoral votes are really, are now really going to be front and center. >> yeah. absolutely. iowa, we are seeing more per capita spending on television in iowa by the obama campaign than any other state in country. in fact, what is interesting is since june, the television waiweight in north carolina, obama reduced weight by 40%. iowa, they are buying more television in rochester, minnesota, television than any market in north carolina. even roche

this is urbandale, iowa. this is a big rally and this will be the president's seventh stop in iowa leading up to presidential election this november. all of this as he kicks off the warm-up act before the dnc gets under way this week in charlotte. we'll take you back to urbandale, iowa, as soon as the president arrives. >>> all right. a check of some of the news happening right now overseas. in central afghanistan two suicide bombers have targeted an afghan military base. the attacks killed 13 people, among the dead, a child, two women and four policemen. the taliban has claimed responsibility. >>> in south africa, protests are breaking out over the arrest of 270 platinum mine workers charged with the murder of 34 of their colleagues, but those workers were actually shot by police. south africa's justice minister is now demanding answers. >> after 50 years, the german inventor of the drug thalidomide has apologized to its victims. the drug taken by pregnant women caused babies to be born with deformed limbs.

[applause] that's why i'm asking for a second term, iowa.ling to stand with me, and join with me and knock on some doors with me, and make some phone calls with me, and if you're willing to vote for me in november -- we will win polk county again. [applause] we will win iowa again. [applause] we will win this election. [applause] we will finish what we started. and we will remind the world just why it is that the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. [applause] god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ["we take care of our own" by bruce springsteen] ["learn to live" by darius rucker] >> during the conventions, we are using social media to take a closer to the conventions and give you a behind-the-scenes look at using twitter. we will see what delegates are tweeting and viewers are tweeting. facebook, we sharing images and pictures as well as the major speeches from the convention. w

after graduation from law school, she rose -- she wisely chose to remain in iowa and iowa was fortunate for that decision. she first served as law clerk in the u.s. attorney's office, northern district of iowa, in 1997 she was hired as a full-time attorney in that same office, where she has risen through the ranks and now heads that office. she served as special assistant u.s. attorney, 1997 through 1999 and as assistant u.s. attorney, 1999 to the year 2009. during this time, she was lead counsel in the prosecution of more than 250 cases. these cases spanned a wide range of legal issues from violent crimes and drug offense to immigration violations and money laundering. additionally, she has handled approximately 45 federal civil cases. these cases have included post-conviction relief and asset forfeitable matters as well as freedom of information and property return lawsuits. in 2009, mz rose -- ms. rose was nominated by our president and confirmed by the senate to serve as u.s. attorney, northern district, iowa. in this role she oversees most every aspect of the office. this includes

or whether we fight for those jobs for places like iowa.n industry is at stake. i'm going to bet on american workers and american manufacturers. and today, the american auto industry has come roaring back. that's the choice. unlike my opponent, i want to stop giving tax breaks to ship jobs overseas. i want to start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in irvandale and des moines, right here in iowa, right here in the united states of america. that's what we're fighting for. you can decide. whether borrow money from your parents an acceptable answer for a young person hoping to go to college and start a business. or you can say, let's make sure america once again leads the world in educating our kids and training our workers. let's help more young people go to college, get ready to learn. let's hire more great teacher, especialry in math and science. let's help more americans go to community colleges to get the skills for the jobs they need right now. governor romney wants to end the college tax credit. we created the savings, fam

starting in iowa today. we also want to remind people that they've got to get out, there's still time to register to vote in states across the country. go to gottoregister.com. because they can get the information they need to sign up and register to vote. plenty of time left. >> and what about combatting voter suppression? has this been the game plan? is this the best thing you can to? >> you know what we've been doing, at the same time we've been fighting battles of voter suppression legally and been successful through federal courts with judges appointed by republican and democratic presidents knocking these laws down, clearing away these obstacles, we've not been taking that for granted. we made sure we get the people the information they need to clear those obstacles away themselves and make sure they can get what they need to bring to the polls and also what they need to get registered to vote. >> all right. there's been a lot of conversation, congresswoman, about polls and who's ahead. we can't find a

where he's making his seventh visit so far this year. >> hello iowa! >> reporter: president obama kicking off his road to charlotte campaign in iowa, the state that first launched his presidency four years ago. >> it was you, iowa, who kept us going when the pundits were writing us off. and it will be you, iowa, who choose the path we take from here. >> reporter: polls show a tight race here as some white working class voters who gave him an edge four years ago now aren't so sure because of the economy. >> iowa is important, and i think other states will look at iowa and say, if they're turning away from barack obama, that is a harbinger for the rest of the country. >> reporter: today the president reached out to those disaffected voters by slamming mitt romney's convention speech. >> it was a rerun. we had seen it before. you might as well have watched it on a black and white tv. he did not offer a single new idea, just retreads of the same old policy that is have been sticking it to the middle class for years. >> reporter: and he took romney to task

. >> obama voters showed up in full force today in iowa. the election has begun in the fit swg ste wi ear thammp i ing . >> my job is not to worry about those -- >> tonight, dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman-schultz on the democratic effort to get out the vote in iowa and beyond. >>> "mother jones" unearthed yet another lost romney tape from his in years. bcal n st pars >>'ll ask robert reich what mitt romney means when he says he's harvesting companies. >>> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut whole thing down. at he's talking about when it comes to women has the nerve to call senator claire mccaskill unladylike. we'll bring you the latest on the todd akin disaster. good to have you wh us anr hit, folks. ioicoff e 2012 electionn january. today it was the first state where people could cast their votes in person for the general election. the race is on. the race has been tight in iowa, but president obama has the momentum. the latest ten-day poll erage from "real clear politics" shows president obama with nearly

it's airing in colorado, ohio, iowa, nevada, and virginia.he obama campaign is essentially showing with all these ads how seriously they are taking the women's vote in this election and how they are appealing for the women's vote by talking policy. but hey, the romney campaign is serious about the women's vote, too. and here's how you can tell. i want you to look at the crowd staged behind mitt romney at a rally yesterday in fairfax, virginia. what do almost all of the people standing behind mitt romney at this rally have in common? if you said matched chromosomes, ding, ding, ding! it seems like there are maybe a couple of "y" chromosomes in the background maybe, but right next to romney it is lady time, all the time. when i saw this yesterday, i was watching this with the sound off and i thought he was speaking at some sort of women-only event. i thought, how many women-only events are there in the world and why would they invite a presidential candidate? he wasn't speaking at a woman-only event. they just moved all the women at the event s

of iowa hawkeyes. they went right ahead and toppled the barrel with the hawkeye's logo picking iowa for the big win. before you accuse the monkeys of being bias -- bill, i you know were just about to do that -- they beat the oddsmaker last year with going with iowa state. they have a good record, so, you know -- he's so doubting me. >>> and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's the cynical meteorologist bill karins. >> how do you know he's not tipping the one over that's going to lose rather than the one that's going to win. >> because they explained it to them and they're monkeys and they understand. >> the same way i nod my head. >> the same actually. >>> good morning, everyone. we have thunderstorms marking a change in the midwest. we have one good storm heading through reading, pennsylvania. this one's going to wake up a lot of people. a severe thunderstorm warning were that one. a hit-and-miss storm around scranton and williamsport. other rains aund iowa especially. we have

birds out in full force in battleground iowa.y, iowa became the first swing state to begin in person early voting with experts predicting that nearly 40% of iowans will cast their ballots before november 6th. so whose campaign does that benefit? we're back with the brain trust, perry bacon, robert costa, we'll start with you. whose campaign does it benefit early voting? >> i think both republicans and democrats have pretty effective ground games, especially in the midwest, though. this is very important for mitt romney. ohio, iowa, wisconsin, these are rust belt states with industrial manufacturing employees throughout most of the states. and mitt romney has to win these voters if he wants to put together a puzzle on the electoral map that really works out for him. >> karen, iowa is a historic place, especially for president obama. how is the ground game there this time around compared with what we saw four years ago? >> it's very strong. and remember, the differences. frankly, they've had four years through the democratic party

you are here in iowa today.t is your sense of where things are and how important those debates will be? >> well, people will make up their mind as we go along here. it can't tell you when they settle down. people won't make their mind up until the day before the election or day of the election. it's a horse race. we have two candidates that would take our nation in different directions. my direction is one that encourages the private sector again to create jobs. and the history of america has been a powerful and robust economy. with great jobs and rising wages. based on the strong private sector. the president's plan is to build a bigger government. i don't know any nation on earth that succeeded in creating succeeding a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger government. we have different paths ahead of us. i think people can look at the success of the president's path by looking at his record. over the last four years. if they like the direction they have seen, if they think we are h

the secretary of state of iowa asked the legislature to pass a new law for iowa voters to show documentation to vote. he did not get his new law. in part because mr. schultz himself was forced to agree that there have been no real votes of voter fraud in iowa, at all. let alone the kind that would be hampered by blocking people from voting in this particular new way he wanted to block people from voting. after that he prom i alsoed he was turning over every stone to find some fraud. when he didn't find any, he brought in an agent from the agent of criminal investigation to help him look at the cost of tax fairs up to $250,000. he gave up looking for the legislature. in late july he personally ordered a new set of rules about voting in iowa. he called them emergency rules. rules he needed right away before the november election. rules he could not wait for any elected legislature to give him. the new rules would let him conduct a last minute purge of iowa's voter rules. it gave him authority to kick voters that he considers suspect off the rollings. to first them to proof that they are rightf

you know about that in iowa.re in iowa to trade. -- jobs here in i went to train. is president -- it creates jobs here in iowa to trade. because i spent my life in the private sector, i understand what deals are good for america and which are not. if the nation's we trade with decide to take advantage -- the nations with trade with side to take event is the us, there will be consequences. number 4, and this is one that is not just economic. it is also a moral, as the governor said. it is simply wrong for us, morally wrong for us, to continually spend massively more than we take in knowing my generation will never pay that back. it will be passed on to your generation. we are killing the american dream for our children. it is wrong and it will stop if i am president of the united states. [cheers and applause] if i have one more. that is this. i will champion small business. i understand how it is that small businesses kids going and how they grow. as i was driving -- i understand how it is that small businesses ge

president obama on the campaign trail in sioux city, iowa.et's take a listen. >> it is great to see all of you. [ cheering ] and the only thing that i'm not gog do, though, is get in the middle of an argument between hawkeye and husker fine. i'm not going to go there. now, iowa is our first stop this week on the road to our convention in charlotte, north carolina. [ cheering ] it was important for me to begin that journey right here in iowa because this is where it all began four years ago, right here in iowa. [ cheering ] because it was you all who kept us going, when all the pundits had written us off, and it was in your living rooms and back yards and vfw halls ask diners where our movement for change began. and it will be you, iowa, who is going to make all the difference in the world in this upcoming election. [ cheers and applause ] now, last week the other party, they gave their pitch at the convention in florida. (booing) don't boo. vote. [ cheers and applause ] i've got to say that convention, it was something. despite all the challe

, university of iowa.xpect, iowa being a key battleground state? >> reporter: this is a crowd that's been standing outside here, wolf, for at least four or five hours. and it has been raining on and off. they have been standing here waiting for him. they're excited to see him. he will be here with the vice president as well. both of them speaking, the topic will be the economy. but they will be speaking to a very fired up crowd that's been listening to music and getting quite drenched. the president has been hitting this topic, this joke line that's been somewhat biting, trying to draw distinction with mitt romney on taxes, suggesting that the president if he is reelected will work for the middle class. if mitt romney is elected president, he will work for the wealthy, the millionaires, by trying just to cut taxes for millionaires, and the joke line is every time he shows up, there's a new thing taxes will do, help you lose weight, cure a cold. when he shows up here, we will see what new joke he says it wi

the secretary of state of iowa asked the legislature to pass a new law for iowa voters to show documentation. he did not get his new law. in part because mr. schultz himself was forced to agree that there have been no real votes of voter fraud in iowa, at all. let alone the kind that would be hampered by blocking people from voting in this particular new way he wanted to block people from voting. after that he prom i alsoed he was turning over every stone to find some fraud. when he didn't find any, he brought in an agent from the agent of criminal investigation to help him look at the cost of tax fairs up to $250,000. he gave up looking for the legislature. in late july he personally ordered a new set of rules about voting in iowa. he called them emergency rules. rules he needed right away before the november election. rules he could not wait for any elected legislature to give him. the new rules would let him conduct a last minute purge of iowa's voter rules. it gave him authority to kick voters that he considers suspect off the rollings. to first them to proof that they are rightfully reg

that's why i'm asking for a second term, iowa.nd if you're willing to stand with me and join with me, and knock on some doors with me and make some phone called with me. and if you're willing to vote for me in november we will win iowa again. we will win this election. we will finish what we started and we will remind the world just why it is that the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. /♪ >> president obama wrapping things up in iowa. he's going to continue on from here and go to colorado and then on to ohio before he heads to louisiana one of the gulf states there that had damage from hurricane isaac. we're going to take your phone calls. numbers are up on your screen. if you can't call but you want to join us on twitter, go ahead and send us a tweet. you can also send us a tweet using the hash tag dnc if you want to weigh in on the upcoming democratic national convention that starts tuesday. we're going to go straight away and take calls now from l

and he'll be having a second iowa rally next hour. we should tell you that on his way to iowa, he was accompanied by his chief speechwriter. he worked on his speech that he'll be giving here thursday night, with his speechwriter on his way to iowa. and he gave the crowd there just the tiniest peek about what he's going to say. >> this thursday night, i will offer you what i believe is a better path forward. a path that grows this economy, creates more good jobs, strengthens the middle class. and the good news is, you get to choose which path we take. >> reporter: now, he spent most of his time during this speech today rebutting some of the messages that we heard during the republican convention in tampa. he called it a quote, rerun. he said, you might as well have listened to it on a black-and-white tv. and this plays into him accusing mitt romney of trying to pursue economic problems that he says created the recession. >> nothing new, he's saying, in the romney economic agenda compared to what he has in store. presumably he'll go int

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but watch iowa and these new emergency rules in iowa.ate florida where we got news today that the november ballot itself is going to be a monster. really that's what they are calling it. one supervisor saying, quote, they have really created a monster. another clerk says voters may need smelling salts once they see the size of the ballot to get through. it contains 11 proposed changes to the constitution and several are printed in full. that means hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of words for each of these constitutional proposed changes. when you add in the local races, the ballot in miami-dade runs to five pages. the florida ballot will be so long in some cities it will cost you $1.50 in postage to mail it in. officials are suggesting to check in ahead of time to see what the wait time is because people have to read all those pages and feed all the pages through. it's going to take awhile. expect long lines. and what has the republican government done for a year when the ballot is a monster? the longest one some election clerks can r

in iowa, president obama was so proud to win iowa in the democratic primary of 2008. he had an organization there that's never left. i can tell you that from now untielection day, i'm looking forward to bei in iowa this weekd. wegototito go door to door and neighborhood to neighborhood to talk to voters about this moving forward. >> give us a snapshot of the swing states and the ground operation. i mean, we just showedhe map 'sheermi the intensity. and the ground game that president obama has got versus the challenger, mitt romney. does it look this way in all of e other swing states? >> well, you know, mitt romney, let's not just disss the orgaza the. when you have a handful of billionaires essentially trying to buy the white house for you, you know, you can pay for a few offices and for some folkso geout there and knock on some doors. they certainly aren't doing nothin 'vt rgatn there as well. but we're proud that we have a grassroots people powered campaign. one that has folks out there, you know, thousands of door knocks and phone calls and we've got a lot of onli

>> the fact that he's in new hampshire and iowa and romney's in new hampshire and iowa actually testifiese electoral advantage the president has right now. if you look at the electoral college, he's well in the lead in terms of where this would come out in november. iowa and new hampshire are two states that kind of hang in the balance. if mitt romney can't carry ohio, he's going to have a very hard time getting elected president. if barack obama carries iowa and new hampshire, it's almost impossible for him not to get re-elected. >> he has a much easier way to go to the electoral victory. thank you, bob. great to see you. >> great to see you. >>> those disappointing job numbers are only adding 96,000 jobs last month, well below expectations, but for the african-american community, at 14%, that unemployment rate is double the rate for whites. congresswoman barbara lee of california joins me from charlotte. thanks very much for joining us the day after the big night, the big convention. congresswoman, this is not the jobs news that any democrat wanted to see. >> well, let me say first, and

i need your help, iowa.ll, if you're not already registered, i need you to register to vote. young people who are in the audience, you know who you are, you need to go to gottaregister upon the com. that is not got to, that is gottaregister.com. make sure you are registered to vote. then go to gottavote.com. that's not got to vote. that's gottavote to find out how to cast your ballot early. because here in iowa, you don't have to wait until november 6 to vote. you can start on september 27. so that's gotta register and gotta vote. the reason you gotta register and vote, is because we've got more work to do. >> barack obama speaking in sue sit sioux city iowa, an important battle ground state. he stop need a sport restaurant bar where lot of young fans were watching the university of iowa northern illinois football game and at one point people bauch watching the game started cursing when things weren't going well for iowa. and the president was there eating pizza while that was going down. but iowa won 18-17

they like their pross next iowa. puts them there, and in colorado, and they're still 10 short, and that makes, if you believe the wisconsin-ohio flip, that makes new hampshire, virginia and nevada, maybe the last three tough states. obviously the president feels good about his demographic advantage in nevada and they feel good about the social issues playing in new hampshire. look what that does. brings us to the one state i've always believed is what replaces florida and ohio this year. virginia, virginia, virginia. and it's also not an accident as to why they picked charlotte being a state that borders on virginia. they think they can transfer energy up there. >>> north carolina was a key to president obama's victory in 2008 and democrats are hoping for a repeat this year by holding their convention in the tar heel state, but the fight is on right now for those 15 electoral votes with the latest poll showing mitt romneyry a slight edge among likely voters. joining me now, assistant democratic leader in south caroli

iowa, $47 million.the last four months on average of $4 million a day has been spent, in # 3 battleground states. in the final eight weeks those numbers are likely to double. bret? >> bret: carl cameron live in the battleground. we look at the 9/11 memorials when we come back from, ground zero to the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania. remembering those who died. [ mother ] you can't leave the table till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8... that also becomes headaches. i was very skeptical about aspirin. bayer advanced was completely different. it really did get rid of the pain. put bayer advanced aspirin to the test for yourself at fastreliefchallenge.com. >> bret: it was 11 years ago today that our world changed forever. you remember where you were, what you were doing weapon you first heard the news of the attacks on new york and washington. the plane crash i

we moved iowa out of the toss-up column and in lean-obama. the president is now up 50% to 42%, matching what we had been hearing on the ground. in colorado, the president has a smaller lead but he still hits 50%. 50%-45%. in wisconsin the president is also up by five points, 50%-45%. >>> joining me now, director of the maris poll. lee, we were in the field in the middle of the curfuffle of 47%. we did see some evidence of the mitt romney unfavorable ratings. >> in all three states, this wasn't the case last week, in all three states that we've done now, these three battleground states, his fave/eon favorable is upside down. he has more negatives than positives. that's not a good thing if you're challenging an incumbent whose favorability is over 50% in all three states as well. romney clearly taking a hit for a lot of things, not the least of which is the 47% comment. >> i want to go through each state very quickly one big nugget we got out of it, in colorado the president over 70% among latino voters. you did a look at sort of the white vers