. >> but jim garrity -- >> every winning campaign -- >> ambitious agenda -- >> hang on. e at a time. jim gaurty, let me go to you. >> every winning campaign always thrives on making fun of the opponent's name. i kind of feel like at some point it's going sound like the wizard of oz of this campaign. big bird and binders and romneysia oh my. big bird and binders and romneysia, oh my. at this point you can't get any smaller small ball. they're playing marbles at this point. maybe this is going to work with the democrats' base. you look at a lot of these polls, obama is peaking out at 46%, 47%, 48%. maybe the strategy is to get every last bit of those supporters and hope that romney's supporters -- you know, he doesn't finish -- close the deal with those remaining undecideds, the shrinking people there. maybe this will work. i guess. this is not necessarily a -- as was mentioned earlier, this is not a big agenda, hey, vote for me, look what you get type campaign. >> what is mitt romney's agenda? >> sam, hang on. i want to put -- >> he said i'm not going to do what obama did.

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. >> jim garrity talked about the sample size.roblem is who cares about whether the whole nation thinks one thing or the other. even if the sample size is good, which a lot is not it's part of the election. >> part of the narrative for me on the polls we don't get a quick snapshot. 116 people, 500 people and you don't know what the question is. as we know, you can ask a question a lot of different ways to get a lot of different answers. >> jon: it's also true that i think most people when they read a headline, and "washington post" made a headline out of those poll results, most people won't be looking for the margin of error. >> you can make an argue in the post and times are deliberately highlighting poll results to increase momentum. i think that the reality of the polls, the pollsters as opposed to the headline writers is the fact that when everybody agrees that romney crushed obama in the debates. polls show that, too. everybody agrees that romney had a surge, he is surging. polls are reflecting what people are thinking. >> 4

. >> in washington, krkcontributi editor for "the national review," jim garrity. ack. >> look time no see. always happy to be here. >> yes, we've missed you. you know, you sent out a funny tweet yesterday, jim. a lot of people were concerned about the martha raddatz situation. a lot of conservatives were. we said earlier, i think most of us agree, we believe martha will do a good job. it's a transparency issue. >> it's a bigger issue. >> it's a bigger issue, and that's abc news, not on martha so much. but you say pretty much nothing to see here. >> well, look. i mean, it's better to disclose these things than to not disclose them. the idea that you'd have a personal connection to one of the people on the major party tickets and not disclose it, look, you should put that out there so people can draw their own conclusion. but theyed that a moderator is going to skew questions over the gravy boat from 20 years ago, they're skeptical of that. if tonight she goes out there and says mr. president, what's your favorite color or something -- >> why are you so great. >> i d