without further ado, lee miringoff. [applause] >> thank you very much conlan and thank you from the religion news writers association convention for inviting us. welcome to the audience watching us at home, at work on c-span. we are halfway between the home of the baltimore orioles and the washington nationals. i give you greetings from new york, land of the 27 world championships. thank you very much. that was market tested in new york and did much better off we enough. that would be the strongest partisan comments i will make today. many of you know we are currently partnering with nbc news and the wall street journal to told nine battleground states and national polls during the campaign. our partnership with knights of columbus bates to 2008 and during that time we conducted many surveys which tried to get beyond the labels and page-1 headlines. i would like to begin today with the ever changing overview of the presidential campaign which will hopefully set the context for barbara's discussion on our poll work on va

. >> lee miringoff, we'll have a couple more polls.e'll check out west next week before we drill down to what we think will be the closest race and be polling the living day lights out of them. lee, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. have a great day. >>> back to the brink, no matter who wins in november, the looming fiscal cliff will be at the top of the agenda. is there any hope for a grand bargain and what does that bargain look like? judd gregg joins me next. we have a great roundup. a ton of big senate debates last night. we'll give you the best of it. shockingly these races are getting personal. who would have figured. >>> first, mitt romney and barack obama as we told you where those two spend their time every day tells you where they think the most precarious states are in in their attempt to get to 207. you're watching "the daily rundown." so you say men are superior drivers? yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voi