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milt romney evoking ronald reagan.id free lander, "newsweek's" political correspondent will take us who made the illustrious -- >> a progress sorry at yale surveyed ten of the most eminent presidential and imminent histo historians. >> also tight eisenhower, he helped create the middle class up to world war ii. it was really a matter of him ushering in the matter of prosperity. building the -- he had this air of prosperity in the 1950s. >> wasn't this build as an escape route for the atomic bomb? >> many, many politicians revere ronald reagan. they have admired that. along with many americans, what do you think is behind his popularity, ultimately? he was the president during a time of broadly shared prosperity in the 190s and he helped to usher in that prosperity. and as our story points out, he was a great communicator. >> also on the list, bill clinton, he made that big old splash in the dnc. why was his presidency such a success? >> i think it was him helping the democratic party. helping ending the motion of the a

quote, if we want to win the battle in the long-term, we should be able to face the fact that milt romney's likely to lose. he's an ambitious man. let me go back to that whole question, joe, i keep thinking what's romney's mission in life. why does he want to be president? it's a fair question, what do you want to do in the world, what's your united states role. besides this time going to be tougher and all this bs basically. this guy has had no military experience in his family, he just keeps talking about how tough he's going to be. >> the scary thing about this campaign is that we don't have any idea what he wants to do or which policies he's going to support. we saw the stock market go up 200 points today. romney is allegedly running on the economy. well, for most people, the economy isn't the unemployment figures. the economy is two things, your house value, and your 401(k). housing values are going back up, and the market is almost back to where it was almost four years ago, so the one thing that he has, he doesn't really have. >> and consumer confidence is also going up, joe. >> this

. >>> president obama and milt romney face to face as american voters weigh the choices. the first presidential debate starting wednesday night october 3. watch it live right here at 7:00 eastern time on cnn and on cnn.com. >>> police in winter springs florida are investigating a deadly shooting this morning outside a veteran of foreign wars lodge. our affiliate says a group of bikers was getting ready for a charity motorcycle ride when a group of armed suspects showed up and opened fire. two people were killed and one injured. >>> what happened to two tennessee children before fire destroyed their house? that's what police are trying to figure out this hour. their home burned down a week ago, but still no trace of 7-year-old gauge daniel and 9-year-old klee woe leverette. susan kacandiotti is following this story. >> investigators are using dogs to coffer a wider area around the house. what's so confusing is what happened to the children. police found no physical evidence, nothing in the ashes to show that those children were home when their grandparents died in the blaz

i think this is going to come down to the debates and milt romney has a history of not doing well.d kennedy. he was up doing well and he went into the debate and fell apart. when you speak very clearly to the american people about what you're going to do, if you're not clear you're going to lose. >> here is a little detail nugget here i want to share with you, susan. a lot of reporters just said there was more enthusiasm at the dnc for the president than there was for governor romney at the rnc. for the entire rnc, the speakers mentioned mitt romney's name 213 times. in the first night alone in the dnc, speakers mentioned president obama's names more than 250 times. this updated gallup poll showing a four-point lead ahead of romney. how worried should republicans be about the enthusiasm level? >> i think at the end of the day both are going to play to the bases and get their voter turnout there. we're going to see those polls kind of stay within two, three, four woints. without a doubt the democrats put on a better show, but that was only for entertainment value. now the show is ov

you know if private equity milt milt -- mitt romney met governor mitt romney woe do what he says he likes to do, woe fire him and outsource his job -- he would fire him and outsource his job. let me tell you how we get'er done in montana. clinton arithmetic. yeah. clinton arit ma tick. we've had record budget surpluses every year i've been governor, averaging more than $400 million in surplus. ev teningre recession we invested more new money in education than ever before, frozen tuition at our colleges for the longest period ever and get this: we increased the percentage of adults with college degrees faster than any other state. well, we cut more taxes for more people than any governor in montana history and we vetoed republican tax increases. and our bond rating was upgraded. now montana is moving in the right direction and so is america. when president obama took office the economy was in freefall losing more than 800,000 jobs a month. since then he has helped create 4.5 million private sector jobs and 29 straight months of job growth. stock market has doubled. energy production sup. i