it tells you the level off hypocrisy in this campaign. >> you mentioned the nbc poll. ere do we stand relative to governor romney and presidident obama? 4-point lead for president obama, but romney has no problems. four months after he has one of the nomination, people have a more negative feelings towards him that a positiv feeling. he has spent these fouronths -- misspent is four months >> he is danangerously behind in florida and ohio. >> but people still how obama has handled the presidency. -- still disapprove of how obama has handled presidency. >> political satirist ma russell has come out of retirement. "you may rall that i've got to come out of retirement on the day that congress mean skinny dip in the sea of galilee." [laughter] >> not too late e to get people back to work with higher take- home pay, not too late to reignite the american dream. we can do thihis. >> paul ryan and mitt romney are focused on novemember. so are presisident obama and vice president biden, , who, by the y, will attend at the republican convention, although i don't think he will t c

. >> the "wall street journal"-nbc poll lead output options. 3-2, voters said they wanted medicare preserved. evan makes the case that you cannot afford it. that is legitimate and compelling, but given the choice, republicans are on the defensive. >> how was the alternative to fight in the poll? >> bill mcintosh, republican pollster, romney's poller's partner -- >> tell me what he wrote. what were the words? >> if we have time, i will get a doubt -- >> i have the time. .> we don't have time >> if i am the president of the united states and a few months here -- [applause] i will set a national goal of america and north america, north american energy indepeence by 2020. that means we produce all the energy we use in north america. >> mitt romney says it will create 3 million jobs in virginia and north carolina, two states critical in the election. he is a numbers guy, evan. >> but he is, as usual, being funny. he says it will bring down gas prices, energy prices. we are in a global market. no matter how much we drill, it will not have a big impact on energy prices. that part is just not true.

a new nbc poll shows mr. romney's negative rating is at an all-tie high among latinos. 48%, and he's down with other voters. he's only got 41% of the woman's vote, and african-american voters? that's not a typo, people. he gets 0% of the black vote. 0%. this is the costs of going hard to the right. this is the cost of rolling back progress. this is the cost of extreme policies. joining me now is patricia murphy, editor of "citizen jane politics" and erin mcpike reporter for "real clear politics." thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> patricia, the gop platform is the most extreme ever. how does governor romney expect to handle this? >> well, i think we're absolutely going to see a republican convention in primetime that looks almost nothing like the republican convention that got started already in this platform committee. the platform committee is the most conservative of the conservative activists within the republican party. somebody like tony perkins from the family research counci

let's look at new polls, nbc/"wall street journal" polls the wap the country is viewing the parties. 45% of registered voters have a negative view of the republican party. 45%. 36% have a positive view. 42% of democrats view the party positively. and 40% negatively. poll also reveals mitt romney received virtually no bump after naming paul ryan as his running mate. right now the obama/biden ticket leads romney/ryan, a national poll, 48 to 44. before ryan was added to the ticket, president obama was leading romney by six points, 49/43. taking a look at 12 battleground states, president obama has seen his lead shrink to 3 points, within the margin of error. the president's lead among swing state voters was about 8 points in july. one big thing romney does have going for him, only 31% say the country is better off since president obama took office. 42% say the country is worse off. ezra, anything jump out as you look at those numbers? >> you always have to be careful with battleground polling dealing with smaller sample sizes and brings higher levels of error. you want to see a number o

. >> michael this "wall street journal" nbc poll. they were asked about the impact of the ryan pick. 22% said it was more likely to vote for romney as a as a result. 23% said less likely. 54% said does not affect the vote. as nia-malika pointed out, some of the thing was that this would bring enthusiasm from conservatives, those people questioning mitt romney's credentials and they would see this paul ryan and believe that will maybe romney is on the right direction on some of those issues. but we're not seeing ta bump here. what do you think of that? >> i think the expectation, the hope had been from the romney campaign that two weeks in, it would be a conversationing about fiscal responsibility. and instead, it's been a conversation largely about the net effect of his plan vis-a-vis medicare and now abortion. that's not where they hoped it was headed going into tampa. >> jonathan, you've got 54% saying it does not affect their vote at all. 23% saying less likely to vote for romney as a result. >> most academic studies show that in

the new nbc poll shows that 54% of americans say that the ryan pick has no effect on their vote. for the ryan bounce. joining me now is senator sherrod brown, democrat from ohio. senator, thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> good to be with you, reverend sharpton. i'm sitting where you sat a week ago, broadcasting in cleveland. >> great. let me ask you a question. is the ryan/romney budget plan, especially medicare, a plus or a minus in your state of ohio? >> it is clearly a minus. the public understands that when you do more tax cuts for the rich and cuts to pell grants which -- or stafford loensz which hurt middle class college students, working class college students, when you cut -- when you -- turn medicare into a voucher system, when you jeopardize social security, congressman ryan wanted to do in the past, you clearly dash it is the kind of economics we had during the bush that took news the wrong direction. you are seeing that all of those money interests, all over the country, coming after people, the -- drug companies, insurance companies, and the oil companies, th

>> new nbc polls give us a look at where the race stands.national race, can mitt romney move the meter by election day? and the washington nationals just keep on rolling, opening up a huge lead in the divisio

the nbc poll, "the wall street journal" poll showed half of registered voter agreed with obama that changingedicare the way ryan has suggested is a bad idea. only 34% agreed with what romney said on medicare. it seems to me that medicare has become the magnet, the lightening rod of this decision. discussion. it looks like they like the way it is. people who were on medicare like it, don't mess with it. >> well, this was what romney bought when he brought on paul ryan. whether he wanted to or not. he owns the paul ryan budget. he owns elements of it. he can distance himself or attempt, but paul ryan inject in this race. unbalanced when you talk about entitlements, people are resistant to change. republicans argue we can have this debate. we have a lot of time to make this debate let's be honest with yourselves. three weeks ago the romney campaign was not eager to spend five weeks slogging through a medicare debate and context of a general election because it takes away from the economic message which they believe is so much more lethal against president obama that they can't get to it because

. >> nbc poll. >> you can't win elections certainly with that low number and with hispanics. so she helps bring diversity. not just racial diversity but also ideological diversity. she's much more liberal on social issues than most conservatives. she was very well received inside the hall. i think what republicans want, they want people to remember mia love, condoleezza rice, marco rubio, paul ryan. they like the idea of the next generation of republicans. i think they'll look for different ways to build excitement tonight. we keep hearing rumors of some surprise guest. it's only a rumor but the name that was floating around last night was tim tebow which wouldn't surprise me if you think about bringing somebody from florida, christian, republican. again, young, fresh face. >> did you just make that up? >> i did not make that up. other people make stuff up. i just channel it. and, you know, that's one of the interesting things that's happening at this convention. people are getting introduced to what is the future of the republican party. mitt romney, win or lose, is not the

. >> you mentioned the nbc poll. where we stand relative to governor romney and president obama? >> 4-point lead for president obama. romney has real problems. four months after he won the nomination, people have a more negative feelings towards him than positive feeling. he has misspent these four months, and the obama people have filled in the blanks in lot better than romney. >> he is dangerously behind in florida and ohio. >> but people still disapprove of how obama has handled the presidency by a huge margin. >> political satirist mark russell announced that he is coming out of retirement. "you may recall that i said i would come out of retirement on the day that congressmen with skinny dip in the sea of galilee." [laughter] we are still heading for a cliff in january. what happens if we go over? >> it is not too late to get people back to work, higher take-home pay. it is not too late to reignite the american dream. we can do this. >> paul ryan and mitt romney are focused on november, as our president obama and vice president biden, who, by the way, will attend the republic

i thought that even if you look at the top line polling from our nbc/"wall street journal" poll and what chuck shared yesterday there's cause for concern in both campaigns and it's got to be cause for concern in the obama campaign. largely because you -- you're going from 47 to 50, you can't get above that 50 in some of these key states. you and i both know as you're this close to an election as the incumbent you want to be 50 or higher and be able to stay there. >> i would rather, of course, the be because the president has been consistently ahead in just about every poll. >> there's no doubt about it. in the nbc poll if you look at that approval/disapproval and the wrong direction/right direction, i find those numbers to be indicative and representative of where this thing will end. if you're the white house, you've got to be concerned a bit by these numbers and continue pushing. if you're mitt romney, as bad a week they've had, you look at the cbo report that was talked about this morning on willie's show and across the networks, both campaigns have got to figure out how you seize on

. >>> it's got to be a political polling first. 0% support. zero. according to an nbceet journal" poll, mitt romney has 0% support among african-americans. really? what about herman cain? also former congressman jc watts. colin powell. secretary of state condoleezza rice and congressman allen west of florida. the twitterverse, well, it was equally incredulous. this tweet from kara davis, quote. if a black conservative shouts in the nbc forest, does anybody hear? and this tweet from one black republican, i am the 0%, according to the liberal media. and obama. i simply don't exist. we want to talk more about that because it was so jarring to see that. joining me now are cnn contributor and democratic strategist and will cain. come on, will cain. 0%. is that possible? >> no. it's highly improbable at the very least, right? and you just pointed out a few that do exist. so, yes, let's go with impossible more than improbable. the poll conducted i think a survey of 1,000 people. if you looked into the poll, it said 12% of their respondents were african-american. that means 12

. >> jennifer: well, the latest nbc poll has romney up 53-40 over obama in white voters and a lot ofs will argue that working class whites, quote vote against their own interest. you say that's not necessarily the case. why? >> well, i think it's con descending to say what their interests are and i think you can relate to this, too. i think we look away from the importance of religion to people. people sadly i'm pro-choice. i'm a pro-choice catholic who have strongly held religious beliefs. there is a sense that people feel we have lost social cohesion, and that's not exclusively about race. the things that we did in the 60s that were so tremendous. the civil rights movement, the women's movement. we stopped the war. great things. but there was loss of cohesion, lots of disorder. riots, crime rose, families were destable. there were things in the democrat party, and the democrats got blamed for the down side of that. some gets racialized but it's not all race. it's a sense that we're not as strong of a people and we're not holding together as we once did and i think president obama--

that's according to a new nbc news poll this morning. president obama still leads romney in the poll. relatively unchanged from last month's 49-43% spread. when asked specifically about ryan, voters are nearly evenly split. 22% say ryan makes them more likely to vote for romney while 23% say the ryan pick has the opposite effect. >>> a second suspect remain tons run this morning after leading police on a high speed chase on minneso monday. they gathered to remember officer adrian morris. they left plow we'res beside a bla black-draped car outside the district 6 station. morris was killed while chasing two suspects in betsville. one man was taken into custody yesterday. morris was not wearing his seat bell and was ejected from his cruiser. >>> a man in in the hospital after being shot in the head. the shooting happened around 10:30 last night along third street in southeast washington. the victim was unconscious when officers found him. he was rushed to the hospital. in last check he was listed in critical condition. so far police have no

latinos, 28% of latinos who say that they will back governor romney in the new wall street journal nbc poll 28%. the republicans, by the way, are looking for 38%. voters. our liberal teachers unions and indoctrinating our youth? guess who really runs our public schools? f will be talking about public lou: low with the "chalk talk" we laid out howtaxpers taxpayers finance union's therei and health care law was and to the effort to unionize ismiion c health care workers. packe with these packets of thetogethr information's shuttle buses, buses, control america to rob taxpayers blind. >> what a "chalk talk."overnmt l lou: we have more to cover. this is a significant part of the true agenda. the government employee unions list united healthcare. and government starts paying more and more to health care services they will unionize.dent you'll see nurses, doctors, every 1 million members islou: >> sing.on in dues. lou: that is standing. what about the obama agenda?>> i >> the president was anan organizer. obama's is the first union labor president. lou: i did not think of that although the newt g

nbc/"wall street journal" poll.the premise you are operating off of you have to -- you know, in due course get the other votes out. i think, yes, this -- >> got to get ron to explain how he got a zero in the latest poll. just kidding. there are obviously some african-americans, i know them, who are voting for romney. i don't buy that poll. >> it is not statistically significant, chris. >> you do end up having to -- running a campaign you end up having to run up the margins where it counts. my colleague arthur delaney, who looked into this extensively, noted there is a study a brown professor did, the ads are resonating among working class white voters. they resonate with a certain audience and the audience is the audience mitt romney needs to draw up an election and testing the president's proposition you can't make things up. he is making things up and seeing if it works. >> as the first read blog pointed out today, the welfare line of attack has a lot to do with romney's need to expand his margin was white voters

i do the nbc poll. i have been doing it for 23 years.eil and i have a great honor of doing it four years ago. let me go into the slight. let me begin with where we are in terms of the nation. elections are about the mood and where we are and what it is about. the first thing that you need to know is how the country feels about it self. essentially, only 30% of americans believe things are heading in the right direction. 60% say we are on the wrong track. as an incumbent, that sets the tone. the tone for president obama will be a challenging tone. it will be more challenging by the fact that america's optimism about where we are economically indeed says this is a country full of challenges. i will talk about thethat more later. there is a change of where we are in the world. it has to do -- our trust in institutions has dropped dramatically. it used to be we trusted most institutions. today, outside of our military and outside fire man, policemen, those kinds of things, our test has dropped. it is not make any difference whether it is the

president obama leads 48-44 in the nbc poll.he is 10 points ahead in likability and running ahead with women who outnumbered men in his shot at today's speech. >> we have more work to do. >> in iowa, that it romney mentioned women. >> freedom is what americans work. president obama has tried to substitute government for free people and it has not worked. >> not helping romney is todd akin still standing, refusing to quit the senate race, casting himself as an anti-abortion hero after claiming rape victims cannot get pregnant. >> i do not apologize for the fact i am strong in my belief a pro-life. >> tropical storm isaac is a threat, so is the storm over akin. republican leaders do not want abortion competing with the economic message. i am steve handelsman, wbal tv 11 news. >> senator barbara mikulski is scheduled to speak as part of a program highlighting democratic women. 12 women are running for senate seats in the democratic party. what better person to lead the program that the long the serving women in the history of congr

you mentioned "the wall street journal"/nbc poll that shows effectively neck and neck between president obama and mitt romney. that is not true among women. it's not even close. i want you to look at this poll. there's a gender gap that is ten points. president obama, i believe, we have the graphic, is beating mitt romney by ten points, 51 to 10 and that certainly has not been helped at all. >> i think you mean 51% -- >> to 41%. thank you. 51% to 41%, ten-point lead. it doesn't help at all with the fact that down in tampa yesterday, the party adopted a platform that they had several years before, but it does not have an exemption for abortion when a woman is raped. it puts a spotlight on that issue and it certainly does not help the romney campaign. and i've talked to several senior officials who say that obviously they want to be talking about the economy. and they don't want to be talking about this. and democrats are already calling that a plank that was adopted by the party yesterday, the akin amendment. >> all right, dana bash for us this morning. thanks. next guest calls represent

her husband suffers if you look at the abc poll, the nbc poll. the delegates here hope that she can close. so the big, big event tonight, is the want to be first lady talking about the soon to be official nominee. republicans pushed the roll call of states to day one of their convention. >> proudly casts all 50 of its votes for the next president of the united states, governor milt romney. >> romney and ann are in -- earlier today ann romney took a look at where she'll give her much anticipated speech tonight. she'll say, she and mitt, have a real, not a storybook marriage and say, as his wife, she knows mitt will not fail. rnc delegates, anxious to get going after day one got cancelled. >> reporter: how do you hope ann romney helps elect mitt romney in november? >> i think ann romney is probably the greatest spokesperson that mitt romney could have. >> reporter: in his speech tonight, rising gop superstar, new jersey governor chris christ christie -- knows how to work across the aisle and get things done, but also stand for his principals. >> i

some of the polling i've seen is just -- has just been -- in particular, the "wall street journal," nbc pollhich was nonsensical. and the oversampling of democrats, i know why they do this. they oversample the democrats because they want it to be a horse race. they want something to report on. i've heard and seen internal polls that aren't nearly as close and so i think it is closer than i want it to be. i'm always amazed that mitt romney considering the deficit the broken promise on the spending, the broken promises on unemployment that mitt romney isn't ahead by double digit digits. that's what concerns me. >> jennifer: that's the question right. that is the question is in a challenging economy a candidate should be able to take greater advantage and he has not been able to do that. some people say that he's just been -- he, mitt romney, has been lousy with the media and the campaign now says that they're going to give the press more access to mitt romney. i'm wondering, in your opinion will that hurt or help? >> it depends on how i handles it. romney was well-known in the primary that he

in the nbc poll, romney trailed president obama by 22 points on the issue of who cares more about the average person. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >>> tonight police in tampa are preparing for mass arrests during the republican national convention. a county jail in the area has been redesigned to accommodate 1,000 additional people. the booking process has also been streamlined the jail normally has 1700 sin mates. the sheriff says anyone arrested will be treated properly and aafforded the same legal rights. the new jail opens for business on sunday. >>> stays with news4 for convention coverage. we will have live team coverage from the republican national convention next week. aaron gilchrist and julie carey will report from tampa. we'll have live coverage of the democrat national convention in charlotte. >>> a big break for casey anthony. why she suddenly has newfound freedom. >>> more scandalous photos could be on the way. >>> and divorce details, what katie holmes might be getting from her split with tom cruise. >>> i'm liz crenshaw. should you put an ice pack in your kid's school

the president one point up and a new nbc poll is showing 4 points, again with a margin of error. >>> on the campaign trail today, president barack obama speaks with teaches at a high school in las vegas and tonight, he will be inch new york city for events including the obama classic basketball game and meanwhile, mitt romney is speaking in iowa, while gop running mate, ryan is in virginia this morning. >>> now to the virginia senate race. the campaign has released it's first television ad. take a look. >> during the worst recession in decades. i worked with both parties to cut virginia's budget by $5 billion. i cut my own pay to lead by example. we were fiscally responsible and advancing our most important priorities, like education. why i was governor, virginia was named the best state for business and the best state to rise a child. >> all right. the former governor is using the 30 second spot to have a >>> joining us now from richmond, the virginia democratic runner. >> how are you? >> let's talk about the new ad. we got a press release about your ad. saying that -- >> let me gue

take a look at the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll at these numbers.nge medicare to a premium support program or a voucher program? good idea, 15%. bad idea, 30%. no opinion, 51%. so is this an opportunity still there for the romney/ryan campaign to try to sell this medicare idea? >> absolutely. that's why people like me are excited about paul ryan. i think it's a bold but risky move that's got potential consequences if the republicans can take this opportunity to explain what their approach is on medicare, explain what the approach on the budget is. but that's part of what the convention is going to be an opportunity to do. hopefully we can shut down the akin discussion and get on to discussions about framing what the republican plan is to save medicare because if we don't do anything, we will end medicare as we know it. >> the other thing, is there is a ten point gender gap between mitt romney and barack obama. women favoring obama. now, at this stage, this whole argument about abortion and in particular, the views of so-called legitimate rape which

latinos, 28% of latinos who say that they will back governor romney in the new wall street journal nbc poll. 28%. the republicans, by the way, are looking for 38%. this zero is the amount of support that governor romney receives from black voters. our liberal teachers unions and indoctrinating our youth? guess who really runs our public schools? we will be talking about public employee union powers the author of "shadowbosses: how government empoyee unions control america." it is deadly and it is making history. we met this is the worst west nile outbreak in the united states. it has been in 43 states. >> what we have right now is a very serious outbreak in what we need to do is interrupt the transmission cycle as quickly as we possibly can to try to save lives. lou: new reports from the cdc and we will have the latest. seventy-six days until the election and president obama in las vegas. >> hello, las vegas. it is good to be back in nevada. lou: be careful, mr. president. one famous vacationer gave new meaning to the strip and i guess. sometimes what happens in vegas doesn't really stay th

i think that came out in your recent nbc poll. he's really a huge political asset.hat the republicans understatemented obama's willingness to embrace bill clinton, to bring him into the fold. to use him as the perfect surrogate to articulate the difference between the democratic vision for america and the republicans. >> now, when you look at the fact that on that poll that she referred, to that alicia referred to. bill clinton is probably the most popular american politician around to date. 57% of americans have a positive view of clinton. more than any other american politician on that poll. >> he was extremely popular as a president. and as people get further away from their terms, their popularity seems to rise. it even happened to nixon, and it's happening somewhat to gourge w. bush. i'm sure 10, 20 years, he'll get a little more benefit of that distance. when people look back at the 90s, real wages actually rose somewhat for the first time in several decades. things were pretty good. there was a tech bubble that helped things along, and then -- which then fed

when you look at the data from "the wall street journal" poll and nbc news/"wall street journal" pollquestion is asked here, does paul ryan's selection make voters more or less likely to vote for governor mitt romney? and that's what that poll asked. well, the verdict for ryan, it decreases the likelihood by one percentage point. perhaps causing a drag. the poll includes one day of the todd akin controversy. compared to other picks, yeah. ryan is no sarah palin. she boosted her running mate's polls by 9 percentage points but as we know, that faded. joe biden was not far behind. his bounce netted barack obama a positive eight points. those two were in the small leagues though. the bigs were led by john edwards who catapulted john kerry by 21 followed by joe lieberman who spiked al gore's poll numbers by 13. the pick closes to ryan's negative one percentage point, dick cheney, who registered a net positive two points. small upticks could be republican trait. data shows below average gain for republicans in general. one consideration do voters know the person? in ryan's case certainly be

>> we just had released tonight "wall street journal" nbc poll showing that the president is ahead ofhat is unchanged from the month before and in the month before that. if you look at that poll at least it's been a remarkably stable race. >> greta: convince me why i should care about a national poll. i think the--i think when it's the swing states, battle ground states are the polls making a difference. because it could be the national poll could be skewed by highly-populated state. >> it's true. we've seen a little movement, mitt romney seems to be doing better in ohio, florida, wisconsin. so he is showing progress in battle ground states. boy say as far as national polls are concerned about you average all of the polls together or maybe last half dozen you usually get a pretty good picture of where the electorate is. averages and polls tend to do well when you get close to election day, you can look at that average and what happened on election day. they're not bad predictions. >> greta: i won't ignore national polls anymore. >> don't do it. >> thank you. >> greta: you're going to