and president obama has walked with the hispanic community. because of president obama's work more hispanics have access to health care. more hispanic students can afford a college education and now dreamers who are american in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation! (cheers and applause) mitt romney, on the other hand, is walking away from us. he walks with people who disrespect us and people who divide us. and people who who do not believe that the american dream means all of us. president obama has walked with us for the last four years-- in good time and in tough times and now we are going to walk with the president to the polls and onward to victory! thank you, democrats! (cheers and applause) >> ifill: all right, we just heard from congresswoman nidia velasquez of new york and coming on to the stage right now up to the lectern is the governor of the state of illinois, pat quinn. >> delegates and fellow americans it is an honor to be with you this evening and it's an honor to trent great state of illinois,

quite honestly, if it does, obama has nothing left to do. he will have actually achieved his goal, if i am correct, but that is actually his goal. >> i was wondering what your thoughts are about why president obama authorize the military action -- [inaudible question] >> the question is obama, in his his book, the advisory of hope, makes a very interesting observation about the modern. he says, and i quote him now, quoting from my book "obama's america", he is no ho chi minh. think about that for a minute. he is no ho chi minh. think about that. ho chi minh was a good guy. ho chi minh was a true nationalist and a true freedom fighter and he was trying to push the french and then the americans out of vietnam. he is a good guy. obama -- i mean, osama is not a freedom fighter in the same sense. because he's not defending his own country against american occupation. he is joining with a bunch of gangsters to come and knock down our buildings in the different countries. the gee hotties in iraq and afghanistan, they are freedom fighters. they shoul

president obama has faced on another group of naysayers. ld not crack and should nots, the republican party has become the party of the would not crack and he will nots. they pledged on day one that they would not lift a finger to help. they have not. in the debt of the great recession, as millions of americans struggled to find work, the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, said that republicans' number one goal was to make barack obama a one-term president. [crowd boos] they would not cooperate to create jobs. they would not try to turn around the economy. they would not do anything but stand in the way of president obama. i have had a front-row seat to watch the tea party take over the republican party. for three and a half years, they would not govern. they could not lead. we should not let them take over the senate or the white house. [cheers and applause] we must stop the tea party before the united states senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who do not recogn

obama has been active in egypt in pushing mubarak out of power. not only that, but now that there's a power struggle going on between the military and the muslim brotherhood, the obama administration is intervening on the side of the muslim brotherhood warning the egyptian military turn over power to the muslim brotherhood, or we'll cut off military aide. he can say he's a champion of democracy. these people were freely elected, and, yet, a year earlier in 2009, when there were massive demonstrations, bigger than in that her square -- tahir square in teheran calling for democracy, call for free elections, obama flatly refusioned to support the democrats saying we have to stay out of this. there's a debate going on in iran. let them settle it. it was settled with the muslim s beating on the protesters. that was that. why here and not there? as far as i can tell, no explanation. it's not enough to look at the things he's doing, but dig a little bit and see why he's doing them. what's the underlying single standard that can unravel obama's apparent do

obama has been very active in egypt in pushing mubarak out of power. not only that, but now there's a power struggle going on with the military, and the muslim brotherhood, the obama administration is intervening on the side of the muslim brotherhood. obama has warned the egyptian military, you better turn over power to the muslim brotherhood or we are going to cut off military aid. so obama can say i am a champion of democracy. these people were freely elected and get a year earlier, in 2009 when there were massive demonstrations, bigger than in tahrir square, in iran, calling for democracy, the end of the free election, obama flatly refuse to support the democrats. he said we have got to stay out of this. there's this big debate going on in iraq. we will let them settle it and it was settled with the mullahs basically beating up the protesters and that was that. again, why is obama intervening here but not there? as far as i can tell, no explanation. so here, it's not enough just to look at the things he is doing. you kind of have to dig and a little

helps to remind waiverring voters of what a mess president obama was handed and all that president obama has done to clean up that mess. >> at this point, we remember president clinton talking about try triangulation. but does this mean that mr. obama, by handing president clinton such a prime spot, is moving more toward the middle? >> i heard president obama has governed from the middle. very much in the spirit of bill clinton. we can't be distracted or fooled by the demonization of the republicans in congress these four years. >> now i'm looking at your state, for example, and just like everywhere else, the right way, wrong way numbers are not good. the majority of people say hey, the country is going in the wrong direction. how do you convince those folks waiverring that they need to rehire president obama, as it were. >> well, i think we have to take care. the right direction, wrong direction numbers have been off for the better part of a decade now. the numbers you have to look at are approval rating and head to head in virginia for almost the entirety of the last 12 months. president o

and president obama has walked with the hispanic community. because of president obama's work more hispanics have access to health care. more hispanic students can afford a college education and now dreamers who are american in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation! (cheers and applause) mitt romney, on the other hand, is walking away from us. he walks with people who disrespect us and people who divide us. and people who who do not believe that the american dream means all of us. president obama has walked with us for the last four years-- in good time and in tough times and now we are going to walk with the president to the polls and onward to victory! thank you, democrats! (cheers and applause) >> ifill: all right, we just heard from congresswoman nidia velasquez of new york and coming on to the stage right now up to the lectern is the governor of the state of illinois, pat quinn. >> delegates and fellow americans it is an honor to be with you this evening and it's an honor to trent great state of illinois,

obama understands. it is the story he has lived. obama is fighting for an economy in which every family gets a chance to be a part of a secure middle-class and an economy built to last, at that is built from the middle out. mitt romney and paul ryan have a very different vision for our economy. to them every problem is a nail and the only hammered they have is cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires. they believe in this field approach so deeply that they would cut anything from student loans to help care for seniors to give the wealthiest americans in even bigger break. their plan would cut away at the foundation of our great nation. it would mean throwing in the towel on our middle-class. we're not going to let them do it. not with president obama in the white house. not with a strong democratic majority having his back in the senate. as chairman, it is my job to keep the senate in democratic hands. why is that important tax listen to what a republican congress would do with a republican president. they would end medicare

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and anyway it's message, the obama campaign has taken this idea of romney that it's just going to be inst obama. voters aren't going to see him as a viable alternative. there are two big dynamics there. and a lot of the voters i talked to, even though they were disappointed in obama, and some are reluctant to vote for him again, some of them don't think he has had enough time and that he didn't create the crisis, he inherited the crisis. and that has held obama up even though it's still tough times. >>> the red line had become a major issue in the 2012 election, how to stop iran in getting nuclear weapons coming up. [ woman ] it's 32 minutes to go time, and the candidate's speech is in pieces all over the district. the writer's desktop and the coordinator's phone are working on a joke with local color. the secure cloud just received a revised intro from the strategist's tablet. and while i make my way into the venue, the candidate will be rehearsing off of his phone. [ candidate ] and thanks to every young face i see out there. [ woman ] his phone is one of his biggest supporters. [ f

>> president obama has kept thousands of first responders on the job. >> he's saved the jobs of teachers. >> because of president obama's courage... >> he invested in clean energy, made health care a right. >> jon: made american babies 15% cuter! he invented a car that runs on hugs! president obama set up the jolly green giant with the statue of liberty. oh, yes, it seems obvious now! (laughter) anything else? >> when a violent egyptian mob stormed the israeli embassy in cairo it was president obama who intervened to ensuring the safety of the israelis. >> jon: what is he (bleep)ing iron man now? what are you talking about? (cheers and applause) look, we get it. obama's been busy. >> president obama has worked with our small businesses. president obama has walked with seniors. with our young people. with america's women. and president obama has walked with the hispanic community. >> jon: but when the hispanic community looked back, there was only one set of footprints. (laughter and applause) i'll tell you what, though, with that commitment to all that work my guess is it's the family li

breaking details, new evidence and testimony contradicting just about everything that the obama administration has been telling the american people about the murder of ambassadors -- ambassador stevens in benghazi and a senior antiterrorism official directly contradicting the obama administration, calling the assault an act of terror. former cia officer and pulitzer prize-winning author judith miller will be joining us to assess these developments. my next guest says that president obama is buying voters by luring people onto entitlements, essentially creating a dependent mass of voters who are gathering in ever greater numbers at the public trough. joining us now is one of the countries most thoughtful and provocative thinkers, cofounder of the discovery institute, george gilder author of the new edition of "wealth and poverty." >> great to be here and. lou: the idea that you have written recently, the governor romney and congressman ryan bring a new philosophy to washington. that will charge our political establishment and invigorating invigorate this economy. the idea is not to think about solv

the upheaval over an anti-islam video has suddenly become mr. obama's serious foreign policy crisis of the election season, and a range of analysts say it presents questions about his tenets of his foreign policy. did he do enough in the arab spring? has he drawn a hard enough line against islamic extremists? did his administration fail to address security concerns? >> first of all, i think we have to concede that george herbert walker bush's relationship with the then prime minister of israel was arguably much worse than what we're seeing now. so republicans as well as democrats have had difficulty, congressman, in the past with israel. >> in the post-9/11 world. there's never been a relationship like this. >> that said, assuming that this president has not handled the israeli-palestinian issue well, but the arab spring has been a much greater, much broader troubling issue that arguably not any american president could handle very effectively. that is not the argument. that is not the policy argument that mitt romney has made. mitt romney's -- the crit

jessica, obama has a slight leaded in florida right now.kis kissimmee. jessica, obama has a slight leaded in florida right now.iss kissimmee. jessica, obama has a slight leaded in florida right now.ss kissimmee. jessica, obama has a slight leaded in florida right now. kissimmee. jessica, obama has a slight leaded in florida right now. kissimmee. jessica, obama has a slight leaded in florida right now. but the white house not taking it for granted. >> reporter: oh, gosh, no. the race is too tight here in the state of 29 electoral votes. could be the decease sif state for which man will win the white house. right you no tw the president campaigning an cross t ining ac corridor where most swing voters live. they're trying to pick up the region's young voters and latino voters andle also a lot of folks who have seen foreclosures and seen the job hard times but did vote for the president last time and he has to try win them back with another four years. >> so this is the first campaign stop since the democratic convention wrapped up thursday nig

she, i think, has been converted. michelle obama who hesitated about moving to the white house, who felt unease with politics had a rough first year behind-the-scenes as first lady. has found she is fact kind of a master of the forum. >> charlie:and kind of popular. >> what i would say about michelle not in terms of their internal dynamics of the relationship but what she represents for barack obama and the country, he came out of a ip probable and exotic life and michelle is normality. she's the conventionali he wanted in his life. it's important she projects that tonight, that he's not this strange guy. he's part of a strong nuclear family. and i'm a regular person and so is he. >> charlie:hi spoke to them in an interview they very much wanted me to know or make the case for themselves that he very much liked campaigning, that he loved the ebb and flow, loved being out there, he loved all of that. yet at other times people say he doesn't, he has a certain distance and that he has a problem connecting. >> i think it's changed. the

the politico executive editor write romney advisers privately conceded to them that obama has a much clearer path to victory. most disappointing they say is ohio now leans clearly in obama's favor which is why mitt romney is at a rally right now. politico ken vogel it here with us. ken, no republican has won the white house without winning ohio in the entire history of america. given your reporting at politico, this thing over? should we all go home? >> certainly the advantage obama is enjoying in ohio is something that cheers his supporters in his campaign, but they even acknowledge there's still a lodge way to go particularly to the economic trend line if the job reports have bad news. there's a chance for mitt romney to make it around the economy and hang the economy around obama's neck. if he does that, we'll see movement in ohio potentially. the other thing kind of favors romney even though president obama outraised him for the first time in august. we saw them just come out with their figures early it this morning. these outside groups that mitt romney has on the side are able t

a new washington post poll has president obama out front in ohio and florida. inside the numbers we see how the president has hit home with ohio voters on understanding economic problems people are having right now. obama beats romney by 31 on connecting on their problems. 51 points in florida -- actually, 15. on handling taxes, president obama beats romney by a wide margin, 17 points in ohio. in florida it's closer, leads by one. in handling medicare, obama beats romney by 1 in ohio, 15 in florida. what i understand, looking at the differential, florida has a lot of retired people, obviously. very sensitive. in a sense, ohio has people who can't afford to get down to florida in the wintertime. their social security, medicare, and maybe if they're lucky, some pension and savings. >> you know, we've talked about this for months now. after the 2010 election, obama sat down and thought about what his message is, his vision is, his strategy going into 20 1237 that's what i wrote about in "showdown" and he's stuck to this with such devotion and passion, because he be

and president obama has no plans in the future to fix it. >> finally, michelle obama's dress, a win? >> oh, great. great dress. great speech. she's a great first lady. >> a happy note of contented agreement. happy to see you again. >> nice to see you. >>> when we come back, my all-star panel. we're going to get into all these issues and find out what the truth is if we can. >>> welcome back to the cnn grill here in charlotte in north carolina. it is still boiling hot outside and in. so is all the political gossip and intrigue. mitt romney's foreign policy spokesman, editor of townhall.com and author of "fast and furious: barack obama's bloodiest scandal and the coverup," hilary rosen. how to rebuild the dream and author of rebuild the dream. welcome to you all. you are thinking yeah. >> i'm in love again. >> boys and girls. >> i'm in love again. >> let me start with you. i watched you this morning on tv. you actually got quite emotional about the prospect of a michelle obama speech and what it meant. having watched it now what do you think? >> it was more powerful than i thought. i w

. >> obama voters showed up in full force today in iowa. the election has begun in the first swing state with early voting. and the obama campaign isn't letting up. >> 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 bain years. >> bain capital is an investment partnership. >> i'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 that whole thing down. >> and the guy who has no idea what 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 with us tonight, folks. thank for watching. iowa kicked off the 2012 election in 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 i

obama argued he has rescued the economy from disaster and planted the seeds for a continued recovery. he vowed to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by 2016 and to double exports by 2014. on foreign policy, obama highlighted the killing of osama bin laden, the withdrawal of troops from iraq and the planned drawdown from afghanistan. in a theme he touched on throughout his speech, obama said the "change" he promised four years ago would take time, but was surely underway. >> our problems can be solved. our challenges can be met. the path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place and i'm asking you to choose that future. >> we will have more from president obama's speech after the headlines and host the debate. at least 50 people i've been killed in a pair of earthquakes in southwestern china. the chinese government says the quakes damaged thousands of buildings, displacing some 20,000 people. the united nations food agency says global prices have stabilized at levels near those of the 2008 crisis that sparked unrest across the globe. ahead of the food and agriculture

caller, i feel that president obama has been doing a good job. d has a lot to do it when he came into office. no one seems to appreciate all the things he has done. i thought maybe he did not want to jump back into the war. i think he is more pro-life, because he wants the drones. that is a good idea, though i could be wrong. sending drones instead of people to die. on the other hand, mitt romney -- first of all, it is clear to me, president obama is doing things to help everybody in the country. romney, first of all, i do not even understand how he is allowed to be in the race. he said something about iran, they should send a dirty bomb into chicago. how can you say something out of your mouth like that? he should be reprimanded for that. this guy is just way off. lawrence,s hear from idaho falls, republican. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i finally got a new phone and i guess it really works. anyway, what i have to say, you know, if you are going to meet with the united nations and you are right up there and you cannot take

obama has 201 electoral votes. romney only has 181 state electoral votes so romney really needs to make up those votes. in order to make up those 20, he needs to win the majority of these tossup states. right now, we have him projected to win missouri. also north carolina. >> jennifer: north carolina. so north carolina and missouri. those are the two you have him predicted to win. >> that's right. based on current polling. >> jennifer: are all of the others going clearly for obama? >> more or less. so virginia has been flip-flopping back and forth. >> jennifer: what is it today? >> as of this afternoon with the current "wall street journal" poll, it just flipped back to obama. >> jennifer: new hampshire obama. pennsylvania -- so we're going to do obama obviously because who else would it be? all of the rest, right? that's red and that is blue. so that means that obama has according to your polls your data analytics 332 electoral votes to romney's 206. >> we don't necessarily think it will play out exactly like this

obama has done it in less than four years.e need a fact check here. >> let's do a fact check on whether it was contracting between 0 and 4% and we were headed toward a great depression. >> we had a very large financial collapse right at the end of the bush administration. it was over in june of 2009 according to the economists. >> you're both terrific. both making strong points. mayor, uh appreciate you coming wrong. governor haley barbour, thank you for coming on. maybe we'll have the same twosome go at it again. maybe obama will say he'll need a few more years to get america's problems solved. really? [ male announcer ] at scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our support teams are nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investors are saying... all ]

top donors work. >> if you want to be successful ... >> and gender. >> obama has been engaging both men and women at a pretty solid clip. >> 44% of mr. obama's funds have come from women, 56% from men. compared to governor romney where women is responsible for 29%. male donors make up 70%. for as much as both campaigns are taking in, they are getting to know you better in hopes that you will open up your wallet. >> campaigns are becoming much for sophisticated as a retail, door to door kind of identify the voters that will support you. >> president obama has a significant advantage hit comes to individual contributions, the supporters of governor romney have vested the president in outside fundraising. the super political action committees. jim osman from washington. >>> now maryland's most accurate forecast. >> maryland's most powerful radar is crystal clear. we continue to see the clear weather holding. in baltimore itself, conditions muggy but still not as humid as it has been. the dew point of 66. about a five point drop from the 72 dew point. i'm not saying i