came out 53 obama. 23 romney. y after the debate. 53 obama. 42 romney. so how are you going to vote? 51% in the polls said they were going to vote for obama and 45% for romney. judd the other issue and to bob schieffer's credit, it was the first one he went to, i thought it was going to be the one real flash point of last night's debate and that was libya. i'm sure mitt romney was not going to make the mistake again of you didn't say this the day after -- because he lost that round the last time. but still, i could see where with the right attack, the administration might be vulnerable on what happened in benghazi and its response to it. but even there romney didn't score. did he? >> well, not only did he not score. didn't even try. didn't even mention at all of the attacks except to just say that it was a tragedy. but besides that, sort of moved on quickly to sort of a broader critique of the middle east. and you know, we watch this pretty closely. and since that last debate, ine though he had what was a pretty ba

romney: mr. president, have you looked at your pension? mr. president, have you looked at your pension. >> obamat look at my pension. it's not big as yours, it doesn't take me long. >> eliot: and romney struggled over the strike that killed four americans in ben gas did i. >> obama: the day after the attack i stood in the rose garden and told the american people of the world that we were going to find out exactly what happened. that this was an act of day after the attack that it was an act of terror? it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying? >> obama: please proceed governor. >> romney: i want to make sure that we have that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the event in bengahzi an act of terror. >> he did call it an act of terror. >> obama: could you say that louder, candy. >> he did call it an act of color. >> eliot: this is what he said after the attacks of bengahzi. >> no acts of terror will shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. >> eliot: this morning bo

53% said romney. 44% said president obama. hanel the nation's deficit, 57% said romney. 41% said president obama. we asked, who agrees with your views about government? that was the question we asked. 54% said governor romney. 44% said president obama. anderson, looks like a clean sweep on all those respective questions for governor romney over president obama. >> wolf, are you clear who these voters are? republicans democrats? >> registered voters, republicans, democrats, undecided. people called, scientific survey. we wanted to make sure they watched the debate. not all registered voters, not all likely voters, these are registered voters who watched the debate. >> you are getting the sample you get. you call after the debate. our sample of debate watchers, a sample of people watching the debate. registered voters. a few point more republicans than a typical sample of all americans. a few points, not a large lead. a few points more republican, so some people say, a-ha, 67/25. romney still trounces on about every characteristi

answer the question. >> romney: and it is. >> obama: production is up. >> romney: production on oil ond is 14% and production of gas is down 9%. >> obama: that's not true. >> romney: you're a person who will push for oil gas and coal. you'll get your chance in a moment. i'm still speaking. >> obama: well, i want to answer your question. >> romney: that was not a question. have you looked at your pension. >> obama: you know i don't look at my pension. it's not as big as yours. it wouldn't take as long. i don't check it that often. >> romney: let me give you some advice, look at your pension. >> cenk: let me give you some advice, mitt romney stop talking. mitt romney was totally misleading on the oil from federal land. do you know what happened under obama's watch? oil production went up 14%. what is romney talking about? one year where permits went down. why did it go down? because the bp disaster. they put a moratorium for one year. even despite that production went up. do you want to keep going romney. >> obama: please proceed governor. >> cenk: by all means but let's be fair to romne

times, lackluster obama, revived romney. dennis: use. where was obama tonight? oing out there. he had his head down and in during the debate rather than fighting it. james carville saying, quote, mitt romney came in with a chain saw. only the new york times had the. its headline says obama and romney in first debate spar over fixing the economy. that is a hedge. let's bring in branch brent z boze bozell. i am astonished the few in the liberal media would admit that romney won. >> kind of said last night before this started unpredicted romney was going to win and the media were going to say romney lost which is what they always do but they couldn't because it was such a pharaoh complete victory by romney. understand what is going on. you are not completely wrong here. watch the counter spin. it already started. it is all about how obama was lackluster. obama was and firing on all cylinders. obama was an prepared. all those things may be true but that is just the beginning of it. not just that romney was prepared and the opposite is romney had facts and romney had

and then you've got the obama care situation. it's amazing romneyhasn't said that much about obama care. why is this? >> romney is the grandfather of obama care is just a bad rap. let me tell what you i know about the spending. i'm on a tour, i'm in my 11th city and we're on a tour and i'm going to be doing a debate listening party at arizona state university tonight. this will be the 11th university i've been to, i've had 11 lunches with business owners. let me tell you what the people understand that i believe governor romney is going to drive home. spending is destroying this nation and i think if he stays on that message, he's going to do just fine. >> but, herman, doesn't he shav to say something about it? i have jim boykin here, smart guy, he's already challenging holtz-eakin on that. how much? where? defense? nondefense? safety net? where's it going to come from? >> i can't tell you where it's going to come from but i do believe it's going to be specific. i do know that the american people, regardless of the specifics on spending, i agree wit

romney lost this debate on points but he won it because he contradicted the image barack obama has sought to portray of him, reckless, bombing people, putting troops in syria. that is why you are seeing the steady momentum of romney which as of today puts him up in the gallup poll 5. >> el more? >> you can cite the national poll all you want but the election is all about ohio and the president is still doing well there. mr. romney went into this debate not wanting to win, and he didn't. but he wanted to reassure people he wasn't going back to the george w. bush ollis policies. no more iraqs. and he wanted to assure women he was not a war monger. >> uh-huh. >> talking about a peaceful planet and gender quality in the middle east. it is astounding how he has shifted his policies. in fairness he has two sets of advisers. reasonable people working for him and some who would like to reenact the bush years. i think he hears from beth the realists and that additionallists won out certainly in this debate. >> i notes you characterized him as mr. romney. the president did that also during the deba

obama. one change in status benefiting romney. went from lean obama to tossup. ey gained in colorado, ohio, virginia, and wisconsin, all battleground states. but no change in the status in those. missouri and nevada became stronger for obama. no change in status for those. >> bret: of that, joe. what do you see as important? >> all the states move to romney even though they haven't changed status matter. but ohio is the real interesting thing, because when you look at it, both karl and i threw out a marist poll that happened some time ago with eight-point lead for obama. we threw that out. moving as a tossup today. that would be very significant. when you look at a trend line of ohio, though, throughout the whole campaign, romney has never actually crossed in the lead there in the average of real clear politics average of the trend line. is that moving? because right now the line if you look at them are starting to go closer together again like after the convention. that is significant. >> bret: when you talk debate, that is the question that everybody is front a

mitt romney or barack obama? barack obama. >> so you're supporting barack obama. >> dana: this race has tightened up. with that endorsement to put president obama over the top. >> for those two to take a little time-out with as much as they have on their paper plate that they do to come in and do this. it's touching. >> bob: listen, they left the rc cola an moon pie behind when they got there. >> my nickname for you when i watch the show at home is honey boo boo. [ laughter ] >> do you watch the show? >> every day. >> that's why he came in to say hi. >> eric: you said you are -- you're a romney supporter. >> bob: that's a surprise. >> you are doing something coming up, right? >> listen, i have been socially liberal but i think he is a good man. when operosky got up and talked and he had a blue shirt on and talked about his famil family. people throw great around but there are good men in world. a good man. he works hand in glove with the 87% of the state legislature inm., we need somebody who can reach out. this c

here's mitt romney conceding one of his most frequent attacks on president obama. this was mitt romney at a rally that day admitting that president obama has not raised taxes while he has been in office. seriously? mitt romney is dropping that argument? he doesn't think president obama has raised taxes? no, not really. his campaign later saying, never mind what mitt romney just said. that's not actually what he believes. sure, he said president obama didn't raise taxes, and president obama didn't raise taxes, but really, mitt romney officially thinks that he did. they have done this over and over and over and over again, on big issues like health reform, on small issues like whether he met a guy or not. and it is a ridiculous technique. i mean, think about what this means for the long run. i mean, the romney campaign is training the country to not believe this guy when he is talking. they're training the country to feel that, you know, wherever you hear mitt romney saying something today, don't worry, it doesn't really matter. it is all subject to revision later. lo

romney would hyperfocus on that. when you talk about who won with women, 41% women for obama and 34% for romney. >> it's 56 for obama,> right, exactly. so look, the president in polling is looking at historically low numbers among white men. both campaigns think that is relatively locked in. that is not going to change much. that there is much more malleability at the end, moveability, if that's a word, among women in the final stages. and the president i think, given that second debate and everything that's happened after, really focusing on issues trying to move his numbers back up among women, which declined after that first debate. and i think you saw him yesterday, that steadiness, may have been very appealing. romney, i think, tried to be less threatening. i mean, you know, he was across the board we can't kill our way out of this. we don't want another iraq or afghanistan. much more kind of diplomacy tone on iran than during the primaries. but there was a sense, i think, of unsteadiness that may have hurt him more with women. >> the 22-point gap among women that's where obama wants to be. >> that's where he ha

. >> i'm sorry, obama came out with a loot of jabs. romney had won a great answer at the 1-hour mark where it the guy said "i voted for obama, i am disappointed," and he gave a devastating takedown of obama's record. i think that overall, obama won on jabs. that is why you got this reaction, the seven-point reaction overall in the flash calls for obama, but romney won on the economic issue. since the economic issue is the most important, it will be a wa sh in terms of its effect on the election. >> nina? >> in a way, obama could not and cannot overcome the damage in the first debate, because what happened in the first debate is that romney became acceptable. he did not look like the mean, rich guy who was sort of thoughtless and unconnected from the real world. once you make somebody acceptable, it is very hard to make him unacceptable. they had made him unacceptable, and when obama did not keep the heat on in that first debate -- i don't know if it will be a decisive mistake, but it was a really serious mistake. >> and let's keep going, and

romney showed everybody what a bully he is. yeah well, president obamahave called him on it. a listener or viewer who identifies himself or herself as blue voodoo simply says we got etch-a-sketched! that's not my plan today says romney. well if romney runs on being the same as barack obama then why would anyone change horses midstream and go through the same learning curve all over again? and anita parnell says thank you, thank you, thank you for having jamal simmons in yesterday. yes, a big thank you to john fuglesang and jamal simmons for stepping in here while i was off for a couple of days. two more hours of debate talk coming up. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> bill: yes hello everybody! what do you say? it is thursday, october 4. this is the "full court press" on current tv. welcome, welcome to the program. good to see you this morning. and thank you for joining us. this big thursday morning the morning after the first presidential debate and the big question is where was president obama? too bad he didn't show up last

on "the young turks," we're going to show you how president obama smashed mitt romney last night. >> obama: in the 1980s or now calling and ask for their foreign policy back. we visited their web site quite a bit and it still doesn't work. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. >> cenk: a lot more of that. that's going to be fun! we've got match-ups. then we've got mitt romney sweating up a storm. what was he so nervous about? mark hamill is back in the studio to break that part of the debate down. >> there's like scripted drama where you couldn't believe the stunned look on his face. >> cenk: and then reverend jesse jackson joins us to break down the sensata controversy. >> make no mistake about it, sensata, freeport, illinois, is ground zero on the american fight to keep jobs here in the united states. [ applause ] >> cenk: and more elbows than you can shake your first at. go time! >> obama: i said if i got bin laden in sights, i would take that shot. >> the president was way too aggressive. >> the president was more articula

mitt romney attacked obama's decision... or the nation and our workers." how can mitt romney take on the cheaters... when he's taking their side? >>> the impressions the candidates make in tonight's presidential debate could prove crucial in a very close race. they've rehearsed a lot of various scenarios using stand-ins for the so-called other guy. let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. you've spent time with rob portman who's been playing president obama for mitt romney in the practice debate sessions. portman takes the job very seriously, doesn't he? >> he takes it very seriously. and by all accounts he's really good at it. that's why republican candidates for the past decade plus have been asking him to play the role of the democratic candidate in these mock debates. and, you know, he does -- what he does to prepare he told me isn't just read the books and read the policy papers and watch the video of the democratic candidate so he can embody them and understand their policy prescriptions, he also

. >> el prÓximo cara a cara entre romney y obamaue obama no habrÁ mencionado algunos de los temas con las cuales ha estado golpeando a romney durante los Últimos meses, fuepues los asess dicen que estaba mÁs enfocado en las preguntas que le hace yanÍa las de romney. >> hay que recalcar el papel muy importante de los redes sociales anoche. >> asÍ es josÉ incluso los usuarios de facebook y twitter por ejemplo no esperaron que los analistas polÍticos dieron sus opiniones casi inmediato comenzaron hablar en estas redes sociales los que estaban viendo como estaba pues se conectaba romney obama, el problema que los administrativas dicen que generÓ 10.000 twitter por minutos. >> >> nos vamos a mÉxico en el asesinato del hijo del ex gobernador del pri tiene a muchos pensando que tuvo que ver con el narcotrÁfico, raÚl torres tiene los detalles desde la capital mexicana. >> horas antes que los encontraran muerto, encabezaba un acto, era funcionario, por la noche el cuerpo del hijo del ex gobernador humberto moreira y sobrino, fue encontrado e

romney did d do well comred to obama. there was disappointment with prident obama in n thee democratic ranks aer the first debate. i think he has start to regain some of that with the last two performances, but that has said --he first debate has had a tremendous impact. >> but wherever obama goes, you hear him say, out and vote, you have to vote. >>>> on the votes that have low turnout rates. blacksand hispanics are people that he needs, and that catapulted h to the top in 2008. remember, there was a big turnout in 2 2008. those people lack the passion today and he needs to find them and get ththat out. >> the pew research center and a recent harvard university poll indicates, if they are accurate, that fewer young people are going to turn out f for obama this time. >> i don't thihink you really need a survey to te you that. your own eyes and exexperiences can tell you that. i don't know anybody who says young people are going to vote more this year. >> the o one t thing obama has is this data mining thing, this state of

romney. caller: i think president obama is very sincere. a very likable person. but i am for mitt romney. i think he has a future outlook for the country. obama is a sincere man. he really is. but romney has an outlook for the country. especially tonight with the form policy. i do not think obama is really knowledgeable about foreign policy. he has made some mistakes. economics. host: thank you for the call. from our twitter page -- we will show you the scene outside of the theater and inside the media filing center where supporters and sarah is for governor romney and president obama gave their own spin from the debate. red for romney supporters and blue for the supporting president obama. an undecided voter from north carolina. good evening. caller: both of them -- president obama and mitt romney failed to say anything about small businesses. what are they going to do a? i serve in the military. i now work for a small business. although my health care they took away -- all of my health care they took away. under obama, i will get health care. that is why i like his idea about the militar

hardly a point where you can say that momentum has carried romney ahead of barack obama. titanic, yes, but momentum to the point where he would -- >> romney was dead in the water until the first debate. >> of course. >> he has had a surge. i tend to think the surge is over. but that surges what made him a contender. >> what was it about that debate that just change the tide? is thea's arrogance single biggest problem. it showed him sleepy, and different, why am i here. at the last debate, that he won, he was a bit too much of a put down artist. with women voters especially, that is a problem. >> horses and bayonets, that thing? >> it wasn't just that obama did poorly but it is that romney did well and became, as mark said, moderate mitt. that is where people in the republican party traditionally move after the primary, and he had not, he had been savaged by obama in an avalanche of bad, and he redeem himself in the debate. >> we have this a fiscal problem looming on january 2. a report by the association of national manufacturers indicates that the fiscal cliff is already

the latest poll gives obama 70% of the hispanic vote. romney has backpedaled and the written policy with a much softer focus on illegal immigration. some say this is a chance to touch home the new message. >> throw away the rhetoric, the language that turns people off, and talk about it in a real leadership way. >> as night falls, the intense preparations are at an end. they will soon face each other for a debate but some say will shake up the race for the white house. >> so, how significant is tonight's debate? i am joined by the national editor of "a vanity fair" magazine. thank you very much. obviously, these debates have been analyzed for their significance. given the context of this election, how significant is tonight? >> it could be significant. the balance of the evidence suggests that the challenger has to gain in the first debate. he has the most -- obviously, mitt romney has the most to gain. he also has the most to lose. if he cannot show himself as a possible candidate, he will not turn around the trajectory. president obama has hi

obama. and romney carrying all the other swing states. at scenario both candidates would be at 269 electoral votes. the next scenario would be colorado, virginia and which is going for obama and the other ones going for romney. a third scenario would be new hampshire, north carolina and virginia all going for obama although this seems unlikely given most people see north carolina kind of leaning towards romney and virginia kind of leaning towards obama. those states would have to basically flip between now and election day. so those are three of the kind of most likely scenarios that we would see a tie one. >> if by some chance we had tie what would happen? >> well it's interesting. obviously this is something that hasn't happened here. we would send to it the house of representatives where each state would vote according to its congressional delegate, each state would have an equal vote, one vote out of 50 that would determine the next president. this is a scenario where republicans would probably win because right now they have majoritie

in 16 of them, romney has led among in dependents by an average of 13 points. obama has led among independents in two and two polls they didn't break it out by republican, democrat or independent. it is hard to believe if romney is leading among republicans and by independents that he is not going to win. >> chris: one last question. you have the map like it is set in stone but you hear talk about the possibility there could be new states that come on. talk about pennsylvania and michigan and minnesota. could romney have a chance in any of these other states that we he had previously thought were pretty solid for obama? >> he bought television in minnesota but only minneapolis tv to hit the far western counties of wisconsin. i would say that we ought to watch and see what happens this next week in michigan and pennsylvania. >> chris: they could come into play? >> they lean obama but moved from obama to lean obama if there s a national trend as it appears to be since the first debate moving in romney's direction. >> chris: , ten seconds. >> i don't think those states

taxes, romney obama 44%. the federal budget 44%. the federal budget deficit, romney obampolicy, obama 49%, romney 47%. favoring governor romneyings on the broad question -- romney, on the broaeydebate question, governor romney was governor romney was winner, br 48%, compared to -- president obama 48% compared to governor romney 39%. what do you make of those numbers? >> i think the debate is very defining now, it's been definitive in terms of who's going to win the election. romney did manage to resuscitate his campaign, particularly in the first debate. i agree, i thought the debate the bama was much better in second debate. we'll see what happens in the third debate, but it has certainly established romney as a credible president or a possible president. he was presidential in both of those debates, and without that he w done for as far as i'm concerned. >> i hope both of those categories romney clearly won. >> no. i have alwayshebelieved that th economy is very bad, the unemployment numbers are terrible and ultimatelyevi thin that

mr obama and mr romney are doing some good work and focus on focusing on the relief efforts but let's also remember that both of the. those two candidates declined to talk at all about climate change during the three debates that took place earlier this month we find it reckless and irresponsible that both the democratic and republican candidates for president never once mentioned climate change at all during these debates but of course still stein is due to take part in the final third party debate on the fifth of november which was showing here and we spoke to him last week is the timing of her arrest significant i mean is she going to be absent time if she's locked up temporarily she could be added some to take part in this do you think. well we hope that dr stein is. just being detained now for a very brief amount of time we do know that the last time dr stunned was arrested about two weeks ago when she attempted to enter the obama romney debate that was taking place at hofstra university on long island she and running mate cheri hochul were detained and handcuffed to a chair for

obama? >> he needs to change his demeanor, romney looking at obama and people. looked like obama was sitting there being scolded and had his head down, wasn't looking and looking around trying to look aimlessly. he wasn't looking at the opponent or hardly ever looked at the people. he was looking down. >> and he was meek. and instead of looking out and appearing strong, confident he backed away. >> when you have a chance to talk about this as the election goes ahaechld you dwiz are great. i want to charge the university one of the best folk use groups i've had. who won the debate? >> romney. >> there you go. >> wow. >> and frank luntz that is a great observation about the president looking down, agitated and not seeming to want to be there. we'll talk about that. still plenty more still to come tonight. post debate edition of "hannity" and coming up next, rudy giuliani will join us and later on, juan williams and rob portman who helped well prepare mitt romney for the debate. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longe

obama may have won on style points. what edward thinks. john says, romneydential. obama seemed arrogant and small. interesting words. bret says this, no one won, but romney was more professional. obama was condescending and unpresidential. that's all on our facebook page. join that conversation, it's ongoing 24/7. russia came up a lot last night. president obama criticizing and mischaracterizing romney's position on russia, saying he says it's our biggest threat. >> romney says that's not true, iran is. and a conversation between president obama and medvedev. after the election i'll have more flexibility. well, that came up last night. and colonel rf peters, is coming up. what does he think about this talk of russia? 10:35, the colonel will be here. and november 6th you get two servings of our show. 9:20 in the morning and another live show starting at 5 p.m. don't miss it, please. beverage maker, monster, its market value came down 1.3 billion dollars yesterday in a matter of minutes after the fda says it would investigate five deaths that may be related t

not a game of battleship where we're counting ships but what are our capabilities. >> romney's overall point, obama has presided over an era of american weakness that began in its first days in office on what romney calls an apology tour. >> you said that on occasion america had dictated to other nations. mr. president, america has not dictated to other nations. we have freed other nations from dictators. >> obama's response, romney is a shallow and unserious foreign policy candidate. >> if we're going to talk about trips that we've taken, when i went to israel as a candidate i didn't take donors, i didn't attend fund-raisers, i went to yad vashem. >> country after country, crisis after crisis they slugged out out. flash point, iran, another war in the middle east. that awful possibility looms over this election. with news breaking over the weekend that the obama administration is seeking one-on-one talks with iran to avoid war, the nuclear standoff dominated part of the debate tonight. the president offered a dramatic contrast. >> when i came into office, the world was divided. iran was resurgent.

romney's biggest vulnerability. most voters believe he favors the rich. and obama tried to portray the romney/ryan plan for medicare in that light. >> when you move to a voucher system, you are putting seniors at the mercy of those insurance companies. and over time, if traditional medicare has decayed or fallen apart, then they're stuck. >> reporter: for his part, romney zeroed in on what may be obama's big vulnerability, the unpopularity of his health care plan and the sense that he took his eye off the economic ball when he pushed for it. >> i just don't know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the kitchen table and spend his energy and passion for two years fighting for obama care instead of fighting for jobs for the american people. >> reporter: president obama and governor romney have been battling it out on the stump, barnstorming the swing states and flooding the air waves with increasingly negative ads. >> obama quietly ended work requirements for welfare. you would

romney did it do well compared to obama. there was disappointment with president obama within the democratic ranks after that first debate he has started to regain the next two performances, but that first debate had a tremendous impact. >> wherever he goes, you hear him say that you have to vote. >> he counts on groups that have low turnout rates paid blacks, hispanics, young people, people he needs and that catapulted him to the top in 2008. there was a big turnout in 2008. those people lacked passion and he needs to find them and get them out. >> the pew research center and a harvard year to see poll indicates, if they are accurate, that if you were young people are going to -- fewer young people are going to turn out for obama. >> i don't think you need a survey to tell you that. you have your own eyes and your experience. >> one thing obama has is this data mining thing, this state of the art mining of information to find these people and get them out. we are about to test how could that is. >> or abortion is back as an