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rob portman is a republican senator from the state of ohio.t obama in mitt romney's debate prep. thank you for talking with us. appreciate it. >> soledad, good to be on with you again. >> thank you. 24 hours left. describe for me what the final strategy, the final push is for the gop? >> well, it's twofold. one is to get our voters to the polls. and we're feeling like our grassroots this year is unprecedented. we've made more phone calls, gone door to door more than ever before. and second is continuing to reach out to those voters who haven't decided yet. talk to them about the economy, and about the debt and deficit and about the need for change, and you know, i think the message that mitt romney's ending on is exactly the right one, it's positive, it's uplifting. he's inspiring in the sense of saying we can do better and if we elect mitt romney and paul ryan we'll have a fresh start, we'll have the ability to put these policies in place to get the economy moving. but also to reach out to the other side and find common ground. so i feel pret

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romney campaign adviser senator rob portman and roger altman. so obviously a full lineup to get through all of this. andrew and joe, back over to you. >> let's check on the markets this morning. futures are indicated lower. as i've been pointing out for a while, there is a labor day indicator that jim stack and others have pointed to. and 25 out of 28 times, if the dow jones industrial average was below where it was the friday before labor day, the incumbent loses. and that number 13, 091 and the dow closed at 13,093. so two points above. >> do you think it was sandy? >> i don't know what it was. turned around and it was down 140 points. which both sides were arguing, you know, one said it went up, but the rate came down. this time it was a stronger jobs number, but the rate went up. >> better than expected jobs report. >> but the month before was the worse than expected jobs report that they called better because of the -- >> can i comment on the tie? >> how does it look? >> looks good. >> but it's too thick for you. >> give me the one that you

in all the ohio photo ops you see rob portman, critical adviser to the romney campaign, he was romney's debate and sparring partner, seemed to have worked out well for mitt romney. he could have chosen rob portman and maybe had a better chance in ohio. >> i think choosing anybody less extreme than paul ryan would have been a good move. when you look at when romney has gained momentum it's when he tacked to the center. whoever wins the election, we're in a center country right now. the solutions for the economic problems which are going to be the biggest challenges facing the winner of this election are centrist solutions. we need to have tax hikes, we need to have entitlement reform, people that come together and foster that. paul ryan's extreme budget is no solution and i really think that in terms of his future, i'm not so sure he's going to play as big a role as some might think because i think the republican party is going to have a big ideological conversation, it's been ongoing, more serious after the election as to what is this part going to be, hijacked by extremists or actually

. >> some thought it could have been rob portman.s interesting here is that if ryan comes up short in getting wisconsin there, and he comes up short in ohio -- >> first of all, rob portman is a senior adviser and he delivered the southern part of the state in 2004 for president bush and i think that ryan gave romney a lift in intangible ways. i think there's a lot of value there and he is from wisconsin. again, i think whether it's wisconsin is the firewall as opposed to iowa is one question. >> the problem is, it doesn't give them enough numbers if you listen to everything else. >> it doesn't added a up in a plausible way that the four of us would say -- >> i spent two days last week in wisconsin talking to a ton of folks on both sides of the aisle. they said to me, after romney puts ryan on the ticket, the numbers moved in wisconsin for governor romney. romney never came back from is wis. wisconsin. he was back there. >> david gregory, you lived in wisconsin in '04 with bush. >> and he came up short. >> absolutely. >> let's not for

can kerr and rob portman will be bubble wrapped and return to deep below yucca mountain.ominees have all been nominated. the speeches spoken. the pageantry pageantrified. so after two weeks, what have we learned? for analysis of both conventions, we turn now to a different camera. ( laughter ) thanks, stephen. an honor to work with you. folks, we learned a lot these last two weeks. for instance, we learned that two political parties, hispanics are worth their weight in gold. ( laughter ) but most importantly, we learned that obama and romney are as different as black and white. folks, come on-- no, hey. that is not racial. i don't see race. not even my own. people tell me i'm white, and i believe them, because i like mitt romney. ( laughter ) ( applause ) so, i mean, i mean, there are clear distinctions between these two campaigns that both sides drove home. >> you are entitled to the clearest possible choice. >> when you pick up that ballot to vote, you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. >> stephen: yes. it's the clearest choice a generation since

senators and republican rob portman.he other side has so much more money and we win by grassroots politics. that means early voting, getting organized, people talking to their friends. >> if you haven't already early voted, go ahead and send that vote in. it's really important. this enables us to be free on election day. >> who has the upper hand on early voting, john? >> reporter: right now, according to county officials, democrats have a narrow edge, a couple thousand votes. but democrats tend to vote early. that's where the emphasis of the obama campaign has been and one of the reasons you saw rob portman stay to the volunteers, vote early so you can get people to the polls on election day. republicans vote more on election day. democrats investing huge effort in those early votes because it's money in the bank. >> thanks to john avolon. up next, something i saw while i was in hoboken today. neighbors helping neighbors. everyone has goals. take the steps to reach yours, with us with real advice, for real goals. the us

senator rob portman had to wait in line today. some waited longer than an hour to vote. one called and said that the line was so long, she just walked away. the lines are long in florida as well. more than 2,000 people cast ballots at this nearby lab near daytona beach on the first day of early voting on wednesday. polls in south florida are reporting a, what, four-hour wait? the ballot in florida is a monster. it is about 12 pages long. the league of women voters asks the governor of the state, rick scott, to extend early voting hours. and what do you think he said? well, the republican said no. rick scott told reporters, i want everybody to get out and vote, but early voting ends saturday night. make no mistake, democrats have been fighting successfully against unfair voter i.d. laws and purged lists. but the threat remains, some voting advocates expect a record number of voter challenges. the best advice, vote anyway. don't get bullied at the polls, and don't give up. i'm joined tonight by ohio state senator nina turner, also with us tonight is judith brown dianis, th

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loses ohio by a half point or a point, there's going to be second-guessing should he have picked rob portman for the political expedience. >> there's going to be second-guessing on a lot of things. >> oh, yeah. >> michael crowley, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, guys. >> it has been a tough week for the country, and obviously our thoughts are with all those who are struggling through the aftermath of sandy. i know on a personal note, my old neighbors in hoboken, i saw my building under water yesterday on television where i used to live, and that was jarring. one great thing about america is being able to laugh about our troubles. jon stewart had this two views of new york that emerged after sandy. >> there's been no electricity after the substation exploded just around there up 14th street. >> al, al, what is that on your back, al? >> it's a machete, jon. see, there's two types of folks down here in no-juicetown. people with machetes and dead people without machetes. >> all right, al, we'll come back to you. we're going to go uptown to john. what are things like up there? >> what al was de

. >> if mitt romney becomes president and does it by winning ohio he is going to owe rob portman everythingrt of place for newt gingrich. he remains one of the most interesting ideas, guys. if president obama wins a second term he is not going to run again. there is a big field coming up from republicans in 2016. take some of those off of the table. perhaps marco rubio for some prominent spot. >> i think the country is dying for some problem solver. whoever is president can't pick the token member of the other party. have one in the cabinet. romney and obama should think of independent minded people. a retiring house member those types of people that will show big problems are to be solved. >> if president obama is elected i think he should pick perhaps governor romney to be secretary of commerce. governor romney scott brown for attorney general because i think he will get beater in massachusetts. thank you. thank you for being with us tonight. see you again tomorrow night

did a pretty good job preparing mitt romney to debate barack obama, a great united states senator rob portman. [applause] >> ohio looks like romney ryan country to me tonight. i know it's cold out there but we're freezing for a reason aren't we? it's about our families, it's about our commune tiss and it's about our country. four more days to avoid four more years. it's worth it. [applause] is the chair of ohio i got to ask you a couple of things. the first one is go ahead and vote. jane and i did it today their open tomorrow from 8:00 to 2:00. tell me you're going to go bank your vote. are you going to do that. i need you to do that to free you up on election day to get more people to the polls. now second, we got to put up more signs and make more phone calls and more door to door. will you commit to do that over the next four days? of course you will. we're in the fourth quarter. getting toward end of the fourth quarter. the game is tide. -- tied. we're in the red zone. we've got the football. are we going to take mitt romney and paul ryan over the goal line? of course we are. folks, no on

you have rob portman and governor john cusick and bobby jindal there.ou have virginia governor bob mcdonnell. he will be joining us shortly. i mean, that is the who's who of the republican party in an all-out push to fit mitt romney over the top. to show you how tight the ohio races. they are either dead tired or separated by no more than two points. well within the margin of error. they have no idea how it will turn out. but we do know that for mitt romney, the math gets tough and less he wins in ohio. i'm talking about the electoral map and that is where he will have to do it. they are bringing out a full team to make that happen. my next guest says the president helps union workers. delphi went bankrupt. former delphi worker tom rhodes. would have been? >> thank you for having me. myself and 20 other retirees are just one of the untold casualties of the auto bailout. after the gym bankruptcy process was complete, the uaw retirees had their full health care and pensions, where as yself and others lost all of ourhealth care and our life insuranceand ha

. >> if mitt romney becomes president and does it by winning ohio, he will owe rob portman big time.should give him anything he wants. secretary of the treasury would be a likely pick. another thing, they should find a place for newt gingrich. he remains one of the most interesting ideas guys in the party, perhaps secretary of ideas. if president obama wins a second term, he is not going to run again, but there is a big field coming up for the republicans in 2016, maybe take one of those off the table. his new best friend chris christie as attorney general or marco rubio for a prominent spot. >> i think the country is dying for some problem solver. so whoever the president is can't pick the token member of the are the party and have one in the cabinet. i think both of them should think of independent-minded people, mike bloomberg, steven la turret, a retiring house member, those are the people who will show the big problems are going to be solved. >> greta: i will tell you what i think, if president obama is re-elected, i think he should pick something really bizarre like mitt romney

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i just saw rob portman. i am not betraying any confidence is to say he and i already exchanged a conversation. we served together on the so- called super committee. my view is that those conversations are very important. they began -- at the end of the day, those conversations will be important in forming the negotiations that ultimately take place between the leadership in the house and, of course, in the senate and the white house. i think every member can contribute to that conversation and they should be having direct conversations. i have already reached out to some of our republican colleagues to do exactly that. put more ideas on the table. >> we started with a group of senators and ex centers who all opined it was the ability of people from good will of both parties to come to gather and do what you and senator portman did has gotten worse than it has ever been. do you agree with that? you have been in congress for a long time. >> i was elected in 2002. no doubt that -- it was not as if it was all ku

. >> senator rob portman on the economy and the pressure to deliver ohio for romney. >> and former secretary of state ken blackwell that could force americans to wait 10 days to find out who the next president is. and high said it will not be close. michael baron's build prediction of a land slide on election day. live from columbus, mike huckabee. >> welcome to huckabee. we'll come to you from columbus, thitate with a big role in the presidential election. both candidates fighting for every last vote that would give them 18 electorial votes to put them past 270. and we'll talk about that in a few machines. meanwhile in the home base in new york city and all over the northeast coast, there is pure devastation in the after math of hurricane sandy. ♪ they are talk being surges we have not seen before. >> with each hour the full scope of sandy's detruction is becoming clearer. >> the level of destruction on the jersey shore is unthinkable. >> nothing. i done have anything or anywhere to go. i don't have clothes. >> we have water or electricity all of the food was thrown out. >> i didn't expect

. >> senator rob portman on the economy and the pressure to deliver ohio for romney. >> and former secretaryf state ken blackwell that could force americans to wait 10 days to find out who the next president is. and high said it will not be close. michael baron's build prediction of a land slide on election day. live from columbus, mike huckabee. >> welcome to huckabee. we'll come to you from columbus, thitate with a big role in the presidential election. both candidates fighting for every last vote that would give them 18 electorial votes to put them past 270. and we'll talk about that in a few machines. meanwhile in the home base in new york city and all over the northeast coast, there is pure devastation in the after math of hurricane sandy. ♪ they are talk being surges we have not seen before. >> with each hour the full scope of sandy's detruction is becoming clearer. >> the level of destruction on the jersey shore is unthinkable. >> nothing. i done have anything or anywhere to go. i don't have clothes. >> we have water or electricity all of the food was thrown out. >> i didn't expect it

and republican senator rob portman of ohio joining us right now. nks very much for coming in. >> wolf, great to be on with you again. >> let's talk about your beautiful state of ohio right now. the average, the cnn poll of polls, the final one we have done. likely voters' choice for president in ohio, right now, obama 50%, romney, 47%. very, very tight right now. the president's slightly ahead. if the president wins ohio, will it be because he helped bail out the auto industry and so many jobs in ohio are connected to the car industry? >> well, i think it's because he won last week and ohio is a purple state. not red and not blue and, look, i think the race is very close. within the margin of error on the cnn poll you talked about. other polls have it at a dead heat. i believe that's where we are and i think the energy and enthusiasm, wolf, is on our side this year. i did not feel that in 2008. i think it's even more than 2004. more like 2000. and that at the end of the day as you know makes a huge difference in terms of your turnout. >> i was surpr

governor mitt romney in englewood, colorado having an incredible rally and joining me is ohio senator rob portman. senator, i don't know of anybody other than ann romney who spent time on the campaign trail other than you. he was in the top of his game tonight. >> it was a uplift vision for the future and the way to close in colorado, and ohio. >> i have noticed he's not attacked the president or what is wrong with barack obama. he brings up the contrast. like the close with the boy scouts. you are with him almost every day. have the moods that you have seen in the crowds change in the last couple of weeks? >> they have partly because of the debates. our side got more energize i have been around to many rallies and never seen crowds or enthusiasm on our side. last night we had a rollie outside of cincinnati. 30, kipeople showed up and they were boisterous as the crowd in colorado. they are excited about a fresh sta and what he was talking about. >> i was amazed at his energy level. we are more tired than he seems to be and he's out there campaigning every day. >> he has a passion for it and he ha

. >> senator rob portman on the economy and the pressure to deliver ohio for romney. >> and former secretary of state ken blackwell that could force americans to wait 10 days to find out who the next president is. and high said it will not be close. michael baron's build prediction of a land slide on election day. live from columbus, mike huckabee. >> welcome to huckabee. we'll come to you from columbus, thitate with a big role in the presidential election. both candidates fighting for every last vote that would give them 18 electorial votes to put them past 270. and we'll talk about that in a few machines. meanwhile in the home base in new york city and all over the northeast coast, there is pure devastation in the after math of hurricane sandy. ♪ they are talk being surges we have not seen before. >> with each hour the full scope of sandy's detruction is becoming clearer. >> the level of destruction on the jersey shore is unthinkable. >> nothing. i done have anything or anywhere to go. i don't have clothes. >> we have water or electricity all of the food was thrown out. >> i didn't expect

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senator rob portman of ohio.ent time with him over the last couple of days and he has been at a polling place and believes that the crowds in suburban areas around columbus and so forth that governor romney would need to be having a good turnout. also in this same location we saw the reverend jesse jackson trying to talk to voters before they headed in and we saw one of the obama busses here and this is a contested area and franklin county is one of those big, big counties in ohio that will make a difference. when i talked to the obama people in this state, they know that in cleveland which happens to be my hometown where both the president's doing interviews with local affiliates and governor romney and paul ryan are making a stop that that county is so critical because the president needs a big margin there to help offset, but the obama team is trying to pick off votes in other county, not just relying on a big urban center like cuyahoga county and some of the student-populated areas where we have campuses arou

he will wake up every day for the rest of his life regretting that he did not choose senator rob portmanrunning mate. he will also regret the editorial entitled "let driz go bankrupt." if obama loses by 2% for a simple reason. the magic is gone. after the drudgery of four years. after having g.o.p.ed fo governr years. the independents, the young people and tab republicans who ran in his arms in 2008, now have to be coaxed to do that. that is what the obama ground game is all about in ohio. >> bret: to be fair he didn't choose the title of editorial but you are right about the focus and northern part of your state, toledo. the democrats focus on that. back around to that. joe, gilbert in milwaukee, wisconsin. the real clear politics average for latest polls barack obama 50% to romney 45%. but boy, you hear the republicans talk about it. it seems closer than that. >> yeah, if mitt romney wins wisconsin by half a point he will be glad he picked punish ryan as the running mate. but it's a tough lift for republicans. they have had the string of victory, huge victory in 2010. a big recall vict

. >> do you think real quickly, if the romney ticket had featured rob portman they would have a better chance of taking ho how? >> the fact we're even having a conversation who would have been a better pick does not bode well for the romney camp. i want to go back to ohio for one thing quickly. in cuyahoga county, they are 12,000 votes short of this mark in 2008. the get out to vote effort has got to be overwhelming today. overwhelming tomorrow for the democrats to win in ohio because the early voting is not what it was in 2008. and they missed four weekends. this voter suppression thing is a real deal. that's only one county. it's also going to be interesting to watch if there's any votering problems in hamilton county versus cuyahoga. >> great to have you. and you can catch ed weeknights on his show, 8:00. we're rounding third. heading into home. bases are loaded. ed's going to be part of our election night lineup r tomorrow with coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. keystone state is also key to the president's re-election, but mitt romney is not giving up on pennsylvania just yet. the po