romney interestingly, did make a mad dash tthe middle and say "i am for access to contraception."sayay it should be included in insurance policies -- >> thais exactly thehe point. it is not a mad dash to the nter on contraception. it is a way to correct this caluy by liberals that republicans want to close pharmacies and prevent women from getting access toto contraception. all he is saying ithat sandra fluke, who makakes $165,000 a year if she goes out in the private sector as a graduate of an elite law school, does not need to be subsidized by the avage american, who makes $50,000 a household to get contraceptives now she can shell out the $9 a month. there is no issue of access. is whether you want to compel catholic institutions to included in the plan against all their doctrinal belief spread above the saying that it is not a question of access to it that was certainly a tking point that democrats have accepted romney was correcting. >> let me correct the point that has been made here. the reblican platform, for the firs time, calls for the elimination of all abortion -- not

what he did mention is contraception, and romney interestingly -- he did make a mad dash to the middle, saying "i am for access to contraception." he did not say it should be in your insurance policy. >> that is exactly the point is not a a mad dash to the center on contraception. it is to correct this calumny by liberals that republins want to close phaacieand event women from getting access to contraception. all he is saying that sandra fluke, who makes $165,000 a year after graduating from an elite law school, does not need to be subsidized by the average american who makes $50,000 a household to get contraceptives. she can shell out $9 a month. there is no issue of access. it is a question of whether you want to compel catholic institutions to be included in a plan against all of their beliefs. republicans areaying no, but it is not a question of access at all. as a talking point that democrats have accepted, and romney was correcting. >> let me correct the point was made here to the republican platform for the first time costly the elimination of all abortion -- not in the case of

romney is right to hammer the president about it because it creates the general impression is he as strong a leader that you need. but i don't think voters are going to vote on that. >> eliot: interestinglyhe failed in that moment. that may be the emotional pivot >> i'm jennifer granholm. tonight in the war room, the president wipes the floor with mitt romney, the tigers wipe the floor with the yankees all is not right with the world but it's a hell of a start. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> this year, there are 54 million women eligible to vote. 2.5 million more women than men. enough to decide the whole election. as november 6 draws near one women are doing a lot of thinking about about a lot of

interesting position as i said earlier because you have debated against both mitt romney and barack obama. interestingly is believed from the latest polls to have won 67% to 25% against barack obama this time. when you went head-to-head with obama in 2008, the polls said 51% obama, 38% mccain. do you think you would have done better against the obama that was debating this week? >> i think so, piers, but you know, it would sound like i am now trying to rewrite history or i would have done better. you know, i never tried to do any of that looking back and certainly not in anger or bitterness. but i think it is true that during the 2008 campaign, the president or then senator obama had no record to defend, and one of the reasons why mitt did so well in this debate was because mitt was -- i think very legitimately, attacking his record, whether it be the $90 billion in subsidies for energy or a number of the other things that he pointed -- the failure of dodd-frank, and so the president had a record to defend this time, but one, do not underestimate the president of the united states. he will come back str

>> governor romney has a tie interestingly enough with a stripe. it's actually an english stripe as opposed to an american stripe. it seems to me someone running for president should have been advised to wear an american striped tie. >> i have to agree with you. >> pageant judge, you agree with that? >> i agree. for the overall package, you're representing america. many people may not have that knowledge, but now that i do have that knowledge, it just made me feel like, why would you do that? >> even though you literally learned that fact 30 seconds ago? >> abslightly. it did bother me. >> as the debate progressed, the analysis became even more sophisticated. no neither man so far have put their hands in their pockets. apart from nothing, what does that mean? >> it means they're more open. they have nothing to hide. they're letting it all out. >> lady who doesn't speak english, tell me in your own words who is winning this debate. foul >> [inaudible] >> louder: tell me in your own words who is winning this debate? >> say again please. >> man who re

daily presidential tracking survey, if the election were held today, governor romney would be victorious, 49% to 48%. interestingly enough, romney has led or tied the incumbent the past 9 out of 10 days breaking what had been a 16-day winning streak for the president. this result is mirror dollars in the newest american research group survey which also has romney defeating obama this one 48% to 47%. later tonight we have in-depth analysis and fresh polling data out of several of the must-win battleground states. joining me first for a preview of tomorrow night's big debate the author of here comes the back helicopters the u.n. global governments and the loss of your freedom former clinton advisor dick morris. how are you mr. morris. >> i'm doing great and you read these polls and they are very good for your health. >> sean: we'll get into all these different swing states, michigan, pennsylvania, minnesota? >> a lot the other states. nevada, iowa -- >> the traditional swing states. >> right. >> my case here, remember how i was on your show in 2010, and about three weeks before election day, said raise your sights,

romney is right to hammer the president about it because it creates the general impression is he as strong a leader that you need. but i don't think voters are going to vote on that. >> eliot: interestingly, romney, after he failed in that moment. that may be the emotional pivot point of the debate last night when candy crowley came in, after saying to the president you got it wrong. when it's blamed on this youtube video he would have been correct. >> it's unfortunate it seemed for a long time that the president and the white house were we had wedded to the videotape did it, and not to blame terrorism, but by saying the president didn't say act of terror he chose the exact wrong detail and lost a point he should have won handily. >> eliot: you're right when you have one point that is wrong the entire argument falls apart. >> and to make matters worse i felt bad watching it, he was so proud of himself as he edged up to it. oh, wow, now i got him. on a technicality he lost it all. it was a rivetting piece-- >> eliot: now the republicans immediately went crazy. candy crowly should not be intervening to take sides in what is a factual dispute. as a journalist did she do the right thing? >>

interestingly, romney today decided to use some of his time to raise money for victims of the storm.s what he had to say. >> i would like to ask you who are here today to think about making a contribution to the red cross or to another relief agency to be of help if you possibly can in any way you could imagine to help those in harm's way. [applause] gerri: of course, the spotlight off of him now really truly. what do you make of this? and, i mean, look. i thought the candidate did the right thing in suspending appearances and ratcheting back. think he's even sending out your solicitations for campaign donations, but it could be a critical moment for him right before the election. >> that is absolutely right. he does not want to look too political. he wants to look compassionate. he was wise to suspend campaign events for the next couple of days. at the end of the data show has to go on. to this point, the question is, the extent of the damage and how long is the power out in northern virginia, eastern pennsylvania to northern east and i/o s. that could really affect him. so we just

interestingly, 15 romney spinners and four or five from the obama campaign. i asked why.sked an obama senior person, official, why do you only have five people here? you're outnumbered 3-to-1, and the person said, well, we have a focused disciplined message, we only need five people. the romney people are not as focused and disciplined. they need 15 people. back to you. neil: you know, peter, you covered this more than a lot of folks, and that is unusual, and i noticed just trying to pop around and look at numbers, democratic figure heads and republican figure heads, and like you, and you have a firmer grasp of the numbers, i see more republican. that is unusual. normally, they flood in mass to pitch their case and their guy, or is this just unusual this year or they are moving on or what? >> i have to tell you, there back to 2008 and even this time around, the obama people are very, very tight on their messaging. they don't deviate. they don't go off the script. that was the explanation i got for the fewer numberment you're absolutely right, and in years past, intended t

>> interestingly, mitt romney has sort of pledged quietly that he would do something about pornographyelect a president, said that is one of the types of things of having that information helps candidates said different things to different groups. as some voters that do not really care about pornography and those who cast their vote based on that issue. being able to separate which voters care about which issues based on consumer data that is not necessarily freely supplied by voters makes a big difference for the campaigns. >> is it shaping the ads that are populating the american public right now? >> i think it is. it definitely is. one of the firms that mitt romney employees was founded were directed by his digital director and they bragged they are able to target two completely differe to two computers in the same household. of specificity. get that level >> you say there is nothing on the level of target. what was targets practices? >> target is sort of on the cutting edge of consumer data mining. they most notably last year, reported i think in the new york times, that they were

tons of obama ads criticizing romney's record and positions on women. but interestingly enough, that gender gap began to close as well when people saw romney because he did not seem like an extremist. he seemed like a reasonable guy. you can be sure, and again, that was another thing that obama didn't hit at all. he never talked about the social issues and women. you got to assume that biden is going to go after that tonight. >> shep: yeah. i would be very surprised if he didn't. i don't know about you, i have greater anticipation for this vice presidential debate than any i can remember. >> well, four years ago when sarah palin was interesting, too. but i will say -- >> shep: for different reasons. >> let me be the first to announce that the nationals won on a walk-off homerun. >> shep: we were watching it. congratulations to your nats. >> there you go. now i can focus solely on the vice presidential debate. >> shep: so in other words, you don't care about the yankees? >> no. i'd like the orioles to beat them. not particularly. [ laughter ] >> shep: all right. yankee fa

include voters who were surveyed before the presidential debate which most voters say romney won though interestinglyshowed movement toward obama yesterday. all right. hard to keep track of. there's a lot going on here. cnn political reporter peter hamby joins us live from washington. please, peter, make sense of this for us. >> okay. these are the first two real credible polls we've seen since the debate. the bottom line here is there's movement in both toward mitt romney. you're right. the gallup poll had about three days of sampling before the debate that showed obama winning. after the debate, in the four days after the debate, gallup had romney and obama tied. if you look inside these numbers, 70% of people surveyed said that romney beat obama in the debate. he basically crushed obama, voters and independents believe that. we'll see polls out every day, we'll have to make sense of all of these and put them in context. there's unmistakable trend toward mitt romney after the debate. both campaigns have internal polling showing that the race has tightened since the debate. john, one thing i'm looki

and interestingly enough, mitt romney, whom i accused in my first article i wrote about this "how toct human" after unable to relate to the public, was in the moment. he found himself in the moment. ever since i wrote that article i've been looking for the real romney. i finally decided maybe the real romney was that boss that tells lame jokes at which we're obliged to laugh at peril of our jobs. that wasn't the person who showed up last night. >> no. >> not at all. >> he reminded me of the way actors, like russell crowe, seemed like a regular guy from the street corner, a regular guy, not a college type of guy. when you see him in the movies he's playing the master commander and gladiator, big, a big presence, a grand being. romney seems to transvigor himself that way last night. >> what he did was remarkable. think about it for a moment, chris. he walked out on the stage and fired the moderator. not only did he fire the moderator, he fired -- >> he fired big bird. >> he fired charlie rose. he fired kermit the frog for god's sake. >> watch him do that. in one of the more memorable l

romney victory winning there. the critical state. interestingly it has seemed impervious to the national trend over the last couple weeks. the one state among the battleground. president obama remains above 50%. >> all about ohio. >> all eyes on the buckeyes. rick, appreciate you being here. abc's, new senior washington editor, rick klein, again, rick, thank you, always good to have you here my friend. >> thank you, guys. >> you are watching "world news now." >>> welcome back, everyone. we have some important news. health news here for women. some expert are out with new guidelines meant to protect women from cervical cancer. >> there will be anne estimated 12,000 new cases of cervical cancer in the u.s. this year. a third will be fatal. as for new guidelines here is abc's dr. tim johnson. >> reporter: cervical cancer has declined more than 50% in the u.s. over the past 30 years because of increased screening. and the american college of obgyn has made a big change in its cervical cancer screening guidelines. it now says that women between the age

the experts say the forecast shows romney with a 53.1% popular vote. interestingly enough, barbara and keith, one model was called the redskins model. >> a special interest to a d.c. audience may be the washington redskins model that you have come to know about. if the washington redskins win their game before election day, the incumbent election party wins for four more years. if the redskins lose, the challenging party wins. >> reliability and the method of how they obtain their data and put it together. >> the best models that are most accurate are based on theory, theories drawn from political science work. what we see today as a move away from that, in many sectors away from theory. >> the earliest model was formlated ten months ago while the last was put together after the democratic national conventions. the findings, which will be published for the american political science association is found at pspolitical science. >> thank you. >>> turning to the weather, chilly morning, but clearing skies. >> it's nice out there. let's see what tom has to tell us about

and interestingly enough, mitt romney, whom i accused in my first article that i wrote about this, howunable to relate to the public, was in the moment, for the first time. he found himself in the moment. look, ever since i wrote that article i have been looking for the real romney. i finally decided maybe the real romney was that boss that tells lame jokes at which we're obliged to laugh at peril of our jobs, but that wasn't the person who showed up last night. >> no. >> not at all. >> he reminded me of the way actors like a guy like russell crowe i have met a couple -- i met him once in an interview. he seemed like a regular guy from a street corner, sort of a regular guy. when you see him in the movies, he's playing the master and movie, he's playing the master commander, a big presence, a grand being. romney seemed to trance figure himself that way last night. >> what he did was remarkable. sce figure himself that way last night. >> what he did was remarkable f himself that way last night. >> what he did was remarkabl fi himself that way last night. >> what he did was remarkablfig

we will see the president tomorrow in denver at a rally, then he goes wisconsin, interestingly, and then mitt romney to virginia. so, he will be with paul ryan, the team together again in virginia. the importance of virginia, we have seen in the battleground state polls, virginia and florida neck in neck now, they are behind in ohio, so they have got to win virginia, north carolina and florida for sure. chris cillizza? >> absolutely, andrea, no question. couldn't agree more. >> okay. that does it for us. we will see you later tonight. thanks so much, chris. and that's it for our edition of "andrea mitchell reports," debate night tonight. join us tomorrow, live in denver, complete wrap-up of tonight's debate. my colleague, tamron hall, has a look at what's next on news nation. hi, tamron. >> hi, andrea. in our next hour the heat is on and the first question has not even been asked in tonight's debate. conservatives thought they had an a-ha moment with a release of a tape from 2007 only to be counted by a tape releetsd of the "huffington post" of paul ryan. are these tapes fair comparison and how rele

interestingly, governor romney and paul reihan -- paul ryan fell into the trap of telling this to seniors. people vote for leadership. at what the president should have done is what i believe he will do if he is reelected, and what are held governor romney will do, and that is, lead. it would have a framework here -- we have a framework here that can fix the debt. nothing is more important than eliminating the deficit and fixing the debt. so many things will flow from that. the president has to get both sides together, the caucus leaders, the people who took some chances on since and-bolts, tom coburn who said, i guess, i'm taking a chance. we've got to get the big urbansa -- the dick durbins, who supported simpson-balls even though it -- simpson-bowles. and we need to get something along those lines to eliminate the deficit and fix the debt, invest in building a true american energy independence, that will increase the tax credit for wind and solar, do things for gossip and solar and oil, and -- to do things for gas and oil. even if we do not build new nuclear reactors, our reactors are

romney this far. gregg: interestingly, although the president is accused of being soft on cracking down on the borderce and illegal immigration, his increased deportation of criminals is actually at 89% since he took office. >> there is no question this president has not been able to fulfill in anyway any of the promises that he made earlier on in his administration. for romney tonight to be able to capitalize though he doesn't only have to talk about hispanic issues he has to talk about something which is important to all americans, whether they are hispanic or not, and that is jobs. and we found, and we're writing about it in this column i'd invite people to go see it on fox news latino, about the labor participation rate, you know, you and i talk about 8.1% being the unemployment figure. this blows it away. we are now at 63.5% according to the bureau of labor statistics, that means 36.5% of americans are not working. you know, that is an absurd number, it's a number that needs to be addressed and what mitt romney needs to do is identify that number and make the american people understand how he ca

but, interestingly, both the obama campaign and the romney campaign two campaigns that don't agree on anything have agreed that candy crolly may be a problem because they are trying to muzzle her. the two campaigns made an agreement that said the moderator would have very very limited role in this debate. let me share with the audience a little behind the scenes stuff. the actual wording of the agreement, in managing the two minute comment periods, the moderator will not rephrase the question or open a new topic, the moderator will not ask follow-up questions or comment on either the questions asked by the audience or the answers of the candidates. candy didn't get the memo, and maybe literally didn't get the memo because she didn't sign on to be a potted plant and she is already indicated in interviews that she plans to ask follow-up questions. >> bill: the thing you just read, who wrote that? the lawyers for the two campaigns agreed to that -- that agreement with the people putting on the debate. the presidential. >> bill: candy's role if that holds is basically to say okay, tiffany

romney going through the primary competition with the other republicans, i thought on foreign policy. he has studied it. prepare for it in 2008 as well. he has kept getting briefed through that time. interestinglyended up working in romney's favor. because on the intensity side of thing, you look at the debate turn-out. people with catch that who are mad that that happened on the republican side. they are fired up. and defending him. i think that going forward, the advice i would give not for the debate commission, to consider not giving media personalities the debate moderator position. go to somebody like larry sabato on the political science side who is not going to look for -- >> greg: just say your name, dana. >> dana: i would be a media person now. >> eric: what advice do you have? >> greg: schieffer has to appeal to the young voter. a wallet chain or a temporary tattoo. i want to touch on the previous debate. the thing that bugs me what i said before. they were not undecided voters. that was a scam. there are people afterwards saying they voted for obama and planning to vote for obama. the only undecided voter there is obama. he is not sure if he is voting for himself. i love the fact th

>> interestingly, i think this is a mitt romney problem today. if someone said, you have got a number of homes, your wife drives a couple of cadillacs. where money is offshore. how do you feel my pain? i think there will not be the surprise on his face when such a question comes in a town hall meeting. but again, any kind of window that we get even into their thought process when they are confronted with a sort of in articulated left field question really does help us understand who they are. and bill clinton just goes over there and does the walk on this person. and she is the only person in the universe. >> you feel my pain. >> i do not think we wanted to go there. [laughter] >> i am not sure you want to follow that. but to go ahead. >> i think we are moving in the right direction. i think it is a good combination of formats. the town hall where you get questions that may be a bit unusual. complemented by the single moderator format. that may not be the case when have the panel. >> you have the other aspect -- you have these sustained blocks of

so that is the argument that is going to come interestingly not just from obama but from romney. >> bretay, charles. >> one bit of repair he has to do. amid attacking the reason that his numbers are so much worse in the swing states than they are in the national polls is because of six months of advertising about he wants to cut the taxes for the rich and tax the middle class. you see ad after that and they are both false. i think he needs to look at the camera straight. explain in a sentence or two why each is completely false. to then turn to the president and ask him how he can premise his entire election on way of presenting the romney position that is so at odds with the truth. so, bit of defense. then i think he goes on offense. that i think is something he has to do because those images of him as kuing the taxes to the rich to -- and putting burden on the middle class is killing him. >> bret: panel, as always, from different parts of the country, thank you. steve, juan, charles. that's it. but stay tuned for final look ahead from denver as we get ready for this big night tomorrow