will romney make economic points as the basis for a strong foreign policy? >> reporter: larry, i asked someone in the romney high command that exact question, and they said he'll do that as much as he can. this may be a foreign policy debate, but romney wants to bring up the economy. that's where he's strong, and he wants to continue to do that in this final debate. >> all right. robert costa, i like what i'm hearing. excellent report. let's dive right in with our panel. democratic strategist steve mcmahon, conservative columnist an coulter, author of the new book "mugged" and former rnc chairman michael steele. ann, to you first. benghazi-gate is too easy. i want to ask you a much more interesting question. will mitt romney pull out barack obama's world view? in other words, barack obama, the united states has made all these mistakes, kind of like a colonial power down through the years. >> right. >> obama spends a lot of time apologizing for america. do you think that will come out in the debate tonight? >> i hope so. romney has shown an ability to be very tough debater whil

. >> but romney larry, isn't obama under so much pressure tonight?dent the president had such a flat debate. he is going to have to show so much aggression. >> i was going to ask ab about the joe biden disease. >> it is not like him his problem is being too cool and too calm. if he gets too aggressive and he looks like he is snarling. it could come off as ugly and be a mistake. that is what romney did. he looked into the camera and he was the reasonable alternative. this is 80 voters. they are from nassau county. so the president, if he comes with the class warfare. he is going to have to be cautious on the class warfare. we'll find out if i'm right or wrong or i'll feel out of my mind. i think the non committed voters on october 16th don't like either of these guys. they have a hard case to make. >> i think you will see the fighter in romney. >> i think there is an issue here. >> i think romney will be the fighter. i think he is an underrated politician all the way. i think he has a message problem and no one knows how he is going to solve the econo

larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." mitt romney unveils his foreign policy strategy. he says the obama white house botched the response to the terrorist attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi. cnbc's own john harwood has the latest. good evening, john. >> good evening, larry. mitt romney tried to build on his successful debate last week by talking foreign policy today and attacking president obama as simply not someone leading. >> i know the president hopes for a safer, freer, and more prosperous middle east allied with us. i share this hope. hope is not a strategy. >> we don't know if that line is going to work, but we know from new polls out today he's made significant headway since the debate. puts a lot of pressure on the vice presidential debate later this week. we'll talk about it at athe bottom of the hour. >> we will see you later on that very topic. also this evening, one battleground state, michigan, will vote on a state constitutional amendment to allowing collective bargaining, unlimited wage increases, and unchecked union power. michigan's governor rick s

romney get? >> here's a little inside baseball, larry. s been prepping for this debate for a month up in rural vermont doing a lot of prep sessions. he can't get flustered but he has to be tough, he has to seem presidential and bring the message of obama's failures right to obama face to face. >> rod stone, you are a romney doubter. tell us why. >> i don't think he's a real conservative. frankly, i'm disappointed. i saw kevin madden in your first segment. governor gary johnson should have been included in this debate. romney can't be a brawler. he's got to come out strong but he can't be shrill or nasty or too caustic. >> he got to show he can stand up and be a leader of the united states. >> in all honesty, there's a stature question here. obama is outpointing this guy overwhelmingly on likability and likability factor is very strong. it's one of the keefe reasons why ronald reagan won his debate with jimmy carter. >> robert costa, is romney going to say "there he goes again" or any lines like that? >> i think he has some zingers ready to

viewers on television a chance to decide whether that was the real mitt romney last night or it was the real barack obama at the debate, larry. >> all right. many thanks, we appreciate it. >>> so mitt romney outhustled, outfacted, outenergized and outinformed president obama. msnbc's chris matthews, an old pal of mine, completely went off the rails. take a listen to this. >> where was obama tonight? romney, i love the split screen. staring at obama. addressing him like the prey. he did it just right. i'm coming at an incumbent. i got to beat him. you got to beat the champ and i'm going to beat him tonight. what was romney doing? he was winning. >> he sure was, chris. he was winning big time. so now that romney is on a roll, where does he run after last night's sweeping win? let's talk. here now is democratic strategist steve mcmahon. and then cnbc contributor geoff jennifer rubin, author of the "washington post" right turn blog. jennifer was it a game changer for the whole presidential race? >> it potentially can be. what has to happen now romney has to build on that day after day. the difficulty they've had, this was true i

but interesting that you say that it is not impossible for mitt romney to do so without. larryabato, appreciate it. up next, no love for mitt romney. the nation's largest teachers union tells the nominee exactly what it thinks about his newfound affection for teachers. plus what tagg romney said to the president after the debate. did you see this moment at the very end? tagg putting his hand behind the back of the president? remember what he had just said about the president after that second debate. >> we'll bring you the details ahead in the polysidebar. a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start. or protect your family with a will or living trust. legalzoom makes it easy with step-by-step help when completing your personalized document -- or you can even access an attorney to guide you along. with an "a" rating from the better business bureau legalzoom helps you get personalized and affordable legal protection. in most states, a legal plan attorney is available with every personalized document to answer any que

romney. >> bret: larry, in virginia, you a tight senate race with mccain and allen and a republican governor yes, governor mcdonald has been a big plus for governor romney. he has been everywhere. he's been on your shows, everywhere that i have looked. but he has also transferred the state party operation apt his operation to the romney campaign. it's made a big difference for romney. >> bret: in iowa, david, democrats traditionally had a good operation getting out the vote. is it still that way? and what do you see in the organizational efforts on the ground? >> if you think about it, both of the candidates have been working iowa for five years now. they both ran caucus campaigns in 2008. ran them in 2012. probably the most intense political campaign that has bean in the state in terms of money and time, the candidates are spending in the state. one key is going to be, key is what will happen in the last debate. that will have an impact. second thing will be can obama get younger voters genned up again? they are not with him in 2012 as they were in 2008. the third thing is i think is romney

listen, david and larry, mitt romney has taken some of those looch hol loopholes off the table. >> i didn't hear him say that. >> the vice president said that tonight and ryan did not correct it. >> investment income, capital gains and dividends. >> i don't regard those as loopholes and neither does mitt. >> they're in your 1 trillion. >> ask david. are they not in this 1 trillion? >> they are in the 1 trillion. >> if we go back -- >> those aren't loopholes. >> you may not think so but counting them. >> if we had a decent tax code we count tax saving and investment at all, tax consumption and income. >> let's talk about what the top five are. the top five are the fact individuals don't pay income taxes on employer provided health care. it's the mortgage interest deduction, the issue of capital gains and dividends, lower tax rates there, charitable contributions. that's only four of the five. pensions and savings is obviously one as well. you've got to provide more specificity in order to be credible. >> that seems to be the problem, though, i think what's going on is the people in th

romney is running way ahead with men. >> white men. >> white men, white voters in general, he's running massively ahead. >> larryou hadn't noticed we're actually a majority-minority country these days so there might not be enough white men for romney to win this election. this is part of the problem that romney has. i just came back from missouri and kansas. if even conservative women were grousing about the term binders. it's not about terms. >> they were in binders, you know what a binders are? >> it's the fact that mitt rom fwhi thinks that the american people are stupid enough to think that those phrases are -- >> he never asked -- >> hang on. >> let's bring in erin klein, i guarantee you most voters of both sexes did not know what binders means. the second thing that occurs to me, get your take on this, this was all a good distraction. >> it's a distraction, but it's also a multipronged assault of several tactics going on at once. it's divide and conquer. we're talking about class warfare of the wealthy, the 99% versus the 1%. because obama is trying to distract the public, he does not want the public to be

romney. actually, larry kudlow with us as well. >> maria? >> yes, john? think you were right about the president being on the defensive. one of the things that came out of the two conventions is that the democrats, bill clinton helped president obama in this, shifted this from a referendum election on president obama's performance to a choice election. i think this -- the effect was to pull it back to a referendum election and put president obama on the defensive. he's the one with the record. and the american public is not in a great mood right now. >> he has to defend that record. that's what he tried to do tonight. governor romney was much more specific in term of his plans going forward. in terms of job creation, tax reform, even in terms of getting back to economic growth. larry kudlow with us as well. larry, what's your take? >> i thought that this was a tremendous victory for romney. this is a different, different romney than the one at the convention. he was specific and crisp and precise and energetic. one of the things that struck sme, this impo

larry, what are you looking at tonight? >> mitt romney floats and idea to cap keyductions across the board. we set up our own debate. those are the topics we are going to tackle. and this evening. listen to vice president joe biden on the trail. it is the gift that keeps on giving. >> how they can justify. raising taxes in the middle class. it has been buried in the last four years. how in the lord's name. >> that is nodt a froidian slip. plus three stories that happen to break before the election. a leftist new york attorneyy general looking to bash banks and that is as phony as a $3 bill. also a judge strikes down pennsylvania's voter id law and the obama administration is telling companies it is okay to disregard the law when it comes to handing out pink slips in advance to big budget cuts. all three happening before the election. mitt romney has finally put meat on the bones of his tax reform idea. he floated the idea of a $17,000 cap on tax reform reduction. >> you could say everyone is going to get up to a $17,000 deduction. you can

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you guys are suggesting that the debate is going to change everything. >> to larry says romney has aachete and he's taking heads off in the primary debate. you say there's a small group of undecided voters that romney still needs to capture. i'm not hearing from the romney people that he needs to be that aggressive. if he's too forceful, he may risk alienating some of the people david is is talking about. >> really, really go head to head. for example, there was a lot of talk that mr. romney was going to fact check president obama as obama made false statements, as obama always does make false statements. >> oh, come on. >> do you think romney will fact check him or is that too cheeky or snarky in a debate? >> romney has been preparing for the debate. he knows the issues, he knows the data. what they're trying to do is get romney to pull back and go back to that big vision. >> what vision? where is it? >> tax breaks, 20% across the board. >> that was beautiful the way you got that out. hold on. you can see the whole presidential debate here on cnbc wednesday night, coverage begins at

larry. that is the thing. even if romneye's not going to take office until the third week of january. and if the president is dug in about not raising -- or not extending all of the bush tax cuts before he leaves office, then we will go over the cliff. now, there is some things that, you know, the treasury can do, for example, when president romney is sworn in he can have the treasury adjust the withholding tables, for example. so that'll offset some of the pain. but that's also a big risk because if they don't end up finding a way to come to an agreement in 2013 and now everybody's under withheld, then we talk about that being the mother of all fiscal cliffs, if you will. so there are some risks here, even in the near term under a romney victory, just beginning with what the president does. >> it was very interesting, larry, to hear dick gephardt in the previous segment. it's important what the senior democrats try to counsel the president, the sitting democrats counsel the president. >> right. we've got to let it go. we'll

romney here. that's why the money is coming in. that's why obama is really playing hard defense right now. >> larry, two things to watch in pennsylvania. in the west, you have the coal country. they're very irritated about the obama administration's regulations. and in the east, you have the philadelphia suburb philadelphia suburbs. romney is strong with republican voters. if suburban voters flip, romney has a real shot in the keystone state. >> if republicans are always worried about wasteful spending, this is a perfect example of wasteful spending. they don't spend any money in minnesota at all. >> one at a time. >> it's not that long ago. >> 1972 is the last time minnesota voted for a republican. >> i hate to say it, but it was richard nixon. now i've said it. robert costa, i want you to challenge my friend keith boykins. you're saying there's a horse race in michigan, and wisconsin. the numbers in wisconsin look even up. and in iowa, where the liberal des moines register just endorsed romney. so there could be some real midwestern upsets, huh? >> the point in wisconsin is true. keith boykins is right. wisconsin was wisconsin was b

saving the economy and jobs and our future. >> with romney ahead among the likely voters and the bigger group of voters, democrats figure more than ever larryut will determine who wins. >> many thanks to steve. now it seems that president obama has done nothing but defend big bird and call romney a liar on taxes since the debate. it looks to me like it is working in romney's favor. we have ed rendell. >> my signal just died. >> and jennifer ruber and stephen law. jen, i go to you first. really, if you can't cut a little pbs, what can you you cut. this is going to kill obama. >> it drives people back to that debate. rox knee couldn't get a better person to run. and i think they are convinced that they can still. destroy romney. i don't think that is possible after 70 million people see it directly and make an assessment of this guy. and they have another week before the presidential debate while public opinion sets in. he is pumped up and i'll have it written up tomorrow. he sounds poised and focused and i think the president is in a little bit of trouble. >> first of all, saesame street wants the add pulled and third of all, the thing that

that whatsoev whatsoever. >> larry -- larry -- >> please go ahead. >> i'm sick and tired of hearing howard repeat that speaking-point lie that finally mitt romney interrupting the way joe biden did and let me speak. >> why don't you and larry finish, two against one. i'm stand up for myself any time. >> please continue tom stemberg. >> what i'm trying to say is mitt romney has made it very, very clear that there are no tax break for upper income guys like me that we'll pay a greater share of the tax bill that we currently pay and he's made is very clear that a lot of the tax benefits that guys like me get in expensive homes and will get away and i'm okay with that and as opposed to telling these lies or deceiving yourselves that we have 23 million americans creating jobs at an anemic rate at about 100,000 a year in which case it would take five more presidencies to get us back to a normal state i think we can deal with reality and frankly, if he hadn't been so good at these lies these rates wouldn't even be close. >> this is totally ridiculous. mitt romney had tax plans last week, maybe it should be 50 and maybe it would be 100 and i think ther

president's response to the american people about benghazi, romney did not jump in and try to attack that the way a lot of people thought he would, larry cutler. >> i think he made a mistake. i think team romney reverted back to sitting on a lead they may or may not have. this group is interesting. there are two romneys. one is the romney biography, here i am, here is what i have done, i know how to balance a budget. the other romney is here are my policies, they're a lot different than your policies, i am a tax cutter, i am a free enterpriser, i am going to build up military. now, he said those things, but i don't think he said them in a way that really stuck. >> really? you wanted boots on the throat tonight? >> i wanted to see more aggressive mitt romney. >> the way the president was. >> i thought the president was more aggressive and had less to say which is an odd thing. just like his domestic policy, i don't think mr. obama has a vision for foreign policy at all. i think what these guys did was they counter punched each other to death literally. they're probably both left standing after 15 rounds. i don't think anybody got any pl

obama is trying to win on values and romney is trying to hope that the economy can get him over the finish line. >> larryink this simpler than matt is saying. i don't think obama is trying to draw a contrast, he's trying to disqualify romney. and that seems to be because the campaign concluded they can't. they don't have a case to make about the next four years. why they would be different or better. he's trying -- he can't put out the fire so he's trying to break the other firemen's knees. when romney showed up in the last debate and revealed himself, gee, he's an acceptable republican and kind of a normal guy, that really shattered, i think obama's campaign strategy. he's a man with nothing to say. >> but the problem is that romney's theory -- and i'm not trying to make this too partisan, romney's theory doesn't require anything about a sham affirmative plan of his own. his five-point plan is if you unpack is no great shakes nor is obama laying out something interesting. i think both parties are failing us on that score. they both have theories how to get to 50% plus one. neither serious about long ter

you heard from the president and from republican contender mitt romney but today hear from the alternatives. larryerate a third party presidential debate with gary johnson jill stine and good and anderson. >> the apple mill keeps on churning. experts predict they will announce a smaller less expensive ipad. >>> an increase in internet shopping is profiting fed ex to forecast and i crease in shipment. forecasting 280 million shipments could be a record. and to prepare for the rush the company expects to hire 20,000 seasonal workers. >> gas is expected to get cheaper as the holidays grow closer. the price may drop by thanksgiving. the decline happens becauseamericans are driving less than the summer. retine ris are making less ex-- refineries are making less expensive blends of gasoline. >>> san francisco giants are headed to the world series after a comeback against the defending champs the cardinal. the giants rowed the card 9-0 monday night and they take on -- routed the cards 9-1 monday night and they take on the tigers tomorrow in san francisco. >> did you see the rain? >> yes. >> and they fini

i think that's what romney did for a living and i think that's the point you're missing about mitt. >> well, larrye had tax cuts, tax credits, tax stimulus, every kind of imaginable tax effort to boost the economy for the last 10 or 20 years. we're collecting 15% of gdp, the lowest since harry truman. the point is, there's no room left for this kind of stuff. we're going to have to actually raise more, even if it harms growth in the short run because you just can't keep borrowing at this rate. push comes to shove, we're at the point where we have to face the music, i think. >> david, want to thank you very much for joining us today. david stockman. >>> up next tonight, a man who really needs no introduction. >> it is cramer time. evening jim. >> hey, guys. other people want to make friends i'm going to help you make money off the debates. i have stocks that will move and can make you money tonight. i got one in particular that's going to knock your socks off. read the signs and spot the lies. the kudlow report, 7:00 eastern cnbc. a crash management system and the world's only tridion safety cell w

larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." with mitt romney's resounding victory last week and his continuing victory the week after the debate and the fact that he is not rolling in momentum in the polls, the whole race has changed. barack obama was casing big bird for a week. he fell right into a trap, and that's why, folks, i venture this veep debate tonight could be far more significant than usual, and team obama is leaving it up to uncle joe biden to make their comeback. oh, boy. biden will have to make the case that president obama deserves a second term, and no one, including obama himself, has yet made that case. former presidential candidate newt gingrich who knows a thing or two about all of this is my very special guest. also this evening, the u.s. embassy in yemen was attack. expect the consulate attack in benghazi will be brought up in the debate tonight. neither president obama for vice president biden has faced the press with any tough questions about what did they know and when did they know it about bengz? and how dare team obam

larry. >> yes. >> still to come tonight, obama versus romney, round two. how will latest debate affect the election? >> and from the bowels of the bay bridge a man survived its collapse. when the big >>> a heated presidential debate last night as the president and governor spent much of the evening arguing over claims. abc 7 news mark matthews has been fact checking their statements and he's here now with the results. >> we've been reporting the president focused on attacking mitt romney last night. one topic he thought he could score was immigration. >> called arizona law a model of the nation. part of the law said law enforcement could stop folks because they expected maybe they looked like they might be undocumented workers.. >> that is wrong. romney did not call arizona law a model for the nation. he said that about an earlier arizona law requiring employers to check on the immigration status of employees. when financing education he seemed to contradict. >> i want to keep our pell grant program growing and our loan program so people are able to afford

>> mitt romney may have excelled in that first presidential debate in denver, larry. tomorrow, it's a totally different format at hofstra university. tonight, what mitt romney is doing tonight is prepping and talking about how he will engage in voters and have empathy. >> you know, obama doesn't really answer question, i don't care what the forum is, gives lectures. if mitt romney answers questions and has empathy, i think he does. obama's comeback could be overrated. >> that's exactly correct. you know who's working witonigh is for romney to be himself from senator portman. not to try too hard to appeal to people but come harvad with the answers. >> do you expect with regard to this aggressive obama i keep reading about, do you expect obama to be aggressive in an insulting negative way? will he bring up the 47%, bain capital, all the dirt he didn't really bring up in the last debate. >> history tells us obama's always had a cool political temperment. he never gets too hot or too cold. tomorrow, the media will be watching. does he get a little too aggressive? obama was

romney. >> somebody is finally getting tough on larry bird. who knew that he was driving our deficit? >> reporter: he put up a cable tv ad. >> it's me, big bird. >> big, yell, oh a menace to our economy. mitt romney knows it is not wall street you have to worry about. it is sesame street. >> reporter: team obama even flew the messagever romney today. who mocked the president's move to save a tv character. >> i actually think we need to have a president who talks about saving the american people and saving good jobs and saving our future. >> reporter: a race with new energy and urgency in key states like ohio where this is the time day for voter registration. >> reporter: with romney ahead, but the president keeping his lead in the poll with a bigger group. all registered voters, democrats figure more than ever now, it is turnout that will decide who wins. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >>> the big day is almost here. the nationals' first game of the playoff season is tomorrow afternoon at nationals park against the cardinals by this time tomorrow, the game will probably be over. and thou

the romney campaign's problem is they may have gotten a little hot but it is too late for them to fully benefit from that and when you look at the field programs, larryi've been out, there i work in ohio and other places, you know, the obama campaign has about 800 field offices around the country. romney has 300 which is a point i made in my reuters article today. when you look at these numbers on the ground it's not about do people feel warm toward you, romney has improved broadly on that score but do you have a campaign to convert that on the ground and unfortunately for mitt romney he done. i think when they do the post they will look at did we go strong enough early and the answer is no. >> jimmy, ground game. we'll talk about ground game for a minute. i'm not convinced the republican won't put together a good ground game. furthermore, i love the democrats. democrats may pull people out and wine up voting for romney and romney did well in the debates. who knows about ground game. >> from the best i can tell that the ground game -- listen maybe they pull off a per be effect ground game and romney terrible. maybe that's a percent. mitt romney will

. >>> hey, larry, what are you looking at tonight? >> all right, romney's poll s rolling higher. yone, i'm larry kudlow. this is the kudlow report. 19 days until the election, our top story tonight, last year, over a trillion dollars, a record was spend on federal and state welfare programs and i would like to know if the obama administration thinks they c

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. >> until you called the election tonight, larry, i didn't know which way it was going to go. but now that you've explained that romney is going to win, then, yes, those are the sectors that i want to buy. but, larry, we still have problems here. we still have this congress whose approval rating is as low as it's ever been and deservedly so. i think these guys are still skating by. i think they're still overrated. without leadership here -- >> let me -- larry, you're absolutely right the doom and gloom coming out of the imf is totally wrong. there are plenty of pockets of strength. you have a picture distorted by a few bad apples, like the spanish who got everything wrong. the southern european welfare states are dying. but china's doing well. germany's exports -- china's were up 10% year over year in august. >> the doom and gloom is not wrong yet. >> germany's exports -- the u.s. are up 15% year-on-year. the people who know how to do things right still show strength and if they're unleashed -- >> i want to get -- unleash. that's the key word. president obama has kept a short leash on american business with his regula

>> well, larry, you're asking a great question. when governor romneyking about the need for social security and medicare reform, when he talked about federal debt, that's clearly discussion of the need to restrain federal spending, the tax plan was brought up more by the questioners, i think that's why he focussed there. if we can't get spending back to the 20% level, we can't do the things the governor wants to do. >> one other question before we go. i did not hear -- we talked about substance. i didn't hear any new policy that we hadn't heard before from either candidate tonight, did you? >> well, i think this is not the time to throw out new policy in the campaign. i think what the american people need to figure out is is the president -- does the president have a record he can defend and does he have a plan for the next four years? i think we heard that loud and clear. >> back to you guys. >> thanks so much, john. >> the take from big business after the break. >> then austin he jean will join us. most people tend to think more about how they brush

romney. it will just be another donald trump. >> larry flint did this all the time. he would offer $1 million to find a gay republican. >> or to find who ever was in bed with whatever politician -- >> at some point he will have something to share and then no one will tune in. they are so used to him doing this kind of thing. >> it was the boy who cried hair. >> he is never going to have anything, period. it reminds you of the lawrence o'donnell threatening the son. >> it is from tarantini. >> that was awesome, hysterical. wouldn't it be funny if romney's kid was on the doorstep and said, okay, let's go or barack obama said here are my transcripts and make the check out to -- >> barack obama is a selfish person. he can help people in need and he is not. >> it wouldn't help him. >> i think we learned a available lesson that i like trump. >> we have nothing else to say. >> from big reveals to navy seals. did they reedit to give him more credit. for those worried about a tv movie about killing bin laden airing two days before the election would turn into propaganda, you

larry, good to have you with us. let's talk about the commonwealth here. mitt romney picked virginia as the place to lay out his foreign policy agenda. the governor's going to be speaking at the virginia pill tear institute in lexington tomorrow. larry, why is virginia so important this time around? >> well, last time virginia was the closest to president obama's national average. nationally, he got 52.9% of the vote. virginia, he got 52.6%. so virginia is increasingly seen as a fulcrum in the national election. doesn't have to turn out the same way this time, obviously, but virginia is a prize that both sides want, and there's a good reason. it's actually very, very close. much closer than some of the national polls have suggested. >> larry, how has the state changed politically and/or demographically over the past four years? >> well, you've added a percent minority to virginia's population. i would say probably white voters in virginia will constitute no more than 72% of the turnout. the rest will be minority. president obama gets 80% on average of all minorities p

political analyst larry gersten breaks down confusing presidential polls, as well. >>> mitt romney showll street you have to worry about, it's sesame street. >> big bird's appearance in a satirical president obama ad is angering the producers of sesame street. they're demanding the ad be withdrawn, saying they do not endorse political candidates. the obama campaign says it's reviewing the producer's concern. you may remember that gop candidate mitt romney made comments about pbs and big bird and they were the biggest quotes to come out of last week's debate. >> one day president obama has the lead, the next day mitt romney has the lead. so many polls show very different results. >> so we want to bring in our political analyst. larry, every day it's something different. how do you know who to rely on? >> much of the answer has to do with the way pollsters ask questions, for example. how is the president managing the economy? that's one way. that's different than, is the economy better or worse for you than a year ago. a second potential problem centers on the people polled, likely voters

the latest rasmussen poll shows governor romney leading the president by two points. 49% to 47. larry sabato, author of pendulum swing joins us from charlottesville. good evening, larry. >> good evening, judge. >> good to have you with us tonight. so we had a change there is no question that romney won the debate. the numbers are moving in romney's direction. the money is moving in his direction. what will happen at the town hall? >> well, governor romney has to continue to score big. remember bounces fade. he is getting a bounce. how could he not? 67 million people watched that debate. and show saw the tremendous gap that existed between the two candidates on the stage. as jon stewart said there is no red america, there is no it blue america, this is just an america that agrees that president obama bombed at the debate. and look, judge, to put it into context, four years ago when mccain and obama debated, 5 million tuned in. this was a much larger audience. but romney has to continue the momentum. he has to score big at the two remaining debates to continue the momentum. >> judge jea

romney. >> true. >> bill: do you trust rasmussen, larry? you are pretty outspoken about these polls.cott was on it the last time and the time before that scott hit it right between the eyes. >> no, i know scott quite well. and our heart goes out to him because of the situation in new jersey. he has a tough situation. >> bill: he couldn't come on because he can't come out of house. >> he is in the ballpark but i go by the polling averages, bill. polling averages in ohio show obama up by 2 points which means it's very close. let's see what the jobs number is on friday. what's the unemployment report the friday before the tuesday election? >> bill: i see romney with momentum in that state right now. i think romney -- >> -- he certainly has support among independence. >> bill: right. >> i think in those plus -- obama plus four polls, bill, as we have talked about, they had a party identification advantage of democrats. >> bill: i don't believe that i think rasmussen is on it i think romney is up by a little right now. okay, now, you have a fascinating race and real quick now, david, in m

you can catch john no doubt larry, who else is involved? >> mitt romneynd president obama. >> they're there, as well. >> carl will be there, maria. >> and we have romney and obama. what a great lineup. >> by the way, whoever made that graphic should get a raise. >> fantastic. very retro. love it. >> well, if romney needed anymore ammunition, he doesn't have to look very far. why the company in this chart is sure to come up and what it means. a 123 systems. back after this. >>> a 1123 oig systems filing for bankruptcy. it warned it may happen. this company took $249 million in federal loans. if n. all the president has spent more than 5 billion in taxpayer money trying to push electric cars. you talk about maybe bad timing for the president, as mitt romney really took obama to task on this in their first meeting. >> you put $90 billion like 50 years worth into solar and wind to solyndra and tesla. a friend said you tonight just pick the winners and losers. you pick the losers. >> let's bring in jimmy and phil. if you're mitt romney, you've got go right aft

he sits in the same row as mitt romney and the president of the united states will see what is happening behind the scenes. the filmmaker will be joining us live. larryw the president of the united states is behind mitt romney by 7 and the national gallup poll. also shaquille o'neal john mccain and geraldo rivera. we have three hours cram packed. they start right now right here on "the fox news channel. >>> growing up in a family that flew the american flag every day gave me a sense of national pride. i am grateful for the opportunity to serve the united states coast guard. that is why i am proud to be an american. >> nine minutes to the top the hour. give your kids a grade boost by putting them on adhd meds. he is prescribing them to low income children saying it's their only hope to success. he hopes to modify their behavior and as a result improve grades. >> a firer men going without food and water for days. they were five miles from an island when their engine died. they didn't have any oars so they broke off pieces of the boat to make paddles. they are said to be okay. >>> obama and mitt romney taking a break from tat the charity dinner in manha

. >> find out if mitt romney has momentum on his side and we'll talk about with some experts like michelle madson, larry the cable guy. >> you could see at the end of that debate, anniversary or not michelle wanted to go home with mitt. >> obama: double down. >> romney: simplify the code. >> obama: double down. >> steak baby. you have a guitar and a song about my favorite color. space monkey -- >> current republican nominee mitt romney. mitt, come on out. [ applause ] >> i must say in person, you're even more handsome. >> what a kind and thoughtful thing to say. especially to a guest who is so reticent to appear on your late night television program. >> they'll be getting a severance and others if they so choose, can receive some employment assistance where they'll be getting some resume and application help. the production plant will be shut down in phases. >> this is my band's first single. right now i'm -- it is heart beat. i don't want to move my food. i don't want to move the cat. ♪ >> romney: thank you mr. president. >> obama: i want to thank the university of denver. ♪ >> debates are better. >> e