>> i think it's that unfiltered aspect, that the media was been setting a margined and labeling things in a certain way, prepackaging it for americans, for women and be finally, americans, women got to hear for themselves unfiltered about these two ways forward. >> do you think that's the case? >> i actually don't think had that's the case at all. i think it's really a, and a if you will go back and look at the news stories, i think you will find it's a misinterpretation of the gender gap as it is anything else. the actual definition of the gender gap is not this percentage of women voting for this candidate and this other percentage of women voting for this other candidate. the gender gap is the difference between women's votes for a candidate and men's votes for that candidate, and there has been a very significant gender gap, and there will be in the election a very, very significant gender gap. >> that is for the republican party with men. >> exactly. and i think that that will continue as well. >well. and just because women split between particular candidates in a few polls buns c

that's way can bring forward in this debate because it will be unfiltered. it won't be split and cut by the media or by whoever is slicing and diesing any recorded messages that have been done before. this is an unfiltered opportunity for governor romney to lay out his optimistic and upbeat plan for the american people and for our great country. that's why i'm so excited about tomorrow night. >> let me ask you about something dave gertz wrote in "the new york times" today. he suggested an opening statement for mitt romney. let me read part of it for you. i'm a nonideological guy running in an ideological age and i'm pretending to be more of an ideologue. i ended up running myself down. it hasn't worked. i'm behind. i decided to run the last month of this campaign as myself. there has been a criticism that he has gone from being a moderate to a conservative. has he become too conservative for the general electorate, and do you consider mitt romney to be a true conservative? >> sure, he's a conservative. what he is is a problem solver. his entire life, whether

when you see governor romney unfiltered, that whole narrative implodes. he is not a radical guy of the governor and the president doesn't have a plan. >> jon: "new york times" and wall street editorials both made that point. they both said in the course of their editorials, journal out of ammunition. there is no reason to think that obama's second term would be better than the first. so obama won the debate has no plan. that is out. there. i think it's very damaging. reporters don't want to get completely away where the friend is going. they are happy to be on one side but they don't want to look like idiots if obama loses by ten points. >> jon: they say they have portrayed mitt romney a certain way and now people can see him, they are changing their minds. they are forming opinions on the man himself. do you agree? >> yes, but there is a qualifier. when you get a statement like binders full of women. when you hear a comment from governor romney, it's subjected to interpretation. gee, that is like i have a blackberry rather than an iphone. no, this is typ

the thing i loved about the debate, an unfiltered view of my husband, yay!very long time. hundreds of millions of dollars, half a billion dollars spent on negative ads describing my husband as a person who does not care, a person who is out of touch. i am here to tell you about a person who is in touch and does care. i appreciated the fact that the audience got to see an unfiltered view, 70 million people tuned in the first debate. there is someone else on that stage that i like. he is the guy who has a vision for the future and understands what is going on. this is an economic recovery that is not a recovery at all. guess who is hurting the most -- women. more women have fallen into poverty than men. it is more women have lost their jobs than men in the last four years. women are hurting. single moms, moms having a tough time to begin with, they are the ones who are hurting the most. help is on the way. [applause] to answer that charge that mitt does not care, this is the hardest one for me. i've been married to the man for 43 years. i have known him for 47

then romney got an unfiltered shot. and everybody has taken a second look at him.n the romney campaign take this moment and run with it. if so, the obama campaign which will only get more negative, that's what fear does to a campaign, will look smaller and smaller. >> i know you want to respond, but can i just talk tactics here? speaker, are we going to see mitt the moderate now? is this what he's doing with this second look? he talks about he doesn't want to gut financial reform. >> he said that back in january. >> touting health care instead of talking about replacing it all the time? >> he is talking about replacing obama care, which is part of how he pays for his tax cuts. he cuts out all the spending put into obama care. let me go back to one example hilary used. 86% of the country favors an energy independence plan which romney is campaigning on. ohio, five counties in eastern ohio that have five billion barrels of oil. something people didn't even know a year and a half ago. all of a sudden you have an explosion of new energy sources in this country. that's

first moment when the american people can see these two guys by side, letting out their visions unfiltered. i think that will be a powerful moment for mitt romney. >> obama senior advisers said they are preparing. >> they have been practicing for months. i am sure they will have a lot of clever lines, but that is not the american people are looking for. >> abc news political analyst matt dowd says advisors are emphasizing style over substance. >> debates that have changed people's lives have been about physical debates and -- physical characteristics and mannerisms, not substance. >> both have challenges. the president needs to keep his answers short to avoid sounding like the professor he was before entering the white house. romney has to connect with voters and seem relatable. >> joining us now to talk about this -- a guest from politico. thank you for being here. so much at stake for mitt romney on wednesday. what does he need to do to make an impact? >> he needs to change the dynamic of the race. all the indications are that he is a few points behind in the swing states. only five or s

. >> reporter: this unfiltered confidence may not make much of a splash. a newark ton post poll shows 55% of likely voters think the president will win this debate. only 31% say it will be romney. new this is a poll president obama likely does not want to win because he essentially says mitt romney is the underdog going into the debate. >> kelly? >> i don't think i've seen a gap that huge in one of the polls. the national candidates are usually neck and neck, pretty close. >> reporter: the cnn poll out among likely voters show present obama at 50% and mitt romney at 47%. that's obviously, within the margin of error. given the wednesday debate and others, there's a lot of room for either side to make up some ground. >> okay. looks like we're having technical difficulty. let's head over to jamie costello. >> all right. tonight, it's very popular on abc2news.com. elizabeth loves to crochet. now she is turning it into a business. 2 -- $25,000 up for grabs. sherrie johnson sits down to learn more. >> reporter: 16-year-old elizabeth loves crocheting. she has tur

and this is a chance to see them totally unfiltered without any kind of edits. i think that says something about how america wants to hear directly from the two guys. >> and don't forget, we really do love bear knuckle fighting. >> well taken. >> and that was a key component of the debates was the drama. there was drama on it. people were watching it. people were engaged. especially that town hall meeting where they were actually pacing around each other. >> now we're back to the same format we had in the first debit for tomorrow's debate. coming up in the next half hour we'll discuss congressional races including a peculiar race in the bay area. >>> the media shower is more than just a fun thing to watch. scientists say what you can learn from the big event in the sky. >>> one of the hottest ballot measures in this election. the tax battle going down to the wire. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, . >> you're watching cbs five eyewitness news this morning. >> a well known figure from america's political past has died. how the late george mcgovern figured i

two more opportunities, hopefully, as unfiltered as we were last week.i think, of all the problems and all of the -- i think huge disappointments with this president at the debate, he continues to perpetrate this myth that somehow he has this magic plan to get our deficit and debts under control, after he himself number 1, delivered three massive deficits, every year he has been president-- >>> $6 trillion. to be accurate, as of today, $5.54 trillion in new debt. it will be $6 trillion in new obama debt. >> he is the -- he is the debt king of the world. and he is coming out here and telling the american people -- he has a plan. well, unfortunately, speeches are not plans. and i think you have to put up or you know what. and he hasn't been able to. not good enough to whine the next day. >> sean: reince priebus, good to see you. thank you for being with us. there are no new polls battleground polls that show the impact of the romney huge win in the debate. you don't want to miss the numbers out of florida, virginia and ohio, it shows a race very much movin

attention of some gop intellectuals like texas governor rick perry who tweeted, always niles to get unfiltered or in this case unskewed information. amen. if we had only had more accurate polling during the primaries, perry could have dropped out way sooner. (applause) and so-- (laughter) folks, chambers' work throws all polls into doubt now. even the internal ones i've taken of myself. i mean the results say i'm not that excited about mitt romney but as a conservative i feel like i should love him. maybe the sample size is too small or maybe i checked the wrong box and i'm actually latino, you know. thankfully, fox news is fighting back with its own fair and balanced polling. >> we asked you tonight who will win ohio. 10% of you said president obama. 90% of you said mitt romney. thanks for your vote. we had more than 20,000 of them tonight. >> stephen: i don't know. i don't know. that poll looks like it oversampled democrats by 10%. but folks, i am so inspired that tonight i am conducting my own properly weighted poll. so go to colbert nation.com and make your voice heard by answering this qu

the thing i loved about the debate, an unfiltered view of my husband, yay! been waiting for that for a very long time. hundreds of millions of dollars, half a billion dollars spent on negative ads describing my husband as a person who does not care, a person who is out of touch. i am here to tell you about a person who is in touch and does care. i appreciated the fact that the audience got to see an unfiltered view, 70 million people tuned in the first debate. there is someone else on that stage that i like. he is the guy who has a vision for the future and understands what is going on. this is an economic recovery that is not a recovery at all. guess who is hurting the most -- women. more women have fallen into poverty than men. it is more women have lost their jobs than men in the last four years. women are hurting. single moms, moms having a tough time to begin with, they are the ones who are hurting the most. help is on the way. [applause] to answer that charge that mitt does not care, this is the hardest one for me. i've been married to the man for 43 y

. >> i loved the fact that i think a 70 million americans got a chance to see my husband unfiltered. >> mitt romney is working with the debate partner ohio senator rob portman on style. >> in their practice sessions, romney spent less time practicing what he is going to say and more time focus on how he is going to say at. >> he will have a very steady to very good performance but president is more of a question. >> it is very important for obama not to sit back and act disengage and demure to mitt romney. >> democrats hinted that you will see the president go after romney. >> to the extent that he is the etch-a-sketch guy, president obama will sho how that i inconsistent with how he has been afforded -- been before. >> on the other hand, they have to make that connection and show empathy with voters tonight. >> today is our last day to register to vote in the election. you can print out a form and mail it in or go to the board of election headquarters. you can also register online. all applications must be turned in by 9:00 p.m. tonight. each county in the baltimore area has at leas

. >> i think the momentum changed in the debate and i think people for the first time saw an unfiltered of mitt romney and saw him as a potential president. unfiltered by any media and any attack ads and they saw someone who was really engaged and could be president and that in turn is what lifted the senate races. i think on the presidency, if he win, we're going to control the senate. i agree that the women's vote is very critical, but if you look at what's happened in the women's vote, they're moving for romney and the gap is being closed and romney is a compelling argument and the creation of jobs and get this economy moving again and he's done it before. >> simultaneously, the men are voting in favor of the president. >> i would just say that the numbers don't bear that out that since the debates we've not seen evidence that romney has coattails. again, in connecticut, linda mcmahon is getting herself closer to the president to do better. most all of our candidates in the key states are still doing well either tied or up, so again, i don't think the numbers are bearing out this con

tonight is the candidates' last chance to reach millions of people unfiltered and potentially move the polls. right now those polls couldn't be any closer. the very latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll showing it dead even. mitt romney and his family are already in florida where they had dinner together last night. the president leaves for boca raton next hour. >>> tonight's 90-minute debate is expected to be maybe a little less fiery than the last encounter if for no other reason they don't have a chance to circle each other. they will be setted at the table with bill schieffer. this morning their surrogates gave us a preview. >> it's really important that we not politicize this process. at other times a tragedy, 9/11 the country came together. it's unfortunate those across the aisle are dividing us apart. >> he's asking the president of the united states to get to the bottom why there's this fog around his administration since september 11th. >> i want to bring in matt winter elch and eleanor pike. foreign policy debate would seem to favor the incumbent because he's the command

much is the voters got to see them out for a lengthy periodup filtered talking to each -- period unfilteredng to each other. >> a lot of supporters were showing up at the first debate to watch the final coffin, final nail in the coffin for their guy. he was finished, so to speak. and low and behold, there was resurrection. >> this is interesting. as carla points out, this is the most expensive presidential campaign we have had. when you cross the state line into nevada, it's been non-stop commercials in that state for months. >> yeah. >> and at the end, everyone's where they were at the beginning, and it came down to the 90 minutes of free time on the tv where you actually got to look at these two. >> that's right. and now, i mean, going into the final, and this is what is interesting. we're back at ground zero. we're back at dead heat. all of that drama that we have had over the past whatever months, it's now, everything's been reset andd in the final weeks, they debate again. >> and no presidential campaign has ever used as much money as is being used in this presidential campaign. barack

this is, you know, what's great about last week is it's our opportunity to present an unfiltered mitt romney versus an unfiltered barack obama and the choice was houistorically. >> let's ask you then about specifically what the panelist talked about, the thing that a lot of analysts are watching is are the polls going to move in the swing states? it is early to tell. the jobs numbers may factor in to this. can mitt romney move the polls in a place like ohio? where before the debate, our nbc news maris poll showed the president up eight in a state where president obama's message seems to be the jobs numbers. that's working. improving car sales. car sales up. stock market up. does he have to win, for example, ohio? mitt romney, to win the presidency. can he move the number there is? >> well, i think on an overall question, i would agree with all of you that this is going to be an incredibly close election. i thought that the polls were closing before the debate. the debate certainly helped close them even further. i think you are going to see this come down to a ground game, the traditi

debate, you took the money off the table, you had the president and governor trromney speaking unfiltered to the people, and people really liked what they heard from mitt romney. >> but some people might not consider exactly what mitt romney said as unfiltered. take a listen to what he said about cutting taxes for people during the republican primary compared to what he said on wednesday. let's play back two clips, so take a listen. >> nouumber one, i said today tt we're going to cut taxes on everybody across the country, by 20%, including the top 1%. >> but i'm not going to reduce the taxes paid by high-income people. they'll do fine whether you're president or i am. >> in that first sound bite, he was really clear about cutting taxes by 20%, including the top 1%. then he said on wednesday, he wasn't going to cut taxes for the rich. >> he said all along, he's still going to cut taxes 20% across the board, close loopholes and deductions -- >> including the top 1%. >> he said for everybody, across the board. >> on top of the bush tax cuts? >> president obama during the debate said he is th

an unfiltered mitt romney and an unfiltered barack obama. you saw inspiration, heart, preparedness from mitt romney, and you saw a president that came in unprepared, uninspiring. you know what, maybe clint eastwood was right, and i think that's what the american people saw last week. >> let me ask you about the -- we have some idea of the democrats fundraising in september. the totality, the re-election campaign as well as the democratic committee. $180 million in september. that's 1.8 million individual donors, 567,000 first-time done ovrz. that's an impressive number. are you going to match it? >> i don't know if we're going to match it, but it is an impressive number. >> are you close? >> i can't tell you that right now, but i will say this. i think we all understand that this race isn't going to come down to money, because we've been very competitive, and if you roll the tape, i have been calling -- i have been saying that president obama is going to raise $1 billion for a year and a half. remember we called them the billion dollar presi

but these debates are important because you have two people unfiltered going back and forth on their ideas and their records, and so far, governor romney i think has laid out a pretty compelling case and the president's has been pretty weak. >> so far, he's certainly winning the battle of the debates but there are two more to go and a lot to play for. thank you very much. >> good to be with you, piers. >>> coming up, the actress under fire for supporting mitt romney. why she's facing racist attacks. stacy dash talks to me exclusively. here she comes. [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes? just begin with america's favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking

but these debates are important because you have two people unfiltered going back and forth on their ideas and their records, and so far, governor romney i think has laid out a pretty compelling case and the president's has been pretty weak. >> so far, he's certainly winning the battle of the debates but there are two more to go and a lot to play for. thank you very much. >> good to be with you, piers. >>> coming up, the actress under fire for supporting mitt romney. why she's facing racist attacks. stacy dash talks to me exclusively. here she comes. bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. no need to get nasty. here's your "honk if you had an affair with taylor" yard sign. looks good. [ male announcer ] fedex office. now save 50% on banners. but with advair, i'm

but 80 million people got an unfiltered look at mitt romney and they like what they saw. i predict you'll see credible polls showing a significant move in the swing states and a closer race than what we've had. that's the big factor. >> we all sit in washington and get on the numbers. the average american goes outside and says, okay, 600,000 part-time jobs. 114,000 full-time jobs. gasoline the highest in history. do i feel better or in the real world, can my cousin still not find work. in the real world, is every small business in my neighborhood still stressed? i think the reason obama has never been able to pull away even when romney had two pretty bad weeks, is in the end there's this rubber band effect where they go well, i would almost like had to give him another shot, but this is really frightening and really painful. >> nobody is ever going to pull away in this political system. so that's never going to happen. we always know that. >> i disagree, i think they could, there was, there was a emmet moment of pull-away and the only thing that snaps it back is this feel

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>> this is an opportunity really to reach the voters that haven't yet made up their mind in an unfiltered way. >> they want to hear plans forward. they want to know what the president will do over the course of the next four years. and how exactly we'll get there. >> reporter: with polls showing mr. obama leading in the crucial swing states, top aides have encouraged the president to be himself, don't change what's working, one senior adviser said. for his part romney's advisers say he's prepared, that he just needs to convey his message clearly on the biggest stage of his political career. and throughout the primary debates, brian, mitt romney would write his father's name, george romney, on the top of his notepad. his father, of course, being his inspiration. he would also write one other letter, "o" to remind him to focus on president obama. but tonight when they are finally side by side, he probably won't need any reminders. >> peter alexander in the hall, thanks for starting us off tonight. >>> now over to our political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd also at

when women saw romney unfiltered not through the lens of the obama's administration distortions. that makes sense to me, i can give this guy a shot. he's doing better than mccain and bush and dole did. he's not the gender -- >> is it bad? we are not going to agree on this. >> and i really don't think it's so much what romney said as the fact that let's face it, the president didn't show up. he wasn't there. and he didn't give women much to be listening to. and he didn't come back at romney and poke holes and a lot of the things that romney was saying was not true. >> the time in the third debate which is upon us. >> absolutely. >> for him to -- >> absolutely. >> turn it back around. >> i do agree with tar on this. three weeks ago lifetime in politics. it is. you are going to have senate races where women are going to be looking and todd aiken in missouri saying that a woman's body can shut et cetera down in unwanted rape and pregnancy. he was in bed with s of so to speak, todd aiken, they are looking at that and seeing this is the republican party and this is who romney and ryan