we're continuing to lend and invest in the people, businesses, and organizations that call greater waington home. whether it's funding an organization that provides new citizens with job training, working with an anacostia school that promotes academic excellence or supporting an organization that serves 5,000 meals a day across d.c., what's important to the people of greater washington is important to us, and we're proud to work with all those who are making our communities stronger. >> a nice time of the year with cool mornings and warm afternoon. by late saturday may be a passing shower. other than that, temperatures are just about ideal. we put up a blog about wild weather yesterday. [laughter] anncr: a good job. it's the key to a good life. but it isn't always easy to find one... a vote for question seven is a vote for maryland jobs. two thousand construction jobs to bui a new resort casino. four thousand permanent jobs paying... on average fifty five thousand a year. six thousand jobs from increased tourism... and table games like blackjack and poker. add it up: it's twelve thousand n

. >> this week on "inside waington," the grand old party makes itfficial. >> joined mitt romney and me. let's s give this effort everything we have. >> a look at the supporting cast. >> this man ll not let us down. >> tonight, i saenough. hope and change has become divide and conquer. >> when somebody does not do their job, w've got to let them go. >> where does this party go from here? >> over the long haul republicans need to be more respecectful of voters they are trying t to attract >> the 2012 republican national convention in tampa serve up no surprises except perhaps for clint etwoo's rambling performance in the key 10:00 hour thursday night but conventions rarely do surprises anymore. this was mittt romney's major opportunity to sell themselves to the american people. >> in america, we we do not apopologize for success. what america needs is jobs -- lots of jobs. you knowhere is something wrong with the kind of job he has done as president withh whe best feeling you hadas the day you voted for him. >> ok, you were in tampa. did mitt romney make the sale? >> i think he did a goo

that policy s seen as a gesture ofupport for israel waington is expected to express strong concern over the free trade plan. egypt has not officially announced that the meeting took place. morsi appears to be avoiding a possible diplomatic rift with the united states ahead of a planned visit there next week. >>> even one of the fastest g w growing economies in the world has got caught up in the global slowdown. what's happening? >> katherine, it is showing that people around the world are putting less mey into ina. it slightly a different story for japan investors. it fell in august for a third straight month. but japan invested heavilily in the the country before the protests. a spokesperson at china's commerce ministry said investments were down 1.4% from a year earlier. the decline was due to the global impact stemming from the european debt crisis. the european union invested about 4% less from january to august of the previous year. investments from the united states fell almost 3%. meanwhile, japan's direct investments into the first eight months of the the year rose over 16% from

fift cnscetecould saveouftn petr >>> the nfl team in waington, d.c. has the nickname.you know that team right? we all call that team by its namell the time. doouver think t th nime it's been well litigated. what if the equivalent word for jewish people or chinese people or any other ethnically-defined group of people were used as a nickna? a lot of colleges including syracuse and stanford and miami of ohio decided some time ago they would stop using words that mean native american as their orts mascots. noe in, p football team. so we just live with it. also weird the republican race for senate in the great state of massachusetts. reported here last night on hothe highest profile senate rate in the country between scbranizh en has turned into a flat out racial campaign with the republican incumbent running against his chalnger just straight up the basis of ery beepng o this campaign as if that fact about it is normal, but it's really not normal. it's not even normal in a country where we still have native american football mascots. the brown campaign running on race got

that "waington post" poll out today has other data in it l oo voters say they have f been contacted by the obama campaign. that contacted by the campaign number is seven points lower in term ls of the romney campaign. the obama campaign is doing it better. they are talking to more voters in ohio. e t reporting that it's not just ohio. the obama campaign has double the number of field staff as the romney campaign and in a number of key swing state, the obama folks have twice the number of field office "t.ameoo at the payroll numbers. they find the obama campaign is employing twice the number of staff as the the romney campaign last month at about the same cost. there are twice as many people working on o cpaign if you excle th00 t ro cigaiut i bonuses to its campaign officials last month, the romney's payroll number was still roughly theame as president obama's even though president obama had double the number of boots on the ground. fewer romney staff e but ty t pa lre there's a reason president obama is ahead in the last 20 national polls. there's a reason he's up by eight in the late

. >> b youalrg that there's sort of a model here to break gridlock in waington, the partisan polarizationf you believe that the peer network is a great driver of positive socialhange in society, whe do you f on u' not a big -- necessarily a big fan of big government, and you're not just kind of a free market libertarian who believes the marketplace can solve everything, and so there isn't quite a slot for those of us who are peer progressives or d q ha rty.eer networks yet. i don't know if this means we need a peer party to go alongside the tea party, but i think there is a movement of people who are trying to solve problems this way, and we've got such great insrational success in the story of the internet to point to that i think it's a great time to be involved with this. >> i hear youheord oroundus wonder, the sort of theory in political science is that, you know, basically when you push people, you ask them are you a democrat or republican, you find out most people, there aren't that many independen, most people identify with one party or the other, a that each rty is reay a ntze net

contributor jonathan capehart of the "waington post," nbc news politicaanalyst former pennsylvania governor andhe ndrrent govnorfnoed the queen bee of -- >> great honor. >> it's our honor. the queen bee of the grio.com joy reid and host o cycle, steve kornacki. president obama is minutes away obitveddressing tnt bn ausy morning for both filled with speeches and media appearances in and around new york city. mitt romney spoke to the clinton global itiative and sat down with education nation. president obama spoke to the u.n. general assembly, follow thatirere d the first lady taped for "the view." the meeting of the united nations general assembly has put foreign policy front and center. president obama used the ait tack on the u.s. consulate in libya and the death on ambassador stevens to make the case for a broaderhilophy regardinthtu of the relations between the middle east and the west. >> the events of the last two wes also speaks to the need for all of us to honestly address the tensions between the west and the arab world that is moving towards demoacy. >> while he mad car tt the vide

accordinto the "waington post," greg sargent, this new ectesid,l, it's going to replace all english-language romney ads in nine states. it's another attempt to soften romney's image. >> president obama and i both care about poor and middle class families. the difference i my polici wi makthin br >> he's sticking up for president obama. that's kind of cool, isn't it? romney hopes this video will have an impact. but there's another video affecting romney's campaign in a very much bigger way. >> and so my job is not to worry t e le i'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. >> it is brutal. the hidden fund-raiser video where romney disparaged 47% of americans is not helping with swing voters. it's also hurting romney with his base. "the new yortimes" talked to a work, etern unemployed republican from ohio. romney's comments didn't sit well with myers. "the last thing, where he was going on about the 47% who are dependent on the government is hard to swallow. i think i'm part of e 47% he's talking about. but don'wanto beepennt heert. th attodicn o

duckworth has ads out now a the fact that she'llo waington and fight for her constituents there in that're right, there are a lot of these below the belt comments and i think tea party folks have made that are now coming back to bite them. i think they've done well for themselves in terms of filling chbann aut $10 ofres. million in the bank. now they are having to run against the very words. >> back to you, jim. what happened to walter mondal ansoeplow they get so far right to think that michele bachmann is the voice of sanity? >> i think she treds on her base,ets a lot of advertising out there. the people of minnesota understand that she's not representinghend that she does not speak the truth. it's coming around to roost. she's going to lose this election because she can't come up with anything that makes any sense to the people. she doesn't resonate with the folks. it's getting old. she ran for president. she did 15 debes. she wanted to do one with me after the elecon. e's raidf th ut i nnin and i think it's catching up with her, chris. >> jim graves running against michele bachmann.