Just nine days until the election and it's an all-out fight over the Battleground states. As both sides work to tip the scales in their direction, Hurricane Sandy is barreling up the East Coast and is already having an impact on the race. Both President Obama and Mitt Romney cancelled campaign stops on the east coast as the storm could potentially impact 60 million Americans.
This morning, Republican Governor of all-important Ohio, John Kasich painted a positive picture of Mitt Romney's chances of winning the Buckeye State.
"I believe right now we are currently ahead; internals show us currently head. I honestly think that Romney's going to carry Ohio."
Kasich later added, "I'm not sure the election's going to be as close as what everybody is talking about today." This comes as a new Dayton Daily News/Ohio News Organization Poll shows the race tied up between the president and Mitt Romney at 49%.
When asked what issue will tip the scales in their election in their states, swing state Governors Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Walker (R-WI) agreed that it would be jobs. Hickenlooper pointed to the president's record of creating "5.2 million jobs," while Walker argued the election would be about the future.
"[President Obama] doesn't have a plan. Mitt Romney does," he said.
You can watch the entire program on our website to hear more from the governors, as well as a fascinating roundtable discussion on the final nine days of the campaign.
Also, be sure to tune in next Sunday where we'll be live from Democracy Plaza in New York just two days before election day.
If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.
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I think that the Romney's group is wishing against reality. Mitt doesn't have a plan that does not include turning this country into a business. You can't run a country the same way you do a business. But, according to Mitt's team that is exactly what he plans to do. Remember, that's how he made his money but building up debt then putting the company out of business. Is that what we want for America?
I got a story idea! Why not loan David Gregory out to Fox-n-Friends and he must be a charter member. Today's line up was like the first string of Koch brother tea-party hack governors. I just wanted to vomit once I listened to the lead-in to the program and my wife asked if I was a astethic and why do I torture myself? I guess you really don't mind if I change the channel or go out in the yard and rake the leaves to relieve my anger, cause I am certainly not buying any of the products from the corporate sponsors of Meet the Press. Tim Russet is rolling over in his grave.
Womens issues and birth control and abortion not being economic issues?? OMG. Romney trying to now say he suported the Auto Bailout to get Ohio voters? Romney lying to a crowd of suporters telling them jobs from Jeep going to China when it was not ture, no apology to the folks who may have just thought they were loosing their jobs? What happened to mainstream media? Today was disappointing. Did you see CBS? Just as bad. Not helping american voters with facts, just allowing talking heads to speak and say nothing. No objectivity or balance in the media anymore.
I agree. I quit watching after Russert died; it's not the same, no fairness.
Disappointing that every time Kasich or Fiorina was making a point that reflected badly on Obama, you interrupted them! No coverage of Benghazi and the fact that 4 men were totally abandoned and left to die! No accountability from the Obama administration. Shameful for the WH and shameful that NBC neglects to cover the story!
their "points" were lies and distortions, he should held them accountable instead of letting them go on
I was very disappointed that not only did Mr. Gregory not have a segment for Benghazi, but when brought up as a matter of trust, he shut his guest down and moved on. Anyone with intellectual honesty knows that this would have been the lead story if it had been a Republican President. NBC's apparent new slogan is "We report what we decide".
You're an useful tool aren't you? Using Libya as a political hit job against Obama/Biden, pitiful traitors who turn on their President in tough times.
When is Gregory going to graduate from powder puff ball and start pitching some hard ones. Take a few lessons from Matthews, he is obnoxious I know but at least he asks some tough questions and holds his guests to a level of honesty
It was very interesting the way you cut off Carley Fiorina when she brought up Benghazi. Your promise to "get to that later" didn't happen and many (according to Twitter) believe this is another example of media, and your own bias. What happened to investigative journalism.
Carley Fiorina knows squat about Benghazi. She's not an elected official and has no insider information worth reporting. Her opinion is irrelevant.
"Carly Fiorina is an American business executive and a former California Republican candidate for the United States Senate."
The
inclusion of Carly Fiorina definitely cheapens the intellectual validity of
your discussion. While she is promoted as "Carly Fiorina is an American business executive and a former California Republican candidate for the United States Senate” her business credit is dubious at best. Carly ruined
Hewlett-Packard through a lack of management ability and an agenda of self
promotion. This destruction continued until she was subsequently fired by the
board that unfortunately also hired this subpar professional. Being on your broadcast unfortunately helps to
enhance her visibility and validate her undeserved worthiness for a bigger role
in the public sector.
The question she was asked was about honesty in this administration. When you have administration officials giving different accounts it makes many people question what is the truth. I didn't hear her claim to have insider information, only to listening to the different accounts being given by the President, Secretary of State, press secretary, and other State Department officials.
Conservatives keep bringing up the Libyan situation as if Republicans could have saved the consulate or former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, information specialist San Smith and Ambassador Chris Stevens. (RIP) This is a horrible act of terrorism upon a US Consulate which is the same as US soil in a foreign land. WHY ARE YOU REPUBLICAN @$$holes POLITICIZING THIS?
I thought the American PEOPLE pulled together under the threat or act of terrorism. I know in the days after 9/11 Democrats, Independents, Progressives, Liberals got behind George W. Bush. Sure we had our suspicions about lies, disinformation, incompetence (re: August memo) but we love the USA and supported our President when he really needed us. (I even went “shopping” (lol) like Georgie boy told me to do)
Now compare THAT to the way Republicans have been wagging fingers and blaming since news of the embassy attacks reached our shores. Even though these shameless hypocrites cut funding for embassy/consulate protective services.
OR what about the way Mitch McConnell and John Boehner didn’t do a damn thing but obstruct EVERYTHING Obama/Biden was doing to save this great nation from a Corporate Crime Wave resulting from the Bush/Cheney disaster. (Congressional Republicans shouldn’t get paid for the last 4 years)
But I just can’t shake the feeling there’s MORE to this story than anyone is letting on. Romney, Ryan along with the Conservative Labyrinth are too well-rehearsed, knowledgeable and desperate when they push this Benghazi story into every sound-bite, interview and debate. Until the terror attack none of them even knew what a Benghazi is or does… (lol)
NO, naahhhhh, the red flags are going up all over the place, something is going on and it stinks…Wait! What’s this?
UPI - 12/9/11 article titled “Security firms hustle in Lawless Libya”: “Western Mercenaries are moving in to fill the security vacuum in OIL-rich Libya”. Huh… so the war profiteers and western oil interests had a year to make Libya into their image and then just before an energy policy changing Presidential election… a terrorist act… jeez what a coincidence, right?
Ok, lets delve a little further into this conspiracy.
US Justice Department is investigating the events surrounding this terrorist act and are asking questions about possible insiders who may have aided terrorists. Well, the next question any investigative journalist would ask is “who brought in the insiders?” ANSWER, Blue Mountain Group, a UK private security firm handled the hiring and security around the US Consulate in Benghazi. Huh…
At this point I can’t help but wonder who owns/invests in Blue Mountain Group. Maybe one or two of those rich guys that hate President Obama so much? Maybe Bain Capital? Oooohhhh interesting, Ann Romney’s grandfather came from Wales just southeast of Cross Hands from the Blue Mountain training range at Brodle Farm. ANOTHER coincidence, right?
SIDEBAR:
“Egyptian authorities have charged seven Coptic Christians living in USA along with Florida Pastor Terry Jones for distributing the anti-Mohammed video”.
Makes one think about the odds that the one gay Ambassador in the Middle East became a target. A sacrificial lamb so the Republican Party & gay hating Christian Fundamentalists may live to keep the rich guys and big oil in the extravagant lifestyles they’ve grown accustomed to, right?
MORE?
1) Tagg Romney has been buying voting machines… COME ON?
2) VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has refused to press charges against Colin Small for throwing away the voter registration forms filled out by Democrats.
3) On December 19, 2008, 45 year old Republican operative Michael Connell, accused of vote rigging in Ohio, was killed in a small plane crash into a home near Akron. Karl Rove was heard by witnesses threatening to kill Connell if he testified against the Bush/Cheney Administration
4) You Conservative wackos have the balls to search Sensata and Delphi = Romney’s $
5) Mitt Romney, if elected President, will take an oath with his hand on the Book of Mormon! Billy Graham called a "satanist cult".
6) Hey Useful Tools, remember 1983 how Reagan cut & run after 241 Marines were killed in Lebanon, imbeciles.
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I totally agree with sdj. Who knows what another administration would have done? That's not the point here. The horrific attack happened and our president blamed it on a stupid video - when he absolutely knew better. If you don't believe it was for political reasons then you are living in a blue bubble. It will all come out eventually but do we really want to re-elect a president that would do this to our country - how do you think the military families feel knowing that their own president doesn't have their back? PLUS after 3 urgent requests for help ALL were denied? Who does this? Obviously DAVID GREGORY and NBC don't think it is of importance - or just maybe it would hurt their candidate? Yes, I miss Tim Russert. It would have been important to him. God help us all if this continues.
Meet the Press died with Tim Russert. David Gregory is no more than a partisan tool. When Carly Fiorina got anywhere near the discussion of the White House's failings in Libya, he practically jumped across the desk to silence her, promising to "get to that later". By later, he apparently means after the election where it can cause his messiah no harm. When did journalism go out of vogue? It was so important that he continue the myth that Romney hates women because he is against forcing religious organizations to PAY FOR birth control for its female employees. What's next? Will Gregory start wearing Obama/Biden buttons on the set?
Are you serious? Gregory leans conservative. Maybe you should try looking him up on Wikipedia.
David Gregory does seem to favor the conservatives he interviews. It would be nice to see him get as tough on them as he's been with some liberals he's interviewed. I've waited a while to make any comments about his performance on Meet the Press post Russert because he had some pretty big shoes to fill and it just seemed unfair to make any comments comparing the two until the guy had a chance to prove himself and get comfortable in the position. It's been a few years now...those shoes are still too big. I think Brian Williams or Alex Wagner would do a better job. : (
You guys drink too much of the NBC ultra liberal kool-aid if you see anything conservative in Gregory's leanings. Having both sides represented in a debate hardly qualifies as favoring them. He's a horrible moderator/host and he's incredibly biased towards the liberal side that his network is in the tank for.
And you have your head up your ass if you think otherwise. Try looking up Gregory online. He's a conservative. Look him up on Wikipedia if you're too lazy to put in the time researching multiple sources like I have (that kind of laziness and lack of intellectual curiosity would explain why you're "PoorinNevada").
My first instinct was to change the channel the moment I saw Carla Fiorina but she did say something very important, twice, that was totally ignored by the panel…The difference between the Republican and Democratic argument for the Auto Bailout was Who was to get paid! The Romney way was to destroy the Unions and pay the Wall Street bankers. The Obama way supported the company’s and the workers with banker support on the backside.
I hope the press will dig into what happened at Benghazi after the election…I want to know what happened and why it was handled so badly!
BTW David, I liked the way you went after Gov. Kasich. He seemed reluctant to say anything but morphed into a forceful and effective Romney supporter.
I was very disappointed that Mr. Gregory not only ignored the Benghazi issue, but silenced his guest when she brought it up while speaking on the matter of trust. Anyone with intellectual honesty knows that had this happened under a Republican commander in chief, that this would have been the lead story. Apparently NBC's new slogan is "We report what we decide".
Disgusting, great way you cut off Fiorina about benghazi and then NEVER discuss a major story. You and your network are so far in the tank for Obama that you might as well wear :i support Obama (no matter what he lies about) t-shirts
This Show is becoming a Joke!
The stories keep begating themselves: in the end by
disappearing up their own exhaust pipe!
This is going to be a landslide for Obama, yet you promote
the aggro' of tabloid journalism alive and well by suggesting
it is neck n' neck affair.
Let us have some real investigative journalism with real
people and valued comments.
Dear Conservatives:
Please take your un-American and un-Christian beliefs and leave my country ASAP. We real Americans don't want or need your kind here.
You claim to be patriotic, but your policies reject the call to “promote the general welfare” that the Founding Fathers placed in the first sentence of the Constitution.
You say you love Jesus, but your policies don’t reflect His teachings.
If you don’t like my president, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. As you people told us when we protested against Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: America – Love it or leave it!
How sad when people find it necessary to attack people that don't share their views. That's what makes America different from nations that are governed by dictators, we don't throw people out because they don't share the view of the governing power. You can love this country but want different things for it. I hope you go re-read the teachings of Jesus, I don't think you will find it anywhere that he said "don't let the door hit you on the way out."
The moderator and the press bear responsibility for this nightmare of a program. First, Gregory is no liberal by any stretch of the imagination. These guests were ill informed as was he. Scott Walker was forced out of Marquette in his 4th year without a degree for violating school rules. He later went on to hold government jobs and has never held a job in the private sector (maybe due to his lack of degree). Fiorina almost single handedly destroyed H-P a great company that has since recovered from her loss. She left with a large severance package and has never been elected to public office. Kasich, who lied about the increase of jobs in Ohio by 400 due to the auto bailout was never questioned on his calculation which any person can tell is false. He left Lehman Brothers when it went bankrupt with a large severance package. With such backgrounds, how can they give an informed opinion and why did't the moderator bring up their past history which is relevant. Gregory, whether you believe him to be liberal or conservative, is just inept. He never asks "Why" or "How do you know that" but allows all guests to make it up as they go. Russert knew the art of interrogation, Gregory should be replaced.
Maddow made a few good points on the show today regarding Romney's lies about the movement of jobs by Chrysler to China which were not gaffs but were out and out lies but even she failed to dispute the other facts which were clearly false. We know the auto bailout was opposed by Romney and it created more than 400 jobs in Ohio. If you sit on a panel, you should know the history of those around you and none of them were able to attack the credibility of either Kasich or Fiorina who both left companies in distress and made out with large severance packages. Or Walker who left Marquette without a degree under questionable circumstances and worked for the State of Wisconsin his entire life and never in the private sector. Walker lost the majority in his State Senate and Kasich lost his war against collective bargaining. He was only one of a handful of governors ever to be recalled even though he survived. Today, it was a low information panel and moderator. When the press allows individuals of either party to lie, it has not done its job.
I am sad David Gregory cut off the Christina when she brought up the Benghazi apparent coverup. How is it this is not as important as anything else. Watergate was everywhere, why because it revealed the President in a coverup. Now this and every step the media, the Government fights to cover this up as new facts arise to expose this tragic event. David! you had no intention to discuss this topic, as you said you did early in the show.
I've been a viewer of MTP for years and was a big fan of Tim Russert. He really must be turning in his grave. I did give David Gregory a bit of benefit of my doubt when he cut Carley Fiorina off in mid sentence as she attempted to interject comments about Benghazi. After all, he did say that he would get back to that later. When that never happened I believed that it was the most blatant display of lack of journalistic integrity I remembered seeing in a very long time. When the powers that be at NBC ask themselves about ratings, today's MTP should be a textbook case. By the way, I was a loyal viewer of "Today" for so many years going back to Barbara Walters. There certainly has been change at NBC, and many of your viewers obviously don't believe in it.
This is an amazing election. Romney's proposition is Obama's "policies haven't worked" and he cites the stubbornly high unemployment rate and rather languid recovery as proof of his claim. But Obama hasn't been able to fully implement his policies because of the GOP 'War on Obama'.
GOP leaders decided on the day of Obama's inauguration they would fight and filibuster everything Obama tried to do - especially any efforts to repair the economy from the GOP's Trickle Down - Deregulation disaster.
The GOP filibustered the American Recovery and Reinvestment act forcing Obama to downsize it 34% by converting that proportion of the stimulus to tax cuts. Now, anybody knows that at the outset of a depression, when people are worried about whether they will have a job in six months any additional money from a tax cut will NOT BE SPENT - but will be socked away or used to pay down debt. Thus, the Republicans forced a downsizing of the stimulus 345 from $775 Bil to ~$511 biln.
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The Republicans filibustered the American Jobs act to death - a bill which Moody's Analytics said would have boosted the GDP 2% and reduced unemployment ~1%.
THe Republicans threatened to force a default of the U.S. government on it's debt and to force a Governement shut-down. The price of avoiding the shutdown and the default on the public debt was significant cuts to Government domestic programs to be taken in the that year. The Wall Street Journal published an article which said without cuts to Government programs the unemployment rate would be a full percentage point lower ("Unemployment rate without Government cuts: 7.1%" - WSJ, May 8, 2012)
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These acts of legislative terrorism lead Normal Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute) and Thoman Mann (The Brookings Institution) to declare that the Republican party was "an insurgent outlier" in American politics. (See: "Let's just say it: The Republicans are the Problem" , Washington Post, April 27, 2012):
The fact is, while Romney campaigns saying "Obama's policies haven't worked" while he kniows full well that Obama has been prevented from fully realizing his policies by the Republicans in Congress who did everything they could to stop Obama from being succuessful, even at the cost of millions of Americans livelihoods. And all this was to help insure their success in 2012. And they decided to do this on the day of Obama's inauguration.
Later, McConnell spoke proudly of what was already obvious to everyone: that the GOP's top priority was to make sure Obama was a one term president by doing everything they could to keep him from succeeding at anything. In 2009 the Republicans even voted down a Deficit Commission THEY HAD PROPOSED - WHY?? BECAUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA ENDORSED IT!
What is even more amazing is how the corporate media will not bring this up.
Even with all the so-called "fact Checking" going on, nobody will observe that the GOP has filibustered and fought every effort by Obama and the Dems to provide the post Trickle Down Deregulation disaster what it needs - stimulus from the public sector. It seems since Obama has come into office 'filibuster' is a taboo word on M$M (Hey Brian, have you utterred the word 'filibuster' since Obama walked into the White House?).
We wouldn't want any of the GOP toadies of M$M to say anything not approved by Karl Rove, would we???
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Real Americans, Christian Americans, patriotic Americans would not have ignored the cries for help that went out from the embassy in Benghazi 9/11/2012. Four real Americans died because the Obama administration chose to ignore them.
You did it again Gregory! You let the Republican guests give the wrong information and said nothing. You are supposed to know the facts. You allowed the two Republican Governors on your show take credit for the economy getting better, when in fact the economy was getting better before they came into office. If anything they made it worse! Scott Walker by firing teachers, firefighters, and police, causing the unemployment to be worse for Obama, and the Gov. Of Ohio, making it look like he got the state back on track when he did not. Then Fiorina had so much more time to give her points of view than EJDionne, insisting that Obama had made more changes than Romney.......and you didn't corret her. We all know that Romney changes more than a chameleon. What kind of a President will he make?.I have always thought that you are a Republican, but now I am convinced. That is one thing that Tim Russert never did. Display what party he was for. He was the best of the best! I hope that next week you will have more democrats than republicans to make up for your unfair balance today!! To the person who commented in front of me, are you aware that the Administration has asked for more funding for the Ambassador Embassies, and Congress refused. Hillary Clinton had warned that denial of more funding would lead to dire results,& she was right. So put the blame where it belongs: ON THE DO NOTHING CONGRESS!!!! P.S. Gregory, when you asked Ms. Fiorina about the lie that Romney had said about the Jeeps being sent to China, she ignored your question and said, Well Obama lied about Benghazi (which wasn't true....) but it was you obligation to say to her, "I asked you about the jeeps, and not let her change subjects. That is what an experienced moderator should do!!
2.3 billion instead of 2.6 billion for worldwide security and embassy security was approved by both the House and Senate and signed by Obama. Not an excuse to ignore their cries for help!
Battleground? Huh, NOT YET, but it will be if Mitt Romney wins because a bunch of shameless LIARS choose to mislead the American PEOPLE. WE WILL HOLD YOU *#^~!'s ACCOUNTABLE!
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