The big news out of Meet the Press this morning was the debut of the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that shows President Obama ahead of challenger Mitt Romney by a one percentage point margin.
Even with the tight national polling, both sides exuded confidence this morning. President Obama's Senior Adviser and campaign architect David Plouffe asserted, "I'm very confident, David, two days out from election, that the president's going to be re-elected on Tuesday night."
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) had similar confidence about Mitt Romney's chances in Cantor's home state. "We're going to win this state and i think we're going to win it a lot bigger than most people are predicting," Cantor said.
You can watch the entire interviews with David Plouffe and Leader Cantor on our website as well as our roundtable discussion with full analysis on Tuesday's election and how some of the larger moments in the campaign may or may not affect the outcome of the race.
Also, with the country still reeling from Hurricane Sandy that left 2 million people still without power across the East Coast, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker joined the roundtable to discuss the progress being made just under a week after the storm's passing.
Booker gave the response effort from all levels of the government "high marks," but cautioned it is going to be "a very difficult road to get out of a state of emergency," in the Garden State.
We'll be back next week and be sure to catch David this Tuesday night as part of NBC’s primetime network coverage of the 2012 Presidential Election.
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Guess what? Even if Romney comes close to winning the popular vote or wins it a by a percentage, Obama will take the electoral college. Romney needs to win the popular voted by many percentage votes to overcome the deficit in the electoral votes and Ohio!
Frustrated voters are about to limp to the polls in a tight race lacking enthusiasm and cooperation. My notes on the Meet The Press broadcast from the If It's Sunday blog...go to ifitssunday dot com.
If what the pollsters are saying is true, (which of course is just a guess), in looking at the 2008 stats post-election. Seems that More Republicans and unaffiliateds vote on election day. With the lower count this year, where Democrats are concerned, even though they have a large ballot return. If the same differences between early and mail-in, and election day balloting, apply.. Obalamer needs to call a moving van..
Thank you to all the Dems out there who still believe in humanity and care about the welfare of others, and thank you for believing in women's rights. All I want is 4 more years from a President who actually cares and wants the best for the people of this country. This has been a hard race, full of deception and negativity but I truly believe the good guy will win. I feel sorry for the weak-minded who believe all the garbage Fox News has fed them. I can't wait until this is all over.
Obama keeps saying we've tried the Republican ideas under Bush and they failed. Then he uses Clinton's policies as the same policies he used during this first term as successful. But if that were true, then why are there no jobs now after four years? Unemployment rate is actually higher than when Obama took office. The reason is Obama is full of it. Had Romney been elected four years ago, America would already be booming and prosperous and have millions of new jobs. The only person who will vote for this fraud that the country is doing great, are people who really don't want a job or the country to prosper. You know, the one's getting food stamps while stealing dead people's social security numbers to request billions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds, while slinging untaxed dope and pimping their whores on the street corners.
Interesting that Mr. Cantor couldn't find the words to praise President Obama concerning the Sandy disaster.......
Actually, he couldn't find the words to directly answer anything he was asked - just like Romney! Go figure.
@David Gregory..your so BIAS against Dems..you dont Question the REP on the lies they till but you Question DEM like they are GUILTY of lying..wont watch you any longer and my family and friends..
To all of you haters out there who say you will move to another country if Obama is re-elected, put your money where your mouth is and do us all a favor - please GO!
Obama/Biden for the best interest of all 100%. Romney claims he does not care about the 47% who are not currently paying tax. That 47% includes war veterans, most retired people and many that would like to be paying taxes. Many more people would be paying taxes if the republicans had not blocked bills that would have created millions of jobs.
The reason the race is even tight is because Romney is right about the 47% comment. Many of the free loaders on government cheese are fearful Romney will take away their free benefits, such as food stamps. He won't. In fact, he'll probably increase food stamps when he eliminates all the federal overhead as he pushes the program to the states. But, the fact remains, the free loaders don't care about Romney's plan for millions of new jobs, because they don't want or need jobs. They want to sit back and collect their free government cheese. I pray to God Almighty that the majority of true Americans still outnumber the amalgamation of free loaders, gay marriage proponents, proponents of tax-subsidized abortions and illegal aliens. God save America if this sorry excuse for a president is re-elected.
well now that we r getting to the en on the road I too would like to see thing's change and continue to change we have 2 people one saying whatever they want him to say and has the money to buy anything he wants people want change to continue and stay what the rep. r selling is a quick fix to nothing because actually they r preying on those who do not care about what they will be doing next year, any one can promise you a job but can you count on it after they get in power, I believe with romney no, i take slow steady permanet growth over spike for the elections.
On today's show, Joe Scarborough tried to make less of Obama's rally turnout saying that the numbers were way down. Funny thing is that (surprise, surprise) the turnout is record high. Rachel Maddow reported that 23,000 turned out for his latest rally in Florida, and 24,000 in Virginia. By contrast, Romney, who Scarborough and Murphy both claimed had the higher "enthusiasm" factor, did not come anywhere close to the same turnout.
Also, love how Cantor skirted the question about the completely dishonest Jeep commercial. I think he actually said he had not seen it so could not comment. I could not believe David just let that slide. How on earth is that good journalism?!
I have been watching this program ( Meet the Press ) for over 55 years but never felt as compelled to comment on the your coverage until I saw Mr Gregory neglect to ask Mr Cantor about his and Romney's position on defunding FEMA in relationship to what just happened with hurricane Sandy and also why hasn't anyone brought up the fact majority leader Cantor and his ilk cut the budget to the State Department's security just before the Bengazi incident. Could it be that you agree with his decisions?
You all are out of your minds. This show is so far stacked against conservative positions. Just look at their round-tables stacked with liberals. Fox does the same with their coverage, too. We have no more balanced coverage of the news. However, it is obvious that the show has gone down hill since Tim Russert died. Russert seemed more balanced. Gregory and Todd should be fired. They are in the bag for Obama as are all the media. Gregory failed to cover the Benghazi scandal for two successive shows because he gets his paycheck from the liberal executives/owners of NBC. To cutoff Carly F. last week's show when the question was about "trust" in candidate Romney, she answered obviously about addressing "trust' in Obama given his obvious lies about Benghazi. Shame on NBC for letting MTP deteriorate into yet another media propaganda machine to get their boy Obama re-elected. I for one will never watch MTP again and hope that NBC fires Gregory and Todd for being so obviously partisan in their loaded questioning of Romney advocates and favoring the stacked deck of liberals during their round table discussions. I will only watch Fox from now on, and that will make me sick because they are a propaganda machine for the conservative position, but at least they covered Benghazi before the election, which NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS et. al., refused to cover. I hope the people will boycott (by not watching) any programs on any of these networks until they bring back a balanced discussion and quit burying stories that are critical to the American people in such a critical election.
The inclusion of Carly Fiorina definitely cheapens the
intellectual validity of MTP 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 the broadcast unfortunately helps to enhance her visibility and validate her undeserved worthiness for a bigger role in the public sector.
Another story that I am just learning about is Larry Sinclair. Have you ever heard of him? I hadn't either. Apparently, only people from Chicago have heard of this guy's allegations. Just go to Youtube and do a search there on LARRY SINCLAIR and OBAMA. Ask yourself if this guy would make up a story like that? If he did, wouldn't Obama have sued him already and forced the removal of those videos? Matter of fact, Mr. Sinclair is the one who apparently sued Obama to get his call detail records released under court order, but Obama's team of lawyers refused to release the records. Now, just like Benghazi, I never heard about this guy until last week. Why not, this would make a critical decision in whether I wanted a president who engaged in these activities if the allegations were true. But, I have never heard of one story on this guy.
After watching Meet the Press for over 55 years, I felt compelled to contact you about your program yesterday, you had Majority leader Cantor on and neglected to ask him about his efforts to defund FEMA in light of the hurricane Sandy disaster
I know one thing that will allway's be true in all goverments ON THIS dieing world...Why the people and goverbments love to destory the land which made this world strong...Now the world is very week and loseing it's balance because we've destroyed to much land and tree's that keeps the world healthy and clean air...NOW WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO DO THIS WHEN WE NOW THAT'S THE PROBLEM?????The world wo'nt die in 2012 cause were still to far from the sun...I would say 2102 if we do'nt change our way's on liveing here..I have an answer on rebuilding the air and stop goble warming completely but the Governements don't want hear the solution since they have'nt change to care for the world....If you want the answer email me back it will be short an easy to answer since that's how we used to live like caveman.....