NBC’s Chuck Todd believes Romney’s risk-averse strategy was risky and that Romney lost the debate, but he also said Obama looked like the challenger last night. Overall, though, Todd seems to believe Obama did himself more good. Where Todd and
NBC tells the AP that two days after the final presidential debate and less than two weeks before the November 6th election, President Barack Obama will be making his fifth appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Obama is
If you took progressive flack Sam Stein at HuffPo’s written word for it, you might think something is happening here. It’s not. Mitt Romney Bain Attacks: Obama-Backing Super PAC Goes Back To The Well-The group, which just reported raising $15.2
While the Obama campaign continues to demand that Mitt Romney spell out every aspect of every plan on every issue, Obama has demonstrated zero interest whatsoever in laying out his plans for the future. That’s the point of a new
NBC’s top political correspondent Chuck Todd told David Gregory that President Obama being tied with Romney in the polls at 47% was not a good thing for an incumbent. Todd concluded that those numbers are “good for a challenger” but
A new WSJ/NBC poll, released this morning, finds Romney surging in the final weeks of the campaign. He and Obama are tied at 47%. Previous polling by WSJ/NBC showed Obama with a steady 3-5 point lead in the presidential race.
Democrats and even polling organizations have assumed enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s candidacy in Iowa would match 2008’s level, but the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party admits that will not be the case this year. Sue Dvorsky, chairwoman
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Republican governors in Iowa and Virginia said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama failed to present his vision for a second term in his debate against Mitt Romney, echoing the concerns of undecided voters who thought the same after the
NBC News correspondent Chuck Todd reported that the greatest complaint against Candy Crowley by other journalists was that she didn’t allow Romney and Obama to engage either other and often stopped debate to move on to other questions.
At the end of the clip below, NBC’s Chuck Todd appears to catch at gaffe in which Gibbs accidentally blew up debate expectations by promising an “exceptionally strong debate performance” from Obama tonight. But I’m not so sure. Watch for
Robert Gibbs told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel this morning: “Look, I think you’re gonna see an exceptionally strong debate performance tonight from the President. I think you’ll see somebody who will be strong, passionate, he’ll be energetic. [He] will talk
Chicago’s murder rate been has been skyrocketing this year, leaving many Chicagoans “unpleased,” to say the least, about Rahm Emanuel’s performance as Mayor. But the increasing wave of violence, including 5 murders and 25 shootings alone this past weekend, didn’t
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NBC has ordered a new “Dracula” series from writer Cole Haddon and the production team behind “Downton Abbey.” It’s the program’s new showrunner who promises to make the series more than just another trendy vampire project. The new show will
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd, often one of President Barack Obama’s biggest defenders and apologists in the mainstream media, conceded on Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Obama’s internal poll numbers have shifted so dramatically for the worst that,
If President Barack Obama is hoping to dominate Mitt Romney in Tuesday night’s town hall debate, he needs to rethink his strategy. And if Romney believes he can seal the election with another lopsided performance, he’s also probably wrong. The
Last week, Sherrilyn Ifill, Maryland School of Law professor and Chairwoman of the U.S. Programs Board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, penned an op-ed for CNN entitled, “Why black voters reject [Mitt] Romney.” In the article, Ifill states: It’s
Today on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Obama campaign trotted out former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm — most recently heard from during her bizarre Democratic National Convention performance — to explain that the Obama administration was not responsible for problems
Saturday Night Live’s parody of the vice presidential debate
“Saturday Night Live” had a hard task last night. How do you mock this week’s vice presidential when Joe Biden already beat you to it? The liberal sketch show ended up showing Biden’s unhinged performance as playful while focusing on
Many TV commentators say you can judge the way the nation is feeling about itself and its times by looking at the sort of shows that are playing on television. They say our mood and outlook about both the present
Florida has had a starring role in presidential elections since 2000. Bush won it that year by a few hundred votes. It was heavily contested again in 2004, but Bush carried it by 5 points, better than he did nationally.
Chuck Todd, NBC’s political correspondent, is not a big fan of all these new polls showing Romney and Obama to be so close. He’s especially down on Scott Rasmussen who has said that he’s been seeing a close race all
