team obama joked that romney had not hurt the usa. >> there was nothing that i could see that was detrimental, at least not against the president. >> reporter: i'm steve hand ee s handelsman,. >> a three-judge panel is asking to stop -- >> the obama campaign and democratic party is making sure that we can get people the answer to their questions about how to register, about where their polling place is, about what they're going to need to bring to the polls. people can log on to gottavote.org and get the information and the answer to those questions because the democratic party is going to do everything we can to make sure that regardless of whether you speak english or spanish, regardless of where you live, if you are eligible to vote and lawfully eligible to vote, we are going to do everything we can to make sure can you cast that ballot. the republicans are doing everything they can to prevent it. >> don't miss "politics nation," the place for politics. >> to texas where a tea party favorite won the republican nomination for the november election to replace retiring senator kay bailey hutc

tube team,'s 70 million. democrats are spending more. in swing states from florida to new hampshire, virginia, figuring many voters are still not sure about the gop candidate. trying to define mitt romney were he has had some difficulties. >> will just lost our jobs. we do not have an income. mitt romney made over $100 million by shutting down our plan. >> tens of millions being raised and spent with the election more than 90 days away. >> president obama is in connecticut tonight. he is still there but it is not so much votes he is looking for at the home of a hollywood producer, you have to fund raise. >> we have an update on a restaurant fire that police say someone deliberately set. how you can help police find that suspect. >> a closer look at the weekend tragedy. >> something curious is going on here. the maryland science center. i will tell you all wbal tv 11 news at 5:00 p.m. continues now. >> it landed sunday to begin a two-year mission on the planet mars. it is a rover developed by nasa and the hope is it will help scientists l

team romney said they saw it coming but this fast? medicare has been a campaign mainstay since the 1990's. now paul ryan, a candidate into house.te four more beers, president obama is tapping into american's love of libation and revealed this week that the white house has been home brewing, even had a few on his bus out in iowa, a way to paint the president as more joe six pack next to rigid romney. blame for rain? the president can't control the weather but when asked to describe economic conditions like a weather report, everyone, in a new focus group, gave a stormy forecast, even one predicting an earthquake, tsunami. can president obama convince them the sun will come out tomorrow? hello there. chris is away. i'm chuck todd, welcome to the show. with us today, howard fineman with "the huffington post," nbc's kelly o'donnell, "new york time's" helene cooper and national journey's major garrett. welcome, all. it's not your regular august, now, is it? first up, mitt romney picked paul ryan to shake up the race into a campaign about b

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will the obama team really try to take credit for the big run-up in the dow and the s&p? we're close to four year highs on those two indicators. who should take credit for this? and joining the company from los angeles is gilmore ral less with the best named company on the planet, virtual investing.com. all right, the dow and s&p 500 at 4 year highs and gold moved up to 1640. who takes the credit? why are these markets going up like this? >> well, i don't think the obama administration can take credit, because you can't point to any policies that have led to any sort of economic boom. we've got unemployment over 8% for more than 40 months now and you've got over 45 million people on foot stamps and a percent of the u.s. paplation, so-called job machines like solyndra going bank result and shovel ready jobs that aren't shovel ready. and it's mostly the-- qe. stuart: hold on, you're saying that the fed is printing, may print more and mario over in europe may do the same. and you're placing the credit for the gold rally on money printing. >> if you want to call it credit. th

we're going to start with team romney's decision to double down on attacking president obama's welfare to work requirements. and in effect its decision to double down on something much more sinister. if there were an olympic event for racial fear mongering in a campaign ad, the one you're about to see might have won the gold. >> you needed that job and you were the best qualified. and they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? what makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications? your vote on this issue next tuesday. four racial quotas, harvey gantt. against racial quotas, jesse helms. >> jennifer: incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms aired that spot just a week before his 1990 re-election when he trailed charlotte mayor harvey gantt in the polls. it would have been nice that we got past racialized ads since the years of that odious commercial. but after all race is still woven sometimes with the subtilty of a sledgehammer. after staying mum on the birther issue, governor mitt romney went there on friday putting him in

come to turn the page. >> president obama promised to become to slow the rise of the ocean s oceans. and heal the planet. my promise is to help you and your family. >> romney recast ronald reagan's classic election year question. >> are you better off than four years ago? >> you know there is something wrong with the job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> so the target here, clearly the independent, the swing voters who may be disillusioned after four years of president obama and one weapon the romney campaign chose to use to reach them clint eastwood. brianna? >> reporter: obviously in this case they were trying to use clint east wood to attract the white male vote which is very important to mitt romney and president obama struggles with. this was a very interesting speech, i think is the diplomat diplomatic way to put it. strange and uncomfortable as eastwood talked to a chair as if it was president obama. >> i know you were against the war in iraq and that's okay but you thought the war in afghanistan was okay, you thought that w

the gop team's plans for medicare are the latest flash point in the campaign. but paul ryan underscored he's in lock step with mitt romney's promise to restore $716 billion they contend the obama administration shifted out of the program. as house budget chair ryan had supported that included the same cut. >> i'm on the romney/ryan ticket and our plan is to repeal everything in obama care including the cuts to medicare. >> ryan stands by the running mate's decision not to release more than two years of tax returns. >> people aren't asking me details about tax returns. what they're asking me around this country and in virginia is where are the jobs? where's the economic growth? what are your ideas to grow thi economy. >> ryan does turn the spotlight when asked about the deep defense cuts at the end of the year. >> i offered a bill that cuts spending to stop the sequester. we have passed a plan in the house to do that and mitt romney is determined to make sure that these savage cuts don't hit the pentagon. >> paul ryan tells me's no stranger to the commonwealth.