• Des Moines Register endorses Romney

    By NBC’s Alex Moe

    SABINA, OH -- For the first time in four decades, Iowa’s influential newspaper endorsed a Republican candidate for president as The Des Moines Register announced Saturday night its support of Gov. Mitt Romney in the November election.

    The Register, in an editorial that will run in Sunday’s paper, asks voters to give Romney "a chance to correct the nation’s fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America."

    In 2008, the Register endorsed Barack Obama. The last Republican to win the support of the paper was Richard Nixon in 1972.

    “Barack Obama rocketed to the presidency from relative obscurity with a theme of hope and change. A different reality has marked his presidency. His record on the economy the past four years does not suggest he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years,” the editorial posted on the Register’s website said.

    “Voters should give Mitt Romney a chance to correct the nation’s fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the rest of America — with the understanding that he would face the same assessment in four years if he does not succeed,” the editorial piece ended.

    The announcement from Iowa’s largest newspaper comes just days after President Obama had an off-the-record then turned on-the-record conversation with the publisher and editor of the Register that prompted an op-ed from the paper about the condition of the interview.

    Romney has some ground to make up in the state, which awards six electoral votes, as last week’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll of Iowa showed Romney trailing Obama in the state -– 51 percent to 43 percent. Romney narrowly lost the Iowa Caucus back in January to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.

    When voters receive their Sunday paper in the morning, they will not only find the editorial endorsing Romney but also a copy of the “Mittzine”-– a pro-Romney superPAC publication about the GOP nominee and being dropped in five battleground states

    Romney travels to Davenport, Iowa, on Monday for a rally. His running mate, Paul Ryan, is also expected to head back to the Hawkeye State within the next nine days leading up to the election.

  • Clinton lauds Obama, says economy not 'hunky dory' but on the mend

    By NBC's Andrew Rafferty

     
    GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Former President Bill Clinton took supporters here on a stroll down "fact lane" Friday night, passionately making the case that economy is well on its way to recovery.

    "People don't feel it yet. I get that. The deficit was going down three years in a row before a majority of the American people would say 'Ya, it's going down.'  People didn't feel it," Clinton told a crowd of more than 2,000 people. "And the damage was much deeper this time around.  I'm telling you, we are coming out of this, we are moving in the right direction. If you stay with this policy and you stay with this president and you elect Tammy Baldwin, you will feel it."

    The comments come one day after GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign jumped on Clinton's remark that the economy is "not fixed."

    At a rally late Thursday, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said he agreed with the former president, and used it as an attack against the current administration's economic record.

    But in remarks that lasted nearly one hour, Clinton was careful to say the economy is not "hunky dory" but stressed that the nation's economy was on the mend.

    In recent weeks, Clinton has been one of President Barack Obama's most active surrogates, headlining rallies in nearly all the key battleground states. His appearance here at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay was also in support of Democratic senate candidate, Rep. Tammy Baldwin. The high profile race in the Badger State has gotten plenty of interest from outside groups who have poured millions into advertising in the state, to which Clinton warned supporters to "follow the money."

    The 42nd president was particularly critical of the Super PAC Crossroads, run by Karl Rove, a former aide to President George W. Bush. "You all remember Karl Rove, don't you? Now he was part of a great economic record," Clinton said to laughter. "He's out there plugging for Gov. Romney and plugging for Tommy Thompson, and if you liked the economics of the previous 8 years, you will just love what they do. You gotta follow the money sometimes, folks."

    Clinton also used his trip here to reflect on some of the pleasant memories from his own time in office, even briefly addressing his legacy. "When you have more yesterdays than tomorrows, there are only 3 things that matter: Are people better off than when you quit than when you started? Do children have a brighter future and are things coming together or being torn apart?" he said.

    "The rest of it is all background music."

     

  • Romney: Obama campaign reduced to 'petty attacks and silly word games'

    By NBC's Garrett Haake and Alex Moe

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Mitt Romney responded to President Barack Obama's latest attack, accusing the GOP nominee of forgetting and shifting his positions on issues on Friday night by calling out the Obama campaign for resorting to "petty attacks and silly word games" in the final three weeks of the campaign.

    "Have you been watching the Obama campaign lately?" Romney asked a crowd of several thousand supporters at an outdoor event Friday night. "It's absolutely remarkable. They have absolutely no agenda for the future. No agenda for America. No agenda for a second term. It's a good thing they won't have a second term."

    "They've been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. Just watch it. The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign," Romney said.

    Romney's counter came after Obama unveiled a new line of attack at a rally earlier Friday in Virginia, coining the term "Romnesia" to describe satirically how Romney might have changed positions on issues by forgetting his past stances over the years.

    “He's changing up so much -- backtracking and sidestepping. We've got to name this condition that he's going through. I think ... I think it's called 'Romnesia'. Now, I'm not a medical doctor but I do want to go over some of the symptoms with you. Because I want to make sure nobody else catches it,” the president said.

    “If you say you're for equal pay for equal work, but you keep refusing to say whether or not you'd sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work, you might have Romnesia,” Obama said to laughs. “If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you supported legislation that would let your employers deny you contraceptive care, you might have a case of Romnesia.”

    Romney continued his own new assault on what he claimed was the lack of a second term agenda for the Democratic administration, a chord he has been striking at each appearance since the second debate.

    "The president has no jobs agenda. We keep on asking him: What are you going to do to create jobs? He has nothing new. He says well we're going to go forward," Romney said. "Forewarned is a better term."

    “Here’s just part of President Obama’s agenda for a second term: double our exports, create a million manufacturing jobs, cut oil imports in half, recruit 100,000 math and science teachers, train two million workers at community colleges, and reduce the deficit by more than $4 trillion," Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner responded in a statement.

    Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's joint appearance in the Sunshine State, their third such joint stop here -- and Romney's plan to stay here through Monday night's debate -- reflect the closeness of the race here. A new poll from CNN/ORC shows the Florida in a statistical dead heat -- with Romney claiming 49 percent of the vote to Obama's 48 percent.

    At a fundraiser in Boca Raton on Friday, Ryan told donors their late gifts could make the difference in financing a turnout operation that will determine the winner of this often-decisive battleground state.

    "Your dollars are going straight to voter turnout, to voter education, to cutting thru the clutter, to giving the country a choice that they themselves deserve," Ryan said.


  • Inside the Boiler Room: Polls, polls, polls

    By Natalie Cucchiara

     

    With new polls out every day leading up to the election, NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss the importance of paying attention to margin of error and poll trends when examining the data.

    Thanks to Steeler Fan_380417 for the question!


    TRANSCRIPT:

    Mark Murray: It's another Inside the Boiler Room question, this actually comes from Steeler Fan, Domenico. Steeler Fan asks I'm curious about the attacks on the polling by the Republicans. Do you think there is anything to the criticisms of the methodology and the polling results that we're all seeing right now?

    Domenico Montanaro: Well look, I just think people need to really remember that polls are about margin of error and trends. Everybody that wants to look at specific numbers within polls, party ID, this turn out model, that or the other, you know, that stuff, everybody, especially the good polls, they do a pretty good job of trying to wait for those things, understand what they are. Let's look at the trend of these things. It always drives me nuts when you see somebody talk about, 'oh my gosh, you know, it's a ten point lead, it must be over in one poll!' That's not the way, that's not an appropriate way to look at polling I mean, you should look at a broad swath of these things you know, so, and it always seems to be that the side that's down makes these complaints.

    MM: Well and you can always usually tell in body language too, I mean, you look at all the polls right now pretty much tell us what our gut confirms that Mitt Romney's down right now. We saw that after the conventions, we certainly saw that on the crisis that they've actually had and crisis communication on dealing with that 47%. When you look at everything the Romney campaign has done, this doesn't look like a campaign that's ahead. And kind of going to the polls, Domenico, there's this great example where even in the Florida Senate contest Connie Mack, on the Republican side, his campaign said look, these Quinnipiac New York Times/CBS polls that actually showed us down double digits were wrong. Here's our internal poll, we're down by 6. Well the thing is, well maybe the spread isn't double digits, maybe it's in the high single digits, but it does show you what's actually actually going on right now.

    DM: Right, and again that's margin of error. I mean, if something, if something says someone's up by 11 and it's a margin of error of 3, it can be 8 to 14, you know, and if another poll shows it's 6 then you're looking at a broad range of these polls, but you want to look at the trend and the direction that these things go.

    MM: And not only the trend and the direction, but the preponderance.

    DM: Right.

    MM: If they're all, 90% of them are pointing in one direction, chances are that 90% is right and the 10% might be wrong.

    DM: Yeah, I think the other thing too like you said about body language and the other things campaigns do, when you see MItt Romney put an ad out where he's talking directly to camera to try to address and mitigate concerns over the 47%- you know look, those are the things that are important too, I think people start to rely too heavily on polling, and shouldn't rely a little bit on anecdotal evidence, reporting in the states, and what kinds of TV ads that these guys are running.

    MM: Thanks for the question, Steeler Fan.

  • Portman won't rely on VP app

    By Andrew Rafferty, NBC News

    CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Vice presidential nominee or not, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) will not be relying on an iPhone app to find out the fate of his political future.

    Thought to be on Mitt Romney's VP shortlist, the Ohio senator told reporters on Saturday that he still has not downloaded the mobile phone application that promises to inform users of the pick "before the press and just about everyone else (except maybe Ann)." He first revealed on Thursday that he did not have the app, and that seems to have remained unchanged over the past 48 hours.

    "I haven't actually gotten the app myself.  I have an iPad all full of apps, half of which I never get time to use anyway.  But we'll see," he said. "I assume I'll hear it other ways."

    He told a local Cincinnati news station, "I imagine that's not how they probably would communicate it to me, but who knows."

    His disinterest in the app is in contrast with the Romney campaign and at least one other potential VP shortlister.  Along with campaign staffers, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been promoting the technology through twitter.

    It would be hard to argue that Portman has not already earned a phone call or face-to-face meeting with the Romney campaign to find out the news.  He attended volunteer appreciation events at two Romney Victory offices on Saturday as part of the "Buckeye Blitz" happening throughout the state.  It's just the latest in a long line of events he's done in his home state on behalf of the presumptive nominee.

    Asked what his responsibilities might be if chosen as Romney's No. 2, Portman said, "I would work very hard for Mitt Romney, but that's what I'm doing anyway."

    That certainly will remain true at the beginning of this week when the Cincinnati native travels to the northeast part of the state to stump for the former governor. And while Congress is on its August recess he also plans to travel out of state to campaign for Romney as well.

  • Romney: I left all management of Bain Capital in February 1999

    After the Obama campaign tried to raise new questions about Mitt Romney's business experience at Bain Capital, on Friday Mitt Romney told NBC News the president has been dishonest to the American people. He added that even though he left Bain Capital in February 1999, the businesses he helped create went on to create lots of jobs. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.

    By NBC's Garrett Haake

    BOSTON -- Mitt Romney stepped Friday into the political controversy surrounding the question of precisely when he ceded control of the private equity firm he founded, saying in an interview that despite reports that his name continued to appear on government documents on behalf of Bain Capital until 2002, he had absolutely no working relationship with the company after leaving in February 1999 to take over the Salt Lake City Olympic Games.

    "In February of 1999 I left Bain Capital and left all management authority and responsibility for the firm. I had no ongoing activity or involvement in the affairs of Bain Capital because I went out to run the Olympics," Romney told NBC's Peter Alexander in an interview in New Hampshire. "And so in February of 1999 I became the full-time chief executive officer of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee and I had after that time no work whatsoever with Bain Capital people. No responsibility or activity with the management of Bain Capital."

    After a Boston Globe story published Thursday called into question the timeline of Romney's departure from Bain Capital the Romney campaign has been under siege from negative headlines and attacks from Democrats. The issue is important to the electoral narrative because Romney's campaign has claimed that several controversial investment decisions made after 1999 were done without Romney's input.

    Romney on Friday insisted he did not attend a single meeting or or participate in any major decisions at Bain after February 1999.

    "I don't recall a single meeting or a single participation in an investment decision by Bain or personnel decision," Romney said. "I left the firm. I was full time running the Olympics in 2002, and the years leading up to it."

    On Thursday, Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said on a conference call with reporters reporters that the SEC filings revealed either 1) that Romney's involvement with Bain extended beyond 1999 and he wasn't being truthful to the voters, or 2) that he and Bain made a mistatement on goverment documents, which could be a felony.

    In response, Romney might have called upon President Obama to "rein in" his campaign.

    "The president's campaign has been I think outrageous I think in making the charges they have," Romney said. "I think the kinds of attacks are beneath the dignity of the presidency. I think the president needs to rein in his campaign and start talking about the real issues people care about which relate to our economy."

    In an interview with Virginia television station WJLA earlier Friday afternoon, President Obama weighed in on the controversy, saying that he thought the debate over when Romney left Bain was relevant to the national conversation because it strikes at the issue of responsibility, and that he thought Romney would have to answer questions about his Bain tenure sooner, rather than later.

    NBC News

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks with NBC's Peter Alexander on Friday.

    "Ultimately Mr. Romney, I think, is going to have to answer those questions, uh, because if he aspires to being president one of the things you learn is, you are ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations, but again that's probably a question that he's going to have to answer and I think that's a legitimate part of the campaign," the president said in the interview.

    Romney further defended his campaign's decision not to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, saying that he had met all federal requirements for transparency into his financial background, and that he would not provide release more information simply to provide fodder for Democratic opposition researchers.

    "You know actually Congress has decided what information is necessary and appropriate to come from a presidential candidate. And they’ve laid out what that is through a financial disclosure process and I’ve complied with all of that," Romney said. "And then in addition to that, I’ve provided tax returns, and will provide another tax return this year.  But you know, I understand that the opposition research people at the Obama campaign want more information that they can dig through. You know what? I’ve put out as much as we’re gonna put out, once I’ve added this year, and that’s the information that gives people more information than what is required by law."

    In a final note about his personal finances, Romney said the Swiss bank account opened on his behalf by his blind trustee Bradford Malt, revealed in his financial disclosure forms, was not indicative of how his investments were structured, and that "ninety nine point five percent," of his investments were in American enterprises.

  • VIDEO: Romney, Hispanics, Virginia, and veterans

    Mitt Romney is facing a deficit with Hispanic voters, and despite a multi-million ad campaign to boost his likability ratings, conservatives are spending nothing on Hispanic media outlets. Also, Romney spoke in Virginia with Gov. Bob McDonnell, a potential vice-presidential pick. Romney accused the president of not caring as much as him for the troops in a state where veterans will be key in the presidential election.

  • Romney: Tightening in OH, FL

    "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pulled into a virtual tie with President Barack Obama in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Florida, but Obama retains a solid lead in Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday," Reuters reports.

    McKay Coppins on Mitt Romney’s Hispanic problem, as reported by Political Wire: "As his campaign hurdles toward election day — aggressively expanding its operation, and sharpening its focus on general election battleground states — Mitt Romney appears to be testing one of the central tenets of campaign conventional wisdom. The question: Can he win a national election in 2012 without courting the Spanish language media? While there's still plenty of time for a campaign course correction, Romney has exhibited little urgency in building a relationship with the Hispanic press, according to Latino reporters, activists, and political surrogates on both sides of the aisle." 

    In First Read, NBC's Jamie Novogrod and Garrett Haake report Rep. Michele Bachmann will endorse Mitt Romney today. The tea party favorite is expected to announce the endorsement during a campaign event in Virginia.

    “[W]hen Massachusetts Republicans went to their caucuses on Saturday, many didn’t vote for Mitt Romney’s picks. Instead, they went for Ron Paul,” the Boston Globe writes. “Less than half of Romney’s 27 chosen delegates won, and the losers included some notable Massachusetts Republicans - including Kerry Healey, the former lieutenant governor, and the House minority leader, Bradley H. Jones Jr., according to two Republican State Committee members who did not want to be named. Even some prominent alternate delegates lost - including 2010 gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker and Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr., the Republicans said. … The complexion of the delegation may not matter much to Romney’s nomination: All delegates and alternates are committed to vote for him. But the delegates will get to choose the chairman, vote on a platform, and support whomever they choose for vice president. And the team that Romney brings to the convention may not all be rooting for the home-state nominee.”

    Mitt Romney had a tough act to follow. The Republican presidential contender was stumping in the Virginia 'burbs on Wednesday, just hours after President Obama basked in the glory of a prime-time, nationally televised victory speech from an Afghanistan war zone. The contrast was one of the first of what will be many reminders in the 2012 campaign of the disadvantages of running against a sitting president," The Atlantic writes. "What's more, Romney's first trip to Virginia since he emerged as the presumptive nominee underscores the challenges he faces in catching up to a Democratic campaign that is well under way. Obama already has 13 campaign offices in Virginia, a decisive battleground in his bid for a second term. No wonder Romney decided to beat him to the state; Obama's first "official" reelection rally is slated for Saturday in Richmond."

    The Los Angeles Times on the veepstakes: "Mitt Romney tries out potential running mates"

  • Pro-Romney Super PAC tries to fix Romney's image problem

    By NBC's Domenico Montanaro

     

    Restore Our Future is out with the ad for its more than $4 million buy. (The buy is up to $4.3 million in nine states.)

    Notably, the ad that's being run is, "Saved," the same positive Mitt Romney ad that the Romney CAMPAIGN ran in 2007 and Restore Our Future ran during this past primary season. That raised questions in February of just how close to the line campaigns and the Super PACs that support them come.

    Here's what we wrote, in part, Feb. 23 about Restore recycling this ad:

    "The pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future is going up with an ad in Michigan and Arizona, starting tonight, that focuses on the story of Mitt Romney helping to lead the search for his business partner's daughter who went missing in New York City in the 1990s. The story is true, but the ad is recycled. In fact, the ad run by a SUPER PAC, called 'Saved,' is word-for-word the same ad that the Romney CAMPAIGN ran in 2007, called 'The Search.'"

    The Super PAC is run by people close to Romney, who were key 2007-2008 campaign staffers. Running this ad is an acknowledgment of the image problems Romney has. He has been upside down in his likability ratings (33 fav/36 unfav) in polls for months, though, they have improved slightly since the GOP primary ended.

    Here's Restore's press release on this ad buy:

    Restore Our Future Launches $4.3 Million Ad Campaign

    Group targets Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - Restore Our Future today launched a $4.3 million TV ad campaign that targets nine states:  Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.  The group is currently running the ad "Saved," which touts Gov. Romney's tremendous efforts to find his former business partner's 14-year-old daughter after she went missing in New York City.

    "Barack Obama had his chance to lead and failed.  Now, it is time to exchange empty rhetoric with a proven record," said Charlie Spies, Treasurer of Restore Our Future.  "The choice this November is clear:  Mitt Romney, an experienced leader and job creator who fixed an economy without raising taxes, or Barack Obama, a politician whose way forward hinges on bolstering the government's power - and budget - at the expense of private-sector jobs."

    The $4.3 million TV buy begins on May 3 and will run through May 16.  To view the video, please click here.

    Ad Buy by State:
    ·    Colorado:  $293,000
    ·    Florida:  $857,000
    ·    Iowa:  $490,000
    ·    Michigan:  $465,000
    ·    Nevada:  $278,000
    ·    New Hampshire:  $231,000
    ·    North Carolina:  $773,000
    ·    Ohio:  $581,000
    Virginia:  $354,000

  • Romney: It’s a trap!?

    The New Yorker’s Cassidy notes of the Romney campaign: “Their rivals in Chicago set a trap for them, and they walked right into it. Rather than ignoring the ad, or dismissing it quickly and moving onto other topics less favorable to Obama, the Romney campaign decided to stand and fight on ground it cannot hope to win.” And: Out in Chicago, David Axelrod and his cronies must be swapping high fives all the way down Michigan Avenue. In Boston, meanwhile, Team Romney appears oblivious to the lessons of its own experience in the dark art of putting out underhanded attack ads.”

    Courting Bloomberg… The New York Times: "In an election year when partisanship has burned white hot and the economy has sputtered, two presidential candidates who agree on very little, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, have reached a rare consensus: they are both determined to score the endorsement of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, whose name is all but synonymous with Wall Street clout and nonpartisan politics. On Tuesday, Mr. Romney showed up at the mayor’s philanthropic foundation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for a secret breakfast meeting. Over coffee and juice, Mr. Romney made clear that he was there to pick the mayor’s brain...Mr. Bloomberg, who has lent his reputation for common-sense government and his prowess for fund-raising to dozens of candidates from both parties over the past decade, feared that an endorsement in the 2008 race might have negative repercussions for the city he oversees. But as his mayoral term winds down, he has told advisers that he is willing to back a candidate this time around, touching off an intense competition for his support in the general election."

    "Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, on the eve of suspending his roller coaster presidential bid, said that he will embrace Mitt Romney's candidacy Wednesday and is ready to campaign for his former rival," USA Today writes. "Gingrich said he doubts he'll ever make another bid for president. ‘I'm already 68 years old,’ he said. ‘I believe Mitt Romney will become president. I believe he will do well enough to be re-elected, and I do not think in 2020 I'll be a plausible candidate.’”

  • Romney Super PAC going up with first general-election ads

    By NBC's Domenico Montanaro

     

    This post was updated at 2:25 pm ET with more buy info. Added New Hampshire.

    The pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future is going up with $3.7 million in ads across nine swing states -- Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, and New Hampshire.

    It also bought $143,000 in the Greenville, S.C., market. That's really about North Carolina, given Greenville's proximity to the state.

    Notably left out, however -- at least for now -- are Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

    There's no word yet on which ad Restore will be running. The buy doesn't begin until Thursday. This one has been prominently featured on its website, but it could unveil another:

  • Romney: Needing to drum up attention.

    AP writes via Political Wire: "The long, grueling GOP primary race is over. Now comes a summertime lull the candidates could find just as difficult -- not because the schedule is crowded but because it isn't," the AP reports. "It is four months until the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in late August. Democrats hold their convention a week later in Charlotte, N.C. That's a long time to fill, with no votes that matter, no debates to draw national attention. Voters tend to hibernate politically from the end of the primary season to the start of the conventions." That lull "should be a bigger problem" for Mitt Romney than for President Obama. "A challenger must keep stirring up enthusiasm if he hopes to oust an incumbent president."

    “Even as Mitt Romney begins courting moderate and independent voters who could determine the outcome in November, his campaign is still working behind the scenes to shore up support from conservatives who have yet to fully embrace him. Peter Flaherty, Romney’s liaison to social conservatives, is planning to fly to Washington this month to meet with key conservative leaders at a breakfast hosted by Edwin Meese III, who was President Reagan’s attorney general, according to Bay Buchanan, a Romney adviser who is helping to arrange the meeting,” The Boston Globe writes. “The campaign has hired Michael Biundo, Rick Santorum’s former campaign manager; talks regularly to Keith Nahigian, Michele Bachmann’s former campaign manager; and recently received the endorsement of Rick Perry, the Texas governor who was Romney’s bitter rival during the early stages of the Republican primary.”

    John McCain on FOX, per The Hill: “I say any president, Jimmy Carter, anybody, any president would have, obviously, under those circumstances, done the same thing.  And to now take credit for something that any president would do is indicative of take over campaign we're under -- we're -- we're seeing…So all I can say is that this is going to be a very rough campaign," McCain told Fox News in an interview set to air Monday night. "And I've had the great honor of serving in the company of heroes.  And, you know the thing about heroes, they don't brag.”

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