Sunday Morning "Talking Heads" Cheat Sheet

George Wenschhof

More analysis of the first presidential debate is sure to be on tap for the Sunday morning "talking heads".

Republicans will be touting a strong performance by Mitt Romney and Democrats will be pointing out all of the misinformation put out by Romney in the debate.

It is also likely, some discussion will take place on the upcoming vice president debate scheduled for Thursday night.  Republicans will be hoping Representative Paul Ryan delivers a strong performance against Vice President Joe Biden.

While, Democrats will be looking for Biden to stop whatever momentum Romney may have after the first debate.  Polls released Sunday will be the first to include three full days following the debate and will be more indicative of the impact of the first debate on undecided voters.

Also, sure to be discussed is the drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8%.  Republicans are crying the books were "cooked" and Democrats say the drop illustrates President Obama's economic plan is working and would have worked even better had there been Republican cooperation in Congress.

With a future foreign policy presidential debate, look to see Republicans bring up the tragedy in Libya which resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans.  They will try to paint the president as weak on foreign policy and the Middle East in particular, also pointing to the U.S. policy toward Iran.

The scheduled guests follow below.

NBC "Meet The Press" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Roundtable with Obama campaign adviser Rober Gibbs, Newt Gingrich, Hillary Rosen, mike Murphy and Chuck Todd. 

ABC "This Week" - Robert Gibbs, Ed Gillespie and Bill O'Reilly

Roundtable with James Carville and Mary Matalin, Peggy Noonan, Paul Krugman and Jonathan Karl.

CBS "Face The Nation" - Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod

Roundtable with John Dickerson, Norah O'Donnell, Michael Gerson, and John Fund

CNN "State of The Union" - Former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.

Fox News Sunday - Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley who is also chair of the Democratic Governors Association and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)

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Democratic News Chatter 4-16-2009

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Today, President Barack Obama is off to Mexico - He will meet with President Calderon and they will hold a joint press conference at 4:15 PM ET. Obama is then off to attend the fifth annual Summit of the Americas. Time.com has more here.

Prior to departing for Mexico, the president talked about the need to modernize the country's rail system.

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Housing starts down 10.8% in March - the Commerce Department report was not good news after they had reported an increase in housing starts in February. This is the second lowest level of starts for the month since the 1940's. Let's see how the markets react to this news today. You can read more here.

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Unemployment Claims drop - in a bit of good news, the Labor Department reported initial jobless claims were down 53,000 last week to 610,000. This is the fewest since January. So, the financial markets will have some conflicting reports out there. Bloomberg.com has more here.

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Obama forms committee to develop simpler tax code for Americans - he charged the committee will submitting it's recommendations by the end of this year. Meanwhile, Republicans across the country protested government spending by holding "tea party" demonstrations. MSNBC.com has more here.

Republicans have been reeling since losing the White House and both chambers of Congress in November. While recent polls show 60% of Americans agree with President Obama's economic policies, this was a good showing of support for Republicans. However, lack of clear leadership and policies of their own continue to hurt the Republican party.

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Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign debt finally paid - well sort of....when Ms. Clinton suspended her campaign in June 2008, the campaign was 25.2 million in debt. She was unable to pay herself back the 13.2 personal loan by the mandated deadline of the date of the democratic National convention, so the campaign had to forgive that debt. It appears the remaining 12 million has now been paid as the most recent financial report showed 2.6 million in the bank and 2.3 million in debt. Political strategists Paul Begala and James Carville who have long been known as Clintonistas have been helping raise money to retire her debt. CNN.com has more here.

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