>> presidential race and a new poll showing mitt romney now leading president obama . we'll talk about that with senator john mccain in just a couple of minutes, but first nbc's peter alexander is on the campaign trail in newport news, virginia . peter, good morning.
>> reporter: matt, good morning to you. as you noted, this race appears to be tightening now with exactly four weeks to go, and on monday mitt romney , trying to present himself as a plausible commander in chief, attacked the president saying that the middle east has become a more dangerous place than when president obama took office. the latest pit stop in president obama 's effort to reach his fund-raising goal of $1 billion, san francisco .
>> we cannot afford to be complacent, and we cannot afford to be cynical. we've got to look back at the progress we've made, and that should give us confidence, but we have to understand that we've got a lot more to do.
>> reporter: in virginia , a reinvigorated mitt romney may as we will have been singing in the rain , a downpour.
>> people wonder why it is i'm so confident we're going to win. i'm confident because i see you here on a day like this. this is unbelievable. thank you so much!
>> reporter: romney may have new reason for new confidence, passing out mcdonald's to reporters on his plane and greeting two elementary school students. two national polls show a volatile race after last week's lobsided debate. in the latest pew poll the republican nominee leads the president by four points among likely voters. last month the same poll showed romney trailing by eight points. still, a new gallup poll shows mr. obama five points ahead among registered voters , regaining ground after last week's encouraging jobs report. looking to beef up his foreign policy credentials ahead of the final stretch, romney accused the president of weak leadership in the middle east . failing to capitalize on the arab spring uprisings and delivering the harshest response yet on the administration's response to the deadly attacks in libya.
>> it is our responsibility and the responsibility of the president to use america's greatest power to shape history, not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events.
>> reporter: calling for a change of course, romney offered few new policy details, citing syria's civil war , romney saying he would support our allies arming rebels there. former secretary of state madeleine albright gave the obama campaign 's rebuttal.
>> i'm a professor. if one of my students turned it in they'd get a "c" because he gave absolutely no specifics.
>> it's getting close here in michigan. can you help push us over the top .
>> reporter: ahead of this week's vice presidential debate on monday paul ryan attacked what he considered the democrat strategy.
>> it seems pretty clear that their new strategy is basically just call us liars, to descend down into a mud pit and hopefully, with enough mudslinging back and forth and distortion, people will get demoralized and then they can win by default.
>> reporter: and to give you a sense of what some may describe as the absurd back and forth in this election season, take a look at this. this is a new ad just out this morning from the obama campaign . it mocks mitt romney 's plan to eliminate federal subsidies for public broadcasting , sarcastically calling big bird a, quote, menace to our economy, matt, on the level of bernie madoff.
>> all right. peter alexander in virginia this morning. peter, thank you very much. republican senator
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