The big news out of Meet the Press this morning was the debut of the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that shows President Obama ahead of challenger Mitt Romney by a one percentage point margin.

Even with the tight national polling, both sides exuded confidence this morning. President Obama's Senior Adviser and campaign architect David Plouffe asserted, "I'm very confident, David, two days out from election, that the president's going to be re-elected on Tuesday night."

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) had similar confidence about Mitt Romney's chances in Cantor's home state. "We're going to win this state and i think we're going to win it a lot bigger than most people are predicting," Cantor said. 

You can watch the entire interviews with David Plouffe and Leader Cantor on our website as well as our roundtable discussion with full analysis on Tuesday's election and how some of the larger moments in the campaign may or may not affect the outcome of the race. 

Also, with the country still reeling from Hurricane Sandy that left 2 million people still without power across the East Coast, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker joined the roundtable to discuss the progress being made just under a week after the storm's passing. 

Booker gave the response effort from all levels of the government "high marks," but cautioned it is going to be "a very difficult road to get out of a state of emergency," in the Garden State. 

We'll be back next week and be sure to catch David this Tuesday night as part of NBC’s primetime network coverage of the 2012 Presidential Election.

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Just three days before the all-important first presidential debate and the Romney campaign seemed to raise expectations this morning on Meet the Press - a different tone they've taken previously about the meeting. 

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a key Romney supporter, put added significance on Wednesday night's match-up by says "come Thursday morning, the entire narrative of this race is going to change."

The president's senior adviser took that opening and ran with it saying, "If it's going to fundamentally change, that means in seven or ten days from now, you'll see states like Ohio tied, states like Iowa tied, because that's what really matters here." He also added that Romney has "prepared more than any candidate in history."

Plouffe also defended the administration's position about the events that took place in Benghazi, Libya, ultimately leading to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Plouffe called the notion that the White House withheld information for political purposes, "preposterous and really offensive."  But he also denied that there was an “intelligence failure”.

You can watch the entire broadcast on our website including a lively discussion on our roundtable about the debate, and which question our guests would ask if they were moderating.

Also, don't forget tomorrow to watch the Massachusetts Senate debate David is moderating between incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren.

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White House senior adviser David Plouffe showered Mitt Romney with unwanted praise by calling him "the godfather of [President Obama's] health care plan."

He accused the former Massachusetts governor of "running away from the past" and said that having another big fight about health care would not be good for the country.

The Supreme Court is set to review the legality of the President's health care reform law this week; something Plouffe is not worried about. "We're confident in the constitutionality of the health care law," he said.

Also this week, the story of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year old boy who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch leader in Florida, gained national traction and sparked a discussion about race relations in our country. 

In a special roundtable conversation, our group discussed the issue and whether or not the president, as the nation's first African-American president, ought to lead on the issue.

NPR's Michele Norris, creator of The Race Card project,  thinks the president has lead on the topic of race. "I think we've probably heard [the president] talk frontally about race more than any other person who has sat in that office," Norris said.

David Brooks thinks the problem lives more on the personal level and how we process people from other groups. invited viewers to a site called Project Implicit to take a test on just that.

"What you'll find, if you're like the vast majority of human beings, is you process people from other groups differently, and you associate them with violence and other things."

On politics, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (who has yet to endorse a candidate) thinks that Romney has the nomination locked up, "unless [he] steps on a landmine."

You can watch the entire program on our website including a one-on-one discussion with Rachel Maddow on her new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power that asks the question: When did America become at peace with a constant state of war?

Read an excerpt of Rachel's book here.

We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.