if he's in the 30's in chesterfield, that's a bad sign for him. i will look for virginia beach, which is virginia's largest city in population. fairfax is the largest county and the largest locality, but virginia beach is the largest city. it tends to be more conservative and republican because of a large military population and retired veteran population as well. john mccain carried that very narrowly. it was practically a 50-50 with obama. there's no way it's going to be that close this time. but i want to see what presented president obama gets in virginia beach. if the bows out of the water, that tells me something. if it's a close race, that tells me something. just a few examples. host: washington, d.c., on our independent line. caller: i am interested to know where you think independent voters are going to go in this election. terms ofean just in republican or democrat. how are the third party candidates going to affect the election? in particular, gary johnson? a lot of people tend to think he will take away votes from the republican nomin

, the richmond area, not that i expect obama to win chesterfield by any means, but i want to see if he population. the gentleman who called earlier was correct in that fairfax is the largest locality, but virginia beach is the largest city. it tends to be more conservative and republican because of the military population and retired veteran population. mccain carry that very narrowly. it was practically 50-50 with obama. i want to see again what percentage president obama gets in virginia beach. if he is blown out of the water, that tells me something. if it is a close race, it tells me something. that is just some. >> key contests on c-span. in a few moments, a news rally in new hampshire, followed by president obama in iowa. >> on "washington journal," going through the mathematics of the electoral college and the votes that president obama and mitt romney need to win the presidency. then we visit the 2000 presidential election with a supreme court justice previously who presided over the bush beat or race at the state level. -- the bush verses war race -- versus gore race on c-span

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if he's in the 30's in chesterfield, that's a bad sign for him. i will look for virginia beach, which is virginia's largest city in population. fairfax is the largest county and the largest locality, but virginia beach is the largest city. it tends to be more conservative and republican because of a large military population and retired veteran population as well. john mccain carried that very narrowly. it was practically a 50-50 with obama. there's no way it's going to be that close this time. but i want to see what presented president obama gets in virginia beach. if the bows out of the water, that tells me something. if it's a close race, that tells me something. just a few examples. host: washington, d.c., on our independent line. caller: i am interested to know where you think independent voters are going to go in this election. i don't mean just in terms of republican or democrat. how are the third party candidates going to affect the election? in particular, gary johnson? a lot of people tend to think he will take away votes from the republ

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if he's in the 30's in chesterfield, that's a bad sign for him.'s largest city in population. fairfax is the largest county and the largest locality, but virginia beach is the largest city. it tends to be more conservative and republican because of a large military population and retired veteran population as well. john mccain carried that very narrowly. it was practically a 50-50 with obama. there's no way it's going to be that close this time. but i want to see what presented president obama gets in virginia beach. if the bows out of the water, that tells me something. if it's a close race, that tells me something. just a few examples. host: washington, d.c., on our independent line. caller: i am interested to know where you think independent voters are going to go in this election. i don't mean just in terms of republican or democrat. how are the third party candidates going to affect the election? in particular, gary johnson? a lot of people tend to think he will take away votes from the republican nominee, but i think in new mexico and michig

her father was arrested in chesterfield, virginia. both parents are in jail at this hour. the girl was not injured. >>> taking a look live outside to the weather. the question today, will there be more cold for the weekend. >> yes, storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson is standing by with the answer to that question. it's a weekend, veronica, be good to us. >> you're going to love the weekend forecast, how about that. you're really going to like it. there's no big storms coming our way for sure. now, this morning you probably thought that we were going to get a lot of rain because we were socked in with clouds. here we we at 10:00 with a lot of the clouds moving out of here. we've got a clear sky across the area. look at the satellite and radar, no rain falling around the area. 54 degrees right now over in college park. petworth at 53 degrees. franconia and springfield coming in at 51 degrees. chilly conditions. we're going to drop down to 45 by 9:00 p.m. under that clear sky. 42 degrees at 11:00 p.m. one terrific evening coming up. for tomorrow morning, we're going

the vehicle and black were both found in chesterfield, virginia. at this point, though, police still looking for what we now know is a mother and daughter, jennifer dawn carlisle, again, the mother of alexis rose carlisle. they still believe they could be headed to the d.c. area. a little bit of back story here, we're being told the court ordered yesterday that this child was supposed to go to the department of social services in halifax. these two people took the baby from a family member's home before social services could come get the child. again, we'll show this child's picture one more time. she is 1. alexis rose carlisle still missing. they are still looking for her. again, could be in the d.c. area. at the live desk, melissa mollet, news 4. >>> this morning we're getting a look at dash cam video of a car hitting a police cruiser head on. this happened saturday during a routine traffic stop in augusta, wisconsin. the officer suffered bruised ribs, neck and back pain, but he will be okay. the 71-year-old driver was not hurt. investigators say

black has been apprehended in chesterfield county and they have the car apparently as well but they are still looking for the mother. jennifer carwile and again the little girl. >>> a surprise verdict declared in the bowie state murder trial. alexis simpson the young woman accused of stabbing her young roommate dominique frazier to death was found not guilty on all seven counts. while outside her family and friends rejoiced. simpson said she was bullied by frazier and had even asked to be moved out of the dorm room with the dead woman. and claim she was only defending herself. the jury took about three hours to deliver the not guilty verdict. >>> new information this morning about a sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a suspect in river dale, maryland on wednesday. we first told you this story yesterday morning. deputy sheriff paul perriello attempt today serve a temporary peace order on franklin sweeney jr. but ended up shooting sweeney when he saw the man appeared to be holding a black handgun. we now know it was a replica handgun. he is on leave now. >>> coolidge high school princip

this is not as big of an edge in chesterfield county just south of richmond. it's republican territory. go back in time. look at the 53% over there. go back in time, 54% for john mccain but much higher for george w. bush. when you need to run up margins, this is what you need in a republican county. when you know northern virginia's a problem, you got to run it up and you don't see that here. however, if you come into richmond city, come up to this campaign, if you look into richmond city, 76-22%, so the president doing what he needs to do here. if you go back in time and match that up, that's about the same. the president is getting his vote in the inner city. that's down just a bit. if all of this plays out as it normally plays out, this election will be decided up here. at the moment, at the moment, that's only 10%. at the moment, governor romney is doing better on the percentages. that's fairfax, 54% to 45%. come over here, governor romney's doing a little bit better in the big population centers. he's doing a little better here. he's doing a lot better ou

chesterfield county, suburban richmond, went 54% for mccain but three-quarters of the vote in, it's goingame number for governor romney, it went 63% for bush. now, if this is indicative of something else, you have to make it up somewhere else and the stuff we see in florida, it seems to be more favorable for obama but it's early and it could change. >> wolf? >> thanks. florida, of course, very, very close presidential battleground. let's check the latest numbers that are coming in. you can see right now how close it is. 62% of the vote has now been counted. 50% for the president, 49% for mitt romney. you see more than five million votes have been counted. barack obama has an advantage of nearly 100,000 votes. 95,991, to be precise so it's close in florida with 62% of the vote in. the president maintaining a slight advantage. we're only minutes away from the second biggest round of poll closings. the battlegrounds of colorado, wisconsin. they are on the line. we're live there. and in new york, where the polls are about to close as well. voters are gathered for cnn's watch party right now i

other various conservative localities like chesterfield county went as high as 45% for president obamathere's no way for republicans to win statewide and allow centreville to get 45% of the votes to obama. they're both campaigning in northern virginia. it is the linchpin of a statewide victory for president obama. he needs to do well in the big, growing burgeoning prince george county and loudoun county, as well as fairfax. yes, the two areas are small, but trees and rocks and acres don't vote, at least in most states and localities. host: what kind of the voting system is used in virginia? guest: the computerized systems are used almost everywhere. we have eliminated paper ballots accept as a backup in case of emergency. we don't have a lever machines anymore, that i grew up with. i am a native virginian. we thought the lever machines were pretty neat, but they are long gone. now you have computerized machines almost everywhere in one form or another. host: some of the demographics of the state, 64.5% white. 19.8% black. hispanic population, 8.2%. the lead story in the wall street abo

i will look up to chesterfield, richmond area. does it get over 40? got 45 percent last time. i am for it to look to virginia beach, which as virginia's largest city in population. fairfax is the largest county, but repeated it -- but virginia beach is the largest city. it tends to be more conservative and republican because of the large military population. mccain carry that very narrowly. there is no way will be that close this time. i want to see what percentage is president of of getting in virginia beach. those are just a few examples. >> you could see more of these interviews at c-span.org. also, check out the social media section to see what reporters are seeing. take part in the discussion tomorrow, election night, at c- span.org. vice presidential candidates are busy today on the trail. hear paul ryan and johnstown, colorado. that will be like here on c- span. >> the same course we a ban on will not lead to a better destination. the same path means 20 trillion in debt at the end of a second term that he will not have. it means crippling unemployment. it means that it

probably chesterfield and the richmond area. >> if you look at the map, you can see a lot of red.he president won the state of virginia by six percentage points in 2008. it looks like qe1 some are round starlet's bilaround charlottevi. as compared year to 2000 force when george w. bush won the state. you can see that president bush won more of this region than did john mccain in 2008. if you are president obama in your mitt romney, where would you focus your resources? >> you can tell by where they are visiting. romney spent a lot of time in the richmond area. some of these voted for president obama. others were very conservative. there is no way for a republican to win state ride and allow a county like chester fell to give 40 5% of the votes to obama. he needs to do well and those areas that i mentioned the prince william county would just become very diverse. as 1.4 million people. the blue areas are small. trees and rocks and acres do not vote. at least in most states and localities. >> what kind of voting systems are used in virginia? >> the computerized systems are used almo

. >> the margins in conservative -- [inaudible] in the suburbs around richmond, chesterfield county is the biggest one, comparable to '08. in 2008 john mccain lost the commonwealth of virginia by seven points. the bottom line, barack obama can do a little bit worse across virginia and still win that state. if he wins the state, there's no path to the presidency for mitt romney. we'll get the western suburbs, look at the outer suburbs of northern virginia, the margins are comparable or a little bit better for romney than they were for mccain four years ago. so unless something big happens in the two big jurisdictions still being counted, virginia beach and fairfax up by washington, d.c., i think that the commonwealth of virginia is going to stay blue and give president obama a second term. >> republicans knew that there was trouble there, or has this always been on your watch list? i feel like we've been talking about ohio because we've been always sort of mentally saying, okay, after romney gets florida and virginia, then he needs to get ohio. but even those initial building blocks are

same with chesterfield. and right around richmond. those are the bellwether counties.t shows us how those independent, undecided voters break. i assume they're going to break against the president and for the challenger. they typically do in every case. that will be the best indicators for me, how we're going to do statewide, soledad. >> ryan lizza, we were talking about that likely voter category. if you see a bigger gap than that one percentage that has been polled, that could mean some of your polling could be off, right? >> likely voting models have shown -- that's the art of polling. if you can't figure out who will be the electorate on election day. one, virginia's polls will close relatively early -- not early but we'll get those results early. they traditionally count their votes pretty fast. if those counties go for romney or obama, i think we're going to know early tonight where this thing is headed. if obama is winning those counties like fairfax and loudon, it's a very good sign for obama. if he wins virginia, it's a very difficult road for romney. this is

in richmond area look at chesterfield county.k at places like virginia beach and chesapeake. each of those places are kind of bellwethers where if the republican nominee, mitt romney is running well ahead, then that could be a good news for i will had. if barack obama is running ahead it could be good news for him. jon: julian walker, thanks for joining us. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] the next generation of investing technology is now within your grasp with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis and even your trade ticket. everything exactly the way you want it, all on one page. transform your investing with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, wit

but president obama is still doing quite well in the county of richmond, enrico county, and chesterfieldot of these states, is the tale of two states, really. romney is watching the counties in the north part of the state to make sure they don't fall too far hiepsbehind. the flip side is making sure they don't get too far behind. think about what barbara said, that was the sum total of the campaign message. not only are you not listening, president obama, but you don't get it. you don't know how to make jobs. but he didn't connect it to the empathy part. it isn't that i don't understand jobs, it's i understand how painful it is when you don't have one. if you go into the states and try to understand why romney isn't doing better, he hasn't even wrapped up the states that he must win in. it would be the inability to do what you talked about. i understand the pain of not having that. >> heading to the romney campaign headquarters. they're looking at what they've got to get down, david? >> and i've got to tell you, diane, i just talked with the key romney surrogate who just said, quite fran

other various conservative localities like chesterfield county went as high as 45% for president obamano way for republicans to win statewide and allow centreville to get 45% of the votes to obama. they're both campaigning in northern virginia. it is the linchpin of a statewide victory for president obama. he needs to do well in the big, growing burgeoning prince george county and loudoun county, as well as fairfax. yes, the two areas are small, but trees and rocks and acres don't vote, at least in most states and localities. host: what kind of the voting system is used in virginia? guest: the computerized systems are used almost everywhere. we have eliminated paper ballots accept as a backup in case of emergency. we don't have a lever machines anymore, that i grew up with. i am a native virginian. we thought the lever machines were pretty neat, but they are long gone. now you have computerized machines almost everywhere in one form or another. host: some of the demographics of the state, 64.5% white. 19.8% black. hispanic population, 8.2%. the lead story in the wall street about the l

those localities some of which voted for president obama and others are very conservative like chesterfield county went as high as 45% for president obama in 2008. there is no way for a republican to win statewide. they are both campaigning in northern virginia. that is a linchpin for president obama. he needs to do well in the ex- urban areas like prince william county which has become very diverse and loudoun county which is less diverse but still important in the swing areas as well as fairfax which has 1.4 million people just in one county. the blue areas are small but, as you know, trees and rocks and acres of don't of votes. host: what kind of voting systems are used in virginia? guest: the computerized systems are used almost everywhere. we have eliminated paper ballots only as a backup. we don't have the lever machines and more. i am a native virginia and my first votes were cast that way. they are long gone and now you have a computerized machines almost everywhere in one form or another. host: some of the demographics of the state -- guest:" is live ever -- "washington journal" li

jonathan martin is hearing the margins for him in chesterfield county just outside of richmond, where he is doing well, it is not good enough. if he's losing there, it's a sign of trouble in the state. in ohio, romney is worried about the midwest. wisconsin, and ohio, real nervousness. in the obama war room, confidence. exit polls looked good for john kerry. there are jokes about president kerry. but their models are coming in. the vote is coming in how they expected. >> one state declared is indiana, which obama won and it is called for romney. it shows the map is smaller this time, the map is smaller. some of the exit polling looks good, some does not, with what people think of health care and the role of government. people ask me, who should i vote for? what will they do? i have no clue. none of the candidates talked about what they'll do. it goes with what john wrote, about how small the campaign is in what is a huge moment. when you think of what is happening with our debt. trillion-dollar deficits but it feels small. >> obama and romney would say this is the most consequential e

the most important single areas are loudon county and northern virginia and and chesterfield and thed area and chesapeake and virginia area. host: if you look at the map for the state of virginia, there are a lot of red areas that the president won. looks like he won some around charlottesville. a couple of counties in the tidewater region. you can see when george into the bush when the state in 2004 -- won the state in 2004. if you're president obama and your mitt romney, where would you focus your resources? guest: you can tell where they are visiting. mitt romney spent a lot of time in the richmond area. some of those areas voted for obama. there is no way for a republican tool win -- they are both campaigning in virginia. he needs to do well in those execs that i mentioned. -- excerpts that i mentioned. loudon county is less diverse, but still important. >> we take you to west chester, ohio where mitt romney and paul ryan are holding a rally tonight. speaking now is virginia governor bob mcdonnell. live coverage here on c-span. >> we will have a great celebration next tuesday. [c