of slaves from the bradley plantation in escambia county, alabama. slavery reconstruction, jim crow, the civil rights movement, this is my family story of struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom in a context, and a culture that was saturated with injustice and dehumanization. now what is so amazing about this narrative, this story, is that not only does my family know where the plantation is, escambia county, we now own it. and there are members of my family currently living on it as free people, who have property rights to it, codified and protected by the rule of law. now how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once slaves on a piece of property, a few generations later actually owning the property they were living on, they were being enslaved on? this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes, of course we noticed the progress -- progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not too many countries around the world where you can see subdominant cultures rise to the t

they are are pinellas conti, seminole county, miami-dade, duvall and escambia county.ig wins in conservative northeast and southwest florida, we've got the best reporters on the trail for you this morning. nbc's peter alexander is live for us in tampa. also nbc's ron mott live for us in lakeland. peter, start with you. the tampa region is going to account for 26% of this primary electorate. what is the romney campaign doing today in the final hours for the big push to attract the voters they want in tampa? >> reporter: yeah, thomas. a good question. following the same strategy throughout the course of the campaign. back to campaign headquarter, mitt romney is making calls for himself. it's on the news this evening showing he's out there doing the dirty work. a meticulous campaign. doing press avashlgs media availabilities, sure they happen outside as opposed to inside with a nice tomorrow's sets and make it look like mitt romney is not some wealthy guy separate from the rest of us but one of us out there stumping for votes. that's what he will be doing again today. the