marc caputo, let me bring you in because 70% of the people in the home state of yours approve of his handling. will that have an impact on perhaps not early voter, but on tuesday those who look back and may have heard comments from the republican primary that were made by governor romney regarding fema. we know fema is still popular in that state for the obvious reasons. >> i think it would. florida is a big state. we're a tv state. our electorate makes its decisions largely on what they see on television, not what they read in the newspaper or on the internet. the coverage for a while before, during and after sandy, especially after sandy has been very favorable to president obama. you would think that's going to help, and it's still going on. having chris christie as a de facto unintentional surrogate doesn't seem to hurt obama one bit. it probably seems to help him. >> what is so interesting, you said chris christie, de facto endorser of obama. you've got this new article exclusive from politico saying there were people on governor romney's team who believed that chris kri city wa

for more on the ongoing ballot counting in florida and the sluggish voting elsewhere, we turn to marc caputoe "miami herald's" political writer. and curt anderson of the associated press. he's been tracking problems in polling places across the country. i know conditions varied from place to place, but what were the main drivers of the really long waits to cast a vote? >> well, in the case of florida as your piece mentioned, one of them was the very long ballot we had which included a number of constitutional amendment which is took people a lot of time to read. there was also even though turnout as a whole was down, in certain places turnout was very high. part of that had to do, i think, with the obama campaign's ability to get minority voters out to the polls. he did very well in places where that has traditionally been the case and there was a lot of enthusiasm to vote. there were people standing in line well after president obama had been reelected and the networks had projected, in any case, and they still wanted to cast their vote because of that enthusiasm. >> suarez: marc caputo, we

. >> suarez: marc caputo, we saw a supervisor of elections say the problem in south florida was volume if two-thirds of your customers showing up makes the system collapse isn't that system inadequate by definition? >> well, it's not really even two-thirds. it might have been about half. we have a lot of early voting and absentee ballots voting that happened throughout the state. about half the electorate voted by then. this only happened at certain precincts and it seems as if in some of them -wellthis is according to voters who voted, there weren't enough machines to read the ballots and there weren't actually enough privacy booths to vote your ballot. this year we had an unusually long ballot which slowed people down as well. add those things together, not enough booth space, not enough scanners, lots of people who want to vote and a long ballot and it makes for a long wait time. we had early voting and we had a hybrid of early voting that stretched for almost a month before and the officials probably should have known about this and they didn't. so you had people waiting in line fo