there was a 20-year-old college student at miami of ohio putting yard signs -- [applause] >> it's kind of hard -- but 22 years ago tonight i had a 20- year-old miami student putting yard signs up for me in ohio. i've known paul ryan a long time which one of the most decent honest guys you'll ever meet. one of the smartest guys in congress that knows more about policies progrowth than anybody. somebody who can help lead our country. but he's also a great father and great husband. help me welcome the next vice president of the united states, paul ryan. [applause] o.h. i love that. thank you so much. thank you for waiting in line. thank you for coming here tonight. thank you for knocking on the doors, for making the phone calls. thank you ohio for delivering your state for the next president of the united states mitt romney. [applause] i want to thank my speaker, our speaker john boehner for being the speaker. [applause] i want to thank the other leaders for what you've done for our country. and i want to introduce you to my best and better half, my wife. i got my lucky buck eye with me t

i'm joined tonight by annette taddeo, member of the miami-dade democratic county party and also ohio state senator, nina turner. great to have both of you with us tonight. i know both of you worked tirelessly on behalf of democracy, no question about it. nina, let me talk to you first here on this issue. how does it feel to deliver the state of ohio, knowing that the deck was stacked against you? >> it feels tremendous, ed. i am so happy, not only for the great state of ohio, but for this country. >> does it set a template on how to defeat citizens united? because if you can do it in this election, with show much money thrown against your senator, sherrod brown, the governor, of course, and the secretary of state, both republicans, what does that tell you? is this the template? >> it is, ed. and it shows that when good people get together for righteous causes, we can make a difference. you know, especially in senator sherrod brown's race, we show the republicans that money can't buy you love. >> what about the demographics in south florida, annette? this really played big. and i said

ohio. >> you're calling florida the january brady of modern day politics? >> ohio ho. >> ohio ohio ohio. >> it was a crisis of kpen tency. miamiade just had virtual chaos. there were stories of in the 27thnth precinct they ran out of ballots at about 11:00 this morning and the ballots didn't get there until almost 7:00 p.m. meaning that people gave up and got out of lines. you had lines snaking around buildings and endless wait times. people were still voting up to 10, 10:30. it was just insane. and a lot of it was lack of kpen t competency by election officials. a lot of the vote that would have happened then was crammed into election day. we had time to speak on monday about this and the problems that happened on monday. >> the super visor of elections saw that there were so many people who wanted extra time to vote and opened up early absentee ballot voting. but where that office is, the main office is is in an area that is predominantly republican community. and up to 31 miles away from african-american communities. so you have a lot of people saying our voters could not get there and it is unfair. >> president obama's re-

a little attention ohio w stolen its thunder and -- >> so you're florida the brady of modern-day politics? >> ohio oh what happened in florida is really a crisis of confidence. miamind broward counties which are two str south florida just had virtual chaos. there were stories of in the 27th precinct in for instance, they ran out o ballots at about 11:00 this morning somebody who was working at that poll i spoke with. and the ballots didn't get there p.m. meaning people just gave up and got out of line. you have lines that were around buildings and just endless, endless wait times. dyed and some people didn't.were still voting in miami-dade and broward up till it was lack oetency by those election officials but it was also because they cut down that early vote period so long that a lot of that vote that would have happened then was crammed into needed all 14 of those days. >> joy-ann, what more have you om your sources? because we had time to speak on monday about this and the problems that happened over the weekend. but the legal situations that are now set up moving forward. >> well what happened essentially in miami-dade is that the supervisor of elections, i th

the most contentious battles are waged in the swing states of ohio and florida. in miami this weekend voters waited up to nine hours to cast in person absentee ballots only to have election officials shut down the polls because they claimed not enough have resources or staff to be able to complete the job. one voter shut out after waiting two hours with their grandson told the miami herald: after protests and those calls to let us vote, the polls did reopen and people voled until 1:00 a.m. but governor rick scott refused to extend any early voting any further, and wouldn't you know it, the areas with the longest lines, maim dade, orange, palm beach, broward county, all of those counties, shocked i know, lean democratic and they all went for the president in 2008. those voters have to contend with more than just voting regulations and ornery officials. unofficial poll watchers, many trained by the tea party group true the vote, those poll watchers are going into predominantly afarry can american areas searching for fraud. volunteers handing out bottled water to voters who

lady michelle obama stumping for her husband, the president of the united states, at the university -- rather at miami university in oxford, ohioa mater of the republican vice presidential nominee, paul ryan. let's listen in. >> like so many families in this country, our families just weren't asking for much. they didn't want much, and they didn't begrudge anyone else's success. they didn't mind if others had much more. in fact, they admired it. that's why they pushed us to be the best we could be. but they simply believed in that fundamental american promise, that even if you don't start out with much, if you work hard and do what you're supposed to do, then you should be able to build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids and grandkids. and they also believed that when you worked hard and have done well and you finally walk through that doorway of opportunity, you don't slam it shut behind you. you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. [ cheers and applause ] and that's is how barack and i, and i know so many of you were raised. and more than anything else, th

miami. the republicans the secretary of state in ohio about ready to give a press conference. the people there but there are people waiting in line and people having an argument. one of those split couples. you know how that goes. let's check in with the codirector of the voting rights project because we've talked about there is a lot of since since 2000 getting ready for any eventualliality. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> stephanie: you heard us talking the whole show. there is a lot of concern. it seems this year there is a creative you know, voteer suppression tactics that i'm not sure that i've seen. what are your main concerns today? >> my main concerns are voters who are not able to vote because they were asked for i.d. that they didn't have to show. there are voters whose absentee ballots are reject because they claim the signatures don't match. there are voters who were registered but didn't show up on the rolls and had to vote provisional ballots. how those provisional ballots will be counted remains to be seen. >> stephanie: that is somethin

of the country. here is video that we've received from east. there are long lines in florida and ohio. this is miamiesident obama is spending his election day in his hometown of chicago. mitt romney has a few campaign stops before he heads to spend the night in boston. >> the other big story that we are following is the record breaking weather. >> the dow jones is up by 70 points. rob black is now joining us. >> this is something that we started to look at on wall street yesterday. the only thing that we can do is europe. greek and boats are on top and germany is in a recession. this seems to be the only negative thing hanging over. >> we had home sells up by 5% from september 2011 to september 2012. >> when you read the story is all about foreclosures and foreclosures pushed prices so low. house and will be the biggest story for next year and you and i will say that our house has gone up in value. the economy will look better net share in stabilization is helping the housing market turned the corner. when the housing market turns the corner then we take out loans and go to law olowes. >> it does gi

indicative of what is going on the areas that have not common, president obama scoring very well in miami better than he did in 2008 that could tip these numbers even though they looked even here and ohiocourse is leaning towards the president according to party affiliation de that president looked good coming out of ohio. he ran over to pennsylvania thinking if i don't get ohio, give me pennsylvania. so now let's see how the numbers are shaping up when it comes to gender she leads battleground states and we start with pennsylvania women 53 percent voted for robb obama 45% voting for mitt romney. and then you can see 48% and 51% and then let's move on over to ohio. 46 percent of men voted for obama. and the last one is pennsylvania or sorry, florida. you'll notice everything you were saying is pretty much the same in all the states we're seeing the president do better with women than he did with men. we look at the battleground state we already know where pennsylvania came out keep in mind for the effort went in this campaign. the analyst always breaking down this data and the demographic i'm wondering how effective or how accurate they have been where they accurate than in 2008? the c

ohio. that help immediate significantly. nothing like the lines we're seeing in miami where ashleigh is. ohio cannot be overstated, the importance of. the poll of polls, which averages all the polls in ohio, president barack obama is clinging to a three-point lead. no margin of error there. let's get right to the former democratic governor of ohio, ted strickland, national chair for the obama campaign as well. good to see you, sir. >> it's a beautiful day in ohio. ohioans are getting out to vote and i think it's going to be a great day. >> wow, you sound happy and confident. when the polls close in ohio, what will you be looking for? what is the key thing for you that will give you an indication of what's going to happen tonight overall when you look at ohio? >> well, you know, almost 2 million ohioans have already early voted. about 1.8 million. those votes, obviously, will be some of the vote -- first votes counted. and we believe the president has nearly a 2-1 lead in that early vote. but we'll be look iing at the turnout in cuyahoga county, which is where cleveland, ohio, is located. we'll be look over in the hamilton county ar

of our lives what we want to in this country. that's what we do. we go to schools like miami, ohio, and we graduate and we want an economy that has those opportunities for us. these are serious times. we need serious solutions. that's not what we're getting from president obama, that's the problem. the president came in with so much promise, with such great rhetoric. you know what he said four years ago? he said, if you don't have any fresh ideas, then he used stale tactics to scare voters. you paint yourself as someone people should run from if you don't have a record to run on. you make a big election of small things. that's what he said four years ago when he ran for president, and that's exactly what he has become now that he is president. and the reason is really pretty simple. he has a terrible record to run on. he can't run on his record. 23 million people are struggling for work. people like we grew up with in our hometowns who lost that great job they had that paid them great wages with good benefits are in between jobs. we have thousands of citizens living in poverty toda

have spoken to people in madison, wisconsin, columbus, ohio, freeport, illinois, newton, iowa, denver, colorado, miami, florida, we have been every of where. americans everywhere feel the pulse of this country, we can do better. this is an election about the hard working people that i have e met all over this country. so tomorrow we can take a right turn and go back to the policies that hurt the middle class or continue down the path of progress with president obama. i ask you to do one thing tomorrow. get out and vote. that's "the ed show." the "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. i'm look forward to being here with you all tomorrow night. it's going to be great. thanks for staying with us for the next hour. four years ago tonight, it was actually the night after the '08 presidential election. we voted november 4th. we vote november 6th this time. so november 5th was the night after barack obama had just walloped john mccain in that year's presidential election. you remember the electoral college map. the total 365 electoral votes for obama and only 173 for john mccain. barack obama won

miami-dade county and it's a place we will be watching. a lot of political observers will be watching closely in ohio. here is a look amount the lines.his is blue ash ohio, already busy out there and we will keep an eye on ohio, a very important state. with voters, it is still a dead heat and president barack obama will be watching the election results come in from there. renee marsh is at the campaign headquarters in chicago now, so what is the president up to today, renee? >> well, his schedule looks nothing like it looked like yesterday and yesterday was quite hectic since it was election eve and he is lying low and taking it easy and you can see right here at his headquarters, this is where all the action will be as you see the results, this is president barack obama and at some point he will take to the stage and it will be one of two things, to give that victory speech or to concede the race to mitt romney. >> are you fired up? >> [applauds] . are you fired up. >> reporter: the speech in ohio left the president with a tier in his eyes in the 2008 iowa caucuses. >> we cannot be stopped after all we fought through together, we ca

miami-dade county temporarily shut their doors, then opened again. in ohio, lawyers for the state are battling democrats over what happens when voters don't have the right kind of identification. late friday, the secretary of state said that voters must cast provisional ballots and show this form showing they proved who they are. no form, says the secretary of state, the vote won't count. the democrats say in the past they were filled out by poll workers, they say it adds to the burden. they challenged the new rule for absentee ballots comparing the signatures on them to what is on file, in the registration records that could be years old. no match, the vote is thrown out. >> all right, pete williams, we'll stay on this tomorrow evening. still ahead, as we continue, after sandy, even though it has been a week families still not able to return to what is left. for many, it is an awful sight when they do return. >>> and many are asked to leave their homes again because of the next storm on the way. jim cantore of the weather channel will talk us through what may be coming. ♪ [ male announcer ] start with an all new award winning car. good. now find the most hard

ohio. the dispatch poll, plus two obama, within the margin of error. florida poll, miamierald has right now romney plus six. so we go into this weekend, and republicans hoping this is a replay of 1980 where ronald reagan made a late break. but reagan had started his break a little earlier. by sunday, jimmy carter knew the race was over. if this is a late break, it's a really late break. looking at the polls, romney can do it. the question is, whether the hurricane stopped the momentum for 48 hours and if that will stop him from overtaking the president.an >> tom brokaw, you have seen this before, and you have the ultimate political foe of the president giving him such high marks. a republican and a democrat working together, leadership at the highest level, and this has been a problem for the >> the president reached across party lines. some of our polling people have been talking to undecided voters out there in colorado and other places, and they saw the president as a leader in a way they had not before, because nothing like a hurricane or national tragedy of this magn

it curry, pastor of new baptist church in miami who spear headed operation lemonade. and erin mcpike from real clear politics, live in cincinnati, ohiothank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> bishop curry, let me start with you. what do you make of latest voting problems in your state? >> well, i'm not surprised. even though the race is nonpartisan, the mayor is a tea party republican. so i'm not surprised by what's going on here in miami-dade county. but what i am happy about, reverend sharpton, is that people of miami die-dadmiami-da palm beach county, it doesn't matter how long they will stay in line. they will stay in line and cast their vote and protest for the right to cast their votes. >> i was with you last week as early voting start peestarted. we went through broward and miami-dade county. i worked with you with operation lemonade. now we see the reaction from those officials. this is exactly what you and the leaders there feared was wiley y they were cutting back souls to the poll chess should have been today. had to do it last sunday. because people do want it vote and they seemingly are determined to

groups in columbus ohio then in miami and tomorrow in san antonio literally not a single person knew how the affordable care act was going to affect their lives so the big challenge for all of us and for the obama administration is to create a big public education so how is it going to affect their lives if there's somebody watching the program right now as it had insurance for the last x. years and hasn't gone to the doctor because of it or if they have a suspicion you know they paid one hundred bucks out of pocket to get severe drops or something but that was it how is this going to change their lives for it's it's a very significant so there are two different groups of folks. for those people who are middle class and moderate income they're going to now be able to go to this new marketplace they'll be lots of private insurance plans they'll select one of those and if they have income say for a family of three of less than seventy five thousand dollars they will get a tax credit subsidy to help pay for a portion of the premium so they won't have as much of an out of pocket cost for those premium tax credit is an actual check from the government that's right so that's one

most of the voters will tell you, they have heard all the ads, been bothered by the robocalls and now ohio realizes it is time to vote. >> reporter: i'm john zarrella in miami-dade county. the issue, of course, the big issue in florida today is people having the opportunity to vote. early voting ended on saturday. some people waited in lines, three, four, five hours. the democratic party then filing a suit early sunday morning saying people had to have a meaningful opportunity to vote. in miami-dade, broward and palm beach counties, heavily democratic counties. mike dade county here and up in palm beach responded by allowing people to come yesterday and today to file absentee ballots. that's what this line is here that you see. people picking up absentee ballots, filling them out and then turning them in again. the line is perhaps three or 400 deep, goes all the way around the corner behind me here. now, that is what the folks are doing here in miami-dade. they'll be allowed to do this until 5:00 this afternoon. anyone who is still in line at 5:00 when the office is officially shut will, of course, be allowed to vote. >> it is the final day of early voting

not cave and make a goal line stand, punching their ticket to miami. 22-13 notre dame, and first national title game. speaking of undefeated ohio off a perfect 12-0 season defeating michigan. unfortunately for the buckeyes they're banned from bowl games due to ncaa sanctions or they had he' be squaring off against the irish, what a job by urban meyer, a turn around in his great career. an indianapolis colt cheerleader above and beyond to raise money for leukemia, check this out. cheerleader megan agreed to shave her head in the quarter quarter of today's colts-bills games and don't announce last night and looked up, when i say megan. >> alisyn: i interviewed her on fox and friends and the challenge was issued by the team's mascot blue after raising over 22,000 bucks, megan is living up to her promise. blue will bring out the buzzer and shave her head as ali just said, megan was on "fox & friends" earlier this week to talk about it. >> we're going to visit a lot of children's hospitals afterwards and i want to be an inspiration to those girls and women through cancer and show you you're beautiful even without hair. >> shave blue

miami dade county temporarily shut their doors and reopened. in ohio, lawyers for the state are battling democrats over what happens when voters don't have the right kinds of identification. late friday, the secretary of state said voters must cast provisional ballots and fill out this form showing how they proved who they were. no form signed by the voter, says republican secretary of state jon husted, the vote won't count. the democrats say, in the past, those forms were filled out by poll workers. they're urging a federal government to rule that the requirement amounts to a further burden on voters. lawyers have also challenged florida's new rule for absentee ballots, comparing the signatures on them to what's on file from voter registration records which can be decades old. no match, the ballot is tossed out. brian? >> pete williams in our d.c. newsroom. we'll stay on this on through tomorrow evening. still ahead tonight, as we continue, after sandy, even though it's been a week, families still not able to return to what's left. it's an awful sight for those who are able to return. >>> and then there are those being asked to leave their homes again, be

facilities in miami-dade, broward, and palm beach counties led to some lines in some cases between six and seven hours long. over a million votes have already been cast in the bellwether state of ohio of state says an senn tee voting and early in-person voting have gone smoothly so far this year. absentee voting has gone on track to sur praise that in 2008. >>> boehner has been on a three-day bus tour in his home state. the house speaker says he's relying on long-time republicans in southwest ohio where he's from to deliver the state's 18 electoral votes for mitt romney. >>> new jersey voters displaced by superstorm sandy will be able to cast their votes by i'm. the state is also allowing residents to vote at their county clerk's office. the deadline for ballots is still 8:00 p.m. tuesday. >>> and those are your headlines. "reliable sources" is at the top of the hour. now back to "fareed zakaria gps." >>> sometimes the best way to think about big events, elections, crises, wars, is to step back and learn what we can from the past. that's why i bruit together three of my favorite historians do just that and to help us figure out how the past can inform the present in this election.

facilities in miami-dade, broward, and palm beach counties led to lines in some cases between six and seven hours long. over a million votes have already been cast in the bellweather state of ohiowuf state says absentee voting and early in person voting has gone smoothly so far this year. absentee voting is on track to surpass 2008. >>> house speaker john boehner is doing his part to get ohio voters out to the republican ticket. boehner has been on a three-day bus tour in his home state. the speaker says he is relying on long-time republicans in southwest ohio where he is from to deliver the state's 18 electoral votes from mitt romney. >>> a new poll shows president obama leading mitt romney by five points in iowa. the des moines register survey finds the president ahead of romney 47% to 42%. iowa, which is considered a part of the president's so-called midwest firewall, has just six electoral votes, but losing the state would complicate romney's path to victory. >>> new jersey voters displaced by superstorm sandy will be able to cast their ballots by e-mail. the state is also allowing residents to vote at their county clerk's office. the deadline for ballots is 8:00 p.m. tuesd

of campaigning today. in ohio, i'm tracie potts. back to you. >>> frustration and anger in florida over issues with the state's early the voeing. voting. hundreds lined up at an election office in miami on sunday, hoping to turn in absentee ballots. but the county was so overwhelmed by the crowd, that they shut their doors for a time then decided to reopen. it came after horrendous lines on saturday as residents tried to beat the deadline for early voting. >> i'm a little upset with the lines. it's been, what, five hours now? >> voting issues expected in ohio as well where there are new absentee ballot rules, and in new jersey and new york, where power outages caused by sandy could cause headaches for voters. >>> maryland governor martin o'malley will attend two rallies for marriage equality. the first rally at 11:00 on capitol hill. the second rally at 3:00 this afternoon at the university of maryland. >>> also today, more than 100 people expected to attend a rally for maryland's d.r.e.a.m. act. students and advocates will gather at montgomery college's takoma park silver spring campus at 1:00 this afternoon. the law will allow all maryland residents to pay instate tuition regardles