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go nationa go like a pro. gerri: states across the country are scrambling to set up health insurance exchanges. just one of the many mandates in obamacare. the extended today's deadline for states comply with the law for another month. twenty states have already said they will not create their own exchanges. rath, they will leave believe it to the federal government to run. mississippi, despite the governor's opposition to the lot, is going ahead with the exchange. earlier i sat down with bill brian and i asked him why his state is going ahead. it's a uniqueituation. we have an elected commissioner of insurance here in the state of mississippi. a good friend of mine. we just fundamentally disagree with sectary sebelius, i'm sorry to say that we would be setting up an insurance exchange. when we first started, we were all for it. we were thinking aboua private-based insurance exchange that would help small businesses come together and try and lo lower their cost of insurance. that has now evolved into what i be

and thus again a swelling nationa debt. but with no wars at all. then under presidents george h.w. bush and bill clinton we took action. for a while, both parties agreed, says simon johnson. >> there was a bipartisan agreement to raise revenue and put something of a damper on spending. so that's an important moment in the bigger picture, of course, that was just a small hesitation on the part of a much larger national debt. >> reporter: because in the bigger picture, a president just can't accomplish very much if he's cutting spending and won't raise taxes. and so yet again, more borrowing. under presidents george w. bush and barack obama. higher deficits and debt that, because of the graying baby boom, are fated to get even worse. >> the population was always going to age, the baby boomers were going to retire. they were paying a lot of social security contributions in 1990s. we were always going to shift into structural deficit for that reason. >> reporter: that's why even though we've been in deeper hot water before as a percentage of the economy, this time really may be differe

the race today and a final snapshot of this contest from the polls, and this is the most up-to-date nationa poll we have, president obama holding a three-point lead over governor romney, but, of course this, race will be decided tonight state by state, and perhaps the most prized state among them, ohio, where president obama's advantage among likely voters has shrunk to just one point, according to this poll. >> take a look at new hampshire, governor romney trails the president among likely voters there, but there's good news for governor romney. among independents, a sizable 14-point lead, and the results are already in for one new hampshire town. residents in tiny dixville notch began voting at midnight, that's traditional. five votes for the president and five for governor romney. again, this could be a very long night. >> so what are they saying about this race in the swing states where it matters? wisconsin's "journal sentinel" reports chilly, rainy forecast could affect voting. milwaukee-area voters could face the coldest election day in more than 30 years, and "cincinnati enquirer" s