these are long-lived investments, in cases like boston, cincinnati, or cleveland, they were never allowed and all of a sudden they will now be. we go into those markets irrespective of what we see in the markets today. if there were to be a fiscal cliff event, we may slow the pace of activity in las vegas. >> do you still think the u.s. is one of the best places to invest? >> i still do think it is. but if you asked me that a couple of years ago, the rest of the world had growth, but, fortunately, the u.s. has come back. with the right medicine in this country to cure the economic circumstances, the united states economy could become one of the most dynamic investment areas. >> suzanne: the other issue that came up in the election is taxes. if they go up, what does that mean for your costumers in your business? >> an increase in taxes in the new administration is a bad idea for the american economy in every respect, and certainly for my costumers. the country is very weak. the economy is very weak. the consumers' household budgets are very weak. this is not a time for an increase. >> suza

candidate has to work in the presidential campaign, but if you do if you're not out to pittsburgh or clevelandting in a room and you're doing interview after interview after interview with local tv stations in battleground states. >> all day. >> you do it from 7:00 in the morning all of the way up to 7:00 or 8:00 or 9:00 at night. >> i prefer to be in a car. >> 18 years ago today. >> and you are getting a call every 30 seconds from people, what are you hearing? no one has any idea what they're talking about and it's like the kids' game of telephone, and it is just a long day. >> howard, to really underline just how the fact that nobody knows nothing at this point of the day, we just go back to 2008, and what was supposed to be hillary clinton's last campaign, new hampshire, where the day before she was down by 11 points and 12 points and everyone was dancing on her grave and the exit poll showed she was losing and then the voters of new hampshire spoke. >> well, i like it that way. >> i love it. >> i don't like -- not talking about the result, i'm talking about the process. what i like most is

four of them did not effectively communicate this agenda or initiative were jefferson, monroe, grant and cleveland. obviously the dominant source of failure for the second term prudent has been their inability to successfully work with congress, the second term presidents have faced troubled or second terms do directly to the fight between the congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of release. those presidents that serve in the congress having the majority of the opposing party during the second term included willson, eisenhower, nixon, ronald reagan and clinton. the competitive battle to the president and congress dates to the site george washington had in the congress over the treaty. he had won approval only after standing considerable efforts looking directly with members of congress compromising and cudgeling and that was with the congress having the majority of white thinking federalists' a president who was revered in a national hero. when the democrats won the majority in congress and the second term eisenhower worked quietly behind

also four failed because of economic crisis or failure to act to deter such a crisis. jefferson, cleveland, coolidge, franklin roosevelt, the 37 downturn and george bush. eight who failed due to their inability to lead congress were jefferson, monroe, grant, wilson, truman, johnson, nixon and george bush. two failed due to who boris. franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four who did not effectively communicate their agendas or initiatives were jefferson, monroe, grand and cleveland. the dominant force of failure for a second term presidents has been there in the ability to successfully to work with congress. lee eight second term presidents have face trouble their second term due directly to the fight between congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of relief. those presidents who served with the congress having majority of the opposing party during a second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between a president and congress bates to the fight george washington had with congress over t

cleveland, they always fight us. the always play us tough, no matter what portion of the season we played them. no matter where we play them orords. it is always a fight between baltimore and cleveland. it is good for football. they are really playing right now. >> their defense is playing at a high level. we will have a challenge ahead of us. no surprise that the is be a great team, the san diego tartars. they are coming off a high. >> mark reynolds will have to do it split -- stay in baltimore for less money. the orioles have announced the decline to pick up the option on his contract. would have cost the team $11 million last season. he made 7 of $5 million this past season. live like to have reynolds back next year -- they would like to have reynolds back next year. >> a long way from baltimore. since then, he is transferred price and face assault charges for allegedly striking his rafah. sources tell his family and mentors occurred to him to get distance from baltimore. he will finish our -- high school in jacksonville. he's already committed to a caller's scars -- college scholarship at seton hall. right from loral won

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they want to reinforce ham milt ton county -- hamilton county in cincinnati or collier county in cleveland form it will take because you don't want your supporters if they already voted out at a campaign rally as opposed to polls but we hope to get the news back to you. jon. jon: it will be interesting to see, john roberts in columbus. >> reporter: it will. jon: with a dead-heat in the polls, both candidates have one day left to try to convince voters. it is down to the ground game and who can do a better job getting out to vote. both sides spending final day of campaign, making a final pitch to voters before they grow to the polls and cast their votes. president obama speaking right now in had son, wisconsin. then he goes to columbus, ohio, and des moines, iowa before heading to chicago, where he will spend election day waiting for the results. governor romney making stops in florida, virginia, ohio, and new hampshire before, as we just heard from john roberts, heading to ohio for a little more campaign and campaigning, and then spending the rest of the day at his home in massachusetts. b

cleveland, ohio. the number of votes the president picked um last tight. more than 900,000 of 5 1/2 or 6 million cast and see whether or not he can match that number, do better than, or whether mitt romney can keep the numbers down. what-if map here, what truly matters across the country, 11 battle ground states marked in gray here and if you live in one of these states you know you've been hammered by the ads throughout the past six months or so, but as we mention, steve brown they're in ohio just for good measure, both the president and the governor go back to ohio tomorrow, they'll be in columbus, ohio, and franklin county, the heart of it all to wrap things up in about 48 hours from now and start filling in the board and see what we get. >> bill hemmer live at the billboard. >> and looks like it's ready. >> bill boyd and i felt like edith bunker for a minute there, over at the bill-boyd. >> okay. >> do you remember? >> i do. >> ♪ the way glenn miller-- >> don't have to sing. >> all righty, when we return, brit hume and chris wallace on the closing arguments from each candidate in t

through all of this stressful thing right now over again this summer or you could go out there and play freely. the bulls are in clevelandt five are back at the uc the cubs are making noises about resigning ryne dempster as a pre agent can shrek and kenny williams jr. and finally nobody in the bears' uniform has ever stripped more footballs ben tillman. he has been working on that for a long time. i graduated debt-free. not to offend anybody out there that had to do that to pay for college. the bears once did have a defensive back who was an exotic dancer in the off-season. his name was more recent douglass suite mo-dee. thank you dan. that's the news for this thursday night. so have you shared your time with us i am micah the tearmterre. the great week. @úú

cleveland. the free press says the software was never certified or tested. cnn's don lemon spoke to husted last night and gave him a chance to respond. >> we have a new system, all we have to do is load the data into the election reporting system. and actually it's so -- it's so -- the reporting system and the actual counting system are not connected in any way, and the results that anybody can get in their home on the computer, they're going to get them the same time i do. we have a very transparent system that's brand new and will help people across this country and across the world frankly look right at our website with what's going on. >> so nothing fishy going on. >> nothing fishing going on. >>> 1.6 million early votes have been cast in ohio. that tops it in 2008. early voting continues through monday. a programming note, be sure to joan anderson cooper and wolf blitzer as they take a close like at the candidates' final push in the american election in the 2012 "countdown to election day" at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> well, life is slowly

cleveland, ohio. white house correspondent brianna keeler is in hollywood, florida. where the president should any moment now arrive. he's a little late. it's about 20 minutes past the hour or the moment that people, a huge crowd were expecting to hear from him. what's the holdup? >> reporter: well, you know, he's got a lot of places to go, 20 minutes behind not really surprising. i think that's been happening a lot the last few days, fredericka. but yeah, we'll be keeping an eye out when he speaks so if you want to stop in and see what he's saying, for the last few days leading up to election day, he's concentrating quite a bit of his time in ohio, and also in wisconsin and iowa that midwestern fire wall. and as his campaign sees it, if he does sure ohio, they feel that he will be able to keep the presidency out of the hands of mitt romney. of course florida is also very important. when you look at the polls righ right now -- we're getting ready for the introduction of barack obama. this is a college graduate, she was someone who suffer eed kidn failure and was able to stay on her parents policy after college. it's very popular for a plan that's not overall popular. you lo

cleveland, ohio. no republican candidate has ever won the white house without winning ohio. and romney expects to continue that streak. >> if you believe america should be on a better course or if you're tired of being tired, i ask you to vote for real change. paul ryan and i will bring real change to america from day one. when i'm elected the economy and american jobs will still be stagnant, but i won't waste any time complaining about my predecessor. >> this was the second of four events romney had scheduled for today. next up for the republican candidate is pennsylvania. so america has 50 states, but it's the key battleground state where is the race just might be decided come tuesday. right now cnn estimates that nine states shown here on the make or break states. president obama or 34mitt romne to wing the who is. there's to the all important state of ohio with 18 electoral votes. virginia is one of those key battleground states as well. it's a state that favored barack obama back in 2008, but now the state's electoral votes are very much up for grabs. joining us from bluemont, virginia. virginia jones, what is on the minds of people there in

or are in the process of doing so right at this very minute. please wait in the show is over. the three cities have born the brunt of the onslaught. other hot spots like clevelandmpa. which reached a new high or a low depending on how you look at it this cycle. of the more than $800 million spent by these groups through mid-october, roughly $1 in $4 was dark money, meaning the groups spending it don't have to disclose their donors. the surge in spending of the supreme court's citizens united decision has been extraordinary. in this week's issue of "time" magazine, michael sherer writes explicit political ad spending by outside groups in 2012 is on track to double the combined total spent by outside groups in each of the four elections since 2012. jonathan capehart, that is a lot of money. thrown away? used for good? totally unclear. >> that's a lot of cheddar. >> it is a lot of cheddar. another official term. >> yes, exactly. people are marveling at the fact that president obama's campaign put out there a long time ago that we're going to raise a billion dollars. people thought wow, we've never seen that before. now we're looking at citizens united that a billi

it's not going to be anything as direct as jobs now being done in chinese factories move back to cleveland orbut the next wave of new business startups becomes more attractive for them to develop in california, in texas and tennessee, then in southern china. and so the growth we're starting to see is in some of the high-tech ferms back in the united states rather than in china. >> basic economics. it used to be so much cheaper to get things done in china. now wages are starting to rise. workers are starting to get choosier. >> they are. and i went back to some factories just last month. i've been seeing the last six or seven years the fascinating thing is they're going through in it about a decade 150 years of social transformation in the west. so the shift from, say, the 1840s and england where people worked in the sweatshops to the 1890s and the beginning of labor unrest, to the 1920s, the kind of ambitious urban youth. that's all happening in china right now and it's harder to just control these people. >> richard? >> yeah. i'm interested to know a little bit more about the impact on chine

liz: i know in cleveland it was always the lake effect or the alberta clipper coming down from canada. >> absolutely. liz: my canadian mother always said stop blaming canada for everything. [laughter] liz: good to see you guys. thank you very much for the perspective. we really appreciate it. right now dow jones industrials off the lows of the session, down about 58 points. talk about a contrarian. okay, you have the u.s. on the edge of this fiscal cliff. europe is still a mess with its debt crisis. china slowing down. what should you do with your money besides hiding it deep under the mattress? my next guest says there's only one place to be and that's the red white and blue usa. neil hennessy is sounding like an olympic champ, usa, usa. you are over at hennessy funds after your name. i look at this and say okay good finally somebody who seems optimistic and you are, why? >> very optimistic, you were just talking about earnings, they might be down but still earnin earnings. companies made a lot of money in 08, 09, 10, 11, 12 and continue to make money. liz: while everybody else was w

or flurries. even some of that into the pennsylvania mountains. a little rain shower, sprinkle activity in clevelandthe clouds that we have are also a result from that lake effect, more properly the northwest flow of air is coming off the back side of what's left of sandy. that storm is still in a remote sort of way affecting our weather. what about any more sandies coming our way? i don't think so. but there is a storm next week that we will be watching closely. details coming up. >>> for the majority of americans, the most crucial issue of this political season has been the economy. the final jobs report before election day came out yesterday. and not surprisingly with just three days to go, both sides are actively spinning the numbers. sally kidd has the details from washington. >> the latest numbers don't show any significant changes but they do give each side a new talking point. >> oh! oh! >> the president touted the new jobs report at every campaign stop in ohio. >> today our businesses have created nearly 5.5 million new jobs. >> springfield to lima. >> this morning we learned companies hire

or 500,000 votes that get counted after the election. overseas ballots, provisional. that's a big deal in places like cleveland where people move a lot. i think lawsuits will follow both those challenges how the forms were filled out, so one hand, if the secretary of state is trying to avoid that, but if there's an implication somebody was denied because they didn't fill out a period right or address, there's going to be a big problem. >> all right, dave, what are the chances we're still going to be here a week or ten days from now and they're going to be counting votes? >> if the polls are accurate, to get to a recount, you need less than a quarter of 1%. the odds of that happening are fairly low. there's a narrow lead for one candidate right outside that margin. democrats have used that pretty effectively in florida, pennsylvania. there's an ols expression or cliche, if you shoot an elephant, you have to kill it. this might be what happened with a lot of their base excited about the president. if they get bigger margins from philadelphia, cleveland, less likely, but miami-dade, that also reduces the likelihood this is close. make lo

cleveland. interesting because when i covered john mccain's campaign in 2008 he was in the same gym with over 4,000 or 5,000 and obama camp said he could only do, james john mccain, because e could not get the large event of people that senator obama could, and in the final weekend in cleveland, then senator obama had 80,000 people in cleveland. he is not getting anything near that in the final weekend. he had a rally in florida with a singer trying to get celebrity appeal with 20,000 people. there is a large group here still gathering and he will be here in a couple of hours in cincinnati. the ultimate rockstar is bill clinton in a chilly new hampshire city with 14,000. we have seen president obama adapt the clinton economic plan, the balanced approach in terms of deficits. and today he employed the anthem of bill clinton, playing at the end of the clinton obama rally in new hampshire "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." a song we heard in 1992 and 1996. i heard more veteran reporters saying they had not heard that song in 10 or 12 years and they are bringing it back. you can see president obama try

or hate the national spotlight. >> we have been in this battleground high state situation where all eyes are on cuyahoga county. >> it has been a headache. the social media network and everything. >>> cleveland polls showing less than 3 points between the presidential candidates, 8 electoral votes. virginia with a virtual dead heat and 13 electoral votes, another purple state, neither red or blue and florida, the biggest of the swing states, 29 electoral college votes where governor romney has held a steady lead in late polling. heavy turnout and long lines. one we haven't talked about is wisconsin where president obama held a narrow four point polling lead, ten electoral votes are up for grabs and the republicans have made a strong push as they have in nevada where there's six electoral college votes and narrowly for mr. obama but it is a late target for the republican party. reporting live, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> now to bill martin, our chief meteorologist. we will start to see changes. >> yes, right now, the leading edge of the fog and pushing on shore. the fog begins the cool down tomorrow. temperatures tomorrow down ten degrees, temperatures drop further as we head into thursday. ano

or more. >>> it was this day in 1892 when former president grover cleveland beat incumbent president benjaminrison to become the only president ever to win non-consecutive terms in the white house. therefore, why we have this awkward explanation to our kids that there have been 43 american presidents but we say that there are 44. thank you, non-consecutive termer grover cleveland. lots of books will be written about the 2012 campaign, some of them will be read. many of those books will focus on how the obama campaign won this election tactically with one of the most sophisticated market research efforts in history. data mining. you'll hear that phrase a lot. the obama campaign was able to find voters in key battleground states, get out the vote, talk to them in ways campaigns hadn't talked to voters before. democratic strategist jamal simmons, jean cummings and michael shear. michael, everybody's going to have a first draft of this eventually. you get in, you have some exclusive first looks at this anim analytic machine that was chicago. walk us through. what do you got? >> it works a lot of

so my guess is he's trying to offset the city of cleveland with the rest of cuyahoga county and the others. >>> eight or states are expected to >>> in dallas texas, voters are just now starting to show up at the polls. the presidential candidates didn't spend any time in texas in the final days of the campaign because the state is considered a red state. but there are some tight c congressional races. it's brisk out this morning, but the weather will not be a factor today. we are expecting clear skies and a high of 75. >>> finally election day, we get to vote. when we talk about the swing states in this election, we're not just talk about ohio. right now, we want to focus on three states that could really go either way, starting with nevada. anna werner is in las vegas. >> reporter: nevada helped the republicans in 2000 and 2004, voting for george w. bush. but in 2008, barack obama hit the jackpot here, beating john mccain by a whopping 12 percentage points. he's looking for a second big win, a second time around here in this state. the democrats are powered here by organized labor and a latino vote tha

or twice a week. christian science monitor once a week, "detroit news", cleveland plain, but "newsweek" saying we're just going to do it on-line that is happening it in the print world. not just in newspapers and magazines but obviously books, which is one of the questions why at some point there is at least the question mark where they will be able to continue publishing bound books. >> well, kind of come back though to socially what role books play. you know, sort of this cultural significance of the quote literary author, it really matters to a relatively small number of people. you know it's an elitist thing. there is popular fiction. there is serious nonfiction. you know, which is really in the same category as serious reporting of all kinds. >> you used this phrase elitist twice in this conversation watch. dow mean by that? >> what i mean is the notion by some group that their favorite activity is so important that it needs to be protected. >> what if it were defined differently as a group that says this is part of what you talked about earlier, of preserving the culture. >> i would say that the cu

or sell sell sell. hey, staffsers prepared the graphics on the fly. then the lightning round is over. i want to start with brian in ohio. brian? >> caller: hey, jim, out of cleveland i have a question for you on mark west here. i bought it around 51. i watched it go up, back down, do i dump it or -- >> no, no, you've fine. they priced that secondary. you know how important it is to get the natural gas. it goes higher. hold on to it. larry in indiana, hey, a great big boo-yah from indiana. >> we went out to kelly's school it was fantastic. >> caller: basic of america, what do you think? >> my favorite is wells fargo. i'm not a big fan, but it will go up, but i'm going to say willen, if you own it, that's fine. check in new jersey. >> caller: hi, jim. i saw your interview with mr. hegman. will there be an up side for the stock when they finally merge? >> a great question. remember, it's levered to natural gas drilling and oil drilling. the problem is if you think of the rig count every week, it is down, doing poorly, because people are shedding natural gas drilling. you have to hold it for a long time. too many people are hot money, this is not hot money, it's a lon

or else we're going to lose. >> that's the congressman from just east of cleveland describing the gender problems that his party still faces after those rape comments from senate candidates, not senators, todd akin and richard mourdock. focus on mourdock and akin revealed neither of them are outliers. as john weaver told "new york times"sh, quote, they did not seem foreign to our party, they seemed representative of our party. wow. the senate will make history with 20 women making up the largest percentage of women ever to sit in the upper chamber. i don't like the phrase upper chamber. one of those members will be senator amy klobuchar of minnesota who is coming off a big win tuesday night. senator, thank you, and congratulations. you're one of those people that people dare not run against, i guess. anyway, what do you make of the fact -- just the whole women's thing and the way women now tend to be democrats. you see it in california. we have two senators who are women in washington state, and new york, of course, you have a woman senator now and in the northeast. in fact, i think you've got 17 democratic wom