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governor romney 45%. there's about a 32,795 advantage for the president in florida right now. 29 electoral votes at stake. the president ahead right now. but it's very early, only 4% of the vote is in. in indiana, 6% of the vote is in. mitt romney has an impressive lead so far. 58% to 40%. but it's still very early. those 11 electoral votes in indiana still up in the air. we have not made a projection in indiana. let's bring in some of our reporters in the battle ground states. brian todd is in nashua, new hampshire. brian, first to you. what's going on over there? >> reporter: wolf, big story in new hampshire. voter registration, same-day voters. look at the line here in nashua, precinct 3. this goes out the door. they want to prevent people from waiting in the cold. goes all the way down the hall here. same-day registration voters, it's gotten so big here as far as the wait here and in salem and manchester, they have had to at least in nashua, i'm told by the city clerk, they have had to deputize volunt

first and foremost, a romney. the romney name has been in the public eye for the last half century, a family of great wealth will and business achievement, political success as well as failures. mitt was the fourth and last child for george and lenore romney. born march 12th, 1947, some recall him as the favorite. george wrote to the family in september 1956 -- mitt is growing like a weed, as full of ideas and energy as ever. tom mccaffrey grew up with romney. >> mitt as a child was extremely energetic, the kind of kid who could never sit down. his mind was going 100 miles an hour. >> george was much the same way. >> you know, he's just got that energy. >> phillip maxwell lived down the street from the romneys in a wealthy detroit suburb. >> george would go out on the golf course. and he had fluorescent golf balls, and he would hit the ball and he would run after the ball, jogging, hit the ball again. and that was his exercise. >> young mitt not only had his father's energy -- >> there seems to be a special bond b

so this had a big impact on mitt romney. >> when he returns home, romney is a changed person.y committed to his family's religion. he attends the mormon church's brigham young university along with ann davies. mitt and ann marry and eventually move to boston where romney gets a difficult combined mba and law degree from harvard. the romneys settle in massachusetts and mitt serves in higher and higher official positions in the mormon church. first as a bishop, then as head of the boston stake which is similar to a dioceses. mitt romney might be one of the more devout major party presidential nominees in american history. >> he spent up to they say 25 or 30 hours a week being the volunteer bishop. their religion is their life in many ways. >> but in addition to tending to religious matters, mitt romney is also in the process of building a major business. one that would make him a millionaire many times over. >> during the 15 years that i was there and that mitt was there, i believe bain capital probably had the most successful track record of any investment firm ever over a 15-y

it will not be for mitt romney. this is a state that he thought he might sort of surprise the polls and went. a two-time governor. a very influential candid it. his son hoping to avenge all of that tonight. but his opposition to that of a bailout might have cost him dearly. exit polls indicated that among many, the union heavy state, that opposition did hurt him, and even though he had argued that a formal bankruptcy was in order, and that is what this rescue of the auto industry turned out to be, bankruptcy top $50 billion with the taxpayer support, for a lot of michigan residents that trumped whenever favorite sun status mitt romney could have gained. one of the states. mitt romney was expected to lose, but that put an asterisk next to it this. the romney folks are hoping to win to offset the possibility. just the possibility of a loss in ohio. there in late the argument. be picked up michigan, iowa, make up for the 18 votes, presumably lost an ohio. that does not mean that he goes for mitt romney. one of those ho

romney on day two?> i guess he's not going to go to the parade or inaugural balls if he's going to do all that on day one. this is all absolute bluster. we know he's likely to change his mind on day two and day three so i don't think the american people should pay much attention to what he says he's going to do on day one. >> some people would say it's hour to hour rather than day to day. mitt romney as we know is probably the finest living revisionist in america, when he talks about his experience in massachusetts, he fails to acknowledge that the reason he won support from democrats is because health care and education were priorities for those democrats. that's why they worked with him. it wasn't down to some magical elixir that he brewed, was it? >> remember even when he was asked about gun control laws, he said he supported that because there was general agreement on it. it wasn't because he exerted any kind of leadership ability. his entire history, clearly when he faced a legislature that was 85%

people are hearing stuff about romney.verage person, you know, has an idea that the president is still pretty popular. that makes them think that, you know, most voters or swing voters will tilt a little more in obama's direction. that has an effect on swing voters. not in a direct sense that they think obama will win but the balance of information that people are hearing out there is the same information that will sway swing voters. it makes sense it would be a pretty decent relationship between the actual results and what people think. >> nate, i got to be honest. i care little for polls. let's gossip instead. i'm sure you've seen some of the blow back against the other nate for some of his predictions. i want to put up a tweet who said the degree to which people put their faith in nate silver goes against everything nate silver stands for. she's a fan. you guys have taken on something of a mythic quality like something out of oz or lord of the rings. when did you number crunchers become like rock stars? >> well, i don't

perhaps romney.e, you know, a guy on some sort of a, you know, small bore race, i think it's the president. and of course, there's the crowds which have been enormous for romney and surprising everybody, but one thing chris and i both learned a long time ago, covering these campaigns, in the final days, crowd size doesn't really tell you very much. george mcgovern, for example, on the way it a massive slaughter drew enormous crowds at the end of his race awalter mondale, lost 48 states. it tells you enthusiasm for who is for you, it doesn't tell you who the people are. >> megyn: one thing for romney, his pitch he could be a bipartisan president and work across the aisle and specifically saying about barack obama he's been divisive and not post partisan and the new york daily news not a right-leaning paper they endorsed romney for that very reason, saying he would be more of a bipartisan leader. effective? >> oh, i think it's an effective tool, particularly to independents and particularly to women, w

romney is slightly ahead.hio, very close, 50% for the president. 48% for mitt romney. 65,000 vote advantage for the president right now. only 59% of the vote in. a lot of votes out there. in florida, 87% of the vote counted. look at this. 50% for the president, 49% for mitt romney. almost 8 million votes have been counted. 46,518 votes. 518 votes for the presidential advantage right now more votes n in iowa. ght now, quarr of the vote in in iowa. 59% for the president. 40% for mitt romney. got a significant lead of 77,956 votes. in arizona, mitt romney ahead. 47% of the vote is in. got a significant lead. 56% to 42%. a lead of 154,000 votes. that's significant there, and in montana, only 6% of the vote is in. 47% for the president. very early for those three electoral votes in montana. what is the popular vote? the national vote show us right now? these are all the states where we have votes. so far, 39% of the national vote is in, mitt romney ahead nationally, 51% to 48%ory barack obama. a significant advanta

romney, 15,299. so so far here in boulder county, again, this is expected to go heavy for obama but maybe at this point, going much more for obama than the republicans had hoped for here. >> colorado a key battleground state. let's check in with erin burnett in columbus, ohio, the state capital. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: the secretary of state has just been briefing reporters gathered here to try to figure out which way this swing state will go. right now, we are getting new numbers out of cuyahoga county. as you said, with the number we have reporting so far, we have an 11 point lead for the president but that's just what we have reporting so far. we have a long way to go. there are some new numbers just coming out of cuyahoga county and cleveland, which is so crucial for the president, where mitt romney needs to close that margin. marty savidge has those numbers. what is the latest you're hearing? >> reporter: right now, the new numbers show that the president has 188,049 votes to mit

and so the massachusetts romney, obviously very different from the 2008 romney. 2008 romney pretty different from the 2012 romney. and so here's a guy whose skills are not ideological, they're not philosophical. his skills, his passion is about process, not about ends. >> he thinks, "the weak condition of the economy, that's made for me, mitt romney. i can fix that problem. and this is what i'm trained to do. i can come in, i can build a team, i can be serious about this." i think, you know, with every fiber of his being, he believes he can do that. >> mr. chairman and delegates, i accept your nomination for president of the united states. (crowd cheering) >> narrator: now, america faces a choice between these two very different men. one, a son born to privilege who followed a path blazed by his father. a bishop with a deep faith in god, family and his own abilities. the other, a son born to an absent father and mother who created his own identity and came to believe that he could find common ground in a nation's differences. the challenger, a businessman who became a turnaround specialist a

president obama also leads romney by five points in ohio, in large part because romney's 47% problemsust continue to haunt him. it is halloween, isn't it? let's bring in msnbc contributor, e.j. dionne, who is also a "washington post" columnist and author of the book, "our divided political heart." you know, this storm, as devastating as it is, e.j., it seems to have created some real problems for the romney campaign. it's almost as if you see them, and they are thing, and you can see them thinking out loud, oh, no, now what do we do? staging events. i mean, how low does it get? your thoughts? >> well, first of all, i would like to send my love out to my wife's family in rockaway queens, the neighborhood right on the ocean that got hammered. it's a great area and those folks are having a tough time right now. and i think this storm presented romneys with a slew of problems, and that's how they got themselves into this botched photo op. i mean, first, of necessity, the president is in the center of the story. and he looks pretty good out there. and it looks like the federal relief effor

>> look, mitt romney has -- obama has a lot of paths to victory. romney has very few. they will be states like virginia, florida. if obama wins those states, pretty much over. romney needs to run the table and do well in ohio and pennsylvania. those are must-wins for him. >> charles, when you look at both campaigns from start to finish, what do you think has run the better campaign? >> i think that this campaign has been what most campaigns are, a series of ups and downs for both sides, and so there have been some performance issues and the first debate was a performance issue for barack obama. what mitt romney has not been able to do has been to get enough momentum to ever get himself over a hump and get shooting himself in the foot either by things coming out he didn't time or saying things in realtime that did him real damage. so mitt romney was never able to take advantage of a bit of momentum and ride that to a leading position over barack obama. and i think that -- at the end of the day, that will be a real issue that republicans will look bat and say we did not

first and foremost, a romney. the romney name has been in the public eye for the last half century. a family of great wealth and business achievement, political success as well as failures. mitt was the last and fourth child for george and lenore romney. born march 12, 1947, some recall him as the favorite. george wrote to the family in september 1956. mitt is growing like a weed, as full of ideas and energy as ever. tom mccaffrey grew up with romney. >> mitt as a child was extremely energetic. the kind of kid that could never sit down. his mind was going 100 miles an hour. >> george was much the same way. you know, he's just got that energy. >> phillip maxwell lived down the street from the romneys in a wealthy detroit suburb. >> george would go out on the golf course. he had fluorescent golf balls, and he would hit the ball and he would run after the ball jogging, hit he ball again. and that was his exercise. >> young mitt not only had his father's energy -- >> there seems to be a special bond between george and mitt. >> -- michael kranish and scott helman co-wrote the book "the r

>> romney. >> romney wins. >> really close but romney. >> it might all come down to ohio. >> it may.nia we have sitting he here. so this could mean to me as a realistic scenario and i won't make you force these, hiohio, virginia and new hampshire sitting out here. does anybody think ohio is a true tossup? >> i do. >> you do? >> i do. >> i don't 0. i think obama will win. >> i think obama will win it but it's close. >> that's the question. there are democrats who believe it's just not a tossup anymore. >> buttoss-up anymore. >> it's now about, does one of them have some secret in their ground game that we don't know about. >> romney has not been ahead in any of the polls. >> that's why it's a secret. >> stick around. i want to talk about the post election era. who was the last democrat to win more than 400 electoral votes? lbj in '64. 486 electoral votes in that same time span. three republicans, nixon, bush sr. and reagan twice. if you have a trivia question that should be on the show, e-mail us. one of my personal songs that i like to listen to the day before election day along with

mitt romney. slight gender gap advantage for the president. he leads by eight among women. mitt romney leads by seven among men. what's interesting about the figure is it is the exact final number from the poll from 2004 with bush when he was at 48% and john kerry was at 47%. one of the reasons for the slight uptick for the president, remember we had them at 47-47 two weeks ago. look at this job approval on the handling of sandy. 68% approve. 15% disapprove. we haven't seen numbers like this for a single event for the president in his handling of an event since bin laden. >> you were talking about it looking a lot like 2004. back then, the osama bin laden tape was a late break in the campaign. now hurricane sandy will be affecting the vote. >>> earlier this morning, before he left with the president for a full day of campaigning in new hampshire, florida, ohio, and colorado, i spoke to white house senior adviser david plouffe. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you for having me, david. >>

the president is 49%, romney 47%. by the way, new hampshire is mitt romney's final stop before election day. director of the marist poll joins me now. lee, let's start with iowa, as you might be already aware of. the romney campaign disputes the size of the lead that we have for the president there. they believe this race is a dead heat. you look inside these numbers, what can you tell me about what is giving the president what it appears to be a solid lead, according to our survey? >> several things. mitt romney's favorable, unfavorable is still upside down in iowa, not in new hampshire, not in wisconsin. iowa is maintaining that pattern that we've seen a lot this fall. it hasn't moved for him. iowa is a huge early voting state and i think if the story of this election ends up being the re-election if it does of president obama, it's going to be all about the early voting and the wider his lead, the wider the state -- the more early voting. >> let me throw up a stat from our iowa poll for folks. among those who say t

romney with 56 votes.ll continue to track the states and keep you posted all throughout the night. we are going to take a little break and be right back. >> we are following what people are saying about the election on social media. pop start icon lady got out tweet did i voted, did you. paul mccartney treated his support for prop. obama. first lady michelle obama to read it all of our hard work the past 18 months comes down to what happens right now. let us not forget and romney wife of that romney says find your polling place. you can join us by quitting at kron4 .com or kron4 news rather or posting on our facebook page. we have more coverage coming up. we will be right back. [ female announcer ] this is a special message from at&t. [ male announcer ] it's no secret that the price of things just keeps going up. [ female announcer ] but we have some good news. it's our bundle price promise. [ male announcer ] a price you can definitely count on, for two whole years. from at&t. [ female announcer ] a great

i think mitt romney will win florida. if the governor wins ohio as well, he will be the next president of the united states. but that's a big if. president obama seems to have blunted romney's momentum over the weekend. talking points predicted that would happen last week. because of hurricane sandy, and because the national media simply refuses to cover the libyan situation. so while romney had momentum one week ago, the storm stalled it. and that's where we are tonight. both candidates slugging it out, momentum for both somewhat subdued. in just about four hours the good folks in dixville, noch, new hampshire will cast the first ballots. i love the notch. nature at its best up there romney will most likely carry the notch. but new hampshire seems to be leaning obama. if president obama loses the election, it will be because he could not convince americans that his big government philosophy would improve the economy. even though mr. obama had trouble in other areas like libya, it is the economy that has made this electio

for mitt romney. heading over to kentucky. no big surprise, it goes to mitt romney and it is an electoral vote and now to south carolina. another one for mitt romney tonight. he wins 90 electoral votes. >> no surprises so far. we want to keep you updated. it has not been declared yet. here is the latest numbers from ohio and president obama is leading mitt romney 58% to 42%. all we don't have the raw numbers but that state is declared for president obama. president obama has won connecticut and we move to the smaller states. only four in rhode island. that goes to president obama and massachusetts that is mitt romney's home state and president obama has won. levy electoral votes. vermont, president obama has won that state. the state of maine has been declared a winner for president obama. this is one of only two states where they actually split up the electoral votes. president obama, we don't know how many of the four votes he has won so we can't say if this is a blue or red state yet. we will get t

is that a romney rally? >> i think it is an opportunity to look at the fundamentals because, romney is talking about energy and more energy production, lowers the price of energy, lowers inflation, makes for a stronger dollar, reduces the trade deficit. that is important. less regulation, absolutely key. stuart: you're saying that the market went up, stocks went up because investors think they have got an idea that romney wins? >> yes. we've seen this in the past. stuart: where they got that from, i don't know. but that is their up tuition, it is a romney win, therefore it is a romney rally? >> enough investors believe in that story, yes to move the market up. stuart: so why did gold go up, 33 bucks an ounce? what is with that? >> gold this time is looking at a stronger economy, slightly higher inflation over time. less deflation. i think it is important. stuart: steve, what happens tomorrow if romney wins? you think gold goes down? >> i think gold goes down because i think people think that at least over th

mitt romney does. and romney believes that god granted natural rights to individuals and it is they who truly run the government and the country. it's a free enterprise view. it's a market view. it's a human action view. to my way of thinking, that makes romney the model optimist. he sets an optimistic goal of 4% growth, 12 million new jobs, he says he'll reduce and reform the tax system in ways that will reward, not punish, the success of individuals and small businesses. he said he would encourage business, not insult it. look it, i've interviewed him on "the kudlow report" several. he believes in free market capitalism and choice as the solution to poverty. he does not believe in the heavy hand of government. when romney talks about increasing take-home pay, it's about crediting a dividing line between a larger private sector and containing government. romney offers to reach across the aisle. that's important. he offers to reach across the aisle to find common ground on spending and deficits and deb

twice what romney has. they've been running -- chris: lawyers in cleveland. >> and may not have been able to win a lot of the message wars but on the ground they are really swamping the mitt romney campaign. chris: -- >> both b's. i think the president didn't have much vision for the future in his campaign. tell us enough about what he wants to do in the next four years. until late in the game. mitt romney never told us who he was. chris: let's go to the other colgate right here. grade inflation taking over colgate right now? two b's for these candidates? >> well, i'll give them both c pluses, ok? and here's the reason. i think this has been one of the least satisfying, most -- >> right. >> draining and dispiriting campaigns i've ever covered. and i've covered a lot of of them. and the reason is there's no list of a driving dream from either side it doesn't seem to me. this is every bit as much of a slog and a ground war and sort of battle in which everybody -- chris: so well said. >> everybody is attacking

first and foremost, a romney. the romney name has been in the public eye for the last half century, a family of great wealth will and business achievement, political success as well as failures. mitt was the fourth and last child for george and lenore romney. born march 12, 1957, some recall him as the favorite. george wrote to the family in september 1956 -- mitt is growing like a weed, as full of ideas and energy as ever. tom mccaffrey grew up with romney. >> mitt as a child was extremely energetic, the kind of kid who could never sit down. his mind was going 100 miles an hour. >> george was much the same way. >> you know, he's just got that energy. >> phillip maxwell lived down the street from the romneys in a wealthy detroit suburb. >> george would go out on the golf course. and he had fluorescent golf balls, and he would hit the ball and he would run after the ball, jogging, hit the ball again. and that was his exercise. >> young mitt not only had his father's energy -- >> there seems to be a special bond bet

the "new york times" did pick the title of the romney op-ed but romney wrote, if the auto companies getn, quote, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. the substance is all the same. romney did not want to help detroit with a loan. that's very clear more than once. >> you're going to see these companies go out of business ultimately. >> you said, quote, if joan motors gets the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the automobile industry good-bye. >> that's right. if you write them a check, they are going to go out of business. >> meanwhile, eric cantor was asked about the lies and his response wasn't much better. >> i have not seen the ad. i have heard it. they are apparently not running it in virginia so i'm not seeing the ad. >> he's not seeing the ad. he hadn't heard about t he doesn't know anything. apparently one of the highest ranking members of congress is not paying attention to the presidential race. do you believe that? for more, let's turn to james hoffa, good to have you with us tonight. what do you make of the. >> good to be

romney? we've been aggressive trying to get the facts at fox news and the administration isn't happy with us about it. but gov. romney, he has not been -- he has not put that as an issue on foreign policy. >> governor romney's job for the last six weeks has been to do exactly what ronald reagan did against jimmy carter. to reassure moderates and women that he is a reasonable person, a positive person and somebody they can trust with the presidency. every time he picks a fight he loses. all of us love it, but he loses ground with the group he needs to finish the election off. i think they have done a very discipline, a very solid job of communicating what they need to communicate. meanwhile, people like john mccain have been very tough and very direct. lindsay graham has done a good job. darrell issa. none of us have tried to raise the issues in a very aggressive way. >> are you raising it for -- i mean, are you raising it for political reason to defeat president obama or are you raising it be

mitt romney needs virginia to win. if he's performing well in the suburbs here, it is a reasonable stretch to think that he's going to perform well in the suburbs outside of cleveland and columbus and cincinnati. and in the suburbs outside of denver out in colorado. the virginia suburbs will give us the first hint of one of the battlegrounds within the battlegrounds if you will. >> stay there by the map. i want you to join the next conversation, you're looking at the right of the screen, pittsburgh, governor romney, just touching down, we're just at the romney event there, we'll bring that to you and vice president biden out on the trail today. president obama will watch the returns at home tonight in chicago. earlier today made a brief unscheduled stop at a local campaign office where he pitched in calling potential voters, including this call to a woman named hattie in neighboring wisconsin. >> is this hattie? hi, this is barack obama. how are you? i'm doing -- you know -- i don't think she knows it's me. my name was

governor romney is there today.rd: i watched pennsylvania with great interest when the obama camp sent out the number one surrogate, bill clinton, to not one but four different stops in person including two in the philadelphia area, and we get the new poll that shows it is basically tied up, and, then, a spokesperson for obama said it is tight. is pennsylvania actually in play? if it is, you are in great shape. >>guest: amazing. amazing. really, pennsylvania was not on the map in the last couple of cycles and we just started campaigning this last week because we have always had an operation in pennsylvania but we started campaigning this last week because we feel like we have a shot at it. they have been responding to governor romney's message and independents have been coming over to governor romney's side so we feel really good about exit for the obama campaign to have deployed their top surrogate they have, of course, joe biden there and this is just spelling trouble for obama. >>shepard: it has been a long road

it on romney and u.s.a. flag it. >> you see basically a white media or white blib. a black guy is not one of us didn't feel about a white guy? >> they are clearly trying to say romney is not one of us. you can't have it both ways. >> it's a different concept. >> what became of the colorblind society. >> we have seen so much racism we don't have a colorblind society. a lot of racists came out of the woodwork. >> she muslim. he is not one of us. so what can we expect from the media leading up to tuesday? >> i think they have their guy they are pushing for. what are the excuses going to be. if obama wins, what are the excuses that the media is going to come up with or how did he win? is it going to be a weak romney or obama so great or vice versa i think we're seeing one. chuck todd on the today show when asked, why is romney beginning to spend money in wisconsin and pennsylvania and minnesota rather than say, romney is extending the map. chuck todd said the obama talking point he is run out of options. if we d

big picture as millions of americans clean up from the devastation caused by hurricane sandy mitt romney says the federal government should hand responsibility for caring for them off to for profit companies like bain capital should disaster relief in our country really be left up to corporations that only care about the bottom line also in just a matter of hours mitt romney released to blatantly false ads that even members of his own party say iraq is america really want to wire and cheap in the white house that are more into nights alone liberal rubble and federal officials are pointing to a contaminated lab in massachusetts as the cause of the nation's latest enjoy this outbreak and new evidence of a pin the blame for those twenty nine deaths directly on that rock. you need to know this the northeast is still trying to get back on its feet again after hurricane sandy at least fifty five americans of fifty five americans have died millions remain without power and the entire new york city transit system is still shut flooded and shut down and some of the hardest hit cities new jersey l

did or anybody like mitt romney.have got to go into the hispanic precincts there you can make some inroads. because that's more of a traditional community. let me ask you this. if the numbers say and they did at the exit polling yesterday that 35% of americans call themselves conservative, how can the conservative wing of the republic party believe that just with that base they can win? the numbers just aren't there. >> it's a very troubling and unfortunately a very good question. the numbers are not there. and that's why they have to -- look, all i'm saying is that they have to figure out a way. i don't have the way right now. not tonight. they have to figure out a way to get to those latinos. to get to those women. to get to those young people and explain to them that an entitlement society, which is what the democrats proposed, is not the. >> bill: it's not going to help them in the long run. that's exactly right. you can take conservative principles and you can market them effectively to certain groups just like

scott walker is out for romney.f romney loses ohio, he needs michigan or -- >> greg: wisconsin is an example of kind of a quiet america. what you saw on tv, where the angry people, you assume that that represents a largeer number than there is. all of a sudden you find out it isn't. >> bob: keep in mind, turn-out of the recall petition is a third of the state turn-out is for a presidential race. >> dana: good point. thoughts on it? >> andrea: early voting is down in university towns. that is where president obama is looking to poll a -- pull youth vote out. wisconsin is tough to tell on the polls because remember before the recount a lot of polls had governor walker down. the fact that the president went to green bay, republican area, tells me they feel they're in trouble. >> dana: at least shore it up. two more. iowa. last week we were talking about "des moines register" that hadn't endorsed a republican since richard nixon in 1972. flipped from obama support to romney support in 2008. today, there was word, bob, r

nobody has a pro-romney argument, and even romney supporters aren't effectually for him. >> okay. >> my aunt delores in st. louis sick in the hospital today, i called her before i was on my way here. she didn't answer the phone, and then my cousin responded is because she doesn't like to pick up phone calls from numbers she doesn't remember. i think that's the thing about black people, about older people, about seniors, about young people, about people who are broke and a lot of people who are not being polled krektdkrekt correctly and i think the polls would show there's an undercount. >> i know a lot of broke white people that don't respond to polls either. >> aunt delores is not feeling well. i wish you the best and speedy recovery. polls close in florida in less than six hours and the secretary of state is predicting a record high turnout with up to 9 million people voting. up next i talk with danny vargas and the washington post's ann kornbluth. the man everyone talks about when you refer to polls, nate silver of the new york fimz 538 blog. he predicts president obama has a 91%

what is mitt romney's closing argument? his latest incarnation is that he's the guy who reaches across the aisle? >> we have to stop the dividing and the attacking and the demonizing. we've got to reach across the aisle, bring in good democrats with good republicans and finally do the people's business and put the politics behind. >> we just need to stop demonizing, don't we? well, old mittster, show leadership and pick up the phone and call mitch mcconnell. it's interesting for mitt romney to present himself as a guy who works across the aisle while president obama is being label by the tea partyers and everybody else in the right wing as nothing but the divider in chief. romney might want to pick up the phone, you know, give this guy a call, keynote speaker of the republican convention. governor christie spent the last four days praising the president of the united states in his partnership in storm preparation and response to the disaster. president obama passed, i think, the reach across the aisle test with flying color

romney? does it mean he and his team is worried? >> he's never had an exact close relationship with the truth anyway. he doesn't mind whether it's fact-checked. after all, he said he wasn't going to be dictated to by the fact checks or checkers. and that's a direct quote. so they have been trying to play this kind of game plan for a long time and to be fair to them, it's actually worked. it's worked in the debate. reinventing itself, it's not new and it seems to give them some traction. the problem for them, they are not just pushing again the president's lead in the polls but they are pushing against the news cycle. a hurricane-led news cycle that has put the president full square as commander in chief with bipartisan support. you've got to cut through the news cycle or what the president has projected. the only way to do that, as michelle says, is to go for the gut. >> well, i think that the advantage they have in trying to pull the cape off, if there is an advantage, is money. look at the

i want to first show you mitt romney. team romney focused ads here. the president has focused his here. you see swing states? add in the republican packs and the democrat and this is what the country looks like. iowa president and his pacts focusing in on the major markets in the swing state. you look at most des moines register poll, the president has a lead past the margin of error. florida, you cannot in florida watch television without being inundated with ads. more than 1 million times these ads have run. tallahassee, no commercial break free of lots of ads. and now let's go up here to ohio. this has been a really important battleground. you keep hearing no one's photog get to the white house without getting to ohio, all roads to 1600 pennsylvania avenue lead to ohio. what romney's ad saturation looks like in the state. obama's. people in ohio have been hearing nothing but election for the past year. brooke? >> overit, over it, over it. christine romans, thank you very inch. thousands of people suffering from the impact of superstorm sandy. look