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the three-judge panel ruled the 72-hour voting period should be open to all voters in the state, including members of the military. this is good news. some questions still remain. it's being report the the final decision could be up to individual ohio counties meaning 72-hour window we're talking about could still end in certain places in the state. ohio republicans can still file another appeal sending it to the supreme court. as of now, there's no word of that appeal. it is big. president obama needs ohio to win the election. in most scenarios played out. for more on this, i'm joined by ohio state senator nina turner with us here in studio in new york. senator, great to have you with us tonight. this is really proof, isn't it? that there was targeting of the african-american communities. >> there's no doubt about it. the republicans seem to have a conflict with the truth. now that the lawyers group has conducted a study, the only type of voting that they are trying to suppress is early in person voting. vote by mail, they have expanded with glee. but the voting with the most detrimental

>>>a panel of judges upheld south carolina's voter identification law requiring those who want to vote in the state to show one of five types of photo i.d. the state can't enforce the law until 2013 and federal judges ruled there is not enough time to put the law intoak. >>> and ohio getting a lot of attention this week and right notice, the buckeye state is too close to call. president obama was there yesterday stumping at ohio state university and both sides called in their heavy hitters. >> you have lied inside 1600 pennsylvania for four years. if you can't change washington from inside the white house, then let's get you the plane ticket back to chicago that you have earned. >> they worked so hard to keep unemployment above 8%. it almost makes you want to cry for the disappointment that they face. they got so close. >> president clinton referring to the recent drop in unemployment to penn sent 8%. -- to 7.8%. fox 5 wants to hear from you as we approach election day. use the hash tag-fox 5 you decide to the two your stuff about the issues, the performances and the election as we count down to ne

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voting ahead of the election was upheld in court. now the impact on the news for someone on the ground in the buckeye state. my panel is back.to ohio and speak with the president of cincinnati's naacp. nice to see you. >> hi melissa. nice to see you too, thanks for having me on your show this morning. >> absolutely. you've been involved in this voter registration. i know that weekend directly before the election, particularly that sunday is called souls to the polls. tell me about this that's been reimplemented that you have that weekend, what difference is that going to make? >> first it's a great win for the citizens of the state of ohio that john hugh stead here has to have early voting saturday, sunday and monday. melissa, as you know, 93,000 people voted in 2008 during that weekend. so that was a tremendous win and so important, so what you're seeing now since that naacp, will be working with the baptist ministers in their conferences in the area getting their buses ready to make sure people get down to the polls on the last three days. the state of ohio will probably break by 50,000 votes one way or the other. so when

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states. a new rasmussen poll gives a combined view and shows mitt romney leading president obama 49-47%. can he turn the poll numbers into votes? we are back with our political paneli know that that is well within the margin of error and we are in a bouncy phase. >> a lot of us find it hard to believe that the territory has shifted that quickly. i mean -- >> greta: the unemployment rate. some people -- a lot of numbers have shifted. i spent a week in ohio a week and-a-half ago. i got the real sense that barack obama was ahead, a fair amount. the reason he was ahead is because he had beaten up on mitt romney, every single day in may, in june, in july, in august with a lot of negative television ads. i find it hard to believe that you can turn that around in a week. >> greta: you don't buy it. >> i am skeptical. >> i think it has definitely gotten closer. there is no question. i agree with byron, i fine it hard that romney has surged. i think it's closed in. i want to see more state-level polling. a big problem for romney is that obama seems to have established a firm lead in the state of ohio. a cnn poll shows obama with a 4-pointed lead in ohio. when i see ohio tu

i ask for your vote so i can continue my work as hawaii's next united states senator. >> well, now to our panel and we're going to start with andrew who as a question for representative hirono. >> you've been classified as one of the most liberal members of congress. critics say you're a machine for the democrats or a rubber stamp. can you tell us a specific issue where you broke from you're party? >> it's important we work in a bipartisan way to get things done for hawaii. and i've done that. i'm proud of my work i did with my friend don young from alaska where we saved education grant programs. that meant about $33 million for those programs for nate tive hawaiiens. i also worked with republican control congress to bring $6 million more to our airport that is dealt with aviation. that's $6 million every year to hawaii. that's jobs, that's infrastructure. i'm also proud of working with a bipartisan way with my visit u.s. bill. that would infuse our economy with about $600 million. so unlike my republican opponent, i don't just talk about being bipartisan, i do it. >> thank you very much fments

vote for the president no matter what. >> said something that's completely wrong. >> only 30% want the welfare state. >> 7.8%, that politically is great news. >> we're moving forward. >> let's get right to our paneled by my colleague toure who is the co-host of "the cycle" and goldie taylor who is in atlanta. good afternoon to both of you. toure we have been talking about sean hannity's world exclusive with paul ryan and mitt romney last night but what about the bombshell videos that mr. hannity had. why didn't he even mention them last night? >> well, mitt romney surely doesn't want to have anything to do. he wants his fingerprints completely off of those. so surely they said, hey, don't bring that up. that stuff is ugly. we've already got in enough trouble for that. we don't want to have anything to do with that. of course, they leave that all on the side. they have enough trouble with their own secret videos that they're still struggling with. don't let anybody tell you the 47% video is not having an effect. it is absolutely having an affect on this election, and anything that romney says after that to try to say i am caring, i care about the 100%, we saw what you really said and what you real

i ask for your vote so i can continue my work as hawaii's next united states senator. >> well, now to our panel and we're going to start with andrew who as a question for representative hirono. >> you've been classified as one of the most liberal members of congress. critics say you're a machine for the democrats or a rubber stamp. can you tell us a specific issue where you broke from you're party? >> it's important we work in a bipartisan way to get things done for hawaii. and i've done that. i'm proud of my work i did with my friend don young from alaska where we saved education grant programs. that meant about $33 million for those programs for native hawaiians. i also worked with republican control congress to bring $6 million more to our airport that is dealt with aviation. that's $6 million every year to hawaii. that's jobs, that's infrastructure. i'm also proud of working with a bipartisan way with my visit u.s. bill. that would infuse our economy with about $600 million. so unlike my republican opponent, i don't just talk about being bipartisan, i do it. >> thank you very much. and gove

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vote, so i can continue to help the people of the state of nevada transport thank you. senator heller. heller: i appreciate the university or taking time, knpb. those on the panel and/or so for allowing us to have this debate today. i think it's been very informative. tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning, american men will not go to work. we have a million less women working today than four years ago. for every job, for every new job that is created in this country, for authenticity. drive around the state and nevada. i see far more going out of business sales than they see new business. it's like driving through a snowstorm. the speed limit may say you can go 65, 70, but everyone is trying driving at 15, 20 because they are afraid of the next crash. that's where american families are today. that's where americans families businesses are today. they have come to screeching halt because of the economic policies of my opponent and they can't create jobs. it's like a big wet blanket on economic growth here in this country. the good news is it can change. it can change. we can take this country down the right road and i said before, 1980 when ronald reagan became pre

state of a dead heat national election, about whether the catholic vote. let me introduce dr. mark rozell, a senior fellow for the institute for policy studies. >>good afternoon. my task is to introduce the panel and the groundwork for what each of them is going to be discussing in their presentations. then i will also give a leadoff presentation on the catholic vote, or the myth of the catholic vote. the order presentation after my own will be first melissa pacman, professor of political science at washington college and a nationally recognized issue -- professor on women in politics. she is the author of a book, among many other works. her presentation will examine the gender gap in the catholic vote as low as attitude about reproductive rights, the hhs mandate, and religious freedom, using data taken from last month's public religion research institute's american values service. then dr. mark gray, the director of polling of georgetown university. he is also an associate professor at georgetown. his research focuses on culture and politics, political participation, a religion and politics. he specializes in survey research, trend analysis, and cross sectional time-series studies. then final