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Down a little bit from four years ago but still a solid group for obama. back to you. >> alex thanks so much. well talk shortly. robert traynham is also a part of our power panel this evening. lets talk about the numbers alex was jnd dig into the race issuell. get the numbers that he again, its not the turnout that we saw in 08, the turnout. beinms. for republicans is that president erday, or yesterday evening, and the reason why is because what the democrats have done a very good job of is unde...

Of that vote. i want to get back to the economy. you know, people who said -- the 38% of people said unemployment was the most important economic problem. you know that he beat -- and according to the exit polls -- and these arent perfect. he won that -- he got 54% of the vote of those -- excuse me, 54-44 over romney on people who said unemployment. >> that wasnt the polling data before the election day. >> no. but what has happened -- firstly, you get -- again, you have a sample that is more de...

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Himself they couldnt win. the rethinking of how do we stand up to our party and bring them to the center on something to your point, we did have those new ideas. thats how we built the coalition of success es around the country, elected an alan west and -- >> well but that the party. >> obama pelosi and reid. alance the budget. >> youre talking macro. im talking micro. im talking on the ground in neighborhoods, theres a reason why my was to go to harlem in harlem election as natioe to that was, ...

Tomorrow. we are just excited about paul coming home. its an important nice for him. everybody is here to welcome paul. its going to be a great night and we are going to bring it home tomorrow. >> what is your ground game in wisconsin? how extensive? >> its huge, greta. i mean, weve got the biggest ground operation this party has ever seen. weve made more voter contacts by phone and door to door than all of 08 and all of 04 combined. we are ready to go here. weve got a good operation. we think w...

Obama cant help himself. there are though votes there that he doesnt have that a visit by them will get. and bill clinton is a great campaigner. but i think faced with the war on coal and takessed with the cultural value differences, clinton is not going to have very much impact in pennsylvania. >> whats your thought on this? you know president obama pretty well. you have worked with him for many years as an opponent. the political marriage between president obama and president clinton now, why?...

And get em out to the polls. there are a lot of states where president obama never left the states since the 2008 election. when you look at the early voting numbers in florida and ohio, obama has the advantage. but that advantage smaller in some cases by half of what it was in 08. does governor romney have a chance to take this? yes, he does. dose have a lot of work to do today if he hopes to get it? absolutely. bill: we want to move to chicago. martha: we saw a hug between mitt romney and tagg...

Of rainbow/p.u.s.h. coalition. >> thank you, sir. jon: president obama won pennsylvania handily in 2008 but by his own campaigns admission this is different ballgame this time around, a much tighter race. former pennsylvania governor tom ridge is supporting governor romney. he campaigned with him last sunday in bucks county and with his running mate congressman paul ryan on saturday in harrisburg. governor tom ridge joins us now. pennsylvania, could it go romney. >> were thinking red state final...

Weve overperformed by about 120,000 early in absentee ballots vote in ohio. the democrats have underperformed by about 100,000 ballots from 08. remember we lost by a couple hundred thousand. thats a 220,000 vote swing already going into election day. when you look at those polls in ohio, the one thing thats consistent is that on the question of if you are voting on election day, who are you voting for, mitt romney or barack obama, we are winning by six or seven points. so if you look at the fact...

Talking, and 25 million americans, these are people, families, that are suffering needlessly. 17 million new americans on need stamps. you know what in they dont want to be there. we can do better as a country. 49 million chris in total, 1 in 6 in poverty, $6 trillion in debt. my point to you is this, that gov. romney is a turn around specialist. put aside all of the negatives about president obama. >> you dont have to persuade me, sean. i think that the -- i think that the problem is that obama...