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>> well, first of all, martin, as you indicated at the top of the show, our hearts and prayers go out to the people who are affected by this storm. thats first and foremost. secondly, to the extent politics enters this conversation, this discussion really highlights the difference in philosophies. when there is a crisis in this country, as there was during hurricane katrina in 2005 or the economic crisis in 2008, 2009, republicans believe that you are on your own. thats what the republicans did ...

Trying to get the country back on its feet when we hit a crisis. thats exactly what the democrats did with the economic crisis in 08 and 09 and thats exactly what you will see this administration doing during this crisis. the republican view is basically to let the states be on their own and to run emergency relief to be the first and only responders. anybody that has had any experience with disaster relief knows the states do not have the resources, the scope, or capacity to do everything on th...

Stays with us for the hour. im about to talk to john kasich in ohio where these themes are perfectly in his wheelhouse, because its really whats going to decide ohio. before we do that, think it would be so interesting to really understand -- we talk so much about ohio. how do you win the state? how do both campaigns win it? i want to bring chuck back in. weve got a new poll coming out of ohio, 49-49, razor tight and this was before the final debate. take a moment here to take us through how eac...

Barack obama got his first lift by beating the field in those caucuses back in 08. its got to sting some. >> absolutely. its a symbolic sting. there was that bizarre kerfuffle between the president, the white house, the campaign and the editorial board. how much did that contribute to this? i think iowa is more important to romneys math than even ohio. thats why theyre trying to grab on to this to show that its evidence of momentum. >> chuck todd, thanks so much from the white house today. and j...

And down the eastern seaboard. there will not be hurricane warnings issued because it will transition into a noreaster but expect the results to be he just the same. areas across the northeast dealing with this storm starting tonight all the way through the day on wednesday. >> chris: the latest on sandy from our extreme weather center. now, the campaign. with president obama and governor romney headed into the final week, we want to track where the race stands with senators from four key swing ...

Before the final debate. take a moment here to take us through how each side thinks they win the state. >> the joke is there are five, its five states within one state. the five ohios. let me take you through basically the romney pattern here. which is run up the score in coal country, thats what bush did in 04, and win the swing areas of columbus media market, an 04 bush territory. was 08 obama. and win hamilton county. for the president, run up the score in cleveland, cuyahoga county and overp...

Were surprisingly not worried so much about voter suppression, they were very motivated. i didnt see the enthusiasm gap. what i saw were people who were very motivated to vote and a lot of them had actually voted on election day. a lot of people we talked to said in 08, i it on election day, it was historic. but this year im anticipating that the lines will be longer. like people actually perceived themselves that there is going to be more enthusiasm, so they wanted to get it out of the way and ...

Craig melvin who is in the thick of it in gainesville, florida right by the early voting location. yesterday marked the first day of early voting in florida. craig, what are you seeing down there? >> let me tell you, it was quite the scene. today we are in gainesville, florida. but yesterday we were hours south. we were down in miami, we were this broward county. we hit a couple of polling places there. and what we wanted to find out, first of all, is enthusiasm where it was four years ago. and ...

Luckily, he has one vote. we are talking to voters across the state. getting back to what shawn was saying, early voting is critical in iowa. 30% already cast their votes and they are trending better than they did for obama in 08. we are comfortable with where we are in the state. we know we have a very solid ground game and we are ready to move forward and close the deal. >> reporter: speaking of momentum, with the polls, trending in favor of governor romney. how do you stem that tide, and repr...

Weve already had one pollster call florida for mitt romney. the obama campaign is by no means conceding florida. they have a huge operation there that really is a turnkey that like ohio never really went away. so the florida organization just turned back on and theyre really pushing early vote. one of the things that youre seeing in florida thats different in 08, in 2008 and before, republicans tend to do really well in absentee ballot. democrats do really well in in-person early vote. this year...