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Decisions on his who criteria. i dont attribute that to anything other than his own personal views and feelings. at the end. day its about the thrust and focus and message of the two campaigns and thats what the voters have to come down to. >> let me just say john sununu was channels his inner rush limbaugh. if you recall back in 08 rush limbaugh said the only reason general powell, secretary powell is endorsing barack obama is because they are both african-americans. the demographics of this co...

Petitions, they got the union stripping law on the ballot for repeal and ohio voted to repeal it by 22 points. it was not even close. it was a blowout. with that republican overreach, ohio republicans woke up the electorate and the electorate kicked them in the proverbial butt. you want to know who what was the activists in the fight in ohio, who was helping them in ohio with the machinery of the campaigning, leaflets, phone calling, door knocking, rallies, get out the vote, with the work that g...

With that republican overreach, ohio republicans woke up the electorate and the electorate kicked them in the proverbial butt. you want to know who what was the activists in the fight in ohio, who was helping them in ohio with the machinery of the campaigning, leaflets, phone calling, door knocking, rallies, get out the vote, with the work that goes into a presidential campaign? who helped ohio do that work in 2011? it was the obama campaign. jeremy byrd, national field director for the obama ca...

If you will, among suburban white women. i think, if i remember correctly, in 08, he sort of won that group by about a point or two. but that is, you know, thats the target swing vote in northern virginia. the target swing vote in the suburbs of colorado. and thats where the question mark is mourdock, right? did the mourdock stuff, in the same way that you saw when the romney campaign frankly panicked over akin so quickly and the entire republican party because at the time the gender gap felt li...

Swing states the way they did four years ago, that has to have somewhat of an impact. they want to squeeze every vote they can out of their natural constituency. its natural but if its so tight like this and you dont know if theres any funny business with superpack ads, voter suppression efforts, they just want to get everybody out that they can, and i think ads like that are, i hope are effective. >> there are definitely a lot of polls that show an enthusiasm gap with republicans just rabid, yo...

They did vote for. like this current poll from reuters, who asks people who have already voted, who they cast their vote for. reuters found that among registered voters, 17% of people say they have already cast their vote. and among those people who say theyve already cast their vote, president obama leads by 11 points. this is what early voting looks like in indianapolis these days. these pictures were sent to us by the county clerks office in marion county, indiana, in indianapolis. weve been ...

They want women to see republicans and mitt romney are very conservative when it comes to social issues and women cant trust them. theyre trying to get back to social issues kind of narrative as opposed to just economics. jon: but do economics trump all when it comes to that sort of thing? >> reporter: thats absolutely right. and so the romney campaign is not talking about this very much. they want to stick to the economic narratives because they think they have got an edge there. now i have tal...

>> hes used the barely veiled term that he considers mitt romney a pitch man. you know these two are going at. youre going to want their travel miles at the end of this 12-day period. certainly where air force one is concerned. >> and your travel miles as well. he sounded a little hoors today. i dont know how you both hold up, but brian, this is nonstop frantic campaigning. obviously, they feel they have a lot of cashing up to do. what about the crowds. you were out four years ago. how do you co...

Jon: gas prices could be headed south of three bucks a gallon. rick folbaum has details from the breaking news desk. rick? >> jon, prices are cheaper but certainly not cheap. that is the best we can say about gas price around the country where the national average is still $3.63 a gallon. that said, it is 30 teen cents -- 13 cents cheaper than a week ago and back where george w. bush was still president back in 08. if you live in middle of the country chances are you paying way below the nationa...

Talk about that slide from 14 points that the obama margin in 08 down to a two, three-point race right now. its dramatic slide. theres a greater concentration in wisconsin than most states of the exact sort of voter demographically who is turning on obama, white working class and white male. we had an abc poll nationally it shows romneys share of the white male vote up to 65%. maybe theres a possibility there. the reason why wisconsin a little more than ohio and i agree theyre both taifrable to ...