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It is part of the reason the democrats are holding their convention there, right? >> well, that was the original intention, jon. look at the crystal ball here, we had north carolina leaning republican. we think that romney will carry it. it wont be by a landslide but it will be by enough. president obama won it by 14,000 votes. he clearly slipped in a lot of key places in north carolina from 08 to 12. jon: virginia real quickly, we have to mention the president up by a couple points in virginia ...

4, you get a sense that they feared -- if "wall street journal" editorial, they so fear the flip-flop thing they end up putting themselves in another box. >> my colleague reported that when romney was meeting this week with big wigs, including rupert murdoch he was pressing him that romneys response was i dont want to be called a flip-flopper. by way of explaining why he wouldnt move on the immigration. so youre right, because of his experience in 08 and 12 he is so conditioned to avoid anything...

What you saw with eric, you saw him making, you know, making sure that they stayed consistent with what they were saying in 06, 02 and 06 during the term and what they said in 07 and 08 and saying today. i think then you saw that in romney yesterday. he was taking pains to try to stay consistent with what he had said, with what fehrnstrom said. no, this was -- especially when you hear the way it was specifically worded, the governor agrees with the dissent and the dissent does not believe the ma...

I think any sort of major national security, foreign policy event that you cant plan for or even kind of major domestic issue that you cant plan for. that can be a variety of things across the world. and here, every four years we invariably have something like that and theres no prediction what its going to be or what the political impact is going to be. dont foet, four years ago there was that moment in august when russia invaded georgia. and that was part of the reason why biden was put on the...

Markets and were obama 08. clearly swing media markets. moving to pennsylvania where the president hads tomorrow. right now they had this race a little tighter than ohio which is somewhat surprising. 45-39. the president in the lead there. just one stop for the president on friday. its in pittsburgh. no surprise there. just as it was in ohio. the cities where the key to the presidents pennsylvania victory 2008. a state he won by 11 points. allentown and philadelphia, the president won some cou...

>> did you report the incidents to anybody? about being beat up? >> how could i do that? ive got to live here. >> i understand that, but you could have went down and said, hey, this happened. you didnt have to give them a name. >> and if id have done that, where would i be now? >> i dont know. >> yeah, you do. you work here. you know what would have happened if id done that. >> anything else you want to add to your statement? >> no. no. its not doing me any good. >> based on that case file, i am...

Impression of what i was watching, that this was the product of a romney campaign meeting. this is what we are going to say. as weve pointed out already here, he said to you, it is the governors position that this is what it is. its a penalty. sitting there talking to him, as you look at the totality of the way the whole thing played out, is it your belief, do you understand that to have been the actual official position of the romney campaign at the time? that was not just something that he wen...

george zimmerman at $1 million. you might remember he is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. zimmermans earlier bond of $150,000 was revoked after prosecutor told the judge that he misled the court about how much money he had. it is not clear how soon zimmerman is going to post bond or when he will be released. a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man from drowning. yes, that is right. thomas lopez says he wa...

devastating storm. what happened? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." all right. look at this. this was then pf president obama us bus last august making its way through the midwest. look a this. this is now president obamas bus with a seemingly new accessory front and center. were talking about a presidential seal. its a bold reminder as he kicks his campaign into full gear in ohio, a major battleground state to be sure, that he has rivalled mitt romney. they are both tr...

kicking that off early this morning, as well. two critical states towards his re-election as well. lets tick there through again, shall we? ohio, 20 electoral votes. thats a lot. barack obama carried ohio back in 08, roughly 52% of the vote back then. and he did even better in pennsylvania, ticked up by two there. he carried pennsylvania with 54% of the vote and pennsylvania another swing state with 21 electoral votes. cnns dan lothian with us now from sandusky, ohio. you are off the b...