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Votes. mitt romney has been leading in the preelection polls but that lead has been within the margin of error. the two candidates are now neck and neck in the sunshine state. >> megyn: the presidents path to 270 is contingent on winning pennsylvanias 20 electoral votes. a state that has not gone for a republic presidential candidate since 1988. pennsylvania seemed to come into play late in this years contest, having earlier been considered safe democratic territory. president obama has a lead o...

[ laughter ] >> megyn: and from had which our own bill hemmer hails. we will get to that in a minute. take to you virginia. we are still waiting on results there. we are not able to project a winner in the state of virginia. you can see with 69% of the expected vote counted, mitt romney now has 51% and barack obama 48. i want to take you to north carolina, another critical state, and with 94% of the expected vote counted, mitt romney does have a lead there as well. you can see by two points over...

Kelly wright live for us. thank you. mitt romney falling short in his pledge to lead our nation for the next four years. doug luzader is live in washington with more on that. good morning, guys. even if you give that to mitt romney at this point still not enough to veet magic number 270 in the electoral college. mitt romney appeared to thank his supporters and tell them he had conceded the race. i just called president obama to congratulate him his supporters and campaign deserves congratu...

Class. i believe we can keep the promise of our founder. the idea is if you are willing to work hard it doesnt matter where you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love, it doesnt matter whether you are black or white or hispanic or asian or native americans or young or old or rich or poor, table to table, gay or straight. you can make it. >> good morning. i am heather childers. >> i am heather brown. it is wednesday november 7th. thank you for watching "fox and friends...

Too close to call. take a look at the numbers. 76% of the expected vote count in and we are showing a slight lead for governor romney at this hour. in north carolina, a similar situation although more of the expected vote is counted. 97% is in and you can see mitt romney now has a 3 point lead over the barack obama there. >> bret: was we take a look at the electoral map again map is filling in. mitt romney 174, president obama 173 and big race is to 270. >> megyn: susan estrich big campaign mana...

Everything on the field. we have given our all to this campaign. i so wish -- i so wish that i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction but the nation chose another leader. ann and i ask you to pray for him and gray for this great nation. >> good morning, guys. we h yesterday we looked at the map we saw all of the states in gray the all been colored in with the exception of florida. theres a lot of red out there there. was a fair amount of support for romn...

>> bret: peggy noonan as always, thank you. >> thank you. >> megyn: joining us now robert gibbs senior advisor for obama for america. robert, your thoughts on where we are tonight. >> well, look, i think where we are tonight is where im looking at it is we are in pretty good shape. all our paths to 270 are still very much intact. romney campaign is surprised of the nine battleground states. they havent added one of those to their column tonight. so, look, i feel very good about where we are. >> ...

Will win the state of washington along with the state of hawaii. so, again, still, we dont have any surprise calls but we are filling in some blanks and offering some check marks. >> bret: california the biggest and most populist prize of the night which carries with it a whopping 55 electoral votes will, no surprise, go to president barack obama. so, with that, filling in our map, there you see the electoral votes 244 for president obama, 193 for mitt romney. 270 now needed, needed for the whit...

Map and electoral vote at this hour, just calling pennsylvania for president obama and just calling wisconsin. there you see it. 153-153. 270 electoral votes needed. that map is starting to fill in. you see the east coast there? florida, north carolina, virginia and then just over there to the best, to the north, i guess that would be west, ohio. those are the big ones right there. that could decide it. >> megyn: thats the thing. in look at the states of that been called, we havent called any of...

Be somewhere in that same range. i think what they were doing was trying to begin -- ginn up their support. >> bret: okay, panel, stand by for the top of the hour as we get ready for poll closings 8:00 p.m. its 8:00 p.m. on the east coast and polls have now closed in 16 more states wells the district of columbia, thats a total of 172 electoral votes up for grabs. the biggest batch of the evening. and the most important prizes are in that batch. they include -- sorry, after you. >> megyn: they in...