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Two days to go until we elect our next president. we have been talking about is so long it is hard to believe it is two days away. we are taking a close look at the states that could be the make or break ones in the race for the white house. today, wisconsin. voters in the bagarre state have picked the winner in the -- the badger state picked the winner in the last 5 of 8 presidential contests. wisconsin carries 10 of the 270 electoral votes. the unemployment rate there 7.3%. gas prices clocking...

Huckabee. >> welcome to huckabee. well come to you from columbus, thitate with a big role in the presidential election. both candidates fighting for every last vote that would give them 18 electorial votes to put them past 270. and well talk about that in a few machines. meanwhile in the home base in new york city and all over the northeast coast, there is pure devastation in the after math of hurricane sandy. ♪ they are talk being surges we have not seen before. >> with each hour the full sco...

Important elections. >> and florida has more votes than any other state than california and texas both of whom are not in play because they lean democrat or republican. now, lets go to new hampshire and wendell goler. like governor mitt romney, the president is making arguments in the battle ground. florida, colorado, wisconsin, iowa and ohio, especially ohio hell visit today and tomorrow in an effort to deny mitt romney a path to the 270 electoral votes he needs to move into the white house. th...

Two days. today its offense. florida, new hampshire, colorado. but he also goes to ohio. in fact, the last couple of days ohio has been like an airline hub for air force one. but more intriguing to me is where the president is spending monday. monday its firewall day. thats his final day on the trail, and its ohio, wisconsin, and iowa. and let me show you the mitt romney schedule. also the same feeling, if you will. h today, its offense day. hes trying to go into pennsylvania. thats kind of an i...

Of the reasonable pathways to 270, assuming he keeps ohio and hes clearly ahead there. and governor romney really needs virginia. hes got to have it. >> speaking of gotting to have a state, lets go down to adam smith in florida. you guys had a poll out today, 51-45 that had romney ahead. this seems to be saturday same story that larry is hearing in virginia, i hear in florida, where the two sides insist theyre ahead because they believe in two different world views of what the electorate is goin...

First lets set the stage at the look of where the candidates are headed over the remaining days. three more time sunday, monday and saturday here. it looks like an airline hub for air force 1. hes still getting others in. hes still getting a bit of colorado and florida, but look at this. the final day, on monday. ohio, wisconsin and iowa. theres a reason for it. lets take a look at mitt romneys schedule as you can see here. it includes plenty of ohio. he gets there twice. hes throwing in pennsyl...

Pretty good romney night. lets do it here. what if we call ohio early. theres going to be a lot of sort of thats the ball game type thing. there are still paths for romney without ohio, but the point is how quickly do we call those states? its an interesting way to watch the night. let me quickly of course throw you through a couple of scenarios and what i want to do tonight is sort of what is the most narrow way for things to go and what is the quickest way? the quickest way for the president t...

For instance, ohio and thats too close to call. well evenly that could be a pretty good romney night. lets do it here. what if we call ohio early. theres going to be a lot of sort of thats the ball game type thing. there are still paths for romney without ohio, but the point is how quickly do we call those states? its an interesting way to watch the night. let me quickly of course throw you through a couple of scenarios and what i want to do tonight is sort of what is the most narrow way for thi...

He could do it then without colorado and without iowa. so his fastest way to 270 would be florida, virginia, ohio and new hampshire. so theres a way to watch this night. theres a way to watch it before 9:00. what we havent called can tell you about where the night is headed. next on the low down on the down ballot races. youre watching a special prime time he designation of "the daily rundown." well be right back. ♪ ♪

The popular vote win virginia, larry? >> i think virginia is very very, close, chuck. i think you could argue that virginia is one of the two or three closest states in the country right now. its funny to have a panel of florida, ohio and virginia. florida and ohio are used to this attention. they get it every four years. we used to be the bulgaria of american politics and now weve turned into the paris. or thats how we feel. i would say on the whole, having talked to both sides repeatedly, they...