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With state icing over in red or blue as the race will be called by the nbc news decision desk. red and blue banners are going to rise up in front of the building as each campaign climbs toward 270. where else would you want to be on election night than right here? our coverage live in democracy plaza continues after the break. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately weve got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. re...

And we fill in a big chunk of the map once again with blue. now solid blue practically all the way from the mississippi river westward leaving only oregon, washington and arkansas as you can see. >> beginning to look like a suburban swimming pool over there. >> even in the east. >> sherman oaks id say by the way. >> even in the east, reagan is ahead. go ahead and have a look at this. >> the electoral vote, ronald reagan pushing heart at 400 electoral votes. no one was saying that just a couple o...

All we need is 270. the democrats need not to spike the football they need to stay very focused, focused on turn out and keep their game face on even if they are feeling confident they dont need to walk into any polling booth and get on television and say that. we need to run hard. >> we have best and worst of the week coming up next. stay with us. hey sis, its so great to see you. you, too! oh, cloudy glasses. you didnt have to come over! actually, honey, i think i did... oh? you did? whoa, lad...

But he was trying to expand the map and trying to win republicans over to his column and this side, more on defense, states he won last time that he wants to keep in his column, wisconsin tlie visit this final weekend. in ohio six visits and the reason they say theyre doing that and playing that defense, they think if the president can win wisconsin and ohio, et cetera, its going to be sort of a midwestern firewall that will be hard for mitt romney to get to 270 electoral votes to win. >> ed hen...

Elections pennsylvania has been a solidly blue state. you see republican candidates in the last minutes of this campaign, last stage of this campaign historically going to pennsylvania in a bit of a head fake but so far pennsylvania has been like a great white whale for republican candidates. its a big fat state, 20 electoral votes. i dont think theres much of a chance for romney to take that state out of obamas column and he needs to look elsewhere. i think its been surprising that romney hasnt...

>>reporter: he is making the third of three stops in ohio today. we expect he will make stops in ohio saturday, sunday, and monday including cleveland, cincinnati, and columbus. clearly recognizing that if he wins ohio it makes it harder for governor romney to get to the 270 electoral votes. he will make stops in wisconsin and iowa a midwest firewall trying to keep governor romney from getting to the 270 electoral votes needed. in terms of governor romney returning to pennsylvania the obama camp...

>> good to be here. >> inside the romney campaign theres a desperate attempt to find a route to 270. thats why they are, for example, scheduled a rally in pennsylvania. pennsylvania has been fools gold for years. john mccain went there at the end of the campaign last time. george w. bush went there at the end of the campaign in 2004. in the end, i think, they cant crack ohio and because they cant crack ohio, theyve got to look somewhere else. they are looking are to pennsylvania, minnesota. i do...

Has the president at 50%, mr. romney at 47%. how much is the president staking on that state? >> reporter: well, martin, the importance of ohio cant be overstated. as you just pointed out, it is a very close race here. this is the presidents firewall in large part because mitt romney is going to have a really tough path to 270 electoral votes without winning ohio. so president obama trying to hold onto this state, in part making the case today about the auto bailout. that is an issue that really...

Ohio but is trying to broaden the battleground map. what is he up to here with this decision to campaign in pennsylvania on sunday? hes also got new hampshire on his list twice not once. the smallest swing state. they think it is edging their direction but more importantly for their math the 270 they dont get there with florida, virginia, ohio. they get there with florida, virginia, ohio, and one small state in this case new hampshire. meanwhile vice president joe biden makes two stops in wiscon...

Weve got the details and visit with e.j. dionne next. the road to 270 is rapidly narrowing for the candidate. bob shrum of the daily beast thinks its over. hell weigh in on the state of the presidential race. and later, as we talked about, governor christie and president obama took politics aside to help new jersey towns the devastated by sandy. jonathan alter joins me to discuss why good governance is also good politics and timing is everything. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on ...