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That they get what they need, that the federal government cuts through all red tape. there is no bureaucracy so they can support the states and the governors and the localities getting the job done. he took an oath and thats his first and second responsibility. and then everything else has to follow behind that, andrea. >> chris cillizza was saying earlier, from "the washington post," that they have now put ohio from lean democrat to toss-up where its been on other battleground maps as well for ...

Pennsylvania, and minnesota, that were previously not in play. the obama camp is calling out those efforts. >> i will save off my mustache of 40 years if we lose any of those three states. >> as for the president, he will resume campaigning while monitoring sandy relief efforts. he will embark on a whirlwind swing state tour this weekend, going to ohio, wisconsin, iowa, virginia, new hampshire, florida, and colorado. everything that really matters in this race. im joined by bob shrum tonight, pr...

Coming up, mitt romneys so-called relief event in ohio turned out to be a photo op. i mean, hes got all kinds of problems in ohio. 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 devastated by sandy. jonathan alter joins ...

Machine is cleaning our clock. >> in the meantime, romneys campaign is making a last-ditch effort to expand the electoral map. team romney is looking to make a dent in states like michigan, pennsylvania, and minnesota, that were previously not in play. the obama camp is calling out those efforts. >> i will save off my mustache of 40 years if we lose any of those three states. >> as for the president, he will resume campaigning while monitoring sandy relief efforts. he will embark on a whirlwind ...

Is doing and there is plenty of room for mitt romneys ground game to put him over-the-top in ohio and get him to the 270 needed tuesday night. bill: back in the same part of virginia where they have been for the last couple of months. the president is giving his closing argument and using colin powell to do that. what is tkpwoef governor romneys closing argument? >> the intervention of hurricane sandy interrupted his driver reas much as he wanted to. it boils on you to bold, real change. mr. oba...

Romney ryan ticket at 46% among likely voters. the latest "real clear politics" national polling average also shows a tie 47.4 each. lets go to the man with his crystal ball, larry sabato director for the center of politics at the university of virginia. larry graze into that crystal ball and tell us who wins. >> yeah, the popular vote is very, very close, and the election stoerl college vote i theee electoral college vote will not be a landslide for either of the candidates. we are working on t...

And, you know, we feel good about where we are. hes headed out to wisconsin today. he has a solid lead there. colorado were ahead. so, you know, things are coming together. weve got several different paths to 270. weve talked about it before. i think the path for the romney campaign are really dwindling. >> you guys have talked about ohio with a lot of confidence and yet you are there four out of five days this week with the president. that doesnt -- that doesnt give off a sense of confidence. >...

Until they count the votes, but if you look at the structure of the race, the president has so many more ways to 270 than romney does. romneys momentum, if it ever existed, and, you know, he was led into the race by the first debate, slowed after the second debate, stopped, and now when you go through these polls, it looks like its reversing again. you know what, david axelrod says hell shave his mustache if they carry those three states. ill grow one if they carry those three states. and ill te...

270 is doable, and romney becomes very steep. i think when you look at it, its about wisconsin, then peeling that off. and theyve got to figure out how to win -- how to get ohio. if iowas not there, if neither iowa nor nevada are there, then youve got to either go get new hampshire for romney, if you will, combine it with wisconsin, but you still, i think, have to grab ohio. >> wow, okay. and right now ohio is probably where the romney campaign, we mentioned earlier, theyre all headed there. the...

He is to get those 270 electoral votes. so president obama really trying to make up for lost time, tamron, with some of these key swing state voters. as you know, he spent the past three days managing the federal response to sandy. that allowed him to look presidential, of course, but he had to cancel a number of campaign events including in wisconsin. so earlier today in wisconsin, he talked about that issue of romney painting himself as the candidate of change. he basically said thats not the ...