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Before now. >> mark halperin, take a look at nbc news poll, iowa, president up but wisconsin and new hampshire, were talking about a really closely fought race. >> based on the totality of the public and private polling the only us in is on governor romney to depp street get to 270 electoral votes. i think governor romney starts with a challenge which is florida, north carolina, and colorado. if he can win those three, and i think hes got a decent chance in all, although the president hasnt give...

Polls in three states that were traditionally democrats leaning obama, and president obama won in 2008: pennsylvania, minnesota, and michigan. michigan, of course, is romneys native state and polls suggest obama has the lead but mitt romney has closed the gap to the margin of error. obama campaigns scoffs at this and senior obama advisor axelrod said if they lost any of those he would shave off his mustache of 40 years but mitt romney has considered headed there a sign they think the plafield is...

These are states the obama campaign is very very confident about. david action sell rod said he would shave his mustache off if he lost any of them. thats a staches has had for 40 years. tough hurdle for mr. romney to clear in ohio. in the last 48 hours or so there have been seven polls. all of them have suggested that mr. obama is up within the margin of error by a couple of points on mitt romney. most scenarios, romney cant win without winning here in florida as well as without ohio. so, one o...

Anticipation in a get out the vote effort which he hopes will be a big victory. >> please make sure you go out and vote early. tough a dollar extra send it to the red cross for our friends in harms way. i love, i appreciate it and together well win. thank you, guys. thank you. >> reporter: romney aides came back and visited us on the plane. a hotter half-hour flight. they believe mr. rom this on offense and expanding the battlefield to places like minnesota. obama spokesman david axlerod says he...

Unemployment, 25%. bill: that is remarkable. gerri, thank you. gerri willis. well be in contact, okay? >> thank you. bill: trading open. see you at 5:00, no, 6:00, sorry. 9:00 later tonight. 6:00 and 9:00 on "the willis report", fox business network. >> back to politics now and governor romney is expanding his campaign in the final days into several traditionally democratic-leaning states hoping to gain some ground in the path to 270 electoral votes which sfk what you need to win the presidency....

Work, well, how about the state of your birth. if you couldnt take michigan, again, you could change the math. boy, did they take a long time to mess with that. im going to give them more credit. there is a republican super pac laying the groundwork in minnesota for months called the american future fund, its a bunch of folks mostly out of iowa but theyve been pouring money in here and have kept the race close. this would be another path. now they would still be short, but then youve got all of ...

Win not only the tossups but a couple states where we have a clear lead to have any chance of winning the presidency. >> messina ran through the battleground states but explicitly did not mention michigan or minnesota. he says, quote, they are throwing money at states where they never built an organization and have been losing for two years. the romney campaign and its allies decision to go up with advertising in michigan, pennsylvania, and minnesota is a decision made out of weakness not streng...

To vote on november 6th and on november 6th youll see us describe our representative visions for the country. >> a tight race nationally but president obama maintaining a lead in swing states including florida, virginia and in ohio obama leads romney 50 to 45% among likely voters. he also has a huge advantage when it comes to early voters. among those who have already cast their ballots in the state, 60% of ohioans favor the president while only 34% voted for romney. meanwhile, team romney is pu...

Who will vote on election day. if you look at the data and say whether its 2008 or percentage of registered -- or percentage of registration, we are outpmplg -- outperforming in these states. we are expanding the map to minnesota. they talked about the path to 270 for president obama. they considered states like new hampshire, minnesota, pennsylvania all safe obama states. now they are going up on advertising, sending their surrogates in because they are on defense on states that they considered...

Is getting better. im underlining this because im not saying mitt romney cant win. but if you take ohio off the table for mitt romney and its really close, its really, really close to being off the table for mitt romney unless there is some massive reagan-like landslide the last week, then suddenly mitt romneys pathway to 270 gets very, very narrow. he has to run the board or he has to expand the map. >> dont forget virginia which also, according to the recent polling data is not a sure thing fo...