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It is according to the polls and its a big move. that opens up a way for romney to get there. since august, it has been the same. two states that stand out to me are ohio and wisconsin. its clear that romney has to win one of the states, i think, to have a path to the electoral map he needs for 270. >> bret: you have joe biden campaigning in places like pennsylvania as well. >> things are vibrating out there. romney clearly has closed the race. things have gotten closer. in the end, i dont think...

And he didnt object either. so stop the funny nonsense that requiring an id disinfranchises voters that arold or black. i am getting old and obama is black. so it didnt disinfranchise us. once aught to do it center of the political universe is ohio. president obama and governor romney are locked in a tight race to reach the magic number of 270 votes and ohio could tip the scames one way or the other. thats why the candidates are putting time and effort in the buck eye state . joining me senior p...

Brit hume is our senior political analyst, and democratic strategist, and karl rove founder of the republican super pac american across roads and fox news political analyst, juan williams. and now, the electoral map based on public polls from last week. you had states solid or leading obama in shades of blue with 237 electoral votes. and states solid or leading romney with 2306 votes and eight toss ups in yellow with 95 electoral votes and you need 270 to win the presidency. this is from last mo...

Final week of the long campaign. brit hume is our senior political analyst, and democratic strategist, and karl rove founder of the republican super pac american across roads and fox news political analyst, juan williams. and now, the electoral map based on public polls from last week. you had states solid or leading obama in shades of blue with 237 electoral votes. and states solid or leading romney with 2306 votes and eight toss ups in yellow with 95 electoral votes and you need 270 to win the...

Closely and only 47 percent are voting for him f. the election were held would he have the 270 vote majority nailed i think so but not sure. we have seen the situation where winninglet popular vote didnt win the electorial vote. but hes clearly within reach of 270 electoral votes. >> i have a lot confidence and you are usually right when everybody else is wrong. well fiped out how it turned out. >> well see if i am red-faced. >> i am sure you will not be. >> michael marone. new emaims who -- was...

If mitt romney were to win ohio and we go inside the battlegrounds, it makes president obamas path much more difficult. if you give mitt romney ohio and florida and give him virginia, now you see mitt romneys already at 266 even if you were to get new hampshire, wisconsin, hes still not quite there. he needs to win both of these in order to get to 270, which would put him right over 272. romney needs just one of those. if we were to take this out and put colorado and iowa back in, you have virgi...

Something that leans toward the president. now you just give him new hampshire, and he sits at 270, thats with giving romney ohio, thats with giving romney florida. thats with giving him iowa. thats with giving him colorado. thats this issue of the battleground versus the popular vote. >> more to come from chuck todd. thank you very much. well be back in a couple of minutes with him. i want to get to our battleground governors in a minute. but i want to start around the table with our roundtable...

This morning on "meet the press," just nine days to go. a special focus on the battleground states where this election will be won. the final push has president obama and governor romney barnstorming seven critical swing states across the country. in the hunt for 270 electoral votes. the argument -- >> the unemployment rate is falling. manufacturing is coming back to our shores. our assembly lines are hum again. >> the passion -- >> this is an election about big things, about big choices. >> a...

>> hasnt moved the poll numbers as much. >> when things like this happen, we find out the importance of government. s because there are certain things that only government can do and in this case only the federal government, the government thats been run against by one of the political parties, only government can do and that government is important in peoples lives. >> indeed a very effective case for the federal government, steve. >> yeah. im thinking here, you know, earlier i put my foot in m...

$5 trillion tax cut geared toward the wealthy he wont say how to pay for it. the only way to pay for it according to every expert in the country is increasing the deficit or raising taxes on the middle class and thats a real difference, and a real difference to the people of iowa who on average middle class families pay $3600 less in taxes as a result of the presidents policies. but as we said earlier today, we didnt get their endorsement in the democratic primary in 2008, but we managed to sold...