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President obama, just from adding up the blue states, has 237 electoral votes. thats even before we get to the battleground states in yellow. you need 270 to win. so president obama picks up ohio, all important ohio. lets say he also wins new hampshire, and lets say he wins the great state of wisconsin. but lets say mitt romney wins all of the other battleground state on the map. this is not that hard to image. romney would win florida and north carolina and virginia and colorado and nevada and ...

Understands that just like the broader community and on immigration, this is a president thats committed to immigration reform and its taken dramatic steps to help immigrants find a place in this country while governor romneys position is still one of self-deportation. he struggles to maintain that and the community here in florida have heard this loud and clear. >> we appreciate your time. >> my pleasure, thanks, thomas. >> lets move on and talk about hurricane sandy. its making its way to the ...

Would give him, what, four electoral votes needed to get over 270. >> theres a fight for the hispanic vote, obviously, and also for the womens vote. thats getting heated. and last night on "the tonight show with jay leno," president obama was asked about the political firestorm sparked by republican candidate for u.s. senate in indiana, richard mourdock who suggested during a debate on tuesday that if a woman is impregnated during rape, it was gods intention. heres the president on "leno." >> co...

So what about ohio and how important is it really when it comes down to the all-important path to 270? nbcs political editor domenico joins us with those numbers. the key to the buckeye state for the obama campaign is what? >> so lets take a look here. heres our election map and you see on this map, we have nevada as a toss-up just for our purposes because when we go inside the numbers here, look at these states. these are the states that are the ones in play. if we give nevada to the president,...

Hasnt voted republican in 1988. here is the 270 you need, right? president obama at 201. mitt romney at 191 on our map. if president obama wins pennsylvania, see how the numbers add up, if he wins ohio, you see numbers he picks up right now at 239? for governor romney, runs the south here with florida 29 and virginia at 15 and then, sorry, virginia 13 and north carolina at 15. he now is at 248. so you have one, two, three, four, five, six states in play. lets say nevada, to be economy poor out t...

Done nothing over the last year to prevent sequestration from happening. we in the house have passed the bill to find savings in other places, the president has opposed to that. he is only trying to blackmail congress to raise taxes with the threat of sequestration. so i find it very insincere at best. martha: all right. thank you for your thoughts today. great to see you, congressman. bill: oh, hello. look at what im cooking up here. are you ready for this? all right, it takes 270 electoral vot...

>> 18 electoral college votes up for grabs. 270 needed to win the election. so its all down to the numbers right now. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> it is fun to watch the numbers go back and forth. >> dont forget it is your last chance to enter our question of the day in this final press to election day. what would you like to see the candidates -- what would you like to see from them? one college away from t. christian football stands church. there is a major ...

Race which state is up for grabs. heres his analysis on the oreilly factor. >> you have basically romney at 169, obama at 184. these are electoral votes. 270 needed to win. lean obama, lean romney 37. 95 toss-up lacking at this map you would think the president obama still has the advantage to win the election but i see it as romney now has the advantage. >> i am with you. see look at that map. virginia is doing a two-week rolling average. you look at virginia last week there were five polls thu...

>> bill: you are agreeing with me. >> yeah. >> bill: do you feel bad agreeing with me. >> i agree with you when you are right and disagree when you are wrong. >> bill: thats most of the time. >> you are overly sensitive about it. >> bill: lets get the rove map up there because this is what going forward in the next two weeks is really going to matter. now, you have basically romney at 169, obama at 184. this is electoral votes. 270 needed to win lean obama 53. lean romney 57. 95 toss-up. looking...

Highly unlikely, but never say never. it doubt we get there. the odds are approaching 1% or less. this has been a crazy election. >> it would make for electoral drama if neither candidate earns 270 electoral votes. >> bret: mike, thank you. this is a fox news alert. more breaking news on the libya scandal now. fox news obtained another e-mail from the state department indicating the portion of the u.s. consulate in benghazi, its actually the annex where americans, some of the americans fled in...