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Clear -- you know that clear path to 270, romney has the momentum. a question does the momentum overcome the map or the map stave off the momentum? youre going to see that play out i think by this weekend quite frankly. this is going to settle down and become clearer where the voters will be in about 13 days. >> and you know, michael one quick thing, chuck pointed something out to me last night, which is that the time, the gap between the first debate and the second debate, was the longest in th...

This would show something very different if these polls are to be believed. >> i actually feel very confident about where mitt romney is. i think the clint eastwood ad is great. i think it attracts blue collar voters, especially those in ohio and michigan and pennsylvania. i do think that romney had a great event yesterday in colorado. i think theres just a lot of excitement. i think what republicans are getting really excited about this campaign finally, at the right moment. i think the momentu...

84, veteran of many presidential bids. good morning. want to have a little fun. >> you betcha. bill: well go to the board show you a map here. remind our viewers these are the 11 battleground states in gray that are too close to call. ed, what is the state of the race today? >> i think the presidents team is on the defense and i think the romney team is on the off thats a very difficult place for an incumbent president to be. i think were gaining in places like florida, virginia, north carolina,...

Barnes & noble reported a breach in customers credit card information. the cards and credit cards have been hacked and 64 stores across the united states. many accounts have been compromised. bill: martha, i have your interest up on this 269 thing. the question is how you get there? this is a possibility. martha: that is out of it for us. its a late life. bill: at the moment, we have 11 battleground states that are just too close to call. governor romney at 191 of 270, president obama 201 of 270...

Getting worse, that could have some affect. >>neil: quickly, peter, the idea we can get out of the popular vote one way and the electoral vote another, do you buy that submission it is possible. a lot more possible than three or four weeks ago. it is clear that mitt romney is either tied or slightly ahead in a number of national tracking polls. only by a little. but a little. but the emleg inform -- but the electoral college, obama is doing better in scenting states especially in ohio. that coul...

Jenna: now a fox news extreme weather alert out of the caribbean where tropical storm sandy has strengthened into a category 1 hurricane on track to hit jamaica today, eastern cuba tomorrow and the tropical storm watch is at southern florida. it could cause severe weather for the u.s. east coast later this week. well keep a close eye on it for you here on "happening now." the. jon: well, on election night all eyes will be on the electoral college vote count until ones the magic number of 270. or...

White voters and what can he do to up that number? >> i think that he needs to focus on job creation and lay out what he did to save the country from the great depression. certainly emphasize on what he did to stave the automobile industry. thats what is holding blue cole sxar white voters in the state of ohio. i have to tell you this, luke. only in mitt romneys mind is a path where he sits at 206 electoral votes right now and the president sits at 246, more favorable position to be in. we have ...

By the third debate. >> 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...

Mallika? as close as the polls are? >> i think it is. it is hard to measure who has momentum right now. i do think mitt romney for a time was closing the gap with specific groups, women particularly in raising his favoritabilities. did he have some momentum. whether or not its leveled off and things are tied up, that seems to be the case if you look at the recent "washington post" poll, i think its 48, 49, flip-flopping back and forth between who is on top. i think if you look at the map, if you...

They see nothing but promise in that. nothing but promise. >> for mitt romney his best chance of winning colorado probably now rests on women and independent swing voters. all told, $76 million has been spent on ads in colorado. puts the state fourth on the list behind florida, ohio, and virginia. here is why colorado could wind up being perhaps more important than all three of them. lets start with our map right now showing the seven tossup states. if the president were to lose florida, virgini...