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>> good topic as always from ladies on politics. as mitt romney and president obama hungerer hunker down before mondays third and final debate, theyre leaving the work of courting voters this weekend to their running mates. heres a live look at a campaign event in st. augustine, florida, near jacksonville. vice president joe biden is expected to speak any moment now. florida is a crucial swing state for both campaigns with 29 electoral college votes up for grabs. it takes 270 to win. if youd lik...

New hampshire, and that gets him there. and so he has a whole lot of paths to 270 electoral votes. all of a sudden if mitt romney picks off an iowa or wisconsin that widens mitt romneys map and it actually ends up narrowing president obamas. >> okay. this is going to be a long night im telling you. mark murray, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> former president bill clinton is urging voters to have patience when it comes to the economy. at a campaign rally last night in green bay, wisconsin, he...

The romney campaign, though, making their argument that theyve been doing over the last several months that things could be much better with his policies. so, really, thats going to be the closing arguments that were going to hear over the next couple of weeks, alex. >> you make a point. you say if you can tell that story. because are states unemployment rates more important to voters than national numbers? i mean, in certain states, do they -- are they more aware of them than others? >> thats a...

Anne, to you. lets talk about what adam was just alluding to. florida, there are two new polls that show the same trend here. these are the numbers. an obama lead here, evaporating into a narrow romney lead, when we look at the obama versus romney florida poll numbers here today versus september 19th. and that has changed, as you can see here, to flip over. now, does the president need florida the way he does ohio, in the many scenarios that theyre probably gaming? >> no, not quite as badly. i m...

Paul ryan just held a rally in pennsylvania this morning and you can see why. two polls in recent days show a tighter rate. quinnipiac university earlier this week had president obama at 50% and mitt romney at 46. and the mullenberg college morning call poll, also out this week, showed the president at 49 and mitt romney at 45. now, if mitt romney were to win pennsylvania, president obamas path to 270 would have to take a different turn, certainly. and what might that look like? lets bring in na...

>> lets walk down that path a little bit further. if it were to happen, and we look at nbcs latest battleground map, if we do give pennsylvania to team romney here, then what are some of the scenarios that might result from that where romney will get to 270? >> well, i think if you add pennsylvania -- if you take away pennsylvania from the presidents category, youre taking away 20 electoral votes. so youre going to need to win both ohio and florida, even though florida is bigger than pennsylvani...

President of the united states. i do not think it is anti-virginian to support the commander in chief. >> how concerned are democrats about holding on to this senate seat, reid? >> theyre really concerned. its a mix of new virginia with tim kaine and the outlying suburbs pander washington, d.c. and the strength and the growth that are there and the old virginia that allen, former senator allen, former governor allen, embraces. so its critical for them to hold on to the seat from a senate standpo...

Made me call it today, id give a slight edge to romney. what does that mean? it means obama may not carry any southern states. so look, the trend is obvious. but you can argue about the numbers, look at the polling averages. >> brian: you say the significant thing is for the first time since weve been doing this, president obama is under 270. the other significant thing is we dont have a clear look at the impact of debate number two, do we? >> no. it takes days for this to work through the track...

Biggie electorial vote rich states swing it could make a state like new hampshire potentially the decider. there is is real fun math over the last couple of weeks. jon: we are potentially in a bush v gore where mitt romney has the lead. but in the electoral college president obama seems to have a lock on more states at this point. >> right, there is no doubt there is a possibility that mitt romney can win the popular vote and lose the electoral college, simply because the electoral college map a...

Before he went out there. >> okay. with 18 days until the election, there is something of a mixed picture being painted by the polls. gallups rolling average shows mitt romney with a seven-point lead nationally. 52%/45% when it comes to some of the key battlegrounds. the new nbc news/"wall street journal"/marist poll in iowa has obama leading among likely voters. the eight-point margin is unchanged from a month ago. and in wisconsin, a state that last voted republican in 1984, the president is a...