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Directly elect the president, its through the electoral college. so in that sense virginia becomes very important because it was a state that was hit by the hurricane, although not as bad as new jersey and new york. and its not clear -- >> and thats an important swing state. we dont know which way its going to go. >> exactly. and the polls are very close there. and its unclear if the state will be able to have all of the polling locations up and going by tuesday. they probably will. but it is a ...

People, especially democrats, more than republicans, the statistics bear that out, republicans prefer to vote by mail or absentee, democrats prefer early voting, and your highest early voting turn outs, jon are in democratic-leaning counties like miami day. the other thin miami-dade. we have a historically long ballot in florida. if there will be problems on election day it will be the fact that the precincts, even though many more precincts are open on election day a lot of people will go in an...

Employees from around the country have come to virginia already and we will do the very best we can. but be smart and stay out of the storm and be a good neighbor and help each other. >> what do you do if the power is out on election day governor? >> we do not anticipate that. we have absentee voting, we do not have usually voting. we are asking the local registration places if they have to close, try to keep their offices on the next couple of days, either early or later or the weeknd so people...

Hurricane-prone state, we know that these storms have to be taken seriously. i would urge everybody to take the storm seriously, listen to evacuation orders if theyre given and make sure that you have a three-day supply, which is what we tell everybody, 72-hour supply of what youre going to need in the aftermath of the storm, water and other provisions. but in terms of the actual event, whether president obama does or doesnt attend one event to make sure hes doing his job, protecting americans, ...

In-person early voting started in the sunshine state and ive got to tell you based on the folks ive talked to. based on what ive seen. the gop appears to be in real trouble when it comes to early in-person voting. why is that? >> were ahead of the obama campaign in absentee and early voting in florida. were going to continue to be. >> are you talking about early in-person voting? >> were talking about all of it. we have absentee ballot voting and early in-person voting. essentially what you have...

And voting place as one of the top priorities for restoration along with hospitals and police stations and others. we he have lots of information available about the abis sente voting. we dont have early voting in virginia. we do have absentee if you have is a legitimate reason. we will mike sure the offices are staying open and open late if necessary in order to accommodate that. i think we are ready. >> shannon: the storm, of course, affected the campaign trail as well. you were to be out camp...

Hes been up from the beginning. governor romney hasnt led at any point in ohio. ive been on the ground in florida for a couple of days, talked to organizers and voters and the president has an advantage with in-person early voting, not as much with absentee and early in-person voting can. governor romney win the white house without ohio and without florida, chip saltzman? >> obviously without florida and without ohio, no. but i think we feel good about where we are in florida. ohio is absolutely...

Weve already had one pollster call florida for mitt romney. the obama campaign is by no means conceding florida. they have a huge operation there that really is a turnkey that like ohio never really went away. so the florida organization just turned back on and theyre really pushing early vote. one of the things that youre seeing in florida thats different in 08, in 2008 and before, republicans tend to do really well in absentee ballot. democrats do really well in in-person early vote. this year...

Who said the exact same thing. i said, man, you know you can do this absentee or wait until tuesday. and a guy said to me, oh, no. folks thought that this, the change in the rules was going to keep us from the polls. and he said he brought along a couple of his friends. it sounds as if this may have as you mentioned, the opposite effect. weve been talking about early voting there are also issues of voter intimidation and voter id laws that i want to get your take on. reuters, efforts to mislead,...

Early ballots before any romney rebound. at the same time, early voting is making this years ground game more important. obama has the edge there too. his campaign opened more than twice as many field offices as mitt romney. and that has given him a two-to-one lead for example among early voters in ohio. if you look at iowa, its 35 points. let me be clear. this is not hypothetical polling. those polls that i just mentioned are of people who already voted. and obama isnt just beating romney. this...