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Are privileges. >> not to cut you off, but i see where youre going there. why havent republicans been able to capitalize on early voting like democrats have? >> you might ask the democrats why they havent capitalized on absentee voting. one reason is that absentee voting -- >> craig, if i can interrupt there. our absentee ballot program has -- >> give him a chance to answer the question because you posed the question or i posed the question. lets pose that question. go ahead and answer it. >> il...

Out certainly in the northeast eastern ohio area. >> i want to ask you about a story on the front page of "cincinnati inquirer" here. it is a rule here in ohio that has to do with absentee ballot. if you request it and vote on election day, youll be told to cast a provisional ballot and those provisional ballots then are not counted until november 17th. understandable why they have this in the law. but the law of unintended consequences on this. how concerned are you that you guys have a big pus...

Today matters just as much as the vote cast on november 6th. another reason why i pause on the predicted value of early voting is because this is still a fairly new phenomena. weve had absentee and early voting before, but in terms of the campaigns emphasis on getting out the early vote, were still two or three presidential cycles into that emphasis and were not sure if its just getting some of those votes you already knew you had in the bank early or if its reaching a margin that is -- mitt rom...

Contest is much closer than our poll shows. the x-factor may very well be early voting. 34% of likely voters say they have cast their ballots and the president is winning those 67% to 32%. among election day voters romney ahead. now republicans pointed out that 285 ohio early and absentee ballots have been received in iowa which is only 19% of the 2008 electorate in the state, less than 34% in our poll. 363,000 have been requested in the state, 38% of the 2008 electorate. closer to our 34%. a li...

Marist poll. so, lyrics lets get right to it. like i said, the campaign disputing the iowa numbers, this early vote issue. that is a big difference between whats been reported and what folks told us in our poll. explain. >> well, theres a lot of reasons. first of all, lets look at the fact that turnout is likely to be lower this time than it was four years ago. the early voting is going to be up and the absentee will break 40% where it was in the mid-30s last time. people have gotten their absen...

Personal popularity has long been one of the presidents strengths. the same poll shows romney scoring higher marks. the two men now essentially tied on that question of likability. a new poll of likely voters from the "washington post" and abc news puts the race within the margin of error with president obama at 49%, and mitt romney at 46%. today the pressure is on the president to rebound in tomorrow nights contest at new yorks hofstra university on long island. hoping to slow the momentum of...

On this. if this is vigilanteism to keep people away from the polls, what can your organization and others do to protect their right to cast a vote? >> well, the result of this, the worst result of all of this is that voters who should and would vote are confused. the biggest thing that were doing is in the streets, in the churches, on doors, were educating and telling our people exactly that their voting rights are still intact. how to vote. educating that they can vote in early ballots. how to...

Majority looking at the possibility that absentee ballots could be submitted in the names of the people? in florida you dont need an i.d. to vote absentee and weve already had a scandal in miami surrounding the mayors race of potentially fraudulent absentee ballots. are you guys looking into that? what are the chances of that happening? >> well, were looking into it. i mean, as you know, the places where resources are going through voter fraud in terms of the places where theyre currently lookin...

Attention to a couple of other numbers. one as real clear politics points out, erin mcpike story, the early and absentee voting numbers are looking good for romney. republicans are surpassing democrats in half of those key states. republicans request for early and absentee ballots are up in colorado and florida and north carolina so i think maybe you could see some tightening over the next couple of weeks that the polls havent been able to account for. what i want to ask you about are two indica...

>> and the republicans have an edge on absentee -- its a sign of organization. >> youve got to have boots on the ground tracking voters. >> theres only a concern in that there was a big influx of requests. so you have to -- thats how democrats have always done really well in iowa. >> florida is a republican absentee state. >> john mccain got 47% when barack obama was as popular as hes ever going to be. >> we have a race.