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Voters, 45%-45%. but boy, that is an uphill lift. and again, if barack obamas team -- and they have -- have been obsessing on getting out the vote for five years, they started in 2007. and team romney, as you said, have basically subed it out to the rnc. >> thats a fact. >> tie goes to obama. >> ill tell you what, the early voting thing thats so interesting, the republican -- romney campaign is right. republicans are higher propensity of voters than democrats. what the obama campaign has been fo...

It. i accept the finality of this outcome which will be ratified next monday in the electoral college. that man won the most votes but in the electoral college where not all votes were equal, the outcome was decided in a recount that went to the u.s. supreme court and when the dust cleared. the so-called winner of the state of florida had a 537 vote margin, out of 6 million votes cast. and the obama campaign wants you to never forget that. >> 537. the number of votes that changed the course of...

Terrible. >> at the risk of total self-parity, since 1948, six winners have taken office with less than 50% of the vote. if you add in the guys who have not gotten to 51%, it goes up to 9. so in more than 50% of the elections since world war ii, the winner has not gotten above 51%. >> all righty. >> this is going to be -- this is the rule, not the exception. >> yeah. >> there are, just so you know in "politico," theres some of these scenarios laid out by joe. "new york times," romneys economic m...

In fact the obama campaign has this new ad trying to remind the faithful of what happened back then with bush v. gore. lets watch. >> 537 the number of votes that changed the course of american history. >> florida is too close to call. >> the difference between what was and what could have been? so this year, if youre thinking that your vote doesnt count, that it wont matter, well, back then there were probably at least 537 people who felt the same way. make your voice heard. vote. >> im barack ...

I agree with juan, i think a lot of people think my vote doesnt count. i was in new york and i feel that way. as you pointed out earlier the s congressional race or senatorial race but if you got rid of the electoral college and went to popular voted. the focus would be more populated states, new york, california, illinois. that work very well for you juan. democrats would love very heavily democratic states. >> the candidates would only spend their time. they wouldnt be in the swing states. >> ...

Just sit there, that is not the hope card, is it? that is the fear card that youre playing in trying to fire people up to vote. you know, that to me is what this game is about, right? what chunk of his base shows up and votes? >> right. >> what chunk of hispanics? what chunk of young voters? what chunk of casual voters shows up and does this? and thats going to be the margin. thats going to be the margin of error. >> its interesting because i think it was you who answered the other way around th...

Theyre not doing as well among the early vote as the democrats did four years ago. well see. i mean, i think that theres a little bit of trying to overspin on the republican side here. the fact of the matter is, this early vote advantage for the president is real. its real in iowa. its real in ohio. its real, frankly, in north carolina. the question is, did they move vote and whats nagging at me, did they move vote, or did they get casual voters to come up? when i say, do they move vote, did the...

Same way. make your voice heard. vote. >> im barack obama, and i approve this message. >> wow! weve got a public policy poll from nevada. first, jon meacham, you were responding to the ad? >> its very effective, i think. >> yeah, it is. >> it has a virtue, as dr. kissinger likes to say, of being true. >> the added value of being true. >> theres always that. i voted yesterday. >> did you really? >> in tennessee. and it was -- its not a wildly democratic precinct. >> right. >> it was full at 3:00 ...

Days that changes the dynamics? well, theres not a debate. youve got 30-second ads and youve got these guys running around campaigning. if it really is five points like these two polls have shown this week, that is a very, very heavy lift for mitt romney. and that means that if these polls are accurate, hed better win his southern swing states. hed better win iowa. hed better win colorado. new hampshire and figure out how to pick up a couple more points. >> and you guys were talking about turnou...

Thought it would be. >> not just thin, a lot of pictures. >> thats how you win them over. >> the -- youre absolutely right. the obama campaign feels like theyre winning, feel if the election were held today they would win, feel like their position is going to get bet, they feel like they know the electorate and feels like romney knows the electorate and is not telling the truth. obama can still lose this. youre not going to hear dave plouffe say that but the polls and the swing states, theres a ...