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im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com wisconsin residents are voting right now on an extraordinary move to recall the governor scott walker and replace him with tom barrett. this election might be a sneak preview of the november press connection. the effort to get rid of walker was sparked by his move to get rid of collective bargaining rights for public employees. the state is split down the middle, the nasty battle against the tea par...

Independents and undecideds out there, if you can find them, theres one last push. theres a lot of get out the vote pushing going on in regards to both the barrett and the walker campaigns. for tom barretts campaign, they say on saturday alone, saturday alone, consider this figure. over a quarter million doors knocked on. just on saturday and a lot more on sunday. so they say. in terms of polling which suggests that barrett trails perhaps narrowly by single digits, barrett is not buying that. ha...

As well. last minute pushs to get out the vote. it will be a great turnout. tom barrett wants a particular pitch out there. he is telling public polls seeing him trailing. >> in the last tracking poll two nights ago was this is 800 samples i was one vote behind. not one percentage vote behind but one vote behind. we have thousands of people on the streets this weekend. we are very, very positive. >> oo for every undecided vote it is a very tight race t. functions as a dress rehearsal for the pre...

today wisconsin is a fall preview. >> they look at wisconsin, and they see americas battleground between people who want to work together to solve problems and penal who want to divide and conquer. >> democratic challenger and milwaukee mayor tom barrett on his bid to oust the republican governor in a recall race. then battleground politics with virginia republican governor bob mcdonald, u.s. jobs and the bloodshed in syria. plus, unemployment is up, the dow is down, and the presidenti...

Reports.com, he joins us now with some new polls of his own. these are hot off the presses, scott. i know that we have said this is a tight race and your daily tracking poll proves it. >> sure does. as of this morning, its 45 percent for obama, 45 percent for romney. jon, if you look back over the last 16 days, romney has been up by a point or two, seven times, obama has been up by a point or two, seven times, and theyve be tied twice. it doesnt get any closer. jon: you asked an interesting ques...

The police isnt find them if you do report yours is missing, because all that leg work and they didnt get the phone back. >> reporter: they didnt get it. jon: thank you. jenna: brand-new snapshots of the battle for the white house today. according to a new nbc "wall street journal" poll the president and governor mitt romney are locked in a tight race with the president edging the presumptive republican nominee 47 to 43% among registered voters. that is little change from last month. well take a...

First, that the federal budget will be balanced or that the federal government will go bankrupt and be unable to pay its debt. remarkably, or maybe not, it depends on how you look at it the majority of people say the federal government will go bankrupt and be unable to pay its debt. i want to combine that with another one of your polls though, scott. the presidents tracking poll shows that he still has the majority approval when it comes to whether or not you totally approve or totally disapprov...

What are his issues? now its a referendum on the president, and the focus is on the presidents job and what has he done in the last few years. and for mitt romney that is a much easier position to be in. jon: scott rasmussen is the president of rasmussen reports out with that daily tracking poll. thanks for breaking the news with us, scott. >> thank you. jenna: state police are looking for a killer who may be posing as one of their own. two deadly highway shootings sparking a manhunt that spans ...

Poll and overall popularity between mitt romney and president obama. >> thats right. there you can see mitt romney ahead of the president by four points. they asked who would vote for a third party candidate. 4% said that and 3% said they were undecided at this point. its interesting, this is the eighth consecutive day according to rasmussen that the president has been bested by mitt romney. >> you have to wonder, is this because now the conservative vote is coalescing around mitt romney because...

Rests largely on that subject, and youre right, every week that some new number comes out that isnt good or unemployment isnt does not grow quite up to expectation is a bad week for president obama and a good week for governor romney. jon: and, fred, just as weve been speaking rasmussen reports is just out with its new daily tracking report, daily tracking poll, and the approval rating for mitt romney is now at 50%. thats the first time hes hit that number. >> uh-huh. jon: president obamas appro...