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So the major fall or minor lift, however, you rattle the number lose, as the overall national polling shifts and the swing state races shift with them, the state where the romney campaign is hoping for the biggest shift of all is in ohio. in modern political history, ohio has been the path to the presidency for republican candidates. if republican candidates win ohio, they win the white house. if mitt romney doesnt win ohio, he honestly has to put together a hard combination of colorado and virg...

In florida, the same poll shows a 4-point swing for romney. hes up by 2 points. so the major fall or minor lift, however, you rattle the number lose, as the overall national polling shifts and the swing state races shift with them, the state where the romney campaign is hoping for the biggest shift of all is in ohio. in modern political history, ohio has been the path to the presidency for republican candidates. if republican candidates win ohio, they win the white house. if mitt romney doesnt w...

Nevada, colorado, virginia, north carolina, all of these swing states that were close, i think if ryan/romney have a couple more good debates, those all go in the romney column. that was a freudian slip. but at the end of the day, though, the question is committee make up the big difference in ohio? can he make up the big difference in wisconsin? because if he doesnt win ohio, hes got to win wisconsin. the romney people still think he can. after that debate and after barack obamas performance, w...

If you take ohio out of the republican column, john heilemann, no republicans ever won the white house without winning ohio. things become much more difficult. if you lose ohio as mitt romney, youve got to win virginia, new hampshire, colorado, youve got to win nevada. youve got to run the board, basically. >> well, remember, go back to what karl rove said at the beginning of the general election, which was this 3, 2, 1 concept, that romney had to win back big states that obama had won. he had t...

>> reporter: why the wait? for 1,300 voters here, just 2 ballot boots available. >> people were voting about 40 per hour, so you do the math. >> in the 04 election, republican president george w. bush won the crucial state of ohio with 50.8% of the vote. and he won a second term in office. in certain parts of ohio, for certain groups of people who tend to lean democratic, voting in that election that year meant waiting if lines for ten hours or more. for voters in mostly african-american precinc...

Vote is a challenge. and i use the word challenge on purpose. as we reported earlier this month, the tea party group in ohio called the voter integrity project claims to have found 730,000 suspect names that it wants purged off the voter rolls in ohio. 730,000. weve now started to get a better sense of who this tea party group is challenging in terms of their registration and their right to vote. look at this. "the names selected for purging include hundreds of college students, trailer park res...

Nbc/"wall street journal" shows a lot of blue on a battleground map of key states. obama enjoys a seven-point lead in ohio. in florida, five in florida, two states that, of course -- >> ill tell you, the fox news state-by-state polls were pretty devastating yesterday. romney has to win florida. you look at these states. if he doesnt win ohio, then he has to win withvirginia and iow. it is state by state by state pretty rough. but you know, mika, yesterday the president went and was interviewed o...

Way or another definitively? >> i think you got to look at, you know, key battlegrounds. you know, does the president grow his lead in those key battlegrounds? right now you have national polls, kind of an interesting dynamic. national polls are a bit tighter. but then you look at the certain battleground polls in particular what governor romney needs to win in order to have a path to win. ohio, florida, virginia depending on the polls he is down in all three of them. in ohio in particular. he c...

Romney. if he doesnt win ohio and he doesnt win florida. winning both of those are increasingly unlikely, then its very hard for him to win the presidency. he would have to run the tables on all the other races. the question about where rove puts his money? youre starting to see reverse coattail effect. if you look at senate races in maine, in massachusetts, in virginia, where cain has about a seven or eight point lead, in florida, in new mexico, all around the country, it seems very, very unlik...

But as someone who has done politics, i dont understand. they kind of blew through the last 90 days not creating narrative either for themselves or one that they could frame president obama with. and now theyve basically come down to one opportunity. and that is the first debate. when youre spending the amount of money theyll spend, the democrats will spend the amount of money theyre going to spend, it kind of crosses each other out. so youre not going to really change voters opinions up that de...