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Ohio. or do you think that the debate situation and what happened in the debates has kind of changed the dynamic on the ground at all? >> i think the dynamic has been changed on the ground because romney has more momentum than he had before the debate season. i think the auto bail-out and the economy is what accounting for obama hanging on to the slim lead. it may make the difference for him. we have to see? >> bret: okay. let's go to colorado. seth, the real clear politics average in colorado. this is five of the latest polls there in colorado. has romney at 47.8%. obama at 47.6%. your sense ...

Virginia, obama 48, 48 romney. colorado 47.6, 47.8 there. i mean, interesting mix of numbers. quickly, i have to ask you, when you wake up in the morning and try to assess where the race is, is that the horse race you're following right now? >> i don't obsess over every single poll. i look at nate silver and other websites to see what the averages of the big polls are. some i count more in my mind than others. but, you know, the bottom line fact is that when you climb to 270 electoral votes and discussed it with the previous guest obama has many more past that than romney does still right now....

And, florida. obviously, those three states are critical to the -- any victory, either side. and we think we can win all three of those and win those three states plus ohio and, wisconsin and, missouri, which we won last time and we have over 270 electoral votes and they've got to basically take something out of the mix and take north carolina, florida, ohio, out of the mix and it is hard to get to 270 but i think, we are well positioned at this point. >> bill: this is a battle ground state and a lot of folks before 2008 would not consider it that way. look at the other battleground states now...

President obama has been there six times, mitt romney four times. of course it was in colorado that president obama was nominated at the democratic convention four years ago. in terms of the polls, well the "real clear politics" average has president obama at 47.6%, mitt romney enjoying the support of 46% of the colresidents. let's talk about it with allison sheri, the dc correspondent for the denver post and joins us now. allison, i read an interesting piece in the post the other day that ace although president obama won the state by about 4 percentage points over john mccain, it's a much tig...

Resounding victory. next on tuesday comes minnesota, missouri, and colorado. but will the win last night in nevada help cement his frontrunner status in the race for the nomination? john roberts live in las vegas with the very latest. good morning, john. >> good morning to you, eric. certainly mitt romney is beginning to look like he's got it cemented in place, beginning to look more and more like the nominee. these are pictures from last night, that might add to the air of inevitability around mitt romney. he picked up secret service protection a couple days ago. take a look at this. he's sha...