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As they continue to do those controlled releases on the reservoirs, that's the one they're keying in on now. the neighborhood surrounding that, they never intended you have to evacuate those people. they were not flooded until they started to release the water, that has created a humanitarian crisis that didn't exist before. now it exists. you've got shoulders filling up, the convention center filling up and rescues like this playing out. somewhat in areas that never had to. >> trish: now you have someone on the ground in texas before the storm is even over. >> sandra: as you said, we are remi...

Singing her praises from house g.o.p. leadership. >> trace: if she did run, chances of winning? >> probably a close race. she beat jim graves 50.5 to 49.3. graves said he's going to run again. a democrat and former chief of staff on capitol hill says bachman knew it would be tough. >> it became very clear to michelle bachman she couldn't win. she was facing a formidable opponent was to going to fund raise well. she lost touch with her constituents. it was a lose-low situation and she decided to drop out and because of that, many democrats and probably as many republicans are he ecstatic. >> ab...

>> martha: here's a rhetorical question for you, how important is ojai snow really? it is as tight as it could be. 49.3, 46.5. that has gotten tighter over the last several weeks. president obama has a 2.8% lead in the real clear politics average of the polls out there. ohio has, of course, 18 electoral votes, if you don't know that by now, you have not been paying attention. more than a million have already voted in ohio, according to what we are learning. we go live to columbus. mike, what you can report from there? good morning. >> reporter: good morning. ojaioans have been voting early and...

Mr. romney had a 36% likability rating in april. look at that today. 49.3%. now come, he is less than half a percentage point between himself and obama on that. stirewalt is a digital power and turn news editor. and also host a power play. what do you think of this, chris? reporter: not that. he has been called both a vampire and the other that you mentioned. just to be fair. he said that he is like a vampire that suck the blood out of a company. for mitt romney, the big thing was never going to be likability. it was going to be favorability. favorability means acceptable that people find you ...

With clair mccaskill facing a difficult re-election fight, is doesn't make political sense. >> she's in trouble. i went and did some research. in '08 senator mccain won it by one tenth of a point. 49.4 to 49.3 for president obama. so close. then six or eight months ago there was the state-wide referendum and 71% of the people were opposed to the individual man date in missouri, which she, of course, was a big advocate for it and she was a big advocate for president obama against hillary clinton. so she's got a tough race. >> she does. it's just a measure of how much the terrain has shifted in ...