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Anticipated. >> am i embarrassed or disappointed by what happened? absolutely. but i have to focus on simply getting it right. >> here is a look at the longest ballot in florida state history, 11 constitutional amendments and that is what took so long despite the problems only being focused on a minority of the precincts the governor plans to investigate and make some improvement. >>shepard: in the presidential race the vote was 322 apart with eight million votes cast. what are the togethers looking like now? fill phil: the secretary of state is counting. right new, governor romney with 49.24 ...

>> good morning. 2012, much closer for president obama in the state of florida than was 2008 when he beat mccain, senator mccain by three percentage points. despite the polling data, suggesting romney would best the president by 1.5 percentage points here in the state, with almost all of the votes counted, president obama appears to be winning in florida, 49.9% to 42.3% right now. 42,000 votes separating the two candidates down in miami-dade. 18,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted. and west of here in tampa, another 6,000 absentees waiting to be counted. so those results, unofficial results...

He will go west and do what he did last time. win colorado, new mexico, nevada. if you look at north carolina and virginia, the two states have low unemployment than the national average. they have more minorities coming in. rural areas are falling down. used to be republican. smart move on his part. give him credit for pushing the jobs bill. >> kimberly: we have a couple of graphics on that in particular. the president is touring the swing states like north carolina. look at the numbers there for 2008. he won with 52.7% of the vote. now facing 61% disapproval and 42% approval. do you think it...

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Convention there is an indication of that. and not just for north carolina, but also other states in the south, virginia certainly, florida, that we won in 2008. we just feel like it's important to always play on an expanding map, not a map shrinking back. north carolina sends that messa message. >> you won it in 2008, 49.9 to 49.5. that's a pretty tight margin. >> it was very tight. >> you want to keep it blue. the demographics of the state are as i understand it about 21% african-american, 7% latino. the median age is 36.6%. so as our political unit has come up with these numbers, seems that...