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Necessarily play well, but also i think is a reflex where he finds himself in some of these key battlegrounds. he's in a tough spot particularly in ohio, virginia. he needs to win the states. if he doesn't he can't win. jon: tucker the fact that the president is taking, you know, one of the last campaign opportunities he has to appear in wisconsin, a state that traditionally votes democratic, that shows, you know, some trouble for the obama campaign? >> anything, anything a candidate does in the final weeks of a campaign is by definition a campaign appearance, no matter what he is saying. i wo...

State that is not very close, where a visit wouldn't make a little bit of difference, a point's difference. they are going to where the real battle grounds are, regardless of what you've read about this state coming in, or that state coming in, watch what the candidates do, not what the operatives say. jon: that's why i find it fascinating that the president is in wisconsin right now. wisconsin hasn't voted republican since what, 1980? >> yeah, 1984 they voted republican in president reagan's re-election, but remember, democrats only won, jon by about 5,000 votes i think it was in both of the ...

Mitt romney you're seeing him probably going to take florida in most of the battle grounds. and i don't know why in and and scott walker earlier this summer by the national party hundreds and paul ryan saying i just don't know how they couldn't win wisconsin. if you look, it's tied oof 20 seconds, steve on your home state of wisconsin. >> it's a fact there is a dry run on june 5th. i think it suggests wisconsin is in play. if they make efforts to put there, i think republicans can win it. >> viewers should go to gretawire.com. about what it's done since

Piece in the examiner. i found the thing he wrote up today. >> what do you tell!b us? do you have to wait to read it?. >> romney people feel they have a certain amount of momentum in ohio. you talk to them, mayor, you know pushing hard this early voting thing they think is helping them. that they're going to keep the lead small enough so they'll win on election day. so if you talk to the romney people they know what is going on. >> i think it doesn't make sense obama can hold off romney in wisconsin you're seeing a surge in polls for mitt romney you're seeing him probably going to take florid...

There are new polls in pennsylvania and minnesota that show that mitt romney is within striking distance and maybe even more telling, because you don't just follow the polls, you follow people and money, bill clinton was campaigning in minnesota yesterday. do you think that the obama campaign is worried about these states? >> i would say that i would get worried or i think maybe increase the level of concern about these potential battle grounds if you saw the principals going there. the most precious resource that a campaign is the candidate's time because that's finite with only six or so day...