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former presidential candidate, john edwards. boil it all down, edwards won. prosecutors alleged he knowingly and willingly accepted $1 million from two wealthy donors to hide his mistress, rielle hunter. the jury deadlocked on the other five counts, including conspiracy, illegal con trib g contributions and making false statements. outside the courthouse, edwards, who had said virtually nothing except good morning during this trial spoke publicly. >> all i can say is thank goodness we live in the couldn't interest i that has the kind of system that we have. i think those jurors were ...

Yes. i think that the president has a lot of different pathways to the presidency. mitt romney has few pathways. it is still a close race. we are leading in those three important battle grounds. >> let's take a look at the second part of the strategy, alice. it's to win ohio and florida worth -- wait a minute. hold on. that's correct. worth 47 electoral votes. the race is a lot closer in ohio than florida. it does look -- disagree with me if you don't think so but this is going to be a battle over the sort of white working class especially working class men? >> certainly. that is what it is co...

Reports like on cnbc and the financial pages, or do they go by what they sense locally. >> i would go by what they sense locally. all politics it local, but you get a sense of what's going on by the community around you and the community in your town. obama has an interesting map of states that are battle grounds that have done better than the national average with the unemployment rate. it's interesting that some of the key battle ground states recovered or never had a recession like the national averages were. i think it benefits him in the long run. >> the president bought a ticket on the a...

Reports like we get on cnbc and the financial pages? or do they go by what they sense locally? >> i would have to guess they go by what they sense locally. like you said, all politics is local but you get a sense of what is going on by the community around you, by the main street in your town, by businesses you know are hiring. so in this case, you're right, obama has an interesting map of states that are battle grounds that have done by and large better than the national average with respect to the unemployment rate. there are states that are h higher such as nevada and florida. but it is int...

Locally. all politics it local, but you get a sense of what's going on by the community around you and the community in your town. obama has an interesting map of states that are battle grounds that have done better than the national average with the unemployment rate. it's interesting that some of the key battle ground states recovered or never had a recession like the national averages were. i think it benefits him in the long run. >> the president bought a ticket on the auto industry rather than buy into ran. he made a decision not to trust the markets. will he benefit for that in ohio wher...