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Polling locations and they will be open. now back to greta. in just over 60 minutes from right now in the swing state of new hampshire the first election day voters will cast their votes for president. with time now running out, which can date will win the battleground states in joining us with our political panel in new york, stotterd and michael crawly and chief political correspondence byron. you mentioned the fool's gold remark about pennsylvania so i will go to you. what's the story on pennsylvania? >> i can go back on that now, can i? >> we have tape of everything now. >> the republica...

Written off by gop and democratic pollsters do not stay. but it is not so as we don't election day. pennsylvania has not actually backed a republican for president since -- i think it was george h. w. bush in 1988. in any event, it has been 20 plus years since they've gone behind a republican. some call a fool's gold with a republican. but the race is tightening. it's tightening in the states that we will consider to be firmly in the blue column. in the meantime, president obama is drawing big crowds of his own. 18,000 people lined up to catch the president in madison, wisconsin. his opening a...

Probably will not be worried. the exact same things were being said about four years ago. especially during the primaries. i just don't see -- listen. pennsylvania is a world of three different -- it's a state with three different countries in it. philly, pittsburgh, and then right down the middle of it. that's a conservative part of the state. no one expected obama to win it. . the question becomes is what's on the ends. so far, we are seeing his numbers hold up remarkably well there. so i don't think that it's going to be -- i agree with jonathan capehart, it's fool's gold. but we'll see wha...

So jonathan capehart was on the set earlier and he called pennsylvania fool's gold for mitt romney. what do you think? >> the last time a republican won pennsylvania was back in 1988 when george h.w. bush won the state. 1 million more registered democrats than republicans. pennsylvania is even in play, who would have thought six months ago that the polls would be neck and neck. the fact that mitt romney is within striking distance, that speaks more to the president's vulnerablilitie vulnerabilities. if bill clinton is in the state, if they are spending more resources in pennsylvania, it tells ...

>> good to be here. >> inside the romney campaign there's a desperate attempt to find a route to 270. that's why they are, for example, scheduled a rally in pennsylvania. pennsylvania has been fool's gold for years. john mccain went there at the end of the campaign last time. george w. bush went there at the end of the campaign in 2004. in the end, i think, they can't crack ohio and because they can't crack ohio, they've got to look somewhere else. they are looking are to pennsylvania, minnesota. i don't think they are going to win either of those states. >> now, the campaign's closing argumen...