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Are frustrated at the dysfunction in government that cannot meet critical needs. we face infrastructure needs. we face climate change needs that require government response on the scale of the federal government. and i think it's not just mayor bloomberg, but other people who are looking at this in the final days and saying hey, this has some impact here on how i live and ultimately how i may vote. >> chuck, where are you going to be looking over the next four days? i know you're following the trail of the president and of mitt romney and looking at the map to kind of read into where they're m...

Attention on wisconsin and ohio, sort of a midwest firewall for the president. >> governor romney, today, blasted the president's record on business from battleground state of virginia and john roberts has that news live in virginia this afternoon. what is the word? >> good morning to you. we are on the very spot, where back in 1970 the greatest racehorse of all time, secretariat was born. no question we have a horse race going on particularly in virginia. with president obama back out on the campaign trail, governor romney went at him directly again today attacking him on something the presid...

The states. the importance. the midwest firewall. let's give mitt romney everything except the midwestern states and watch this bar graph move up here. so there's colorado. let's slide over nevada. let's slide over the southern states, virginia. north carolina, florida, and, look at judd fwrgregg, he said s guaranteed, new hampshire. look where it puts them now, 267, three short. so the firewall ohio, wisconsin, and iowa would put you there at 271. so you see the importance of this and the fact of the matter is when you look at nevada right

Now, if you put nevada in the obama column here, slide it all the way over to show you that we can, you then see wisconsin becomes pretty important if you bring those ten over and then he has to break that one if it's -- if the firewall includes -- if nevada comes over the romney column, then he can just pick off an iowa. so when you lack at iowa and wisconsin, it all depends. if you put new hampshire into the obama column over there and let me put that over there to show you that example. some people think both new hampshire and nevada are obama states, then you have to break it. he has to co...

Map. focusing on the obama campaign's midwest firewall, if you will. iowa, wisconsin, ohio. the campaign is bringing out big names to shore up the states not only dispatching former president clinton but the boss m man, bruce springsteen. events in ohio and iowa tied to early voting. clinton campaigns in wisconsin today. there is no question both campaigns know the importance of the midwest and they are flooding the field. take a look at this week's top ten ad markets. the most saturated tv markets, two in wisconsin. one that straddles the iowa/wisconsin border and four in ohio. tells you ever...