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The other scene of excitement in chicago. abc's karen travers is there at obama headquarters. hi, karen. >> reporter: here in chicago, the mood has been electric. the crowd erupted into thunderous applause when the networks projected that the president had won ohio and thus had been re-elected. the president didn't just win ohio he held his midwestern fire wall, wisconsin and iowa. we have been paying so much attention to ohio over the last couple months. a critical state for their strategy. he won virginia, colorado, he won nevada. this has turned into a very big night for president obama. yo...

Enthusiasm. he is not the candidate of change and mitt romney is the cand date of change. the president bushing back and tough on mitt romney and said he is recycling old failed economic policies of the past . that is one way to push back and number two. president said in states like ohio there is progress on the economic front. not enough. there is more ways to go. but here is progress. and the unemployment state wide is 7 percent and that is better than the national rate . if they can win here in ohio and wisconsin where the president will be. he will have a midwestern fire wall to prevent m...

Still without power. >> especially for the elderly and, i think, children. >> absolutely. >> but there are some hopeful signs, and we'll take a look at the help that's on the way. power crews and volunteers en route, ready to help get things back to normal. and later a good luck story. how a lottery player discovered she had a ticket worth a fortune. she found it just in the nick of time. lucky, lucky lady there. you won't believe that story. >> that never happens to me. >> no, we all -- we all want it, but, no, she's the lucky one. but first the final dash to the presidential campaign fin...

Mallika? as close as the polls are? >> i think it is. it is hard to measure who has momentum right now. i do think mitt romney for a time was closing the gap with specific groups, women particularly in raising his favoritabilities. did he have some momentum. whether or not it's leveled off and things are tied up, that seems to be the case if you look at the recent "washington post" poll, i think it's 48, 49, flip-flopping back and forth between who is on top. i think if you look at the map, if you look at that the math of the electoral race to 270, barack obama's chances i think have always be...

>> reporter: here in chicago the mood has been electric. the crowd erupted into thunderous applause when the networks projected the president had won ohio and thus had been re-elected. the president didn't just win ohio, he held his entire midwestern fire wall of wisconsin and iowa. we have been paying so much attention to ohio over the last couple month. a critical state for their strategy. he won virginia, colorado, he won nevada. this has turned into a very big night for president obama. you had the sense from campaign aide early on as the polls started closing that they new things were tre...