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Of us who know what the truth is is said, you know what, we ought to knock this off. let s go to mr. logos in ohio because you agree with scott. you are pretty much saying it s a dead heat now. but a week ago, 10 days ago, the president had a big lead. so it looks like again momentum is shifting to romney in ohio. that s absolutely true. we have a 47, 47 split. we listed all the candidates that are certified on the ohio ballot. it s a tale of two calendars if you look at the early voters mitt romney trails barack obama by 13 among that small slice of early voters. but if you look at the people who are planning to vote or very likely to vote, it s just the opposite. mitt romney leads by 3. the net effect, 47, 47. okay. now, are you standing by you made news last week on this program by saying that your polling outfit pulled out of florida, virginia and north carolina because you guys had decided suffolk university that those states were going to go to mitt romney. ....
And it wasn t fair and those of us who know what the truth is is said, you know what, we ought to knock this off. let s go to mr. logos in ohio because you agree with scott. you are pretty much saying it s a dead heat now. but a week ago, 10 days ago, the president had a big lead. so it looks like again momentum is shifting to romney in ohio. that s absolutely true. we have a 47, 47 split. we listed all the candidates that are certified on the ohio ballot. it s a tale of two calendars if you look at the early voters mitt romney trails barack obama by 13 among that small slice of early voters. but if you look at the people who are planning to vote or very likely to vote, it s just the opposite. mitt romney leads by 3. the net effect, 47, 47. okay. now, are you standing by you made news last week on this program by saying that your polling outfit pulled out of florida, virginia and north carolina because you guys had decided suffolk university that those states were going ....
It seems like everything s going to be okay, but it s a reminder that those two states in particular, ask michael bennet, a guy who some say shouldn t have won in 2010, and he ll tell you he won on the backs of two voting groups, women and hispanics. so what is it obama in the latest cbs/quinnipiac poll is plus 5 in ohio. there s been movement. what is it that s been working for romney in ohio that s dependent on the car industry and has benefited from it? i m just wondering what is resonating on team romney s side? chuck? i think it s what s not resonating on obama s side. and don t forget, ohio s always look, one of the things that we go through messaging, this or that, this campaign, i think a lot of us have thought it was always going to break down into a simple game of demographics. what s the percentage of the electorate that s going to be white in a particular state, and what percent s going to be ....
President obama and even they admitted it s a horse race. they dramatically increased their television in ohio in the last week in order to muscle up in a state that not long ago they said was settled and over and done. specifically our fox news polling on friday did give the advantage to governor romney in florida. three-point advantage remaining for the president in ohio. we see the number close up. it s tighter than it s been. what has to happen? you mentioned ads are up, spending is up for romney in ohio. what do they do to peak at the right moment? is it possible, with the data we have, to win ohio? sure, sure it is. ohio s up for grabs for both camps. the quality of the closing message for each side will matter. both sides are grappling with what that ought to be. the obama campaign has been running a negative barrage of ....
it does. fundamentally this just doesn t set up very well for mitt romney. his entire economic life, his entire economic plan, goes right against what ohio needs right now. middle class families who need a break. who at a time needed the automobile industry saved and he was against it. i don t know how he gets around that. there are just some real fundamentals that are going to be hard for him to overcome in ohio, and i think the president could have had a worse debate than he had last week and i don t think mitt romney would have overtaken him in the polls. look, there s a tremendous amount of passion amongst the base in the state of ohio. they felt the economy and they re feeling it coming back. and they re seeing it coming back. you can look at the amount of money being thrown at sherrod brown. he s still leading in the polls, and it s an insurmountable amount of money that we ve never seen so much this year in any other race. so the fundamentals are against romney in ohio but als ....