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Florida. even without florida we know the president has enough folks for victory in the electoral college. here are results in the battleground states we're talking so much about in the last several months. president obama claiming every nearly single one except north carolina. you see the outlyer there in red. florida still remains too close to call. as we mentioned the outcome won't decide the race, won't impact results. but you can see from the map that president obama was ahead in key areas in the south and along the i-4 corridor. steve boske, tallahassee bureau chief for the "tampa bay ti...

Prepared for the onslaught of voters that she got down there. people were voting late into the night last night. jenna: even the president said, no, sorry to interrupt. even the president said last night when he was giving his speech something about the long lines. by the way, we got to fix that. is it possible to fix it, steve, in florida? >> i think it is but i think that there's going to be, it is a highly partisan issue here. because early voting now was very important to barack obama's first election in 2008. frankly early voting declined a little bit this time and more people, more and m...

Nationally about the importance of hillsborough county which is where tampa is located as a bellwether county. it proved to be again in the election in florida. the i-4 corridor is where these elections are won and lost. jenna: here we are again paying close attention to that, steve. still awaiting results. we see in florida all the conversation about who is able to vote when. the long lines that wrap around the blocks. we have video of that. we have been seeing that over the last couple days. why is it like this in florida? >> well, this is an issue that i think has been fairly demagogued by ...

Though they cut down the days of early voting they extended hours. the hours were the same. days were shorter. highly partisan argument about voting in florida. we'll continue to watch for the result, steve. any anticipation when we will get those? >> i think you will have them shortly. but we had another situation here which is that the new election law required more people to vote provisionally, provisional ballot, especially college students transient between counties. the election supervisors are about to shift gears and start counting looking at provisional ballots. i don't think they wil...