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>> bret: welcome back to beautiful downtown portsmouth, new hampshire. we're at popover's bakery and cafe talking with a group of local political experts about the race here in new hampshire. we're pleasured to be joined by kevin landrigen, and james pindel from wmur, and andy smith. thanks for being here. rockingham county is a swing county. we're here because it's a very interesting place. new hampshire has a state that went for president obama last time. he won all 10 counties in new hampshire. rockingham had the smallest smat margin, just about 1500 votes. here in portsmouth it's a democra...

Nassau county new york, from cell phones and how they screened for the voters in the hall. could somebody answer all of these questions and say, yeah i'm uncommitted and have an agenda to try to get into that hall? of course, but gallup is saying they did their best to screen for uncommitted voters. >> interesting, a venue, of course for showers, in 23 days, the swing states to learn something about them. you're in one tonight. tell us about it. >> yeah, we're continuing with the swing counties around the country and we have been to a number of them taking the show on the road. we're in rockin...

Welcome back, everybody. nbc has new technology that drills right down to the heart of the battle in key swing states. it's an even better way to show you the most critical battleground counties, and joining me now to show it off is chuck todd, nbc's chief political director and white house political correspondent as well as host of "the daily rundown" here on msnbc. and chuck, these are some of the most interesting counties, and i think that you've also come up with new names for all of them, correct? >> well, we have. first, yeah, a little bit of that. but look, every state, every swing stat...

21,000 votes. it's going to tell you a lot about what's happening in ohio by where that goes. and then moving on into virginia, it won't come as a surprise to folks that the big swing county is in the northern virginia area, since that's where all the growth has been. and i'm sure folks are wondering, is it -- well, let me move here. technology stalls a little bit. is it a loudon, a fairfax, a prince william? well, according to our numbers, it's prince william, and the county seat of prince william, that's manassas. the joke about virginia is when you drive on i-66 in virginia, the welcome cen...

About that county, thomas, it's what i call a dual threat county. it's a county that's growing in population, becoming more democratic, and it's a margin county now at this point when it comes to president obama. >> we love when you get specific and rename all these different states with the counties. >> flohva, baby. flohva, flohva, flohva. >> flohva, flohva, okay. nbc's political director chuck todd. chuck, thank you so much. you can always watch chuck right here on "the daily rundown," 9:00 a.m. eastern weekdays on msnbc. some breaking news to talk about out of ohio right now. campus poli...