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The swing county that will tell us what moved. it's also a new way of showing our new technology where we have a lot more stuff from '04 to '08. the big one here in florida is hillsborou hillsborough, it's the tampa area. there's the blue square that represents what president obama did. he carried it in 2008. it's a county that he actually flipped. and when you see, you see not much moved from blue to red when he flipped in '04. bush carried that by kerry and obama won it. it's one of the counties that you wonder, okay, where's it going? it will tell you where florida went. in ohio, the bigges...

Here is late last week this court victory in ohio, where an appeals court judge saying that your state can't single out the military for special treatment in terms of early voting the weekend before the election itself. so, it goes for that sunday souls to the polls. >> yes. >> here's the interesting thing, though. so, the courts say that this three-day weekend and this time period can't be closed. however, county by county, they can have the final say? >> well, thomas, the courts just reset the law. it went back to the original law in the state of ohio. so, all along it was up to the county b...

Tighter race. romney's strategy depends on winning the suburbs as well as driving up margins with social conservatives and active military and veterans in colorado springs and the rural areas of the state and doing well with voters here. the swing county like the state as a whole has become more hispan hispanic. colorado is 18% latino. that's up from 11.8% in 2000. the question is whether they cast ballots this time around. so how do voters in denver's swing suburbs known for being independent thinkers feel about the candidates? tom bro ka talked with a bunch of undecided voters in the great s...

300,000 in value to their homes. it's all about the economy in this portion of colorado. >> bret: do you agree with that? >> yeah. sure. hispanic vote to go back to that is absolutely interesting in colorado. there is long standing hispanic communities in colorado. southern part of colorado, there is communities that have been here since before the nation was a nation. so there is a lot of nuance in the hispanic vote. they tend to vote for the democrats. in fact we did a poll that showed 20-point gap in favor of his obama with hispanics voters. >> do you see enthusiasm on the republican side i...

Back. i think both candidates probably could take some pointers from those folks. you're going to hear a lot of them on special report tonight. jenna: just really quick here, bret how specific do they want each candidate to get. we hear back and forth, they want real specifics, no they want great personality and leadership, the specifics are not that important. what are you hearing from voters. >> the people we talked to pretty much across the board were pretty much into the weeds on both sides. they wanted to know what exactly was going to happen, how it was going to affect them and how eithe...