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Earlier in the week, the Seattle Mariners unveiled a new nickname for their bullpen -- Los Bomberos.

Historically if you look at the match up between john mccain and barack obama in 2008, by the way on the map, red is republican, blue is democrat. in north carolina, i don't know if there was a race that could get any closer than this unless you're in florida and year 2000 between al gore and george bush. barack obama and john mccain. there were 4.2 million votes cast north carolina between the two. about 14,000 votes separates these two men, barack obama winning it by 14,000 votes. statistical dead heat at 50% to 50%. in virginia, from 2008 you have to go back to 1964 before virginia voted fo...

He is live in asheville, airport. that is fletcher, north carolina, where president obama will push his jobs plan there, ed and good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, bill. you're right it is all about the map. how do you get to the magic number of 270 electoral votes to win the next presidential election. the bottom line is, as you way it out, virginia and north carolina combined have 28 electoral votes. that will be very important. both of these states, democrats carried it for first time in a long time, both of those states. there are some other math may be weighing the president d...

Bill: ed, republicans are outspoken about this jobs bill. how is this debate shaping up especially with democrats in the senate that don't like it? >> reporter: the bottom line what the president will do on this bus tour is to try to target individual pieces. we've seen him do that before but he will try to put an even finer point on it. here at the asheville, airport. talks about infrastructure spending. has only one runway. needs some repairs. go to a high school talking about making sure teachers don't get laid off. the argument struggled with, congress going nowhere. when you talk to senio...