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Is between now and tomorrow. the president is voting in illinois tomorrow. so the iowa, colorado, california, nevada, florida, virginia, and then illinois trip that the president is on right now is a 48-hour trip. it does not even get him until the end of the week. on the other side of the aisle, mitt romney and his running mate, paul ryan, are taking it much slower than the democrats at this point. mr. romney had one event this afternoon in nevada. he has another event right now in iowa. and that's it for the whole day. paul ryan gave a speech in ohio today, and that one event was it for him....

>> what you are seeing from the obama campaign is an incredibly shrinking campaign. the president is out of ideas. he is out of excuses. in november you are going to make sure he's out of office. >> they went to polls like this one gallup tracking polls nationally. there is also the rasmussen tracking poll which is similar giving romney a four-point edge with 2 percent undecided. not a whole lot of voters out there to play with. part of the national picture is concerned they see that breaking down. the yellow states here are the swing states an the tossup states. 7 of them right now in play fr...

Getting worse, that could have some affect. >>neil: quickly, peter, the idea we can get out of the popular vote one way and the electoral vote another, do you buy that submission it is possible. a lot more possible than three or four weeks ago. it is clear that mitt romney is either tied or slightly ahead in a number of national tracking polls. only by a little. but a little. but the emleg inform -- but the electoral college, obama is doing better in scenting states especially in ohio. that could be the big deal. in that situation, it is possible you get a split verdict but a split verdict doe...

Monday, andrea, four days of interviews, and on monday among likely voters we had it obama 49, romney 48. on tuesday -- that was the friday through monday interviews. we had it romney 49/obama 48. what does that tell me? it tells me the race is very, very close and yes, "the washington post" does key for that astute analysis. i think we have to be careful not to make too much of slight movements. we're doing these tracking polls because i think it's fascinating to watch the last couple weeks how things play out, but 49/48, will 48/49 it's close nationally. keep your eye on the swing states. on...

What are we to make of that? >> honestly whenever i see a poll, with the president up, whether it's national or state, or mitt romney up nationally or state, i need to see more than one. that's one. >> sean: that's fair. >> second of all, left or right, i need to see that in the swing states. right now i'm just looking at -- i'm really looking at ohio. >> you always have to -- even though gallup is the most prestigious polling company, organization in the nation, you also have to average them out. scott rasmussen, our friend, we all admire him very much, says in the polls you have to look at t...