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In new hampshire and pennsylvania, all tied at 47% in both those states. that's according to a wmur and tribune review polls. pennsylvania hasn't gone republican since 1988. virginia, ohio, colorado, statistical tie. the columbus dace patch has the president up two in ohio and the denver post has him up two in colorado. all three of those are within the margin of error. this is a tight race. i think you get the picture here. the candidates spending the final hours locking up their position on the trails. mitt romney is on to columbus, ohio, capping in new hampshire with special guest kid rock....

>> that's an interesting symbol to get back to at one point. but back to the battlegrounds where tomorrow's election will ultimately be decided, iowa, the latest "des moines register" poll has president obama with a fi five-point lead over mitt romney. >> go back to that one for one second. >> go back to iowa. >> the iowa polls, of all the polls that are out, this is the only poll where romney people have shown despair. they don't believe a lot of the ohio polls. this one really surprised them this weekend. they really believed they were going to win iowa. i don't know if they believe that at ...

Did in iraq without a status of forces agreement, which would allow the u.s. to have some influence in that process. >> governor sununu, you reiterated the same afghanistan policy i heard from candidate romney about pakistan and -- >> the race for president is not how you -- what nuance you want to find in the afghanistan policy. it's whether or not you understand the strategic fabric of that whole region. and the critical issue in that particular issue is how you deal with pakistan. and that's what governor romney put a little focus on we haven't heard from the president in a long, long time....

>> 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...

>> custom over the last i don't know, 20, 30 years i suppose has been to release at least a couple of years of tax returns. if you know you're running for president anyway, i think it's part of the price of running. obama did it, so i think romney probably should do it. >> i think the idea that this is somehow exceptional, that there should be a rationale or a justification for doing more than the very bare minimum has it backwards. i mean, the assumption should be you do what previous presidential candidates did dating back for decades. and governor romney's own dad says, well, the reason i p...