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nationally but across several swing states have shown romney gaining some traction and getting very close to overtaking the president in several key swing states and both nationally. now, the romney campaign did put out a memo earlier in the week throwing cold water on one ohio state poll they took issue with saying it wasn't properly calibrated but they are also at the same time touting a new "washington post" poll showing mitt romney leading the president nationally and doing very well among independents. at the same time we should p point out that along this tour he has hit a bit of a roadblock. one of his top surrogates, john sununu made some comments when he suggested that colin powell was endorsing the president because of his race. sununu put out a statement saying he believes powell endorsed the president because of his policies. it's not just the tough talk on the campaign trail that we're seeing that is causing things to get a little rocky out here. there is also the prospect of a major storm heading to the east coast. what forecasters have dubbed frankenstorm. it has already ca


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of these swing state numbers. usually they come together. it's possible that if say romney gets a plurality or a majority of 50.6, it's possible to see him losin the electoral college. if he's up over 51 or 52, it's hard to reconcile a two or three point win with an electoral loss. numbers have got to be pretty close. >> because the two are more likely to go in tandem is what you are saying. >> yeah, it's a crazy system. and david and i can have that debate. the electoral college is -- >> we can talk about that next. >> yes, in the off season. but let's understand this. there is a republican advantage in ohio. ohio is more republican than the nation. and internally, this one democratic statewide office holder, demoatic setor share odd brown, all the others are held by republicans. republicans have strong majorities in both houses of the legislature and congressional is 12 to 4, lines are drawn 12 to 4 t may end is up 11-5 because bette sutton may win a district. but it's a-- s so it's a republican state going in. the irony is for mitt romney, is that john kasich who you saw in the piece, th


of the undecided vote for romney i think romney has a good chance to win all those states but he is certainly going to win at least one so he is going to get at least the 15 votes. this business that everybody should hang on what happens in ohio is ridiculous. he could lose ohio and carry either pennsylvania or minnesota or michigan and wisconsin or new hampshire and iowa and win the election. and it is ridiculous to say that everything hinges on ohio. ohio is proving more in tractable and more dead even. but i believe that if you look at the polls in iowa they have many -- too many democrats and too few republicans and proper polls in iowa would show romney one or two points ahead. but frankly my view, greta, is that romney is going to win this election by more than five points and he is going to get north of 320 electoral votes. >> greta: let me ask you about the individual states. start first with pennsylvania. assume that he loses pennsylvania and ohio. byron york said that pennsylvania is sort of fool's gold and republicans think they can win it but never can win it. do you truly believe at th

here. look at the politics average. in this state the president's average and 48 and mitt romney 47. 1.3 percent separating the men in a state that is got four electoral vote. >> they are fighting for every vote. >> no doubt about it. it is a tight race. i want to remind our viewers that we will keep a watch on the pensacola event with mitt romney. when it happens, we'll bring it to you live. okay. now the other big story. forecasters are keeping a eye on hurricane sandy as it makes its way up the eastern sea board. next week some say could be quite powerful. mara molina is standing by with the latest on the storm track. >> and good to see you, sandy is expected to be a storm of historical porportion. it is not your typical hurricane. and it is maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour and doesn't lock - on look like one. there is dry air in training and so not looking like a hurricane and it is a large storm system where the winds are basically impacting the stretch a thousand miles from the northern end to the southern end of the storm. many people will feel the impact and talk ab

president of the united states while also trying to campaign. mitt romney doesn't have to do that. he could still go to ohio, go to wisconsin. go out west. and they can say we'll take down ads in virginia, but the campaign continues. that's where i think it's going to be dicey for the president. justifying being president and candidate obama. >> the flip of what you said, roland, you don't want to be in nevada saying vote for me while the east coast is suffering. >> it's all about the optics. you don't want people saying how callous of you. here, americans are suffering. they have damaged homes and are having to rebuild their lives and you're running around spending millions of dollar on campaign ads. it's not a good look. >> you made the case this is going to affect both of them. but the people that don't vote in the three or four days it affects their state, two days, whatever it is, some might not vote at all. >> that's a really thorny question. my guess is that those voters are going to turn out if they are intensely committed to either candidate. if not, that's a concern for both campa




of the swing states when it comes to the ground game, the campaign offices. how does mitt romney make up for his deficit there? >> well, here, the victory program that the republican national committee is operating in conjunction with the various state parties has been very effective here in new hampshire. we organize north, east, south and west. we have hundreds of volunteers and a great victory staff and we have the inneenthusiasm and the drive. we're matching president obama. >> the other big story we're following is sandy, another tropical storm, but could really put a wrench in the plan for the campaigns. how is the state party working to compensate for that? >> well, because this is just a recent development, we are working with the, you know, we are working on various contingencies and those are in process even as i speak. the good news is sandy is hitting during this week. many of these problems resolved by election time and we're monitoring power outages and challenges that develop. those plans are in process right now. >> wayne mcdonald, good to have you. >> thank you. >>> comi

romney lives just a few miles south of here in the state of massachusetts. love massachusetts. but during governor romney's campaign for governor down there, he promised the same thing he's promising now. said he would fight for jobs and middle class families. but once he took office, he pushed through a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefitted 278 of the wealthiest families in the state, and then he raised taxes and fees on middle class families to the tune of $750 million. does that sound familiar to you? now, when he's asked about this, he said, these weren't taxes. these were fees. keep in mind, there were higher fees to be a barber, higher fees to become a nurse. there were higher fees for gas. there were higher fees for milk. there were higher fees for blind people who needed to get a certificate that they were blind. he raised fees to get a birth certificate, which would have been expensive for me. [ cheers and applause ] he raised fees -- he raised fees for marriage certificates and fees for funeral homes. so there were literally cradle to grave tax hikes and fees. and when he left

. in a battleground state like this, the president's getting the democrats, romney's getting a republicans, the candidate who wins among independents is reichlreic likely to win. that is critical the watch in the last week to election day. there's also an age divide. it's important as well. you see a huge leap for the president. 56-38, among voters under 50. that's an important part of his constituency. republicans need the older voters by 2i-46. governor romney would like that to be bigger. there's also a racial and gender gap, if you will. i want to put it this way. the president is, if he is above 40% in the white vote, he tends to win a state because of the demographics like ohio. you see them here, 41% of white men, 46% of white women. if the president can hold those numbers, it's most likely he would hang on to ohio. >> from all the math i've seen out there, it's incredibly difficult for mitt romney to get to the white house without ohio. what is his game plan if he doesn't win the buckeye state? >> you know the history. no republican has ever won the the white house without winning



of the swingiest swing states. mitt romney has been in nevada and in iowa and in ohio and then ohio three more times and then iowa and then, yes, ohio again. that's mitt romney's travel itinerary for the last few days. but his running mate paul ryan is doing something very different than that. this hasn't been getting much attention, but he was in mid-land, texas. he was back for that evening for it this event with dick cheney and glen beck. a man who is a sensation on the internet where he sells pants now. paul ryan has this week also been in georgia at two separate fundraisers in south carolina and today he was in huntsville, alabama. i think we have photos of him arriving in huntsville, alabama. tickets were up to $5,000 a pop. but that's in alabama. i mean, the election is a week from tuesday and you're in alabama? is alabama swinging this year? this is not swing state travel. it's not preaching to the choir. it's like preaching to the mirror at this point. on the democratic ticket, the vice president has a different role to play than the president does. it is underappreciated what joe bid

holds the lead in seven of nine swing states. mitt romney is just ahead in two of them. we'll take a look at l thesewo mittttomomy y atat firsrs florida and north carolina. in north carolina mitt romney has a 2-point lead. this is again today's polls. he is also ahead in florida, but by actually less than a point. as for the president, he is ahead in these seven swing states but extremely small margins. as you can see, no more than three points in any of these states, all within the margin of error, but the momentum actually seems to be moving in the president's direction. let's take a look at virginia. we're seeing a trend there that is interesting, and playing out in several swing states. the president was up early, right? this was the 47% video, and he did well -- he was doing well at that point, but romney made his big jump after that first debate, and that's where we crossed, but now you see that romney is coming back down and the president is actually retaking the lead after that. so the good news is that there does seem to be a shift in that momentum. no

may still be the keys. no republican has ever won the white house without winning that state, and this year's nominee is campaigning as if that still is a rule. mitt romney took a break from his ohio marathon and went to iowa. >> we're going to create 12 million new jobs in just four years. we'll see rising take-home pay, and we'll get america's economy growing at 4% a year, more than double this year's rate. >> reporter: the former governor has improved his poll numbers because since the first debate, more voters just like him. >> mitt romney used to be upside down in terms of his likability. well, that's no longer the case. >> reporter: back in lebanon, ohio, a pretty town in the key swing state. >> that's true. >> reporter: these sisters sell furniture. cassie voted for barack obama in '08, but decided to switch after she went to see mitt romney. >> i believed his promises and that he would do his best. and i think it's time for a change. >> reporter: the president ended his campaign marathon in ohio last night, and today is arguing 2% growth in the third quarter, the new

and michigan which have been reliably democratic states for decades possibly romney getting close there and if that happens, that obviously gives him more opportunities to get to the 270 electoral votes he or obama needs to win. >> you mentioned virginia which is one of the key swing states. we understand you're going to have mark warner on your show this weekend. >> we are. we decided let's look at four of the key swing states. we're going to get senators from those four states, rob portman of ohio and mark warner of virginia and mark udall of colorado and ron johnson of wisconsin and talk to them. we'll talk about what's going on on the ground, early voting, ground games to get out the vote, what are the key issues. in ohio the auto bailout, in southwestern virginia concerns that obama and the epa may be stifling the coal industry. so there are a lot of specific issues in each of those states. we'll get as good of sense as you can get sunday nine days before the election of where things stand in the states that will decide the election. >> let me ask as we get down to the wire h

that trip throughout the state tomorrow and campaign with mitt romney in marian and then coming up of course in just a bit here, about 11:30 a.m., about now, we will be taking you to zanesville high school nancy reagahigh school inohio. a look at the battleground statements. we've been doing a watch journal, this one, a short focus on wisconsin. as we focus on the state of wisconsin, and joining us also from milwaukee, is craig gilbert, he's with the "milwaukee journal," mr. gilbert, thanks for joining us. >> nice to be with you. >> a couple of facts according to what we've gathered when it comes to the states, when itfact comes to wisconsin specifically, we're looking at 10 electoral votes. currently, we're looking at an unemployment rate of 7.3% and in 2008, the president won reelection. 13.9 percentage points. mr. gilbert, can we start with the economics of wisconsin, specifically with the unemployment rate. can you give us and elabor rate on the unemployment rate what it means for the state not only economically but politically. sa >> the unemployment rate is below the national rate. if

in the pelican state has six electoral votes. in 20 08, president obama had the victory in iowa. >> mitt romney travel to the important groun b ground states which is aide important speech on the economy. however, it was no big change for his team of the week. it is the candidate for big change. >> what this requires is a change change in the last four years. it requires the put aside the small, petty and demand the scale of change we deserve. we need real change, big change. >> he also returned to his line of attack that there's no second term agenda. the with the stimulus, but three years after, that is for a government but it will not stimulate the private sector any better than it did this stimulus for years ago. >> as it turns out, the site at this construction site has been receiving stimulants money it tracks the government spending and the government received a small business loans of over $1 million. this speech was the same as the government announcing that it was going to purchase 2% of this quarter this year beating estimates. but not as good as past predictions from tfrom the presi

battle ground state mitt romney promised to rejuvenate the american economy and vowed bipartisan leadership. >> meet with democrat and republican leaders in washington regularly. we're going to look for common ground. we'll put interest of the american people above the interest of the politicians. >> the republican presidential nominee pledged policy changes. and romney is out campaigning g.o.p. vice presidential nominee spent the day fund raising. >> money matters another set back for apple. it's stock dipped below $600 a share for the first time in three months today. closing at 6:05. down 100 points in a no because of lower earnings. apple says the new mini sold out for now. the dow industrials are down more than 200 points for the week. the nasdaq went up slightly. s and p lost a little ground today. one owned a television network? the new york post reports current tv founded by former vice president al gore put itself up for sale. >> there is more still to come tonight. just ahead abc 7 news i team. >> with a bizarre rant of a serial killer told the key to a disappearance of

in this state, now owned by the italians, is thinking of moving all production to china. >> wow. mr. romney saying, hey, don't get too comfy there, ohio, with the obama rescue of the automotive industry. i know it's been better. he saved everything here and that's why you have jobs and everything, but don't get too comfy, ohio, i read that they're moving all the jobs working for jeep. they're moving all the jeep jobs to china. he said that in ohio on the campaign trail 12 days before the election. and it is not true at all. the real jeep news that day was actually that chrysler announced it was adding 1100 new jobs in the u.s. here. making jeeps in detroit. jeep grand cherokees. and chrysler says it could hire almost as many people at another plant in warren, michigan. in ohio crisler is investing half a billion dollars in its toledo plant and hiring 1100 workers. but mitt romney got up that said defiance, ohio, and said he read somewhere that jeep is moving all of its production jobs to china. all of them. that's ridiculous. what is he talking about? it's embarrassing for mr. romney, right


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