viewer early votes or requested that many absentee than in 2008. they have fire or five days to go. on the other hand republicans have voted or requested 75,858 more absentee ballots than four years. that is a delta of 250,000 from democrats to republicans and remember obama won it by 262,000. if you need evidence of how energized the republican base is in ohio. >> steve: lookk at gretch, your home state of minnesota and new mexico, romney people are putting ads on those states which had been, they figured they were solidlyy blue. maybe not so solidly. apparently romney is running ads in detroit. they think there is a chance to actually pull something off there. >> very interesting.