0 that's why we are still dealing with some potential for stronger wind gusts and decent rain along the coast of south carolina and north carolina. north eastern north carolina and south eastern south carolina will be almost a pivot point for this storm to rotate on. that's going to produce heavy torrential rain in that area. it is moving northeast right now. still sounds weird that this storm is ever going to take this turn to the northwest, but it is going to happen. it's going to happen especially early monday. sunday night into monday morning is when it takes that turn. look at the size of this storm. we are seeing clouds all the way from florida, stretching up into new jersey at this time. eventually the rain with this storm will make its way up the eastern seaboard. right now the heaviest of the rain, dark shades of green, yellows here, that's where we have your torrential downpours. notice how it's just offshore. the majority of the lighter rain is what's affecting the coastline of south carolina and north carolina and eventually will move up into virginia. these are current wind gusts, gusting up to around 30, 35 miles per hour. think how far away the storm is and winds are still that strong. as this moves onshore from east to west, believe it or not, that's when we'll see our strongest winds. we've got a stalled front to our west, a huge area of high pressure to our northeast. this storm has nowhere to go but west. it sounds so bizarre. that's what makes this storm so unusual. the way it's moving in to the delmarva area and into the mid-atlantic. we are going to see this storm affect somewhere in new jersey down through delaware into maryland. we'll end up with about eight to ten or more inches of rain. we are not just looking at inland flooding, but coastal flooding because of a four to five foot storm surge. power outages will be the biggest issue with wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour with the leaves on the trees. those will come down on power lines. we could be talking about power outages through the weekend and about small businesses. massachusetts when he was governor ranked 48th in small business creation. one of the two states that ranked lower was louisiana that had gotten hit by hurricane katrina. so this is a guy who has a track record of saying one thing and doing something else. on the other hand, when i ran four years ago, i made promises, too. i promised to cut taxes for middle class families and i did by $3,600. i promised to cut taxes for small business owners and i did 18 times. i promised to end tax-payer funded wall street bailouts and we have. by the way, we got every dime worth of money we used for the bank rescue and got interest >> president obama at a middle school in nashua, new hampshire there. spending a fair amount of time talking about governor romney's record. also spent time basically laying out why he doesn't think governor romney would be a friend of middle class in this country, and got quite the applause with his birther joke there in front of the crowd. kristen walker has been traveling with the president. let's talk about the energy there and the size of that crowd. can you give us an idea about both of those things? >> well, we haven't gotten an official crowd count yet, craig. i can tell you that the crowd here is certainly energized. a couple thousand people. james taylor started things off, warmed up the crowd before president obama took the stage, so he got things going. president obama getting a lot of cheers. the president has made this his closing arguments really about trust. you heard him say that essentially mitt romney does not do what he says he's going to do. he talked about his record as governor in massachusetts. of course, that is a neighboring state to new hampshire. this crowd quite familiar with mitt romney's record. one of the things president obama focusing on today and really throughout his campaign speeches recently is the fact that mitt romney says he is not going to increase taxes for middle class families and that he did that while he was governor of massachusetts. the romney campaign pushing back saying president obama is in attack mode because he doesn't have his own record to run on. both candidates really going after independent voters here in new hampshire. this race is essentially tied up. president obama has a narrow lead here, but certainly not a significant one. four electoral votes here. in a race this tight, every single electoral vote is key. president obama carried this state in 2008. unemployment rate far below the national average, but mitt romney has a strong presence here. not only was he governor of neighboring massachusetts, but he owns a house here in new hampshire. kristen welker, thank you for that report. from new hampshire to the sunshine state. many residents down here in florida not waiting until election day to cast their ballots. just this morning, hundreds, thousands lining up at polling places to lock in their support for their candidate of choice. will this early electoral activity impact what we see on november 6th? joining me to talk about it, a.b. stoddard associate editor on the hill and jeff greenberg. a.b., let me start with you. both candidates want to bank votes, but this has been a major push for the president, in particular. he made it his public service announcement on the trail. can democrats make enough strides with in-person early voting to prevent sweating out election night? >> well, that's what they hope. if you talk to them in these last two weeks, the goal has been all along they said they were well aware of it early enough in the cycle to really hone other energy and resources to make sure they turned out early vote among their supporters. their argument is at this point they are going to win even if they don't get any persuadable voters these last days. if they just turn out their supporters, they are going to win. the concern is all along that their supporters are disappointed, maybe they've become apathetic. maybe they support obama, but that's not getting in the car. these rallies where they take you right to a voting place is going to make a difference for president obama. it won't if romney has more votes and wins. it's important to remind the supporters what's at stake and to get them to bank those votes in advance. >> jeff, we are expecting sandy to throw quite the wrench into some campaigning. governor romney shifting his stops tomorrow from virginia to ohio. power outages after the storm could really shift priorities for a lot of swing state voters. how big could the political impact of sandy be? s. >> well, the first thing to think about, since you know i like to do the counterfactual history. what if sandy hit on tuesday november 6th? that would be something that has never happened before, as far as i can tell in american politics. the broader point, if i may, is that the obama campaign, its one advantage even in the midst of the last couple of weeks since the first debate of declining leads is that it's had four years, five, if you count the 2008 campaign, to build a turnout machine. the sophistication of how you locate your voters and how you persuade them to vote has changed by a factor of a million, he said slightly exaggerated, in the last couple of decades. the bush campaign did this in 2004 in what was called bankrupt targeting. the obama campaign has gone to school on it and brought it to a whole new level. the sophistication of locating voters and the kinds of persuasion tools you use, things like when you call a perspective voter and say do you plan to vote, how are you going to do it, what time? the whole point is psychological to get people in the frame of mind to vote. my guess is whether it's -- go ahead, i'm sorry. >> i was about to say. it's something i have seen up close and personal in north carolina and ohio and now florida, as well. i want to get back to that later. the ground game is what you're talking about, jeff greenfield. you and a.b. stoddard are going to come back and join me. do stand by. up next, if you think there is only one path to victory, you're wrong. we are going to give you a peek at what the candidates have up their sleeve next because there's more than one way to skin a cat, as they say. where others fail, droid powers through. introducing the new droid razr maxx hd by motorola. now more than ever droid does.