virginia, obama 48, 48 romney. colorado 47.6, 47.8 there. i mean, interesting mix of numbers. quickly, i have to ask you, when you wake up in the morning and try to assess where the race is, is that the horse race you re following right now? i don t obsess over every single poll. i look at nate silver and other websites to see what the averages of the big polls are. some i count more in my mind than others. but, you know, the bottom line fact is that when you climb to 270 electoral votes and discussed it with the previous guest obama has many more past that than romney does still right now. michael, thank you very much. we showed before you came on the latest nate silver average of numbers and he does have obama up right now. thank you so much. i greatly appreciate it. always a pleasure. developing now, governor romney campaigning in nevada, day two of the governor on the
and, florida. obviously, those three states are critical to the any victory, either side. and we think we can win all three of those and win those three states plus ohio and, wisconsin and, missouri, which we won last time and we have over 270 electoral votes and they ve got to basically take something out of the mix and take north carolina, florida, ohio, out of the mix and it is hard to get to 270 but i think, we are well positioned at this point. bill: this is a battle ground state and a lot of folks before 2008 would not consider it that way. look at the other battleground states now and look how close the polling numbers are. this is iowa, obama, 45, romney, 44.8. colorado, obama, 47.6, romney, 46. ohio, obama, 46.6, romney, 45.2. virginia, obama, 47.3, romney, 46.7. they are all within the margin of error, ed? every, single one of these states is competitive and every,
president obama has been there six times, mitt romney four times. of course it was in colorado that president obama was nominated at the democratic convention four years ago. in terms of the polls, well the real clear politics average has president obama at 47.6%, mitt romney enjoying the support of 46% of the colresidents. let s talk about it with allison sheri, the dc correspondent for the denver post and joins us now. allison, i read an interesting piece in the post the other day that ace although president obama won the state by about 4 percentage points over john mccain, it s a much tighter race this time around, and one projection has mitt romney taking colorado. can you talk about that a little bit? i think that it s very close right now. i think the polls i ve seen are one or two percentage points apart. mitt romney was very popular
resounding victory. next on tuesday comes minnesota, missouri, and colorado. but will the win last night in nevada help cement his frontrunner status in the race for the nomination? john roberts live in las vegas with the very latest. good morning, john. good morning to you, eric. certainly mitt romney is beginning to look like he s got it cemented in place, beginning to look more and more like the nominee. these are pictures from last night, that might add to the air of inevitability around mitt romney. he picked up secret service protection a couple days ago. take a look at this. he s shaking hands with the crowd at his victory party last night at the red rock casino. does that look like a guy who s the candidate? sure looks like a nominee at this point. 47.6% of the vote for mitt romney at this point, compared to 22.6 for newt gingrich, ron paul and rick santorum behind that, but vote problems in clark county, where we are in las vegas. only 50% of the vote has been counted. we re
take a look at this picture working the rope line after his victory speech. he s beginning to look like a nominee. he s got two big wins in a row, three in total, and last night he ignored his rivals, focusing strictly on president obama making this look like it s already a two-man race. take a listen. our campaign is about more than just replacing the president, however. this is really a campaign about saving the soul of america. president obama says he wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore to america the founding principles that made this country great. now, at this point mitt romney leading with 47.6% of the vote. that s not going to change. newt gingrich is in second place with 22.6%. and ron paul behind him, about 19%. here s the issue only 50% of the votes in the biggest county,