the president had a late night rally. it was a state he carried four years ago. i know a bunch of you already voted. but if haven t there s still time. 30 million of them could be the real wild card this time around. the obama campaign is counting on locking down some of that support. plenty other variables, though. including pennsylvania. it was once thought to be a safe place for the president. fou the romney campaign is making a last minute push. it reflectses confidence or as the obama campaign says desperation. they have tried to expand the map because they know that in the states like ohio where they have to win no republican has ever been elected without carrying the state of ohio. that is true but the obama campaign is concerned about perhaps losing pennsylvania to the point they have dispatched former president clinton to make four stops there today. back to you.
doug luzader live for us in washington. problems at the polls in the battle ground state of florida. a judge ordered one early voting location to stay open for an additional four-hours yesterday. meanwhile at other locations people quickly lost patience waiting up to 6 hours to cast their ballot. this is not cuba. this is not china. we cannot allow this to happen. phil keating joins us live from tampa, florida to tell us where things stand right now. hey, phil. hi. the big crowd continues as a very high level of enthusiasm amongst the voters. mitt romney had 17,000 people at a rally. president obama pulled 23,000 in broward county. thanks to the judge s order 332 extra people voted early for four-hours yesterday in winter
it s all about getting out the vote. thank you very much. early voting has come to answered in the battle ground state of florida, but not before many counties saw a record, gigantic lines. and phil keating joins us from tampa, and the numbers. it was crazy yesterday, phil. absolutely, reportedly six hour waits at certain locations in miami-dade county outside of the precinct on friday, three and a half hours all day long to stand in line, shuffle forward and finally cost their ballot. the numbers are big despite the fact in 2008 there was early voting on this sunday before election day, this year, there is not. and that s been a point of convention, democrats and democrat leaning groups have called that voting suppression engineered by the republican dominated legislature and governor s office in the state of florida. however, despite those cries,
until, just figured it was normal. then about 8:15 her boss called me, just starting basically and it is too bad, hopefully nothing bad has happened but. bill: hours after whitney was reported missing police found her car abandoned near her home with the passenger side window smashed and there was mud on the tires. that mystery continues. martha: absolutely. an investigation is now underway into possible voter fraud in the battle ground state of florida after claims that several people previously voted in more than one state in the same federal election. steve harrigan joins me in miami. so, steve, where is this going? reporter: martha, it is coming from a watchdog organization that turned over 36 names to florida state officials. 36 people they claim have voted in two different states at the same time in a previous federal election. right now florida officials say there is enough evidence so far on just two of those cases to turn it over to law
for america in the battle ground state of florida. and making comments about his lively hailed perfrformancen wednesday night during the debate. john roberts joins us live from florida. what is romney up to now? reporter: well, good evening. hard to believe, after all of this we are down to the final 30 days. the governor is leaving florida. he is headed up to the airport now to fly to virginia. he is going to lexington, virginia, wrap up up a three-day campaign swing in the horse race of florida, which is difficult to see a win without florida. the chief strategist is predicting victory in the sunshine state. certainly a lot of folks at the campaign event were down-hearted until wednesday s debate are newly energized. governor romney look forward to the next debate a week from