has reported today that private republican polls have shown them slipping behind in ohio. joining me is romney senior adviser former missouri senator jim talent. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. how big a challenge is ohio for you? if you look at the battleground map, ohio is pretty important. you have to really win a lot of other states where which are challenging for you if you don t get ohio? yeah. it s definitely an important state, andrea. i m pleased with where we re at. i mean the polls show it s virtually a dead heat and this, despite the fact we re just coming off the democratic convention and they had a huge cash advantage for the last several months. the number of battle ground states we can play in is expanding, wisconsin is in play, closing in new mexico. i like our overall picture. the reason it s this way because the american people know we have to have a change. the real unemployment rate is 14.3%, 4 people gave up looking