grassroots machine in place, which we do, and you have the energy and enthusiasm it gives us an advantage. i think we ll win ohio and i think it will be narrow and as goes ohio, they say, so goes the country. i feel pretty good about where we are. what we have to do today is make sure that we outwork the romney campaign for one more day. we have to get our guys to the polls and make sure people understand at every step of this election just how important this day is, and if we do that, we ll be very happy later on tonight. 19, past the hour, joining us now in democracy plaza, nbc political strategist, and daily writer, and washington post columnist jonathan kaypart. steve schmitt still at the table, as well. good to have you onboard. bob, tell us, what s it like in the morning on these presidential elections and what are you doing? i know mitt romney is
and bob schrum, what you did, but i ll tell you what, i woke up early. i get in my car and i drove by myself. i mean, on election day i stayed away. i mean, it is even if you re running for a little congressional seat it is a nerve-racking experience. it is a brutal day. it feels like a you have no higher aspiration day in 04 and 08 and 06 and you just want to be by yourself. you don t want to answer any questions, but it is an awful, awful, awful day if you re in these campaigns. and everyone has to work, you know. the candidate has to work in the presidential campaign, but if you do if you re not out to pittsburgh or cleveland, you re sitting in a room and you re doing interview after interview after interview with local tv stations in battleground states. all day. you do it from 7:00 in the morning all of the way up to 7:00 or 8:00 or 9:00 at night.
the buckeye state? well, the campaign says they re confident. on the other hand, mika, in all of the years i ve been covering campaigns never heard one of them say on the morning of the election that they felt like they were scared, so there s that. bob schrum makes a really good point in that these are the longest days of the campaign when they re waiting when people are voting and what i was told this morning was that the decision to go to ohio and pennsylvania was mitt romney s. he basically said i don t want to be sitting in a hotel room and twiddling my thumbs. i want to get out there and obviously, pennsylvania is a state that they ve tried to push in the closing week of this campaign. they put a lot of money into advertising, but ohio, when he and paul ryan go to ohio, we ve been counting the number of visits by the four candidates and their spouses. it will be number 126 and 127th visits this year by the candidates to ohio, and i think you heard from ron portman this
speak for themselves and that s why we re all in this business and that s why we re all in democracy plaza, so let it roll. one of the most irritating one of the things that drives me crazy is every time i hear someone go to the floor of the house or the senate and say the american people want how do you know what the american people want? what poll, what focus group don t speak for 300 million american people? i never said that on the floor. people are now going through your old speeches. yea. there are now legions of people in mommy s basement on the computer. howard feinman, bob schrum, thank you very much. jonathan, steve, stay with us. still ahead, nbc s kelly o donnell joins us live from ohio and standing by in the morning joe cafe, andrew ross
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