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across there on that beautiful fall day? this. there is no hiding under a rock. you have to be in a different universe if you haven t received some means of voter contact, whether it is a phone call, a door knock. there is a lot of weight on your shoulders. a lot of weight. a lot of weight. [ male announcer ] start with nothing, build a ground-breaking car. good. now build a time machine. go here, find someone who can build a futuristic dash board display. bring future guy back. watch him build a tft display like nothing you ve ever seen. get him to explain exactly what that is. the thin film transistor display. [ male announcer ] mmm, maybe not. just show it. customize the dash, give it park assist. the fuel efficiency flower thing. send future guy home, his work here is done. destroy time machine. win some awards, send in brady. that s how you do it. easy.
democrats supported by unions. their machine energized recently defeated anti-union law championed by the republican governor. it is a huge advantage and one of the things that isn t focused on by the national media because at end of the day it was state issue. reporter: through that, through the primary voting trends have been established. individual voters entered into databases and courted aggressively over the phone. do you know if charles will support mitt romney this year for president? reporter: think the mail and in person with detailed information about what that voter wants. there is no hiding under a rock. you have to be in a different universe if you haven t received some means of voter contact whether it s a phone call, whether it s a door knock or ads. reporter: every voter in the eye state knows his or her vote counts. we re all intensely aware here, right? reporter: if you live in one much these battleground states, you want the door knocking, want phone
determine who wins the white house. the last one to win the election without winning the buckeye state was john f. kennedy in the 1960s. both sides reportedly set to spend much of the next couple of weeks campaigning hard across ohio for that state s electoral vote. 18 of them. and from now until the election day, fox news has you covered there. mike tobin with the news. is he in columbus tonight. hello, mike. hello, shepard. the ground game here in ohio is something like nothing you have never seen before. republicans alone have made just shy of 6 million personal contacts. this week alone, republics knocked on a little less than 300,000 doors here in ohio. both campaigns are doing it through direct mail, through email, through the phone banks and through those personal visits there are very few ohio voters who have not had some kind of personal contact. there is no hiding under a rock. you have got to be in a different universe if you haven t received some means of voter contact