way, does the winner of the popular vote win virginia, larry? i think virginia is very very, close, chuck. i think you could argue that virginia is one of the two or three closest states in the country right now. it s funny to have a panel of florida, ohio and virginia. florida and ohio are used to this attention. they get it every four years. we used to be the bulgaria of american politics and now we ve turned into the paris. or that s how we feel. i would say on the whole, having talked to both sides repeatedly, they both insist that their trackings show their candidate up a point or two. and i have no reason to disbelieve them. that leads me to believe that it s very close. president obama would love to have virginia, because if he gets it, he really blocks most of the reasonable pathways to 270, assuming he keeps ohio and he s clearly ahead there. and governor romney really needs virginia. he s got to have it. speaking of gotting to have a state, let s go down to adam smith in
of the reasonable pathways to 270, assuming he keeps ohio and he s clearly ahead there. and governor romney really needs virginia. he s got to have it. speaking of gotting to have a state, let s go down to adam smith in florida. you guys had a poll out today, 51-45 that had romney ahead. this seems to be saturday same story that larry is hearing in virginia, i hear in florida, where the two sides insist they re ahead because they believe in two different world views of what the electorate is going to look like. i hear the same thing that both sides are convinced they re up by a point or two and this is a margin of error race. today was the last day of early voting in florida. democrats are up about 104,000 votes over republican votes, but that s significantly less than the advantage they had four years ago. a number i heard adam was 160, i think, is what somebody
he s got to have it. speaking of gotting to have a state, let s go down to adam smith in florida. you guys had a poll out today, 51-45 that had romney ahead. this seems to be saturday same story that larry is hearing in virginia, i hear in florida, where the two sides insist they re ahead because they believe in two different world views of what the electorate is going to look like. i hear the same thing that both sides are convinced they re up by a point or two and this is a margin of error race. today was the last day of early voting in florida. democrats are up about 104,000 votes over republican votes, but that s significantly less than the advantage they had four years ago. a number i heard adam was 160, i think, is what somebody told me if they get to 160, 200, somewhere in that range, they think they can win that they ll get enough on election day to pull that off. that sounds like they re going to fall short. it s sounds like they re going to fall short and we ve got
virginia. he s got to have it. speaking of gotting to have a state, let s go down to adam smith in florida. you guys had a poll out today, 51-45 that had romney ahead. this seems to be saturday same story that larry is hearing in virginia, i hear in florida, where the two sides insist they re ahead because they believe in two different world views of what the electorate is going to look like. i hear the same thing that both sides are convinced they re up by a point or two and this is a margin of error race. today was the last day of early voting in florida. democrats are up about 104,000 votes over republican votes, but that s significantly less than the advantage they had four years ago. a number i heard adam was 160, i think, is what somebody told me if they get to 160, 200, somewhere in that range, they think they can win that they ll get enough on election day to pull that off. that sounds like they re going to fall short. it s sounds like they re going to fall short and
excited to be out there, convincing some of the people that the president offers the right choice for the next four years. gretchen: i know you got three states on your agenda today and 60 takes is the count down. and a lot of coffee. gretchen: i know the feeling. good to see you. great to see you. gretchen: coming up, in the battle to win the growing latino vote, there are two rising stars from two different parties. san antonio mayor julian castro. the other, republican senate nominee ted cruz of texas. look, he s gotting out of the fox & friends van. there he is. he s coming up next. then while environmentalists might describe hummers as gas guzzler, how did one just save a life? we ll tell you that story, too. [ lisa ] my name s lisa, and chantix helped me quit.