in the tarmac yesterday, according to an advisor saying, i don t want to sit in a hotel room all day on election day. let s go out and do what we can to muster every last vote. when you look at the early voting, it s advantage obama right now. governor romney really has to rack up the count on his side of things. yesterday in columbus urging his supporters at a rally to get out there and get everyone they can get to the polls. here he is. some of you have been successful in convincing your neighbors to vote for paul ryan and me and i thank you for that. now let s make sure that everyone we know gets out to vote on times you re here because you care about america. this campaign is about america and about the future that we re going to leave to our children. we thank you and we ask to you stay at it all the way until victory on tuesday night is clear. for governor romney today will be all about two things. how the independents break and what kind enthusiasm there is out there for con
brian. we ll soon find out as we speak now. polls are currently opening right now, 8:00 o clock eastern time, in alabama, arizona, iowa, minnesota, mississippi, and oklahoma. later this hour, mitt romney will cast his vote live, i believe, in massachusetts. and you will see it happen. gretchen: very first votes of this election day already cast in new hampshire. they ve been tallied, too. polls in the tiny town of dixon notch opened at midnight. and the results couldn t be tighter that. town split right down the middle. five votes for president obama. five for mitt romney. that s the first tie they ve ever had. is that emblematic of what we ll see later on? steve: turn out is done because two of the biggest families moved. they just moved. let s move on to another new hampshire village known as hearts location. president obama won the early election there at midnight. he got 23 votes. mitt romney got 9. and libertarian gary johnson wound up with one vote.
which is most important to americans, the president wants to use the government to redistribute wealth. governor romney want to take the government out of the way of private enterprise. and governor romney understands economics. risk and private enterprise produces prosperity and wealth and jobs and everybody is better off for it. the president rejects the notion and believes by taxing a certain class of people and giving dollars to others. it doesn t produce prosperity. but puts money in pockets of those folks. they re fundmental differences. gretchen: you have approximate four areas. taxings. we have a fiscal cliff approaching. we do in large member of the president s own making because of inability to work with the republican house and a democratic senate.
he attempted to do biregulative authority like the environmental. where congress decided not to do. that makes him dangerous in a new term f. he can t get the congress to do he will try to get an administrative eamings he appoint to do it. gretchen: deficits. they are preferred to be running deficit but the presidents will be deeper than governor romney. president obama borrowed five trillion dollars in four years and that s more than any other president has done in eight years and going to do the same if reelected and that puts us on the path of destruction. we would have a total government debt of 20trillion. the interest is one trillion off of the top gone. steve: always good to see you. we are serious today.
are below freezing right now. and nothing has been done. zero. no one is coming. no one is talking. no one is giving information. gretchen: coming up, a fair and balanced look at the candidates. the president senior advisor, robert gibbs, and then mitt romney s senior advisor, ed gillespie, they re here next. [ female announcer ] today, jason is here to volunteer to help those in need. when a twinge of back pain surprises him. morning starts in high spirits but there s a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, he gets some helpful advice. just two aleve have the strength to keep back pain away all day. today, jason chose aleve. just two pills for all day pain relief. try aleve d for strong, all day long sinus and headache relief. campbell s has 24 new soups that will make it drop over, and over again.