state very close tonight. so, chuck, things have turned around economically in ohio. john kasich says it. kasich s jobs rating, job approval rating and the president s job approval rating were about a point apart. what does that tell you? about the same. as goes ohio so goes the country. i think they will all have to re-examine that last advertisement on jeeps. that really backfired on mitt romney. if he does end up losing ohio it s that whole toledo area. the jeep brand hurt them. i read the engaged and the enrage enraged and they are coming out to vote. there s a lot of passion out there. where do i go online for that? i compared my passion to senator portman s passion and you get the difference between romney and the obama campaign. senator portman s passion is on the way. we ve all heard remarkable events in ohio. huge crowds.
well. he ll want us to say that too. also, president obama and mitt romney made a cameo last night on monday night football. you ll see that when we come back. we re going to try to stump some political junkies with questions from bing elections. do you know where your polling place is?
going to hear the words too close to call a lot tonight. chris i m looking at the big geography, and i thought that mitt romney had a winning hand in that first debate. not just in terms of his overwhelming performance and he won clearly. but that line he was fighting which is i m a business guy. you want jobs, this is one thing i can do. i m not a universal man, not a renaissance man, i thought that tex transaction was on the table and winning with women. then he got into benghazi. i think obama got confused. the beginning of his campaign was we re going to be the new democratic party, colorado, nevada, we re going to get virginia, we re not going to pay attention to the old rust belt states then at the end of the campaign they realized that is the heart of the democratic party. now they re back in wisconsin, minnesota, winning ohio big. seems to me their strength should have been in the rust belt, the old guys that wear parkas to football games and root for the bears and the li
now the people just cover it. you can lay out a plan that romney wins this election, and i ll be honest with you as i always try to be. something in my gut tells me that it s going to be a good day for romney. but as a reporter, you don t report your gut. the polls all indicate, yes, obama, he has several paths to victory, romney has only one, but don t taunt the alligator until after you cross the creek. another one. if obama gets his vote out, i agree he probably wins, but there s some doubt in my mind that he s going to get his vote totally out. and romney s vote will get out, partly because it s older people, his people are very well motivated, many detest the president. the good book says the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong. as reporters we say that is the way to bet it. if you ve got to bet it, i agree. you ve got to bet on obama. but, let s get the votes in and
get the votes in, counted, then see where we are. yeah. mike allen with us down at politico. mike, what are you going to be looking at over the next several hours. our polls are open already. three minutes more at the top of the hour at 7:00. where will your focus be down at politico? first, real quick, i m going to share my favorite ratherism. this was when i was in california watching on the trinatron, dan rather said that the race that night, he said this is like a too long car ride home from the beach in a too tight bathing suit. i remember. i love it. that would be a long car ride. that s pretty good. mike, what are you looking at today? a little sandy. we re going to have a big indication early with that 7:00 poll close in virginia. romney s tried to be so dependent on battleground virginia. we re going to know pretty soon what kind of a night, how long a