can they come back from the first debate saying i m back where i was? how many of them are there potentially? i think there are some out there. but the question is how many of them have early voted? the proliferation of early voting, there were some voting after the first debate, between the second and third debate. i think there are some of those who are not sure and have been looking for a sign. if you haven t voted sort of right away, i think there are some people who are holding up until this final week here, but people are locked in. people are dug in, and it s about enthusiasm. i think this probably helps people s enthusiasm for president obama. nobody is watching this show or any other show on this kind of a program, political shows, that isn t voting. i can t imagine watching us every night and not voting. i can tell you from being out in virginia today out beyond the limits of the washington metropolitan area, right on the periphery, i think the president is making a bet
like he s squealing like a pig essentially here. he knows he lost the day, and he just wants to complain about it, this bromance, suggestions of gay behaviors. it s absurd and high school. rush is the kind of air raid siren for the republicans. when he s screaming like that, you know something has happened. if you add up all the factors, the fact the president gets to be presidential. if you add up the fact he gets to talk about bipartisanship and communal activity government being good. government being government, government being good, not to mention the fact that it also a lot of states have had to rearrange events for the campaign. it stresses who has the more nimble campaign. out in virginia where they rescheduled a big event for obama for saturday in virginia, that obama has a more nimble campaign and has been able to adapt to the situation in these
early voting in virginia because of the storm having come through. and you also the news is the president is going to have a big rally in virginia, in bristol, virginia, on the edge of the metropolitan area near manassas on saturday with bill clinton and with dave matthews, the dave matthews band. they call it manassas, we call it bull run. the idea is to excite the troops, to reward the people who knock on doors with close-in passes to the event. they see a possibility of going beyond the firewall and winning virginia again. a state they don t necessarily they don t necessarily need but if they can get, they can have an easier election night. one of the honors of this job is having you guys on with me. thank you so much. i love having you guys on. i learn something jeff, i don t know how you do it on the front page of the times. i sat on buses with you people, and i don t know how you do it. these stories are fantastic. thank you so much. jeff zeleny and howard f
even then he still needs to pick up another state somewhere along the way. you can see in his map that he s spending months of his time in florida, virginia, and ohio and a little bit of time in one of those other states that he thinks he might be able to get a pickup, whether that s wisconsin, whether that s colorado. those are the states he thinks he has the best chance. he s not spending time in iowa. he ll spend two different trips ending his campaign in new hampshire. he has an event in new hampshire over the weekend. he thinks he might be able to pick up there. that tells you a lot. i know a lot of republicans had hoped governor romney wouldn t have to be spending time in florida or virginia at this point. he could be focusing more on ohio and the pickup states. president obama, that map is a little bit misleading. where he s really spending all of his time in the last three
days is in wisconsin, in iowa, and in ohio. can he win with wisconsin, iowa, virginia, and florida? clearly, he will win with all those. he could win without some of those things as long as he holds onto wisconsin and iowa he could lose a bunch of other states. that s his firewall. he s spending a bunch of time in the firewall states like nevada and wisconsin and iowa. that s the way that he holds on even if romney somehow runs the table in florida, virginia, and ohio. if he can hold those other states, he can still win. chuck, you go along with that? i do. we need virginia and florida? i have been trying the sunday romney schedule had been in the dark. they had set it up. here is the sunday schedule. we just got it. iowa, ohio, pennsylvania, and virginia. now pennsylvania, they got a chance there? yes. is it likely? feels like they re looking for more paths and more opportunities. they basically failed to expand the map early. they re hoping maybe hope upon hope th