burden the president s going to carry into the last week. reporter: governor romney cancelled his events in virginia so police and emergency personnel could focus on storm preps and not election event preps. jamie: molly, thank you? jamie, several big swing states are in play for the presidential election. together, they ll likely decide who sits in the oval office the next four years. joining us now we have two analysts. toney and martin, welcome. tony, let me start with you. what state do you believe we should especially look out for that could be the key? obviously, ohio is the quickest and the most honest answer to that. but we have to look at the totality of the upper midwest territory that has become the critical part of this campaign. it s the battlegrunted for romney and the firewall for president ork bottom a. but the president s lost a lot of ground in florida, a lot of ground in virginia, probably new hampshire