swing state polls overall, why does the romney campaign see that they re going to win even in the face of that? they re looking at the intensity numbers and the fact that the president on the ballot is at 47.5%, 48.1%, 48.2%, in state after state. i think that s at the real danger point. if you re at 49d 49%, you re at 50%, that s a very different deal. the 47%, 48% number, romney campaign believes the numbers are going to break for them on election day. do you think that? i think there s a chance. i wouldn t be surprised. i think with my head, i look at all the polls, i look at the totality of the polls, and it s clear in the totality of the polling the president has the lead. i also know if that lead is at 47%, 48%, it s a race. anything could happen going into election day. this is as close a presidential came pain as we ve seen. i just in terms of my feeling on it, i m a really bad predictor, but i try to tell i m trying to figure out whether or not people are being hon
people are very happy with the performance. of paul ryan. in the campaign. if he goes onto be vice president or if they lose, he has a big future in the republican party. he s the first gen xer on the ticket. he s going to be a player in republican politics for the next generation. how can the campaign both be super happy with him and there be no rift and the campaign be telling politico actually we wanted chris christie? i don t know how those storistor stories come to be. i m sure somebody is talking to somebody at politico saying we wish it was chris christie. but i have no idea. i doubt very much that s mitt romney s thoughts. mitt romney cowell have picked chris christie. there was no disqualifying reason why he didn t pick chris christie. he went with the first choice. his first choice was clearly paul ryan. i take their word for it what they said at the time. why are the leaks happening at all? to me the truth of the leak, whether or not paul ryan really is going to become
plans for what they think paul ryan should do after he and mitt romney lose the election on tuesday. quote these ryan allies spoke on conditions of anonymity to discuss private proposals they were preparing for him. if romney loses ryan will be seen as a contender in 2016. some of ryan s biggest boosters are considering whether it wouldn t be better for ryan to resign from the house. he could write a book, saving america is a theme often bandied about. or he could teach at a university. he could go back to congress, write a book, he could be a professor. once he gets this losing the election with mitt romney thing out of the way on tuesday. we have seen this sort of leaking from one wing of a presidential ticket before, in 2008 with election day just a week away, conservative leaders opined to the new york times about what they wanted for sarah palin s future if/when she and john mccain were to lose that year s election. quote, if mccain loses, she could emerge as a standard bearer
6,000-plus people showed up to hear him speak. then he went to pennsylvania. after that he bolted for virginia. this is a big, big day for the romney campaign. just as this is a big, big day for the obama campaign. president obama s schedule today includes a late-night rally in aurora, colorado. he s also in cincinnati, ohio. the president drew a crowd of 23,000 people this afternoon in hollywood, florida, after 24,000 people turned out last night to hear him in virginia. think about that. 24,000 in virginia last night. 23,000 people in florida today. in concord, new hampshire, this morning, when 14,000 people turned out to hear president obama, that was the largest crowd ever assembled for a political event in the entire state of new hampshire. in the entire history of the state of new hampshire. i realize new hampshire may not be big, but new hampshire is old. and this is the biggest political rally ever held in the state of new hampshire for the entire time that new hampshire has ex
impact of this debacle on the election overall. but joining us now is a combatant in the current fight right now if nl. scott ars know is executive director of the florida democratic party suing for more early voting in the sunshine state of eight-hour lines to vote. thank you for your time. i know you re very busy. thank you for having me. appreciate it. it was amazing watching the realtime reporting today coming out of south florida and what was going on there. first of all, let me ask you, if i got anything wrong in terms of trying to explain what s going on. and let me ask if you have any updates for us on the current battle over those early voting rules? well, you got it absolutely right, rachel. what we ve seen here is just an explosion of enthusiasm from florida voters, particularly democrats, all across the state. really having a record early vote. we had on saturday the largest early vote in florida history and it s just been great to see. but what you ve also seen is