actual vote total before we can project a winner in north carolina. megyn: fox news can project a winner in west virginia where, as expected, mitt romney will claim that state s five electoral votes. although the mountain state has a democratic majority. the president s policies on energy and social issues are unpopular there. bret: back with the panel. steve, one place where the obama campaign did not do the negative ad rush was pennsylvania. they thought pennsylvania was in the bag. they didn t put a lot of those ads like they did in ohio. and now it looks like pennsylvania is a race. could be somewhat competitive the interesting thing is the republic didn t think pennsylvania was competitive or gettable. you had both candidates on the presidential level saying we want hands off. i talked to people with what happened in pennsylvania. the romney team and the rnc was a month ago so sure that pennsylvania wasn t going to be competitive they sent one of their top officials to ohio