on to virginia. president ended up flying from chicago where he stopped back home to vote. first president ever to go through early voting to get that done with and we re told on monday he ll be hitting some of these battleground states with bill clinton this time one of his chief surrogates are going to be florida, ohio and virginia. it s interesting katy perry had an odd dress. she called it a ballot dress. she had a box checked for the president. it s called the ballot dress. shep: ed, thanks. our new poll out of virginia, fox news poll shows governor romney closing in on the president not just with women. president s lead among all likely voters is down 7 points to 2 points. look at the changes to independents. an actual tie. now governor romney is up more than 20 points among independents. according to the gallup polling organization, independent voters
neil: in michigan, the presidential race is tightening, over the past month, governor romney closing what was a double digit gap in the state. anything to do with the man running the state? the republican michigan governor er, good to have you, i find it remarkable, because whether you agree with the entailout or not the reaction is those in your state would be very sore about mitt romney s opposition to that auto bailout but he seems to be doing okay. why is that? guest: well, if you think about it, the auto bailout is overblown in terms of how big an issue it is. i have said that from the start. the citizens of michigan, their concern is more and better jobs today and in the future. that is what they want to hear. the auto bailout is something that is done, over, it worked, let s move forward. when i do townhalls across
had his share of being the punch line on the talk shows and the comedy shows quite a bit, and there s always that opportunity with joe biden we re going to see some major gaffe again. all right, so, let s see if the kids in college for thursday night start a drinking game for how many times they hear big bird mentioned between the vice president ticket-holders. jonathan capehart, karen finney and john brebender, thank you for joining me. joining me in studio, ohio state senator nina turner. great to have you here. i know you ve been listening to the conversation about ohio, so let s dig in. their voter registration deadline is today. both candidates are in ohio today, really trying to blanket that state and get their message heard. so, we have both men lasering in on ohio. the president s going to be in columbus. romney and surrogate chris christie are going to be in cuyahoga falls. we saw the polls, romney closing in states like michigan and wisconsin. do you think he could take o
president s policies. that s probably a pretty important number. let s do the matchups ahead in these three states again. iowa, colorado, and nevada. these are the three states that i mean, they are going to be key at the end of the day. we ve got the washington post new polling and abc news. you look at these three states, though, the swing states out west. colorado, nevada, new mexico, three of the key states, and, boy, donny, it is bunched up tight out there. you know, surprising nevada with the percentage of hispanics there. and when you see that as far as romney closing on women, and if he starts to close on hispanics, i mean, obama s got some problems there. but i m surprised it s that close. i really do think the president has to look at we said it last week. i really do i believe florida is going to go republican. it is such a republican state. the legislature is dominated by
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threat that