[cheers] let s walk together. tomorrow is a new beginning. and he hopes when he walks through that door, shep, it s 1600 pennsylvania avenue. shepard: what s the next stop tonight, carl? manchester, new hampshire, shep. going back to the state where he scored his first primary victory. romney will hit the granite state. is he expecting a very big crowd quite late at night. romney talking about how tired he has been campaigning virtually nonstop. 11:00 tonight it will be maybe early morning for kid rock who will at least provide the celebrity headline to tonight s bill. the republic presidential nominee meant to be his last campaign event of the entire campaign. now we know manchester, new hampshire, won t wrap it up. back on the trail in ohio and pennsylvania tomorrow. shep? shepard: carl cameron in columbus, ohio, tonight. the president has one more stop tonight before heading home to chicago. and staffers say it will be his last campaign rally ever. if he loses tomorrow, th
brooklyn. plan to bus to polling places on election day. shepard: rick, still no power? well, you know, some residents here are slowly getting their power back. of course, the situation is slowly improving across the region. thanks in large part to thousands and thousands of utility workers who come here. many of them from out of state. the latest numbers about 1.35 million without power, including 750,000 in new jersey, and about half a million in new york. the cost of this storm he though, shepard, still being tabulated. shepard: rick leventhal on staten island, new york. actually is he at coney island. look at this, the romney plane has just arrived at a columbus international airport. and they have rolled the plane right up to the rally with as can you hear some pretty dramatic music going on. columbus, ohio, ohio mighty important spot for both candidates as you know. they have both been there today. so, is f. this thing isn t ready to begin just yet. as governor romney start
with george w. bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the united states. could it happen again? one candidate wins the popular vote, the other the electoral college. congratulations. it s happened four times in american history. it s going to happen a fifth time. is it this year? nobody knows. some national polls show governor romney could win the race but lose the election. current system has the problem that the presidential campaign concentrates on only about 10 of the 50 states and it leaves four out of five americans out of the process of deciding who their president should be. dr. john koza leads an effort to eliminate the electoral college. sam got 10 votes and sally got 15 votes so sally is our new class president. [cheers] this add by the national popular vote initiative underscores his point. we are using the electoral college system today and that means that sally doesn t win. in the last decade,
damage. election officials in new jersey say they will not be using the military vehicles on which we were reporting as polling stations for survivors of the super storm. the officials sayurns out they don t need them. new jersey is letting voters cast ballots by email. but spokes people for watchdog groups say those voters should also have to mail in paper ballots so officials can verify the results. so far no response from the state. jersey is also letting people vote at any polling place. now new york is deciding to do the same. knocked out power to some polling stations and still working on backup plans. voters in some states could make history tomorrow by legalizing marijuana. and we re not talking about for medical reasons here. legalizing it just to get high. coming up. we ll look at that and some of the other big issues on the ballot across the country. plus president obama and governor romney ending up in the same city at the same time today. we ll hear more on their
marijuana for medicine use. of course, the federal government still considers marijuana illegal and there is bound to be more controversy if these measures pass. this just one of the hot buttons on the ballots across the country. trace gallagher live in the west coast news hub tonight. some states are also tackling the healthcare law. yeah, shep there are four states tomorrow that will vote whether to opt out of healthcare reform better known as obama care. those states are alabama, florida, montana and wyoming. all four states are asking their voters to reject being forced to buy health insurance. these measures wept on the ballot before the supreme court ruled that obama care was constitutional however the votes turn out in the states it would mean the feds would likely still trump the states. listen. if governor romney is elected president, this will be sort of a push behind him to invalidate most of obama care. if the president is reelected, this will be a force, a