state. obviously philadelphia first and that region will be hit very hard. speaking to the mayor, mayor nutter, i think they re prepared and ready. this is going to be a very difficult period of time because you have both water in the eastern half of our state got hammered by flooding in 2011 in september, but in this case, we ll have both water, lot of rain, but also the real concern is with wind and downed power lines. we re all bracing for that but i think at the state level, and in communities working with the federal government, i think everyone s prepared for the worst. senator, i know we re talking about the weather and you have to have that as your first focus. you re in a tough re-election campaign and the pro romney super pac has dumped $2 million of advertising in pennsylvania. could that and the storm combine to damage your re-election chances? it s hard to say. i guess i m probably not the most objective prognosticator on that but i do think that by the
he s been up from the beginning. governor romney hasn t led at any point in ohio. i ve been on the ground in florida for a couple of days, talked to organizers and voters and the president has an advantage with in-person early voting, not as much with absentee and early in-person voting can. governor romney win the white house without ohio and without florida, chip saltzman? obviously without florida and without ohio, no. but i think we feel good about where we are in florida. ohio is absolutely ground zero. we can win without ohio, but, boy, is it a tough sled. i don t think i would want to try to get to 270 without ohio. it s ground zero and we know it. we talked about newspaper endorsements, i want to talk about something else that turned up in newspapers, from a pro romney super pac. a magazine insert about four and a half million papers today. i think we ve got a picture. a lot of folks are calling it a
and in 2008, in the middle of what we think of as big, empty, red state nebraska, it was barack obama who won nebraska s second congressional district. so he won that single electoral vote. so basically, omaha, nebraska, was a blue dot. since obama beat john mccain so badly in 2008, that little blue dot in nebraska ended up just being sort of interesting trivia about the election. that one electoral vote was not decisive, right? but check this out. the other state besides nebraska that does not just award its electoral votes as a whole state, the other state that splits them up by district is the state of maine. and maine has gone all blue in the last five presidential elections. but this year, a pro-mitt romney super pac is buying a nice chunk of airtime in maine for pro-mitt romney ads, including, in the one congressional district in the state, where mitt romney might, maybe, conceivably have a chance. and yeah, maybe the romney super pac is really buying ads in maine so they ll get
but check this out. the other state besides nebraska that does not just award its electoral votes as a whole state, the other state that splits them up by district is the state of maine. and maine has gone all blue in the last five presidential elections. but this year, a pro-mitt romney super pac is buying a nice chunk of airtime in maine for pro-mitt romney ads, including, in the one congressional district in the state, where mitt romney might, maybe, conceivably have a chance. and yeah, maybe the romney super pac is really buying ads in maine so they ll get seen next door in swing state, new hampshire, but maybe the race is so close that a single red dot in maine could make a difference for mitt romney. maybe this election will be historically close, one electoral vote close, epically close. so close that we have to dive way down into the nebraska and maine congressional district maps. so close that we have to memorize the innards and the sub-innards of the 12th amendment of the con
red state nebraska, it was barack obama who won nebraska s second congressional district. so he won that single electoral vote. so basically, omaha, nebraska, was a blue dot. since obama beat john mccain so badly in 2008, that little blue dot in nebraska ended up just being sort of interesting trivia about the election. that one electoral vote was not decisive, right? but check this out. the other state besides nebraska that does not just award its electoral votes as a whole state, the other state that splits them up by district is the state of maine. and maine has gone all blue in the last five presidential elections. but this year, a pro-mitt romney super pac is buying a nice chunk of airtime in maine for pro-mitt romney ads, including, in the one congressional district in the state, where mitt romney might, maybe, conceivably have a chance. and yeah, maybe the romney super pac is really buying ads in maine so they ll get seen next door in swing state, new hampshire, but maybe the ra