auto bailout, you are overwhelmingly support president obama. and, again, what s telling here is in the exit polls, people say obama cares about people like me. and, that s, you know, that s a very important sentiment to have if you are asking someone for their vote. now, the contrary instinct is and again you see this in the poll is a values question, sharing values. that again, speaks to the potential for the evangelical vote to come out for mitt romney. they see romney sharing those values. i might add the strong leadership, strong leadership, strong vision seems to favor romney. megyn: all right, panel. stand by. thank you. bret: let s head over to chris wallace, fox news sunday anchor and his special guest in the back, carl and joe. thanks so much, bret. we have got 34 minutes of returns. are you ready to call virginia yet? [ laughter ] i think we have got returns in two counties. two jurisdictions. one of them is not eve county, so, no.
very conservative county north of jacksonville on the georgia border. absentee vote there, mitt romney s percentages are just slightly better than bush got, george w. bush got in 2004 when he was carrying florida. they are a few points higher than john mccain got in the county as a whole, including the absentee vote in 2008 when he failed to carry florida and barack obama won it. so, we re looking through tea leaves like that and hoping waiting for avalanche of tea leaves to come. megyn: anything interesting in virginia? the virginia numbers have not been coming in yet. i expect them in almost momentarily. megyn: talking about from the exit polling in virginia we were told that the independents who had broken for barack obama first time around are breaking significantly for mitt romney this time around. i think martha said it was 59% romney, 38% for obama so far on the early wave. well, independents breaking for romney is what we have seen in most state polls and
for the next four years. bret: let s get to some states where we can project winners and losers. fox news can now project that mitt romney will carry kentucky, a coal-rich, socially conservative state. that president obama never really contested. not a surprise there. megyn: fox can also project that governor romney will win indiana. which president obama won back in 2008. romney is also ahead in georgia. bret: and in south carolina, but it is too soon to call those states, fox can project that president obama will win vermont, a liberal bassian that saw no campaigning from either side. it carries three electoral votes. remember the key to winning the presidency. the men have to carry 270 electoral votes. that s the big number. romney may be ahead early in this hour in that early tally, the lead will swing back and forth throughout the night. and we ll be watching it every step of the way. megyn: settle in because
martha maccallum will cover that for us. reporter: they are analyzing the response as they come out of the polling places tonight. there are key states like ohio and virginia. the polls are still open for hours as people come home from work and continue to vote. so many areas we haven t heard from yet. what we can tell you for sure so far is that this is a very tight race tonight. let s start with the national poll question. direction of the country. are we on the right track or the wrong track? it s evenly divided. those saying we are on the right direction and going for president obama, no surprise there. 52%, though, say we are headed in the wrong direction. they are backing governor romney. now voters are split on whether the economy is getting better or worse. huge question tonight for everyone, of course. you have about four out of ten states getting better. three of ten say it s getting worse. three of ten says it stays the same for them. slightly more voters think governor ro
ryan told campaign staff and volunteers this is are a great effort. they should keep it up. wake up tomorrow morning knowing they did evening they could in virginia. for romney and paul ryan, the path to 270 electoral votes becomes much more difficult if they lose virginia and it s 13 critical electoral votes. so they campaign here like it s critical. clearly not wanting to risk losing a close race. ryan s visit comes after romney made two stops yesterday. vice president joe biden campaigned here as well. those in line at 7:00 p.m. will be allowed to vote, and both sides express confidence that heavy turn-out mean they are getting their people to the polls. thank you. we ll have chris wallace and his special guest. chris? karl rove, architect of george w. bush s victories in 2000, 2004.