clinton into pennsylvania tomorrow. i don t know if it s real but there is a tightening in the midwest. michigan you have governor romney up by one or tied and even minnesota very tight in ohio. pennsylvania and the fact that they have moved so heavily senate bill clinton in there for stops tomorrow the ad the rnc has put out it s okay to vote for change and make a change. seems very effective. rack that up and roll it. president obama came to the white house with big plans. half the deficit, strengthen economy, lower unemployment. what did we get? national debt over 15 trillion and climbing. unemployment about 8 percent for 40 straight months. ongoing economic crisis with no end?
clinton into pennsylvania tomorrow. i don t know if it s real but there is a tightening in the midwest. michigan you have governor romney up by one or tied and even minnesota very tight in ohio. pennsylvania and the fact that they have moved so heavily senate bill clinton in there for stops tomorrow the ad the rnc has put out it s okay to vote for change and make a change. seems very effective. rack that up and roll it. president obama came to the white house with big plans. half the deficit, strengthen economy, lower unemployment. what did we get? national debt over 15 trillion and climbing. unemployment about 8 percent for 40 straight months. ongoing economic crisis with no
the gallup polling company has governor romney up by five. exactly the opposite. we also have shown you the average of national polls and they all even out and it is a dead heat and for a little color just days before the 1980 election jimmy carter was up six points over governor ronald reagan. we all know he how that race turned out. here to make sense of it all, peter brown assistant director of the quinnf quinnipiac pollin institute. and jennifer. jennifer why so much variety. take the gallup poll discrepancy. a five point swing. actual lay ten point swing between two polls. why? because in the final days of the campaign what the polls can t take into account is the meat of the election that is the emotion in the closing arguments being resources is nateed to the voters. you saw last night obama,
geraldo: so, you have both governor romney and president obama trying to balance the fact that the election is eight, nine days away, with the, first of all, the perception that they have to be paying attention, they have to be the president literally has to be there in command as commander-in-chief, it s a very, very difficult balancing act for them and it comes at a time. i have the polls in front of me, erin, i d like to run over with you. first of all, we have the gallup daily tracking poll today that shows governor romney up by four points, 50-46. you have the rasmussen daily tracking poll that has governor romney up 50-47. the real clear politics average though is closer, that has 47.7 for governor and 46.8 for president obama, so, erin, real clear politics, you guys have this as a virtual dead heat? we do. in the national polls right now, it looks like mitt romney
we certainly have a long history of that. we ll see what the aftermath actually is once the storm passes. bill: it is interesting to see the strategies too. they re playing it by ear, literally, almost by the hour. you can can see that in the shifts and moves they re making throughout the day. i want to show you a map of ohio, professor. this is the since the 1st of september, over the past 60 days. in blue is obama and biden visits here, 22. red is romney-ryan, 38 visits since september first. the columbus dispatch had it deed even over the weekend. how do you see the state right now? i see it incredibly close and competitive. romney was tied yesterday. his private trackings they claim have him a bit up. don t be surprised, bill, if you see a poll popping even today with romney up. they have been concentrating a lot of effort and time by romney, by ryan, by