Days from the president election, and nowhere is the Campaign Battle being waged more fiercely than in the battleground state of ohio. 18 electoral votes are at stake there. President obama took them in 2008. Our brand new cnn orc poll is just coming in and it shows president obama leading in ohio right now 50 to mitt romneys 46 . But thats within the sampling error. Its a statistical tie in other words. Our chief National Correspondent john king is joining us. John, break down the numbers for us. No state right now is more important than ohio. You can make that case. No state is more important than ohio. You mention its within the margin of error but yet another poll showing the president with a small lead in ohio. Hes had that pretty much across the general election season. Whats driving it right now . In a battleground state like ohio, the president is getting democrats, romney is getting the republicans. The candidate to win election day is likely to win the state and at the moment
Yesterday you saw a slight decline for the dow. That was breaking after broke a threeday winning streak we saw going on for the two indices. The nasdaq looked to be down 7 points, the s p are 4 points below fair value. In corporate news, the in the in the is reporting that gm officials increasingly believe that Ceo Mary Barra will be cleared in the wrongdoing in the crisis. The automakers internal probe is expected to name individuals and departments within the Company Responsible for that delayed recall. The investigation will also recommend corporate and personnel changes. In the meantime, gm is apologizing to the families of accident victims who have received recall notices for the replacement of detect fektive ignition switches. Some families who lost relatives in fatal crashes have claimed that gm should not have sent them notices to bring in cars for repairs. Andrew . It looks like mississippi is headed for a runoff in the republican race for senate. John harwood joins us with an
Activist investor Nelson Phelps is taking his to the next helpful. Out now with news this morning that the founder has sent a letter to the company, to calling for or dupont, rather, dow chemical, dupont, calling for a breakup of the country. If this story sounds familiar, hes been working since back in july of last year that we first reported that he bought a big stake in the company. He says that this is an excessive Holding Company cost. He estimates 2 billion to 4 billion of excess corporate costs. He says the district businesses are overwhelmingly complex. How big is his stake in the company again . 3 . Hes probably the largest shareholder. For us, it would be a big stake. For you, its like 2 billion or something, 1. 8 billion. It would be a big stake. For me, not for you. But both, you know, dow, dupont, theyve been its too slow . Theyve been doing a lot of stuff. I didnt get it from anyone. I got it. You got a cold . I do. Both kids i know, i know. Dust mites. I dont know what c
Issues and make decisions on the 10 individual issues and compensate the veteran if theyre entitled to it as the rating decisions become as theyre made aware before to do the other. The problem with madison assistant right now today, that is very difficult to do. There are some barriers in terms of its much less efficient in the amount of time it takes our overall process to rate 10 individual issues at one each. The fixes we put in place will allow that to go significantly faster and been our intent is to do exactly that, which is rate by issue. So we understand within your bill. They testified on that previously that weve agreed without the concept. At this point in time, there were complications due to her system limitations. When you anticipate those changes will be made . I cant put an exact day. What i can tell you is every 90 days be doing a release. Im not sure which one of those releases that some of these changes are in. One of the changes that is going in and being piloted r
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