football or charlie brown. it never happens, at the big pumpkin. it doesn t happen. their propaganda, they convince themselves they can do it. your thoughts. every four years republicans swear the state they re going to flip is philadelphia. they said it in 04, said it in 08, said it in 12. i think pennsylvania is so enticing to them, it feels like a stay like ohio, that they should be able to flip it. but you just made the point. but metrics and data don t win campaigns. campaigns win campaigns. democrats have a heck of a machine out there. you have an entrenched political machinery that the democrats just have and republicans don t. and even if republicans did, that same kind of machinery doesn t work as well in rural counties. that s a bigger lift. they d need a much bigger staff to try to pull people out of those rural counties than democrats can do it in a concentrated state. and you talk about concentrated, concentrated votes, too. the democrats, there s 59 voting
political machine, let s call it that, in the country. philadelphia has covered each city block with wards, every ward is broken into voting divisions, each has two members of the philadelphia committee they re called committee people and they re the people that tend to the neighborhoods concerns that people get the vote out on election day know who voted and who didn t. they keep score the same way the ward leaders keep score, the same way the chairman knows which ward is doing the best job can be relied on to do the best job. how do you score a ward leader? simple how many vote ds they get out. this is the firewall, this is the reality of big city of philadelphia this is the watch on election night. if the pll machine let s call it that in philadelphia can produce a 450 vote plurality it can deliver pennsylvania to hillary clinton the rest of the state out there they call the tee can go whole hog for donald trump. what matters? what will again break the republican heart will be the y
the democrats, there s 59 voting divisions, a single vote for mitt romney last time. that s not cheating, that s a fact. these are poor african-american voters, many of them poor people. they are democrats to their roots. and all you ve got to do is get the vote and they re going to vote democrat. this is big news nationally, just came in tonight. abc news tracking poll out tonight shows a rebound for clinton. she s now up four points over trump, 47-43. that s a swing over the last five days of five points. this week began with us reporting that trump was up by one vote over hillary in that same poll. now she s up by four. a five-vote swing. new polls today from ppp show clinton with an edge over trump in three crucial battleground states. up by two in nevada. five points in new hampshire, and up by seven in wisconsin. trump is closing, slightly, in michigan, where clinton now leads by four points. hallie, your sense about this race. el us where you think it s going to come out tuesday
the advancement project a. trump is basically say, keep an eye out for the big urban cities with large seniority populations and if you re from somewhere else, basically, get in your car on election day, as a private citizen, drive into some neighborhood where you think there might be, might be voting cheating of some kind, impersonation, whatever, and blow the whistle on it. is that feasible? can we imagine that actually happening? and if so, what would be the impact? if, say, somebody from a suburb goes into a black community, a minority community and starts blowing the whistle. because in philadelphia, there were 59 voting divisions where you didn t get a single vote for mitt romney and i believe it s because nobody voted for mitt romney, but they may have different suspicions. your thoughts? first, let s be clear about this, chris. there s clearly racism behind this. from, first of all, saying that there s the bogeyman of voter fraud. and by the way, my supporters, that bogeyman
welcome back to hardball. time for the sideshow, which is where this item belongs. dean chambers who launched the website unskewed pulse to show mitt romney actually won the election is at it again. he has a new web side pointing to four states he says obama won by fraud. ohio, pennsylvania, virginia and florida. chambers admits, how swell of him, his evidence is circumstantial. he points to polling locations such as in philadelphia where not a single voter chose romney in 59 voting divisions but slate s dave weigel reports john mccain lost 57 philly divisions without a vote four years ago. so much for his evidence. next, mitt romney is back to life as a regular joe. jimmy kimmel, for one, seems fascinated at the sight of mitt romney pumping gas. mitt romney was seen pumping