to turn out more on election day. you re going to get to bed early because there s a late night tomorrow. what metrix are you looking for today in order to tell me where we re headed. when the votes start coming in, it will be different than what we re used to in virginia. in 2020 the election day vote was at allied first so even though the state was easily called for biden, trump was leading throughout the night and once the mail-in and early votes got counted biden won the state comfortably. this time those votes will be downed first so mcauliffe may be doing really well to count the season and then as election day comes in youngkin is likely to catch up and that s when if he s going surpass mcauliffe it might be later in the night and it could ping-pong back and forth as the election day is counted, red rural areas maybe earlier in the night and the election day vote in some of the bluer suburban counties might come in
i want to start with peter hanby in charleston, south carolina. talk to me about the romney camp managing the expectations going into tomorrow s primary. yes, after a week ago when they were up for ten points in the poll, they aare bracing fora second-place finish here which is not expected. last night, romney said it is a four-person race and we never expected to win here, and sure we could lose, but we will go down to florida to where we have a organization and a lot of support. and today, he told reporters that it was an uphill battle here, and echoing the line, and look, the romney campaign wants to win here. they are spending a lot of money on television ads and in the mail, and radio, and governor nikki haley is campaigning with mitt romney, but the people i have talked to expect this to be an extraordinarily tight race tomorrow night. internal polling shows it is going to come down to the wire. it could be gingrich and romney and you are looking at santorum in third