come in and supply ukraine with so much money, and so many weapons. but this is a significant escalation from vladimir putin. the fact that he s calling up the reservists shows that he has no intention of backing away from this war. in fact, in his comments, he framed the war not against ukraine, he described this as a war against the west. and that the west, he didn t mention the united states, but clearly, that s the main power he s referring to, has been propping up ukraine and intends to bring down russia and bring down the russian federation the same way that the west primarily the united states, toppled the soviet union. so he is framing this very much as an existential fight for russia. and in order to fight this fight, he s calling up the reservists and making nuclear threats to show that he is serious and that he has no intention of backing down. so, richard, is there a sense this could lead to some sort of nuclear standoff? i think that is where this is heading.
and just kind of keep the possibilities in my mind open there. and look at all indicators, like primary turnout, as well. well, i like your piece, david, because it somewhat makes the case for focus groups, for adding in a human touch that s been cure rated for a certain electorate you re trying to track. are there any states that you re seeing this year, where the polling seems to be particularly dicey? yeah, so it s interesting. there s a number of states sort of in that midwestern tier where the polls have been along before that everyone in the world in data is kind of biting their fingernails over. you have states like pennsylvania, you have states like wisconsin, you have ohio. all of these rust belt states where people are kind of saying, okay, are the polls going to move towards republicans, understatement republicans again and have the pollsters really done enough to sort of eliminate the errors that we ve seen before. so i would say that sort of core tier of swing states i
pretty steady. we re at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven t seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk s office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won t have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state s office, they re expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican primary compared to last time in 2008, roughly 9,000 more, kyra. romney s had a pretty rough 48 hours. what kind of impact do you think that will have? reporter: i think the real test will come once all the votes are counted. what i can say though is that when he made the mistake yesterday of referring to enjoying firing people he was talking about insurance companies that aren t up to par. you s