day waiting for the results. governor romney making stops in florida, virginia, ohio, and new hampshire before, as we just heard from john roberts, heading to ohio for a little more campaign and campaigning, and then spending the rest of the day at his home in massachusetts. bret baier is the anchor of special report. he will be leading our coverage on election night and where these candidates are going tells you a lot about the state of this race. it does, jon. tells you a lot what they re trying to defend. tells you a lot what they re trying to prevent the other candidate from getting to 270. that is the bottom line the race to 270 as we ve been talking about, 270 electoral votes needed to win with the white house. and right now, according to the average of all the polls president obama does have the edge in these battleground states but what we ve been talking about also is the enthusiasm you get on the ground and how much that turns things. what percentage does that, what does
below ground level. if there is severe flooding, they want to be ready. so the world trade center site has been cordoned off and bat 10ed down as really all of lower manhattan. right now new york harbor looks fairly calm but they are expected on arrival of hurricane sandy the sea could come surging in over this seawall. it was already doing so at 8:00 when we first arrived here eastern time. it had already come over the top of the seawall and was well up onto the legs of those benches you might be able to see behind me. at any rate they re saying six to 11 feet of seawater could come pouring into this part of lower man hat and and that is what has authorities here so worried. jenna, back to you. jenna: jon, we ll watch that. quickly back to the campaign trail. we told you both the president and governor romney making changes to their campaign schedules over the next couple days because of hurricane sandy. governor romney just held an event in ohio. he had a few words about the
administration that has been using the espionage act to prosecute whistle blowers and this sort of thing and some say accused the administration, then it of leaking secrets, national secrets for the political campaign? oh, i don t think this is i think those are to two separate issues in fairness. i think it looks so bad fort administration to be leaking national security information that anything you might get by looking tough. if they re doing that, it s not very intelligent. this is skirmishing. this is throwing a lot of mud. i think you re going to see it both ways. i think romney is doing very well raising money. so you re going to see shots there. i think this is going to be a long hot summer in politics as well. eric: how much mud do you think will be slung between now and november? you know, enough so that you and i are going to just have to
the most secretive candidate since richard nixon, accusing him of refusing to disclose his major fund-raisers. romney s campaign denying these claims. what is axelrod s m.o.? joining us is fox news contributor, professor of law and political of science who is the campaign manager for michael dukakis. susan. what is axelrod talking about? he s talk being what s going to be a really nasty campaign here. i mean, as you say, what he s talking about is the fact that democrats are trying to push hard on the this idea of romney isn t telling you who is giving him money, his super pacs are not being disclosed, he s not telling people who is bundling the money for him. then there is the foreign, you know, tax stuff. i think what they really are trying to do is push this idea that romney is not like you and me and he s out of touch. but it s pretty nasty pretty early. eric: this is from the same
bringing in our guests. good to see both of you. good to be here. arthel: did do may favor because at the end of the day, we re happy, i think everybody will agree that 80,000 more people are working. but we still have 12.7 million americans out of work. so we want to keep the people in mind while we have this discussion. not just about politics. at least. arthel: you know what i mean? so we just heard governor remain knee, i ll start with you, adam, he s saying the president s policies are failed, they re not work working. you say the president doesn t have a plan. i would like to you get specific for me here. specifically what is it that governor romney can do to strengthen the core of our economy, which is the middle class? there are a lot of people who think he can get the job done, but what can he do specifically? what governor romney can do is something president obama could do tomorrow. he could approve the keystone pipeline. he can start approving drilling