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AND IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE HOW
PEOPLE COME TOGETHER IN
A CIRCUMSTANCE LIKE THIS.
DESPITE TENSION ON THE EAST
COAST, THERE IS NO DOUBT
THEROPYNY AND OBAMA -- ROMNEY
AND OBAMA CAMPAIGNS ARE FOCUSING
ON THE EAST.
A POLL SHOWS HOW THEY ARE
DOING IN MICHIGAN.
Reporter: IT IS
ALL SHIFTING.
OUR POLLSTERS ASKED 600 OF YOUR
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IF THE
ELECTION WAS HELD RIGHT NOW WHOD
YOU VOTE FOR?
WITH A MARGIN OF ERROR PLUS OR
MINE US 4 PERCENT WOULD VOTE FOR
OBAMA.
THE 6 IS MOINT SEPARATION ISI
DEPTICAL TO A POLL TAKEN TWO
WEEKS AGO WITH ONE DIFFERENCE.
IN THAT POLL ON THE 17th AND
IT SURVEYED 200 MORE PEOPLE, THE
PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE 52 TO
ROMNEY'S 46%.
ESLIPSING THE 50% MARGIN IS HUGE
IN POLLING.
IT'S THE SAME.
BOTH HAVE DOPPED BACK, MOST --
DROPPED BACK.
50%.
TWO OTHER POLLS SHOW THE RACE IN
TIE.
THIS IS ADDED TO THE AVERAGE
WILL NOT CHANGE THE ESTIMATE OF
OBAMA MRS. 3 IN ESTATE AND WILL
REPLACE THE LAST EPIC POLL.
THAT BRINGS US TO THE ELECORRAL
MAP.
IT SHOWS THE SAME COUNT WE HAVE
HAD THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
THE LEAD FOR ONE OR THE OTHER
CANDIDATE SYSTEM IS LESS THAN
3 PERCENT AND LESS THAN 2% IN
FIVE OF THE STATES.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE
SEPARATION BY A HALF-POINT IN
VIRGINIA FOR GOVERNOR ROMNEY
TIED IN COLORADO AND FIVE OF THE
STATE LESS THAN TWO PERCENTAGE
POIPS, WE LESS THAN A WEEK OUT.
THESE CHANGES TO GET TO 270 IS
WHERE THIS RACE WILL BE WON OR
LOST AND THESE CANDIDATES OR
THEIR SURROGATES HAD MADE NEW AD
BUYS.
ONE FOR THE OBAMA CAMP AND ONE
FOR THE SURIGATE FOR THE ROMNEY
CAMP AND ANOTHER THIRD PARTY AD
HAS STARTED HERE IN THE STATE.
HOW WILL THAT AFFECT -- NUMBER
SHOULD BE CHANGED.
IT CHANGED WHEN I HIT IT.
HOW WILL THIS CHANGE AS IT GOES
FORWARD?
WE'LL KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON IT.
IT WILL BE A VERY INTERESTING
FIVE DAYS OR SO TO SEE HOW THIS
WILL WORK.
YOU I THINK WHAT YOU WILL SEE
THESE NARROW STATES WILL GET
MORE NARROW.
A FEW THOUSAND CAN CHANGE IN THE
STATES AND GETTING OUT THE VOTE
IS IMPORTANT.
TIGHTEST RACE SINCE?
SINCE 1980.
OF FIVE ELECTOR WILLA VOTES
SEPARATED -- I'M SORRY, 2000.
IN 1960 ONLY ONE 20,000 VOTES
THAT SEPARATED PRESIDENT KENNEDY
FROM NIXON.
FEWER VOTED IN 1960, BUT THAT'S
A CLOSE VOTE TOTAL.
THE POPULAR VOTE IS LESS
VOTE.
CLOSER.
THANK YOU, RICK.
ONE OTHER POLL TO SHARE WITH
YOU BE WILL --