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All last night we have -- brush -- high tech chalk talk yesterday but.
We're back with the well with the the block -- I like a blackboard worry we talk about each candidate strategy to get to the magic 270.
Electoral votes needed to win.
But there is a possibility of us what we're gonna talk about tonight that this race could end an Electoral College -- They're actually -- -- -- 32 ways in which that could happen 32.
So it's not entirely to the unthinkable.
So let's go over one of the most plausible possibilities.
Right now.
Real clear politics as President Obama.
Can safely count on 201.
Electoral -- that's unchanged from yesterday.
And Romney can safely count on 191.
That's change.
And and that has changed.
Because North Carolina and let me -- bring -- up to -- here.
North Carolina was moved to the toss up to a category.
Just just yesterday -- 44.
You know.
-- accounts for those.
Fifteen boats that moved away so where he had a 206.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- And let's turn now to.
-- to Romney who needs to win North Carolina.
Where he is still he's still up in the polls by significant margin but four point yesterday it was more than five.
So we've got we've got that and Romney would need also to win just as before.
The Singapore.
49 our votes there.
And that's good that red.
And he is up two points -- also needs Virginia where -- is up by one point.
So let's go there.
And he's building to 248.
Colorado.
We're both candidates are tied up right now 4848.
-- we're going to give acting governor Romney as well and move that into his column 257.
Now Iowa President Obama right now is up by two.
But for the purpose of this -- we're going to we're going to assume the governor Romney wins Iowa I'm sure he won't argue -- that.
That assumption he also needs Nevada where President Obama right now is up by two and a half points.
And we're giving -- to governor Romney to see how this scenario plays out -- the president he would have to.
He would have to take the state of Michigan he's up by four points in the state of Michigan.
-- a list of those fifteen points to him.
And Wisconsin where he is up -- true this is one of the most obviously one of the most important states in Ohio.
Where the president is up by two points and in a pivotal obviously as -- talk about and will be talking about for eleven days.
Ohio critical we're going to give that though to the president.
Pennsylvania the president there is up five points.
And that'll -- another twenty points to his electoral count and New Hampshire.
Those four points were going to your vote of four votes for gonna -- -- he's up there by just one point.
Now if that -- to happen as you can see here 269.
To 260.
To 69.
We've got to -- So what do we do in the event that this occurs by the way this is entirely plausible.
Well let's -- school let's go back to the black board.
And if no candidate receives a majority it Turner's what's called.
A contingent.
And there aren't I assure you.
Elections.
-- it is hell's.
In the House of Representatives.
And in that case -- switchers the president of the United States.
The house.
We choose a president.
And this by the way we should point out.
Is in there.
In the constitution.
The senate chooses the vice president.
The contingent election.
Now we assume the Republicans.
Reserve control of the house and the senate continues to be controlled by the Democrats we would be looking at.
The almost are you ready for -- the unbelievable.
A Romney Biden ticket would be the result I'm not kidding as much as it sounds utterly absurd.
Just -- the two people who would be most affected by the scenario.
President Obama and congressman right.
And if you're wondering about the numbers at the bottom of the chart -- by the -- these numbers I found really interesting today.
Governor Romney gave a speech in Ames Iowa.
It is the number of we references.
In Romney's Iowa speech today he talked about we he talked about us.
About the economy in the future of the country.
And in a complete reversal of what I call the Obama ratio.
It's a complete reverse.
This twelve represents the number of times.
That governor Romney -- first person references.
