>>> average of national polls shoi the race for the white house is still at a dhed heat, 47%. on this same day four years ago, then senator obama led senator mccain 47-44. today president obama will become the first sitting u.s. president to vote early when he casts his ballot in chicago in a couple of hours from now. the president will join more than 7 million people who have already voted early, and it's these early ballots that team obama hopes will give them the edge as it did four years ago. let me bring in jim warren , chicago editor of "the daily beast " "newsweek." jim, great pleasure having you on. what are you hearing from folks in chicago ?
>> first of all, tamron, i did not know until a few minutes ago that you and rahm emanuel share a penchant for colorful language.
>> everybody from texas curses. i just generalized my whole state.
>> exclusively as hour ago the cook county clerk gave me their latest figure. 95,000 folks in cook county volt voted early, which is a huge increase over 2008 when at this same point 67,000 had voted. what's that all about? for sure has something to do with folks having become more has been waited to voting early. it has something to do with the convenience of it all. it has something to do with many people having their minds made up. somewhere in the mix no doubt in a blue state is a mirror on to what is the far greater enthusiasm on the obama campaign than most county clerks around the country who did not believe there would be a big appreciable increase in early voting in this country this year.
>> we've heard a lot of back and forth on that. albeit the number is up in chicago . we know, illinois is not where our eyes or attention are. it's interesting earlier, jim, phil musser is a republican strategist was on. he talked about early voting down in richmond county down 18%. in arlington county down 16% in 2008 . republicans are focusing on low propensity voters and resonating romney 's message at this point. what do you think of romney 's ground game at this foint?
>> it's apples and oranges with obama folks. they got their own criticism about spending way too much money too early in the campaign. you had republicans like karl rove bashing the obama campaign for the high burn rate about a year ago. i think what's going to be proving out is they were very smart in doing that. forget about virginia. look at the stuff where we can make apples-to-apples comparisons with democrats and republicans. iowa and north carolina are two vivid examples that the obama folks should click their heels. north carolina a lot more democrats out than republicans were in 2008 . so i think so far it's an impressive ground game. it shows you in the social media age, we're talking about old-fashioned precinct-to-precinct knocking on doors and leaflettings. they're doing a lot better than romney .
>> you bring up iowa . we have 200,000 early votes so far. democrats 46%, gop 31.7, other 22%. so in the state that you just showed there, at least 400,000 people there in iowa already voting so far or voted.
>> yeah. the obama folks are doing so well there, they might be a little nervous going, whoa, how can this about? so far it looks like the romney folks are really going to have to put on an old-fashioned last 72 hours surge as in the old days. up to this point we suggest that the obama folks' early money was very well spent. you can react like rahm emanuel if you'd like, tamron, and go holy --
>> holy bleep. my mother is watching. i can't go too
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