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New Fox News poll shows Romney leading in Florida

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    Carl Cameron reports from Daytona Beach

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The home stretch of the presidential race is all about the numbers eighteen days until the election three days until the final debate.

And then there are the poll numbers which are ever were just released Fox News poll numbers indicate big gains by Mitt Romney in one crucial state.

Chief political correspondent Carl Cameron tells us about some major rumbling in Florida.

During bike week in Daytona Beach Mitt Romney -- a late rally for Florida's 29 Electoral College votes.

The only thing more common in the -- -- -- here -- TV ads and pollsters.

The latest Fox News poll in Florida shows Romney leading 48 to 45%.

And eight point swing since last month.

But still within the margin of error on home voters trust to handle the economy Romney has surged to 50%.

Over mr.

Obama at 43.

Paul Ryan will join -- tonight was in -- for a roundtable on entrepreneurship.

I really believe we can have economic Renaissance very soon.

If we get on top of our problems in a real structural way.

We can be the port in the storm of the global economy.

The Romney Ryan victory strategy assumes a Florida win and that it will hinge on a big GOP turnout along the I four corridor running from Tampa to the Atlantic.

Midway in Orlando the sentinel newspaper endorsed Romney today writing quote we have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy -- the budget of the next four years.

For that reason though we endorsed him in 2008.

We're recommending Romney -- this race the Tampa Bay times also put out their endorsement today saying mr.

Obama deserves a second term.

-- vice president Joseph Biden was nearby Tampa stopping in Sun City.

I've got news from governor Romney and for congress -- -- They are you did wrong.

America is neither independent.

Nor are we in decline.

-- In the equally coveted battleground state of Ohio the fox poll says the president's ahead by three points within the margin of error.

And in the Buckeye State Obama's more trusted to handle the economy by two.

The real clear politics Electoral College map based on the latest polling averages has Romney at 206 and Obama at 200 of one of the 270 electors needed to win.

That's a 131 electors in ten states still up for grabs.

Mr.

Obama will spend the weekend at Camp David preparing for Monday's foreign policy debate at Lynn university in Boca Raton.

At the glitzy Al Smith charity dinner in New York City last night the two exchanged light -- one liners including ones about their two debates -- preparation so far.

First refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the second finally.

Biggest available straw man and then just commercially -- big bird and it was just coming.

In the spirit of Sesame Street the president's remarks that are brought to you by the letter -- and the number sixteen trillion.

-- have a lot more energy and our second debate.

Rested after the nice long.

I had in the first debate.

Romney indisputably got a boost of momentum from that first debate on the -- hasn't moved much from the vice presidential debate -- the second presidential debate.

That's what makes the third one coming up Monday here in Florida so important.

Because after the debate on foreign policy that -- -- -- a wake up Tuesday morning and it's exactly two weeks to Election Day -- please tell me not wearing chaps.

Not tonight I've got him that if you had to watch last night to get that by Carl thank you.