Presidential race tightens across the electoral map

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Good evening I'm Bret -- It's all tied up the razor thin lead governor Romney had coming out of the first debate has vanished his final campaign stops -- ad spending.

Point two and expanding map though chief political correspondent Carl Cameron leads off our coverage tonight.

From -- In Florida for a three rallies swing Mitt Romney returned to full blown campaigning after -- up during hurricane sandy please make sure that -- a lot of vote early.

If you have a dollar extra -- Red Cross for our friends that are in harm's way.

I loved Leo I appreciate it -- -- The latest fox polls nationally show a dead even tie at 46% each.

Romney's lead with -- independence is at seven points down from twelve at the beginning of the month with little -- -- -- to rival the president touring new Jersey's disasters over the Republican governor Chris Christie today.

Romney was -- -- despite popular former Florida governor Jeb Bush and US senator Marco Rubio.

And resumed its rally rhetoric I believe that this is the year for us to take a different course I -- bring real change and -- -- Florida the latest quinnipiac poll gives the president a one point edge within the margin of error while the real clear politics average of recent Florida polls has Romney up just over a point.

In Virginia quinnipiac also has the president up to and a virtual tie.

But the real clear politics average there shows Romney up by half a point.

In Ohio Romney's challenge remains quinnipiac shows a five point Obama lead the real clear politics average has Obama up 2.3 points.

-- is trying to expand the playing field to include Minnesota Pennsylvania and Michigan where Obama's edge in recent polls has strong.

Team Obama scoffs we'll -- -- my mustache -- forty years if we lose any of those three states but in Pennsylvania around he's pulled into a virtual tie the the president has an edge within the margin of error according to a Franklin and Marshall poll.

In Michigan it's a virtual tie within the margin of error in a Detroit news survey the team Romney acknowledges they'll need to come from behind -- The final push has been dubbed the Romney Ryan real recovery road rally in begins Friday in Ohio.

With a who's who GOP governors senators congressman of luminaries fanning out to eleven battlegrounds through the weekend -- visits Virginia tomorrow when new weekly national unemployment numbers are scheduled for release.

And wraps up Monday night at New Hampshire where the Nashua telegraph newspaper that backed Obama four years ago endorsed.

Romney today.

-- now on the Romney press bus as we -- towards -- evening rally in Jacksonville the -- campaign held a teleconference with reporters this afternoon and said.

That winning is possible -- not certain.

And they said that -- exactly where they'd always hoped to be in the final week of the campaign with a battleground states in the national polls virtually tied.

And they point out when it comes to favorability.

He's now ahead of President Obama brought.

Technology Carl Cameron rolling on the bus car thing.

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