he will when north carolina. the courts on the map he can see the at the states will be looking at colorado, iowa, new hampshire, iowa, florida. if he would like to get involved, let's kithara n.c. in the number is 202,. five zebras to a 880-900. you can get in touch with the social media, facebook, and e- mail. tell us a little bit about what the game plan is a i used to do addition to the north or lack. are you expecting much more is it to you as from a the can alison e. is. what do you have an impressive the hurricane makes landfall. >> it will continue to watch see whether and see what is going on. we will make sure all of our virtus will make it to the parlors. >> i think it jobs and the economy. they are still hot issues for us. we are not going to be where we want to be, but we have experienced 41 stripes of moniker. this summit will lead to continued under president obama. >> >> i just want to to make a comment about a few people that would call, it is lab person that called about mitt romney being a herm

we have already had 1 million people voted north carolina. -- voters in north carolina. at this point, the democrats are doing better on the early voting, it appears. we don't have a vote count so we don't know exactly what the tally is. if you look at things -- we know things like number of active americans who have voted and that is up from the percentage who voted in 2008. percentage is greater this time at this juncture that was in 2008. the number of younger voters who tend to be more for obama than for running a, a greater percentage is up this time compared to 2008. those are all good signs for the obama campaign. but, what that will mean at the end, we don't know but the obama campaign had a good signal from that. host: we have a chart from an article in the "atlantic." it talks about absentee ballot request in north carolina. in 2008 and again from 2012. they don't say what the date is. the absentee ballot request was -- in 2012 there was a request for democrats. for for republicans, over 96,000. it has changed. host: the democrats made a gain of about 9000. in

in mecklenberg, north carolina. betty is on our line for democrats, calling fromia zoo city, -- yazoo city, mississippi. >> hi, good morning. yesterday i watched romney's speech in iowa, economic speech. one of the things that caught my attention was he started complaining about obama and spending and stimulus. but ironically he was given his economic speech at a company that had received his funds. evidently romney needs to do his homework. one more thing, he complain ud 23 million americans out of work, 23 million americans out of work. but when he was at bane capital and caused those plants to close down and shipped the jobs overseas, he's part of the 23 million americans out of work. >> gideon moore, talk to us more about the economic situation in north carolina, and what, if any, stimulus money came through the state and if it's going to have any sort of effect on the election. >> the job situation in north carolina isn't great. it's 9.7% unemployment both here in mecklenberg county and the state in general. i

a closer margin than he did in north carolina. how have things changed for republicans and for the republican candidate between 2008 and 2012? guest: i think there is a significant difference in our ground game between 2008 and 2012 f. you remember in 2008 the republicans were looking back to 2004 when we carried the state for bush by the largest margin in the country. at that point folks at the national level didn't realize we could be a swing state or going to obama. that's different this time around. they started ground game here earlier than ever before in history. and we've put more staffers on the ground and more people making phone calls and that's been a strong part of our effort heading into this election. host: we want to take calls from anybody who is watching the show. the numbers are -- a lot of talk regarding the storm off the coast of the carolinas, sandy, what are the plans for the republican operatives for the ground game should that storm make land fall in the carolinas either monday or tuesday? guest: i'm not su

we have a broken economy in north carolina but north carolina is the best state in the united states of america. we have unlimited resources. we have to unleash those resources under the ground and unleash our education resources. that is why i am running for governor. it is time for north carolina to come back and that is why i am writing for governor. -- running for governor. >> we have about 1.5 minutes left so i've one more question. [laughter] it is a very serious question. how difficult is it to tell the truth with a capital 't' in the world of politics? >> it is not a problem for me at all. my dad passed away a week after i was elected mayor and on election night, he was very sick and he hugged me. he said to what is right. i meant that as part of our culture is a value in north carolina and it is my track record of being a mayor and city council member and being a husband. and a family man. telling the truth is very important. i think it is absolutely critical to be truthful. i have to live with in my own skin. i've always tried to be up from the people. >> we thank you both

we have already had 1 million people voted north carolina. -- voters in north carolina. at this point, the democrats are doing better on the early voting, it appears. we don't have a vote count so we don't know exactly what the tally is. if you look at things -- we know things like number of active americans who have voted and that is up from the percentage who voted in 2008. percentage is greater this time at this juncture that was in 2008. the number of younger voters who tend to be more for obama than for running a, a greater percentage is up this time compared to 2008. those are all good signs for the obama campaign. but, what that will mean at the end, we don't know but the obama campaign had a good signal from that. host: we have a chart from an article in the "atlantic." it talks about absentee ballot request in north carolina. host: the democrats made a gain of about 9000. in your observations, do you see more democrats look again for absentee ballots in 2012 over 2008? might this make a difference for the obama campaign? guest: i think the key is in the early vo

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are strangling small businesses throughout north carolina, that currently, north carolina government treats business as an adversary opposed to a customer and tell me they take small business and mid-sized businesses for granted. the last thing i want to do is completely reform our education system from pre-k to k-12 to community colleges to our universities to make it more market-oriented so when kinds -- kids are out of school, they have the reading and math skills necessary and the basic skills to get a job. right now, there's a major disconnect, even though we're the fifth highest unemployment rate in the country, the fifth highest unemployment rate in the country, we have employers that can't find qualified employees right here in north carolina, and that's an unacceptable disconnect we've had in north carolina for far too long. >> all four proposals are large scale proposals that take some time to implement. is there something to do in your first month as governor? mccrory: first of all, what i learned as a mayor is short term remedies don't have long term solutions. one of the

. >> ifill: then, we have two takes on the battle for north carolina. jeffrey brown reports on the tightening presidential contest. >> brown: barack obama won this state in 2008 by the slimmest of margins with help from a large african-american turnout. four years later in a down economy it looks like his challenge will be even greater. >> woodruff: and we talk with national public radio's greg allen. he focuses on the outreach to hispanics in the tar heel state. >> ifill: then margaret warner updates the investigation into the assault on the u.s. consulate in libya. >> woodruff: we look at new findings showing australia's great barrier reef has lost half its coral in the last 27 years. >> ifill: and we close with snapshots of three of this year's macarthur genius award winners, each with a unique view of war. >> people tend to look at the military, they tend to look at war and they tend to look at conflict as something very black and white. it's not like that at all. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour h

we have already had 1 million people voted north carolina. -- voters in north carolina. at this point, the democrats are doing better on the early voting, it appears. we don't have a vote count so we don't know exactly what the tally is. if you look at things -- we know things like number of active americans who have voted and that is up from the percentage who voted in 2008. percentage is greater this time at this juncture that was in 2008. the number of younger voters who tend to be more for obama than for running a, a greater percentage is up this time compared to 2008. those are all good signs for the obama campaign. but, what that will mean at the end, we don't know but the obama campaign had a good signal from that. host: we have a chart from an article in the "atlantic." it talks about absentee ballot request in north carolina. host: the democrats made a gain of about 9000. in your observations, do you see more democrats look again for absentee ballots in 2012 over 2008? might this make a difference for the obama campaign? guest: i think the key is in the early vo

north carolina is different throughout. we talked about doing comprehensive transportation facilities where you have distribution, warehousing, good roads, railroads. we looked at our ports. if you go to that report, you will see what our proposed as a framework for that future transportation infrastructure. as far as funding, we have been a donor state for the federal government. we spend more money -- we send more money to washington d.c. our roads. we have to look at private partnership. it will always be a challenge. we will meet that challenge. the carolina will be a leader in, as in the future. >> mr. mccrory. >> infrastructure is something we have a passion for. it is up to government to provide the necessary infrastructure for, is to proceed and grow in our state. as mayor, one of the first things i did in 1996 was to formulate and implement an infrastructure plan, a transportation, water, sewer plant for 25 years. it is a long-term thing. not to show the plan to the people and have the experts tell you how we conne

remember what happened today in north carolina. early voting started in north carolina, which we have a huge advantage in, which propelled the president to victory in 2008. so the day that we're turning democrats out to the polls, the republicans say, race is over. no need for anyone to vote. it's over. we're leaving. it's just not true. the race there is close. if you eliminate one outlier poll that showed romney up by nine points, the race is within the margin of error. we have a great ground game there, and we had great turnout on our side for early vote today. >> all right. let me ask you this, though. the president did carry north carolina in 2008. it was a razor-thin margin. 14,000 votes over john mccain, but he was the first democrat to win the state of north carolina in 32 years. that was a significant achievement. there's no question about that. so you really think now that the polls at the romney campaign are pointing to are wrong. do you think they're wrong, they're being stupid, or i mean what's the reason they would do

in the african-american community in north carolina. brown: he has decided to sit out the presidential vote >> i'm going to vote for the other offices on the ballot but i'm just not going to cast a vote for the presidency >> brown: you're not? no brown: you feel okay i feel okay about it. my wife tells me i'm crazy. >> ready to go brown: no doubt octave i can't rainy thinks he's crazy too >> you have to vote for people who support our issues. >> brown: a community organizer working with a group called democracy north carolina, rainy walks the streets for hours every weekend, even on this dreary wet saturday, in her college park neighborhood of raleigh. she knows things are bad here. but firmly believes the president is helping make them right. >> it's just like being in a marriage. when you're having problems in a marriage you have to work at it. change don't come overnight. if you are devoted and committed change will come. i do believe that the next four years will be even a bigger change. >> brown: rainy sees african-americans becomi

just to give you some perspective, i'm in nags head, north carolina. the center of this system is still about 500 miles to my south, well off the coast of florida, and we're already seeing winds that are in the 20s, and a sea that is looking pretty angry, as well. just take a look out there. we're right near this fishing pier. part of this was washed away during hurricane isabel back in 2003. there's a big beach renourishment project that they spent here, $30 million, they're waiting to see if sandy washes those tax dollars away, as well. one of the things here in the carolinas will be the fact that we have onshore winds for a long period of time. we're going to be seeing rain later today. deteriorating conditions overnight, as sandy makes its way up the coast toward you. and then, persistent onshore winds will be bringing coastal flooding, power outages, and the like. just to give you some perspective, last year, during irene, large sections of roads were washed away here in north carolina. power was knocked out to about half a million people, and sev

we've got a broken government in north carolina. we've got a broken economy in north carolina. but north carolina is the best state in the united states of america. we have unlimited resources. we have to unleash those resources underneath the ground, we have to unleash our educational resources, we have to unleash the private sector, and that's why i'm running for governor. it's time for a carolina comeback, and that's why i'm running for governor, and i really appreciate the people for having us here tonight. >> moderator: i've just been told we have about a minute and a half left, so i have one more question. [laughter] but then we have to go. and it's a very serious question that an ethicist posed to me two days ago. how difficult is it to tell the truth with a capital t in the world of politics? mr. mccrory? mccrory: it's not hard for me at all. my dad, my dad passed away a week after i was elected mayor, and on election night he was very, very sick, and he hugged me in an embrace, and he said, do what's right. do what's right. and i think that's part of our culture that i

i went to college in north carolina, grad school in north carolina, deep love for the state and distressed at the fact that she was the thin blue line between what was going on with that republican legislature and so, you know, part of what they need to do there is to continue to make sure that there's a democratic presence, not only in -- for this particular presidential election but in a much broader sense. >> let's talk about sort of the demographics and, you know, the one -- one of the things the president has done is opened up a lot of states that were heretofore solidly red and turned them shades of purple. anyway. >> she has the dress on. >> right. >> i have a sordid shade of purple. >> you have the tie. >> i have the tie. >> you've done great writing on the white vote and a lot of attention, a couple of key pieces of data that show that mitt romney is winning white voters bay lot which doesn't come as a necessarily huge surprise. >> knot not at all. >> 2122 points. >> right. >> ahead of the president. the strategy as ron brownstein would have it is -- right now, obama among white v

those states over north carolina. dalton: i don't know anybody who likes incentives but the report says they are legal. other states are offering them. we are in the incentive game. is like buying a vehicle. you identify general motors car, ford and toyota and ask what is your incentive and they say five years or zero -- 0% financing and this one has nothing. that one is out of the game. we have to have an incentive package. the key is to make sure our incentives are competitive with other states and the best incentive is our work force and people and the strength of the community college system that does great work force training. in order to keep our jobs here and keep other states from attracting them out and grow jobs in north carolina and attract them we have to have a competitive package. mccrory: the best incentive for new jobs and expansion of jobs in north carolina is for everyone both existing companies and new companies and that is not to have the highest sales tax or corporate tax or income tax in the sout

with the people of north carolina. we've also seen widening polls in north carolina, where romney's ahead. with that being said, the victory centers remain open, and the ground game is very strong at this point. we're seeing very strong early voting as well in north carolina. and so i really do think that governor romney and his staff is going to beat president in north carolina as well, but as in every campaign, you're allocating resources to different states and it changes week by week. >> but might it be more about ohio, as ohio has become even more important? >> well, ohio's very important, wisconsin. we're seeing in pennsylvania, there was one poll that just came out that showed that romney was ahead by a few points. so, again, there's all these different battleground states in play at this point. >> so they may have shifted scenarios here at this point, saying, things are looking closer in ohio, let's rejigger. >> you have to civil right for every vote, and part of it is allocating these resources. when you have

north carolina. i find it telling he was in the triangle on that day. he went to the fair but did not come to this debate of a significant number of people. i went to the debate. i went to the fair. i want to represent 100% of the people. what they said is that they found his policies also offensive. what you will see is that his tax plan has an $11 billion hole in it. that means that 80% of north carolinaans are going to pay more taxes. the middle class, senior citizens, working families. they found that offensive. they found that him having scott walker in, who has divided wisconsin, saying that he was going to divide and conquer teachers and state employees. they found that offensive. those are not racially motivated ads. those are leaders in the african-american community that said we have concerns about this. we do not think he understands that experience. moderator: mr. mcrory. >> the ad said much more than what mr. dalton actually is saying. but i'm not going to dwell on that ad. i was very pl

sandy is battering north carolina with winds an rain. the hurricane generating a significant storm surge that sends huge waves ashore. new jersey under mandatory evacuation orders. governors declaring states of emergency there. >> that's quite a storm. forgive me but we have our eyes on monitors and just keep an eye on everything. we have fox team coverage of the storm. first, rick reichmuth live in the fox extreme weather center. no joke today. elizabeth is in kill devil hills, north carolina, already being battered. first to rick with the latest on hurricane sandy's path. >> the storm is strengthening, which is hard to believe. we have cloud cover from canada to ohio. still down to south carolina and the center of the storm is way out here in the atlantic still yet and the pressure continues to drop. that indicates a strengthening storm and that's what we expect to see. the rain will continue to fall across the airline in a coastline but spreading north so we have rain in philadelphia. and it will be towards new york city. we're 36 hou

north carolina looks good for romney. and then looking across the rest of the states, i think we're just going to have to sit tight and see what the early vote tells us at the end of the week. >> i think you're right. michael mcdonald, as always, good to see you. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> up next, barn storaging across the buckeye state and the issues that may decide the election. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi® card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts. more events. more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with a citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] [ male announcer ] jill and her mouth have lived a great life. but she has some dental issues she's not happy about. so i introduced jill to crest pro-health for life. selected for people over

carolina, and could be pulling out of north carolina not because he will lose but because he will win and he wants to shift resources to other states. talking to the obama people they have now drawn the line, the firewall, around three states: ohio, iowa, and wisconsin. that is the midwestern fire fall. if they can win the three states they can win the election and now they thing they have a lead it is getting smaller but not in the "wall street journal" poll but other polls it is getting tighter. that is the new firewall for the obama campaign. >>shepard: i heard that from them, as well, and i look at it, iowa and nevada balance each other because they have the same number of electoral votes you get one that is a balance. but the national polls show the trend is romneys. it is. the trend is in romney's direction but the states all that matter. >> if you want to boil it down to one state it is ohio. cow lose ohio if you are romney? yes but then you have to pick up michigan or pennsylvania which are more democratic. for obama if romney picks up ohio and, say, he wins florida and north

beaches into the north carolina beaches as well. it is still a category one hurricane. don't be surprised if you hear it get downgraded back down to a tropical storm. it will most likely restrengthen into the category one hurricane. even if it loses its tropical characteristics by the time it makes landfall somewhere near southern new jersey, it is still going to be a powerful storm. we are looking at tropical storm-force winds extending 450 miles out from the center of this storm. look at how huge it is. the clouds are expanding from basically southern new jersey right now all the way down into central florida. so this is a huge storm and it is still a hurricane. and look at the rain moving into the carolinas. we also have wind gusts right now anywhere from about 25 to 35 miles per hour along the coast. you see the dark shades of green, the yellows there? that's your heaviest rain. so the rain that's moving into the carolinas right now is moderate but not as heavy as if the storm were a little bit closer to land. but the storm is s

look at all of the rain associated with this, back toward portions of north carolina, they've already seen trees down into portions of eastern north carolina, as of 11:00, the latest advisory, winds are still at 75 miles an hour, the pressure is down to 965 mill low bars. the movement to the northeast at 14 miles an hour. the track taking it out and right back into our area, here we are tuesday around 3:00, expecting the center to be close to our region. it doesn't matter if it's north of us or up toward new york, the wind field from this will be so expansive, we can expect to see tropical storm force winds from new york and boston all the way back down toward raliegh, north carolina and back toward ohio. it may not be called a hurricane when it lands here, it may not be a nor'easter, no what thor what it is, we're still going to call it sandy at snooze 4, it's going to bring us those big time winds. rain, down toward portions of the eastern shore, also southern maryland, that's mostly where it will stay. you're seeing rain along portions of the delmarva too. the heaviest rain is on t

still hovering in the north carolina coast? >> still out there. everybody says it's a category 1 with a mid-latitude low. a mid-latitude low that can make a snowstorm all by itself. all of a sudden you have a mid-latitude low. it's called a snowstorm. add a hurricane to it and all of a sudden you have extra charge. one plus one equals three on this one because you're going to get a super low pressure start. even though it's 75 miles an hour, it has the pressure of a category i category 2, category 3 storm. tropical surge 400 miles on both sides of the eye. you're talking an 800-mile swath. that can produce gusts strong enough to knock down trees, knock down power lines. it will take a long time to put all this back together if the infrastructure is going to get damaged. there is no question about it. we just hope that you pretend that this thing is not a category 1. just make sure you're thinking of 2-3 as you're making your preps, especially if you're along the coast. >> storm surges, that's where a lot of danger and trouble can result. we're tal

all the areas here in eastern north carolina. the storm anywhere from about long branch all the way down to the border between the delmarva there that's delaware and to virginia. and the cone gets smaller. notice how small the cone is when it is very close to where it is. and the cone gets bigger as it moves away. and the problem, another problem is there's another low pressure system swinging in from the southwest here that will grab this thing and spin it around. it will almost stall it for a couple of days. it moves it a little bit from here to here, but if you think about rain and this shield, and it rains for 48 hours there, we are going to get flooding. we are also going to keep the wind going 50 or 60 miles per hour. and then you're going to see the trees get knocked down because, well, the ground is wet. all of a sudden the trees are blowing 50 and the trees will come down and the power lines. millions of trees and power lines down with it. there's a couple forecast models still up for new york city. a couple still down h

let's go to north carolina. our george howell is in kill devil hills where they've been feeling the effects of this storm for some time now, and it is a slow mover, apparently, as we've been seeing, as we heard from the president there. you're still being pounded by a lot of wind and rain. >> reporter: fredricka, i want to talk about what we just heard from the officials and the president that this is going to be a big storm. the center of the storm hundreds of miles away from where we are now, but we're still within that wind field. on the edge of that wind field where we are here on the outer banks, we're feeling these wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. think of what it's like closer to the center of that storm, and then think about that storm moving up and making that hook in the major metropolitan areas. what we're seeing here on the outer banks, what we're seeing around north carolina in these counties that have declared states of emergency, this is a taste of what's to come as this storm, again, a big stor

and in north carolina. and in virginia. i don't think they're going to cede any territory at this point. especially when the margins are so razor thin. if it's one or two points, if they have a good ground game, they could overcome. >> al gore: the analysts that i've been listening say that the president has a big advantage where the ground game is concerned. >> jennifer: from georgia to florida, sorry about that cenk. >> it would play out in iowa. >> cenk: if president obama has won north carolina, he's beat him so handily. in the scenarios where he barely wins, the scenarios we care most about, he's not going to be anywhere near in north carolina. why not take those and move them up to ohio, iowa and even nevada where you need him a lot more? >> eliot: are these triage decisions necessary? or do they both have enough money in terms of the game, the tv buys, i think they're at saturation point. in terms of the troops on the ground, i don't know how they deploy people, but in terms of tv buy don't they have enough money to

in north carolina, where they said we couldn't see a repeat. more ballots cast than on the first day of early voting than the first day four years ago. 150,000 versus 117,000. this favors, this was the big o. this favored obama. now, you've got the romney campaign saying we're pulling north carolina on ads. so confidence we're going to win, but yet, we have this record on early voting. is this going to be a smart decision? >> it's interesting to see where the candidates are and barack obama hasn't gone to north carolina. i think if they really consider this a state seriously in play -- >> 14,000 i think. >> yeah, you just don't know on these sorts of things early. one thing mitt romney should be worried about though is that a number of states started voting early before the first presidential debate and i would guess there was an uptick of republican voters after that. people on the ground in the swing states tell me there was. but how many people voted before the first debate versus after. it's something the romney campaign has to take into ac

so here's sandy, you see off the coast of north carolina. and even though we're getting the impacts now with heavy rain, the actual center still offshore. high pressure to the east over the ocean. then a really deep trough of low pressure coming from the west. normally you'd think, well, this will just push it off shore. it's doing the opposite, injecting. like a fuel injection. it's giving it more energy to pull it back on to shore. that's part of what's happening. and not only that because it will come on shore, we know that. behind it, you have some super strong cold air wrapping in behind the hurricane. so it's a hurricane that will eventually bring cold air and snow, brooke. an amazing meets logical dynamic -- meteorological dynamic situation that's unprecedented and really dangerous. millions could lose power from one or

doesn't appear to be as bad as it is in -- north carolina, kill devil hills. the storm surge though could be huge for people. are they worried where you are? >> reporter: hi, don. you're right. the rain did pick up a few hours ago. it's lessened a little bit now. people say that this is an area that floods very, very easily. you hear a lot of talk about what happened in hurricane isabel, businesses have plaques on their walls showing how far the water came up. right now people today were getting sandbags to protect their homes and businesses. western ab we were able to speak to a coffee shop owner who said he's hopeful they are not going to get the worst of the flooding but he was getting prepared anyway. >> what we're expecting is we're not expecting floods coming up, but we have some sandbags here just in case which we'll be putting in front of the doors and on the sides there just in keep if any rain water or heavy, heavy winds blew the rain toward the building, keep us dry. >> reporter: and, don, certainly that coffee shop owner and all the other businesse

in north carolina, 40 counties so far in north carolina under a state of emergency. that's up and down the interstate 95 corridor. most potential danger to life are these storm surges. they can get as high as 20 feet, as long as 1,500 miles. also, ten million people -- estimated ten million people will be without power. that's really causing a lot of concern. it's going to be a sustained period of people without power, seven to ten days. the big number we got earlier today was the rise in death toll. earlier we were reporting 22 deaths. the death toll is now up to 42. that gives you a sense of what we could be dealing with. all of these deaths concentrated in the caribbean for now, and people hope that it stays that way. this is going to be an expensive storm. already $3.2 billion in estimated damage. it's very, very expensive so far, and the estimates are only going to get higher. >> thank you so much, nick. we appreciate it. >>> did you see them? mitt romney, president obama walking together. how can this be? the answer is simple, if you look close enough, right? >

there's a statistic today on north carolina that's going to shock you. i've got that to share with james carville, political contributor and democratic strategist and erick erickson. great to see you. let me start with you. redstate.com, interesting especially since we're talking about north carolina. these numbers have got to scare you. >> to a degree, they do, although again, democrats typically do do well in early votinging, but when you look at some of the margins, for example, in ohio, green county outside of dayton, has seen a shift from democrat to republican. montgomery, i believe. that one is drawn closer to the republicans. so they're drawing closer to where it was in 2004, when it was bush versus kerry. they've been able to narrow it down from where obama was. then you look at colorado where republicans are a little bit ahead now. so democrats typically are ahead in early voting, but i don't think it's as significant this year. won't be a case like in north carolina i don't think, where early voting was deciding these elections. >> all right,