. >>> looking at a live picture from cincinnati. the president of the united states getting ready to speak to a big crowd there in cincinnati. we are going to have live coverage. that's coming up. stand by. >>> meanwhile, we have more now from our new national poll, cnn's final survey before election day in america. they showed the voters' mood is improving but there's still a long way to go 46% say things are going well in the country right now. that's up from 36% back in august. 53% say things are going badly in the country, that's ten points lower than in august. the mood is much more pessimistic when we specifically asked about the economy. only 28% say economic conditions are good. 71% call them poor. and among likely voters, 34% say economic conditions will improve only if president obama wins. 43% say they will improve only if mitt romney wins. 13% think things will improve if either whins. 5% think things won't get better. anderson? >> watching all this and both candidates on the trail tonight holding rallies, as we said in

>> tracy potts this morning in cincinnati. tracy, thank you. >>> there was anger and frustration in florida where voters lined up to cast absentee ball lots after being cut off from the early voting deadline on saturday. our national correspondent explains what happened there and other potential election problems. >> reporter: frustrated voters outside the miami-dade election office after the county announced it would open its doors to provide and accept absentee ballots, but so many voters showed up and election officials were overwhelmed. they shut their doors and then decided to reopen. the democratic party sued to extend early voters after some were stuck in lines for hours. >> i'm a little upset about the lines, like five hours now. >> reporter: they are embracing for lots of problems on tuesday, especially in the battleground states. in ohio, experts say because of confusion over absentee ballot rules, more than 200,000 voters may be forced to cast provisional ballots that won't be counted until ten days after election d

there's a bridge right here in cincinnati that needs some work. let's make sure we have schools that are state of the art all across this country. and let's especially hire our veterans, if you fought for this country and its freedom, you shouldn't have to fight for a job when you come home. that's what will keep us strong. that's my commitment to you, and that's what's at stake in this election. you know, change. change is a future where we reduce our deficit and debt and do it in a balanced, responsible way. i signed a trillion dollars worth of spending cuts, i intend to do more. if we're serious about our deficit, we can't just cut our way to prosperity. we have to ask our wealthiest americans to go back to the same tax rates they were paying when bill clinton was in office. the reason is, a budget is about choices, values, and priorities. we can't do everything. we have to make some decisions in terms of what's important. i won't turn medicare into a voucher just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. i won't throw kids off of head start ju

calling oakland for cincinnati for palmer quote the greatest trade ever! 13 months later the raiders are 3-8 and jackson is now an assistant in cincinnati. palmer was met with a chorus of boos. late 1st quarter, andy, with the throw, making the 1-handed catch. a beauty. 14-0. now, bengals pile it on. 3rd and go. raiders down -- 3rd and goal. that was the score. raiders did nothing on either side of the ball. 3rd quarter, finding rhythm to moore. he has the touchdown. 24-10. you know, just when oakland gets the momentum they get it back. now, palmer, hit, lost the football. leading to a bangle's field goal. down, 27-10. now, hansen causes the fumble here. keeps it in place. branch runs it in place. this is a raiders touchdown. one problem, the whistle blew from the official. they blew the call. replay shows he stripped him of the ball and saved it from going out-of-bounds but it was an inadvertent whistle they lose the touchdown and did not get the football. whistles blowing and then houston takes down dalton. andrew from cincinnati he is not happy. he gets

in cincinnati, the only line for early voting sunday wrapped around a whole city block. we found tony wilson in at the back of the line. >> you have to do your part. >> reporter: hamilton county election official tells us they've processed 22,000 voters, almost as many as 2008. >> as long as they're in line by the cut-off time, they get a chance to vote. >> reporter: sarah drove home five hours just to vote. >> we're a swing state. it's important to get all the democratic votes that we can. ♪ >> reporter: across town, president obama continued his star-studded tour across ohio. >> governor romney has been having a tough time here in ohio because everybody knows he was against saving the auto industry. you don't scare people just to scare up votes. >> reporter: our latest nbc-"wall street journal" poll shows this race is a dead heat, 48-47 barely favoring the president. reuters reports similar margins in florida, virginia, colorado and ohio. governor romney is now focusing on pennsylvania, a state that hasn't voted republican in 20 years. >> i can't wait for us to get s

there's a bridge right here in cincinnati that needs some work. let's make sure we have schools that are state of the art all across this country. and let's especially hire our veterans, if you fought for this country and its freedom, you shouldn't have to fight for a job when you come home. that's what will keep us strong. that's my commitment to you, and that's what's at stake in this election. you know, change. change is a future where we reduce our deficit and debt and do it in a balanced, responsible way. i signed a trillion dollars worth of spending cuts, i intend to do more. if we're serious about our deficit, we can't just cut our way to prosperity. we have to ask our wealthiest americans to go back to the same tax rates they were paying when bill clinton was in office. the reason is, a budget is about choices, values, and priorities. we can't do everything. we have to make some decisions in terms of what's important. i won't turn medicare into a voucher just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. i won't throw kids off of head start ju

good evening from cincinnati. it's a pivotal part of this pivotal state. ohio is so important that it's the only battleground where both of these presidential candidates campaigned on this final day. governor mitt romney began his last day push in florida. >> we can begin a better tomorrow, tomorrow, and with the help of the people in florida, that's exactly what is going to happen. >> reporter: a few hours later he was in virginia. >> if you're tired of being tired, then i ask you to vote for change. help us win this. >> reporter: with bruce springsteen, president obama started today in wisconsin. >> you know that i'll fight for you and your families every single day as hard as i know how. >> reporter: last night colorado a huge rally. after a shimmy with stevie wonder in cincinnati, ohio, the president urged his backers to vote today. the lines to early voting in ohio had been long, but republicans won a fight to shorten voting hours. mary jenkins was out to get obama backers to the polls. she figured she could make the difference nationally. >> i wouldn

tracie potts, nbc news, cincinnati. the voting under way in the state that president obama hopes to win. it's where he had his final rally, as you just saw there last night. meantime back here in ohio, 1.6 million people have already either voted early or mailed in absentee ballots. that's almost a third of the state's electorate. we're live in cincinnati this morning, i'm tracie potts. back to you. >>> today voters nationwide doing much more than deciding who will be the next president. they'll also weigh in on controversial topics. people in maine, maryland and washington voting whether to legalize same-sex marriage. in minnesota, voters being asked to amend the constitution to ban. voters in oregon and colorado will vote to have recreational marijuana. los angeles voters deciding whether porn stars should be required to wear condoms. requests for more money. in the bay area, there are nearly three dozen tax measures on the ballot and statewide there are 300 revenue-raising propositions up for votes. >>> and, jon, amo

good evening from cincinnati. this state, ohio, could be the state that decides the ection tomorrow or whenever it's decided. and that means today the voters of ohio got the most attention. mitt romney's final ohio rally filled a hangar in columbus with 10,000 screaming supporters. >> now let's make sure that everyone we know gets out to vote on tuesday. >> reporter: earlier, introduced by bruce springsteen and jay-z. >> hello, ohio! are you fired up? >> reporter: president obama held his final ohio event in columbus. an estimated 15,000 supporters and a pitch aimed at ohio. >> i'm proud we saved the auto industry. but i'm even prouder that we're making better cars now. >> the president visited volunteers and called in ohio voter. >> this is barack obama. and i hope that we bring it home tomorrow. >> reporter: for days republican volunteers like jeremy bosco have worked the cincinnati/hamilton county, ohio suburbs to be sure romney backers vote. >> we'll be there tuesday morning. >> thank you so much. >> reporter:

>> tracy potts this morning in cincinnati. tracy, thank you. >>> there was anger and frustration in florida where voters lined up to cast absentee ball lots after being cut off from the early voting deadline on saturday. our national correspondent explains what happened there and other potential election >> reporter: frustrated voters outside the miami-dade election office after the county announced it would open its doors to provide and accept absentee ballots, but so many voters showed up and election officials were overwhelmed. they shut their doors and then decided to reopen. the democratic party sued to extend early voters after some were stuck in lines for hours. >> i'm a little upset about the lines, like five hours now. >> reporter: they are embracing for lots of problems on tuesday, especially in the battleground states. in ohio, experts say because of confusion over absentee ballot rules, more than 200,000 voters may be forced to cast provisional ballots that won't be counted until ten days after election day. >> the

cincinnati is predominantly, a major black, but the area around cincinnati is white and it had been 40 years since any linden johnson, since any president had won hamilton county. that is the key county: the president doesn't do as well as the republican in rural counties but he cut into some of those margins. the key for him is cuyahoga, which is cleveland. he has to come out of there about 300,000 votes to make up for the rest of the state. >> fox 5 political analyst, mark, we thank you for your time tonight. >>> coming up on the 20-minute mark, brian, the polls will close in the commonwealth of virginia . >>> there are several big issues on the ballot in maryland. question four, maryland's version of the dream act. question six, the civil marriage action and the gambling expansion referendum. lauren demarco is live at a polling station. they close at 8:00 there. how's the last-minute turnout? >> reporter: it was busy. folks got off of work and in is looks like the line is moving inside in laurel here, they have 2800 eligible voters and more than 1900 have voted. seeing some nice tur

john king is in cincinnati tonight. john, another poll neck and neck, probably be a very long night on election night. what stood out in that poll to you? >> it is remarkable. if you look deep into the poll, the president might have a slight advantage, but this is a classic swing state and we have a dead heat. the president's getting the democrats. governor romney's getting the republicans so you want to look at the middle. 48% for governor romney. 46% for the president so a dead heat. both candidates are in the state today and will be back to make their case. because of ohio's diversity, what's the demographic composition. among nonwhite voters, he's getting 70% of the vote. cleveland, columbus, here in sena cincinnati. a growing latino population. the president starts with a head start. the white vote, 44% to 53% for romney. i would say this. if governor romney can keep the white vote closer to 40%, he has a chance and getting minority turnout, that was the president's recipe for success four years ago. >> i know that

john king is in cincinnati tonight. john, another poll neck and neck, probably be a very long night on election night. what stood out in that poll to you? >> it is remarkable. if you look deep into the poll, the president might have a slight advantage, but this is a classic swing state and we have a dead heat. the president's getting the democrats. governor romney's getting the republicans so you want to look at the middle. 48% for governor romney. 46% for the president so a dead heat. both candidates are in the state today and will be back to make their case. because of ohio's diversity, what's the demographic composition. among nonwhite voters, he's getting 70% of the vote. cleveland, columbus, here in cincinnati. a growing latino population. the president starts with a head start. the white vote, 44% to 53% for romney. i would say this. if governor romney can keep the white vote closer to 40%, he has a chance and getting minority turnout, that was the president's recipe for success four years ago. >> i know that is s

in cincinnati, the only line for early voting sunday wrapped around a whole city block. the wait, three hours. we found tony wilson at the back of the line. >> if you don't get it in, you can't complain later. you have to do your part. >> reporter: hamilton's county election administrator tells us they processed 22,000 voters, almost as many as 2008. >> as long as they're in line by the cutoff time they get a chance to vote. >> reporter: sara drove home five hours from pittsburgh just to vote. >> because we're a swing state and it's really important we get all the democratic votes that we can. >> reporter: across town, president obama continued his star-studded tour across ohio. >> governor romney's been having a tough time here in ohio because everybody knows he was against saving the auto industry. you don't scare people, just to scare up some votes. >> reporter: our latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll says this race is a dead heat. reuters reports similar margins in florida, virginia, colorado and ohio. governor romney is now focusing on pennsylvania, a state t

they're down to two games of cincinnati. they win three straight. the reds are? >> audience: out of here! >> it has to be louder for the next two. are you ready? the giants go to st. louis and need to win there and back home. the st. louis cardinals are? >> audience: out of here! >> now for the big one. the mighty american league detroit tigers. you ready? the detroit tigers -- they are? audience: out of here! >> you never disappoint. here is my partner mike. >> well, we have become an organization of expertation. there's expectation when you win a championship in 2010 and there is expectation when you get in that ballpark everyday and it's over flowing with your love and affection and there is purity in the formula that this organization goes about trying to meet those standards of excellence. it starts with the fans of historians that we call investors that kept us here in san francisco and goes to the front office comprised of men and women dedicating their lives to this team and goes to baseball operations and the fierce -- the fierce, the ferocious drive of

and finally, cincinnati, swinging the most, 2004, bush carried cincinnati, 2008, obama carried it. that is how it works. and watch how they put the math together tomorrow night. the real issue is the auto belt, why mitt romney is coming back to cleveland tomorrow because he has been under-performing with basically working class white guy guys. think of the ones working in the plants, the president has been doing well with white men in ohio than he has all over the country. and it is why the president is performing well in ohio, more than mitt romney or any other generic republican would, when you think about the demographics of ohio. >> all right, chuck todd, the one prize tomorrow that could actually be like five states, thank you, chuck, we'll see more of you. of course, ohio is not the only one at stake, there are a lot of senate races going on, our look at that. >> reporter: the power struggle for control of the u.s. senate runs right through massachusetts, where democrats see a big chance to gain ground with elizabeth warren, harvard consumer advocate. >> i see a lot of enthus

we caught up with one woman in cincinnati, she's a volunteer, here name is tina hollander braving the cold outside a polling place for hours and looking out for violations of election law or hanky-panky. the department of justice has observe observers, and train them to watch for voter fraud and intimidation and impression, they deny t the ohio voter integrity project, she says their goal is simply an honest election. >> once we lose confidence in the electoral process our democracy goes out the window. it's just as important that people are engaged and feel confident and for the people that say that voter fraud doesn't exist, i think those are the people that doan want us watching. >> the naacp and the lawyers committee for civil rights will also be watching out for any disenfranchisement. we want to make sure that we don't have election day bullies at polling places, that are targeting specific voters and potentially harassing intimidating them and making it difficult for them to be voting. >> the most important thing is to protect the polls. and if you vote and-- in all that we've

from cincinnati, tracie potts, wbal-tv 11 news. >> we have seen a record turnout for early voting. kim dacey is live from federal hill. good morning. >> some of the biggest issues -- a lot of these are hot-button topics. the dream act, same-sex marriage, and gambling. it could drive those voter numbers up. supporters gathered at baltimore freedom academy to rally support for the bill which would allow children of immigrants to pay in-state tuition. >>e need to have our best and brightest going to and through college. so they can produce and give back and pay taxes. >> supporters hoping to legalize same-sex marriage prepared volunteers. >> thousands of people across the state, giving them some last-minute information about question 6. making sure all voters know that this is about treating everybody fairly and equally under the law. >> usually it is the top of the ticket that drives voters to the polls. in this, the race for president. this year turnout could hinge on the statewide ballot questions. >> we have at least three ballot questions that are emotional in nature. they could

the guy sort of got the giants going before game through with cincinnati, hunter pens. [cheers and applause] >> in game four in detroit he knocked in the first run with a triple off the right field wall, first base man number nine. brandon belt. >> a norn california native. he joined the giants later in the year and part of the home stretch. xavier nadel. >> this guy played andlet better he got. he could play almost anywhere and murdered left hand pitching. number 13. joaquin arias. >> a young out fielder who made his debut this year and helped the giants with his arm, with his speed, francisco ger rareo. >> fast runner, slow walker. center fielder, two post season lead off homers number 16 angel pagan. >> we won't forget this one. awb ree huff. >> he was the clinching game and against the cardinals. ladies and gentlemen a perfect game number 18 matt cain. [cheers and applause] >> all right. who was the better trade acquisition than this guy. he turned into a hero for the giants in the post season, the mvp of the championship series, the winning hit in the world series,

and the university of cincinnati was just this summer. and this speech some sewed to consider to be every speech zone you have to apply 10 days in a pants to protest on soaps day had the back to work initiative and said they could do not do it but the it they were seeing walking around campus the police would be called. it is even worse because this is only being enforced but the most disturbing thing is the university of cincinnati 2012, i don't think anybody would say it would be constitutional war and the american to have a restriction that onerous but cincinnati went to battle it out with you think it has to do with the very unwise steps by the ohio government to say there is $200,000 allocated to cover the litigation. it was students. think that thurber of this happens all the time. was it as gary things as the beau biden used to this stuff. but to talk about campus -- campus censorship you think of it. and first, is the chilling defect media there is at all. 99 at of 1,000 will bother per barrel but then why sure it i've bother to b