. an obama lead here, evaporating into a narrow romney lead, when we look at the obama versus romney florida poll numbers here today versus september 19th. and that has changed, as you can see here, to flip over. now, does the president need florida the way he does ohio, in the many scenarios that they're probably gaming? >> no, not quite as badly. i mean, the president actually has a number of paths to 270, more than mitt romney does. but even beyond the math, i would say that for mitt romney, ohio has symbolic value, which is that no republican has won the presidency without it. so there's both the merit in going there to get to the numbers and also because if he's seen as losing ohio, if he were to actually pull out of ohio wing that would be seen as overall surrendering. obviously, there's other big states. virginia, florida, you can do the math, adding colorado, ohio, even new hampshire. those could make a big difference. but are they adding any states from their maps or taking any states away from their maps? so far, we haven't seen a whole lot of variation in the states they're conten
