Nightly News   |  November 01, 2012

Candidates’ schedules may reveal more than poll

President Obama will be going to Ohio every day before the election – a state where he is currently polling ahead of Mitt Romney. GOP contender Romney will be stopping only twice in Ohio and then twice in New Hampshire where he appears to be in the lead. NBC’s Chuck Todd reports.

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>>> let's get an update on the other side of this, our chief political correspondent, chuck todd , so nice to see everybody getting along, as always. what does it come down to, for "team obama ".

>> reporter: well, i can tell you, what it comes down to these days are the candidates' schedule, you would be forgiven to think that you're looking at an airline hub and spokesman, he has to change planes in ohio , the point is, he goes to ohio every single day between now and the election, while sprinkling in the battleground states . now let me show you this, where mitt romney is going, two stops in ohio over the next four days. but he also adds two stops in new hampshire , florida, virginia, ohio , if he swept all three, he would be four short, new hampshire seems to be the best state, here is why, the numbers, iowa, the small state, sticking with obama , he is up by six in the latest poll, wisconsin, as forth of the obama firewall, romney would like to get it, trailing by three, and look at new hampshire , while the president trails by two, new hampshire looks like the state that will go romney , romney 's economic numbers are better than the president, and the president's job approval rating is less than better there. but i'll show you the crucial state ends up sitting here as ohio , if you look at these numbers here. in the road to 270, the missing ingredient is ohio , brian.

>> all right, as we'll be discussing, something tells me, tuesday night, chuck todd at the