[Blitzer:] You're looking at live pictures from Dubuque, Iowa. The president of the United States will be speaking there. he has got a rally going. We are going to go there live to hear from the president. Stand by for that. Mitt Romney and the president are making their final three-day push to the finish line. Supporters on both sides, they are fanning out across the country. They are making the case for their respective candidate. Let's bring in our chief political correspondent Candy Crowley and our chief political analyst Gloria Borger. Candy, you just taped an interview for tomorrow's "STATE OF THE UNION" with the Chicago mayor Rohm Emanuel, the former chief of staff for the president at the White House. I got a little clip. Let me play it.
[Candy Crowley, Cnn Chief Political Correspondent:] The vice president Joe Biden has been tough to Pennsylvania doing a couple of early weekend stops. You had Bill Clinton is one of your biggest assets as you know, is being used in Pennsylvania on Monday. It tells me that you all are a little worried about that or worried about the race in general. Are you saying no?
[Mayor Rahm Emanuel , Chicago:] No. I think, look. I think, Candy. Ready? It's a close election. B, you nail everything down. And c, I think Pennsylvania is secure but you don't take anything for granted. And that means, there's going to be a lot of people going back to Ohio in the next 96 hours. Multiple times they'll go to Pennsylvania. But Pennsylvania is going to be on both the Philadelphia, the surrounding counties around Philadelphia and then in Pittsburgh and in Harrisburg, that's where you have a Democratic vote and you do go to secure it. But that doesn't mean it's flipping. It just means the natural tiding of a race.
[Blitzer:] So, bring in Candy. Candy, if they are spending a lot of time in Pennsylvania at this late stage, it suggests to me they're worried about Pennsylvania.
[Crowley:] Well, It did to me and that's about the fourth time I put this question to him because he veers off nicely into talking points. But, the fact is that the Romney people went in there for a couple of reasons. One, they said listen, Mitt Romney hasn't been beaten about the head in Pennsylvania on the air as he has in so many of these other states. Two, it's down to a four-point race according to some of these polls. And three, they have got as much up in some of these swing states as they possibly can put up in terms of ads. They have got the ground game covered, they figured. And they took a look at Pennsylvanians and realized that over 90 percent of Pennsylvanians will vote on Election Day.
[Gloria Borger, Cnn Chief Political Analyst:] I agree. I mean, I talked with the senior Romney adviser about this yesterday and I said wait a minute, Pennsylvania, what are you doing in Pennsylvania? And look, if they didn't feel they were covered in every other state, that they spent all the money that they could spent, you know, we are used to campaigns sort of allocating resources saying we're running out of money. That's not the case this time. There are extra resources. So if you look at their, at internal polls which show the race sort of three to five points somewhere, it would be malpractice if they didn't actually just go in and as someone said, it's like buying a lottery ticket, right?
[Blitzer:] Yes.
[Borger:] You might as well and see.
[Blitzer:] Look at where they're spending. Both of these candidates tomorrow and Monday. Obama is going to New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, Ohio again, Iowa. Romney going to Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, Virginia, Ohio and New Hampshire. I guess where they are underscores what they need to do.
[Borger:] Sure. It doesn't exactly look like your summer vacation, does it? They're all in Ohio multiple times.
[Crowley:] And that one extra hour we will get tonight, they will probably go to Ohio. Let's face it. But Obama needs they both need Ohio. Let's stipulate that. But he's got the sort of Midwestern strategy. If he can do Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa, he believes he could put it away. Romney of course Ohio. But he needs Virginia and Florida. Needs, if he is going to get his path to 270 and that's why you see him in these two states.
[Blitzer:] You know, one thing I mentioned this to Jessica Yellin earlier, they point out all the people for the Obama crowds in these final few days are nowhere near where they were four years ago. They were huge four years ago. I don't know if that's a concern to them or not. They got this notion out here. But the crowns, they only want to get votes coming out. I don't necessarily buy that. I think they would love to have tens of thousands of people show up as they did four years ago. That's not happening.
[Crowley:] Right. I think you will see it in the final, final day. I think probably Monday or maybe even Sunday night. But the fact is, remember how four years ago it was all about the movement. If this was a movement and then all these throngs of people would come in. This is now about governance. This has been a hard slug. It takes some work to get tens of thousands of people into an arena after four years of governing because that's reality as opposed to hope and change.
[Borger:] Now they're focusing on trying to get their people to the polls. They say that they have contacted 125 million voters, and that the Romney campaign has only contacted 50 million and so there's a huge disparity there. What they would say they're more interested in that than in the crowds. I think they would like to have both.
[Blitzer:] All right, guys. Thanks very much. This programming note for our viewers. You can see Candy's full interview with Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel tomorrow morning a special edition of "STATE OF THE UNION" beginning at 9:0 a.m. Eastern. Once again, we are standing by to hear from the president of the United States. He is campaigning in Iowa. You are looking at live pictures. There is the word "forward!" with the exclamation point. They added the exclamation point, this is just be a theory, but they got an exclamation point now. It's been like that for the last several days. We will hear from the president. We are going to Iowa when we come back.