Relaxed mood at Romney headquarters

ELEANOR HALL: Let's go now to Ben Knight in Boston he's with the Romney campaign.

Ben, you've heard what Jane's reporting from the Obama headquarters. Is there a different interpretation of things there in the Romney camp?

BEN KNIGHT: No. I think what's been happening today is on the last day of the campaign everybody has been out there projecting themselves having a win. Everybody's super confident. You really saw that from Mitt Romney today.

Jane talked about he said he's already written his victory speech. Well he also made a bit of a campaign stop at an airport today. There were hundreds of supporters waving at him and he waved back and said, look, that's when you know you've won the election. So, you know.

But now we are actually getting the count and the numbers are starting to come through. In the ballroom itself there's no sign of Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan or their families yet. We wouldn't expect to see them for quite some time. But it's pretty relaxed.

They're playing some jazz music, a few people have already opened the beer fridge and the wine cooler. And it's calm and they will certainly I think would be buoyed by the figures that they're seeing from Virginia.

Mitt Romney obviously needs to win as many of those swing states as possible. He's doing quite well in Virginia. Florida - razor thin at the moment. I'm just looking at some figures that are coming in.

ELEANOR HALL: That's meant to be one of the tightest states.

BEN KNIGHT: Exactly. And as Jane said it's been flipping around. But we now have around 50 per cent of the vote counted there and it's still absolutely razor thin. But certainly the Romney campaign, if they can feel like they're competitive in Florida then they'll be feeling pretty good about that.

The bad news for them of course is Ohio. Still only early there but seems to be very, very strongly... What they've said all along is that what they are relying on is people's opinion of who is better to handle the economy. And that's what the exit polls have been showing.

The people overwhelmingly feel like the economy is the main issue and the person who is better equipped to handle it is one of the most important things they're voting for.

And of course they will say that of course that is Mitt Romney with his business career and look at the way Barack Obama has handled the last four years.

But that's an assumption. There are people out there who say the economy's important and believe that what Barack Obama is doing in the best way to handle it.

So look, at the moment we're still seeing that mode of the election where it's all confidence and everyone's happy. But once some more numbers come out then we'll start to see I think some deeper analysis.

ELEANOR HALL: Absolutely. That's Ben Knight there in Boston. And we'll cross back of course as things develop.