The complete, unedited hidden camera video from a Mitt Romney fundraiser in Florida earlier this year has now been released.

Mother Jones: “Romney is not the only one who has called for the release of the full 49-minute video. And we’re more than happy to oblige. The complete video demonstrates that Romney was not snippetized and that he was captured raw and uncut.”

Meanwhile, Forbes reports it’s illegal in twelve states — including Florida — to record covertly at least the audio portion of a conversation where all parties have not consented.

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Here are the latest national polls, updated as needed throughout the day:

United Press International: Obama 49%, Romney 45%.

Reuters/Ipsos: Obama 48%, Romney 43%.

Gallup: Obama 47%, Romney 46%

SurveyUSA/Braun: Obama 48%, Romney 45%

DailyKos/SEIU/PPP: Obama 50%, Romney 46%

Rasmussen: Romney 47%, Obama 45%

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll will be out tonight at 6:30 pm ET.

Mark Halperin notes Mitt Romney’s decision not to apologize for his remarks on a hidden camera video “will be applauded on talk radio all day. It also keeps the story alive.”

“Speaking of which, the White House and the re-elect have many, many creative and obvious ways to keep this story going for a good long while, some of which they have already discussed internally. Watch the President’s Letterman hit for clues.”

Meanwhile, Romney will respond to the leaked video on Fox News show at 4 p.m. ET.

Nate Silver evaluates the swing states to determine which are the most strategically important and finds ten which “could play an important role in the electoral calculus.” 

The most important, along with the chance it will be the one that determines the next president:

Ohio (32%), Florida (20%), Virginia (9%), Colorado (9%), Wisconsin (9%), Iowa (6%), Pennsylvania (5%), Nevada (5%), New Hampshire (3%) and Michigan (1%).

Here are the latest polls, updated as needed through the day:

Colorado: Romney 47%, Obama 45% (Rasmussen)

Florida: Romney 48%, Obama 47% (Gravis Marketing)

Michigan: Obama 48%, Romney 42% (Marketing Resource Group)

New Hampshire: Obama 48%, Romney 46% (American Research Group)

Virginia: Obama 52%, Romney 44% (Washington Post)

We’ll have New York Times/CBS News/Quinnipiac polls in the morning from Virginia, Colorado and Wisconsin.

“Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy… He may die before his term is through.”

— Senate candidate Scott Howell (D), quoted by ABC Salt Lake City, in a fundraising email for his challenge to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT).

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told Reuters that it “really enrages me” to hear people refer to court as a “politicized court.”

Within seconds, he then seamlessly blasted Democrats who do not “stick to the text” of the U.S. Constitution.

Said Scalia: “So why should it be surprising that when you have a Democratic Party which has been trying for years to appoint people who approve of Roe v. Wade — which means people who are not originalists, who do not stick to the text, who believe in substantive due process or whatever — why should it be surprising when the Democrats have been doing that for 30 years, at least, and the Republicans have been doing the opposite for 30 years — swearing that they are going to appoint people who are not judicial activists, gonna, you know, hew to the text — why should it be surprising that you end up with a Court where the Democratic appointees are quite different from the Republican appointees?”

The Week says Mitt Romney “is at a decided low point” but it’s not too late to fix things.

William Kristol joins other conservatives in trashing Mitt Romney’s comments caught on a hidden camera video.

“Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don’t pay income taxes are Romney supporters — especially of course seniors (who might well ‘believe they are entitled to heath care,’ a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they’re not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.”

James Carter IV, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, told NBC News that he tracked down the source who took the secret Mitt Romney video and encouraged him to release the full tape to Mother Jones magazine.

Carter “also confirmed there is a personal side to the backstory of the campaign video: he was especially motivated, he said, because of Romney’s frequent attacks on the presidency of his grandfather.”

Carter to New York magazine: “I’ve been searching for clips on Republicans for a long time, almost every day. I just do it for fun.”

No one really expects Mitt Romney to win Massachusetts, but two new polls show him getting crushed in the state he once served as governor.

A Western New England University poll finds that President Obama is now ahead of Romney, 60% to 38%, among likely voters.

A Suffolk University poll shows Obama leading by a 64% to 31% margin.

First Read: “All campaigns have their ups and downs, but the last three weeks for Mitt Romney have been about as brutal as we can remember for any presidential candidate, especially this close to the election. First, the biggest speech of Romney’s life got overshadowed by the Clint Eastwood stunt. Then came President Obama’s significant bounce in the polls after the two political conventions. After that, Romney found himself on the defensive for his reaction to embassy attacks in Egypt and Libya. Next, Politico reported about infighting and disorganization inside the Romney campaign. Finally, all of these events were capped off yesterday by the surreptitiously recorded video of Romney…”

“What is so potentially deadly about this video is the timing, because it comes as the Romney campaign was already viewed to be behind and in crisis. Back in late July, we wrote that the presidential contest had entered halftime with Obama leading, 14-13. Now after the 3rd Quarter (the Ryan pick, the conventions, and post-convention period), Obama has scored two uncontested touchdowns, bringing it to 28-13. And now we head to the 4th Quarter (the debates).”

The Note: “No matter what Mitt Romney wanted this week to be about, it’s clear that it’s going to be about one thing: A campaign that is off message and in disarray.”