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Democrats by five points. women overall, house republicans led in 2010 getting 51% of women votes, but 2012 our poll shows democrats winning women for house races 51% to 36% right now. republicans are pivoting on the calls of cultural war by discussing jobs and the economy for women. >> women care about the economy, they care about their children, and they care about the debt and they are angry and furious about the entitlement debt we are leaving our children. >> we are hitting similar themes i...

Doable. >> and thats my question. not that it wasnt a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of these horrible setbacks morally. we have the people urinating on those dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning, and now you have this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. and im not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis are much more angry with us, and we rated much m...

Well, it is always difficult to say six months out whats going to turn a campaign. >> look, i think they will give it a shot. for the health care act, in particular, whats going to have a lot to do with whether or not what the conversation looks like will be the supreme court rulings. we are moving into oral arguments and should get a ruling in june. depending on what happens there, the conversation over the health care law could be any number of incredibly intense ways. one other point to make ...

killings tragic and shocking and vows to hold the killer responsible. the suspect is on his first appointment in afghanistan after several tours in iraq. a live report from kabul just moments for now. and its a rainy monday in mississippi and alabama, including the park where mitt romney appeared with comedian j jeff foxworthy. he learned to ayall. he likes grits. now hes side by side with the most famous red neck. >> the fact that you would stand here in this pouring down rain to li...

We got 1,600,000 signatures back in 08 when as you point out gasoline prices were up to $4. if we had started then, we would be inside the window youre now describing. natural gas production has gone up 11% since 2008. the price has crashed from $7.97 a unit to under $3. from 2008 to today, its crashed. if you had exactly the same pattern in oil that you had in natural gas, youd be paying $1.13 a gallon. i didnt project that. im not saying youll get there, but that is literally the direct parall...

>> not to be left out of the media limelight on super tuesday, mr. obama decided to hold his first news conference. year and talking about the housing crisis and taking questions on the the topics of israel and iran, to rush limbaugh to soaring gas prices. >> your critics will say on capitol hill you want gas prices to go higher youve said before that will wean american people off fossil fuels on to renewable fuels. >> ed, just do you want a president going into reelection wants gas prices to go...

Because its an oil price shock. >> one of the reasons it caused it, and careful, dagen, here is what i want to bring up. i dont want to revisit history so much as to say that to both of these gentlemens credit, where they were talking about the impact, i think that people have gotten used to very high gas for a while. yes, its moving higher now and im not trying to minimize the pain now, but i think if it were a sharper jump from where we were, and not from where weve been, it would be a much bi...

Administration doesnt know about them like yesterday. lets talk about revisions, its interesting. when mitt romney says 8%, there is something else going on than what we talked about in the opening. 8% was the number the unemployment number the obama administration in december of 2008 before they came in office, said unemployment wouldnt get to if we passed the stimulus. this was the bernstein-roemer paper. it says the economy was shrinking at 3.8%. that is bad, its not unbelievably bad but bad,...

Because its actually interesting. when mitt romney says 8%, there is something else going on than what we talked about in the opening here. 8% was the unemployment number that the obama administration in december of 2008, before they came into office, said unemployment wouldnt get to if we pass a stimulus. this was the bernstein-roemer paper. we had preliminary gdp numbers for the fourth quarter 2008 and it said the economy was shrinking at 3.8%. thats bad, not unbelievably bad but its bad. they...

College student that cant get an i.d. or hasnt had time because he is working or shes work. im standing up for the poor people that dont even know about this law. >> reporter: thompson is protest the new photo i.d. law which requires every tennessean to show a state or federally issued photo i.d. in order to vote. >> one of the interesting and unexpected developments of the republican primary so far this year has been looking at who exactly has been making up the republican electorate, who is co...