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Not from nbc but a fox poll released yesterday shows potential match ups. obama versus santorum, obama versus romney and obama versus gingrich among hispanics and the president is cleaning up between 69% and 72% among hispanic voters. this does look good for a general election, right, peter? >> its too troubled for the republicans, the hispanic vote is a growing vote, its in key states and as chuck pointed out, you look at the african american vote, the hispanic vote, those two things put togeth...

Feet, and i think his staff let him down when they let him go out -- i will say, thats another thing about "game change," when you see -- >> how it works. >> they give him lines. if he isnt capable of talking off the top of his head, they should give him lines and say, "repeat after me." >> let me ask you this question on the word "lie," which youre hung up on. what is the difference between a political fib or what my friend calls acceptable political hyperbole and a lie that you condemn somebod...

>> tonight, a republican campaign blockbuster. ten states and hundreds of delegates on the line at the same time. >> its our time for choosing. and this time we got to get the choice right. >> will this night bring any clarity to the most unpredictable presidential race in memory? >> we just need to stay on the island, not get voted off. >> voters are deciding in vermont, virginia, and georgia. >> its very important for to us do well in georgia. >> in ohio, massachusetts, and tennessee...

Harry reid forced it in the senate. they wanted church to be out there making its case which would have in retrospect would be a much wiser move. martha: lets look at one more piece of sound. we have to go on the other end of this but i want to play that. >> our urgency now is the church being forced to obey something we cant. so there is your compromise. simply drop the restrictions, the widen the exemptions and say government doesnt define an exemption. the churches themselves set their exempt...

>> do you have a statement on the incident? >> you know, i was beat up twice in one day here. ive had three people putting knots on my head. and im the only one locked up? whats going on here? >> did you report the incidents to anybody? about being beat up? >> how could i do that? ive got to live here. >> i understand that, but you could have went down and said, hey, this happened. you didnt have to give them a name. >> and if id have done that, where would i be now? >> i dont know. >> yeah, you...

>> in in those numbers when you hypothetically look at the candidates end there, you see a drop off in the support for mitt romney. romney has the field to himself in virginia but if there were other options, he wouldnt be doing as well. the other thing to keep in mind, 6.4% is the unemployment rate in virginia. were talking about the dynamics in ohio, in virginia its -- i think virginia is a better chance of obama holding on to it as a blue, just based on economic performance than any of -- >> ...

Jelani, your book is in part about the substance of and the symbols of hope. so here we have the great history that is 08. then we have the realities, good and bad, over the past four years. whats the difference between electing this president versus re-electing this president? >> ill give you a quick analogy. everybody remembers jackie robinson breaking the color barrier with the brooklyn dodgers. no one remembers he spent most of that season in a slump and at the end of the season people were ...

I spent my life in the private sector. i know how jobs come, i know how they go. i want to use the experience ive had to get america working again. that was mitt romney speaking yesterday in wilmington, ohio at a forum on the fox newschannel hosted by mike huckabee. who actually dropped out of the race on this day four years ago, ending the republican nomination battle, which is interesting about where we are now. romney was joined, however, last night by newt gingrich and rick santorum and jo...

israel. >> and analysis of president obamas speech to a pro-israeli lobbying group with house intelligence committee members. im candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." in a mitt romney and rick santorum battled it out in michigan, newt gingrich went south to his old so stomping grounds in georgia. he was the congressman from the 6th district there for more than 20 years. 76 convention delegates up for grabs in georgia, more than any other super tuesday state. looking to jump-...

israel, the u.s. and the threat from iran with former u.s. ambassador to israel martin indyk and mark burns. im candy crowley and this is "state of the union." well, mitt romney and rick santorum battled it out in arizona and michigan, newt gingrich went south to his old stomping grounds in georgia. he was the congressman from the 6th district there for more than 20 years. 76 convention delegates up for grabs in georgia, more than any other super tuesday state. looking to jump-start a ...