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He is so brave. first, lets get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. as i mentioned, the united states supreme court last night rejected an 11th hour stay of execution for troy davis despite doubts about his guilt. the 42-year-old died at 11:08 p.m. eastern time by lethal injection after a four-hour delay due to the legal review by the supreme court. davis was convicted in the 1989 killing of off-duty savannah, georgia, police officer mark mac phail. he was shot in...

Bush had over john kerry in the previous election. and the map from the 08 election makes that clear. the republican nominees for president and vice president won their home states, of course. alaska and arizona. they got deep red mostly low population states and that was it. thats all they got. they got the south. minus florida, minus north carolina, minus virginia. even though john mccain did win his home state of arizona he wasnt able to translate that into victory in nevada or new mexico or ...

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Deficit by taxes and corporations. >> and those are the people that brought him over the top in 08 and bring them back. >> paul: independent voters say above all, they care about jobs and economic growth. >> and spending. >> paul: and if the economy isnt growing, i mean, an appeal to a wealth tax isnt going to make them feel any better about obamas economic management, is it? >> i dont think it is either and i dont think the strategy will work. i think the independent voters care more about spen...

Control for the methodology, we do find that what money can do is buy lots of time, effort in committee meetings, and also, over time, if you look at incumbents, they do switch their votes, as sometimes correlated with the cash. >> if you look at the data in 08, it says 93% of the winners in 08 raised more money than their opponent. it says obama out-raised mccain by two to one. obama raised $39 million in 08 alone from finance and wall street. a 94% sounds pretty determinative to me, jimmy. how...

Mr. romney and his wife and kids have been complaining that the recession made it tough for donors to open their checkbooks. there is a race for cash, its a key measure of momentum. a lot of folks think perry might be flipping after those debates. but money could make a difference. >> shep: carl cameron on a rare night at home in washington. thanks very much. the president is getting ready for 2012, wrapping up a three-day swing through several western states. today he used the stop in colorado ...

After all nine of supreme court justices voted to uphold his sentence. he was given to a lethal injection and pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. his last words directed at the family of the police officer that he murdered. >> he said that he was not personally responsible for what happened that night, that he did not have a gun. he said to the family that he was y >> and in livingston texas, lawrence brewer was executed by lethal injection. he was one of the three white supremacists, remember this ho...

Lets fix it. >> its that he didnt take it to the next level from the get-go and now we have to back track and try and take it to the next level. >> i dont know how many levels actually, watching him last night, i dont know how many levels. >> stop. >> no, i know. this is very legitimate. >> okay. >> after listening to him talk last night in detail i do not know how many levels there are to rick perry. but i do know this. let me finish my thought please. >> please. >> i do know this. the phrase...

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>> what was interesting about last nights debate. when you read the commentators, there is a sense in which rick perry was doing very well. hes the front runner. every time he appears in a debate, he seems to decline in the publics view. his performance was not that impressive last night. particularly on issues of foreign policy and south asia. he seemed at a severe loss. >> look, i think obviously there is going to be a lot of debates. when hillary clinton and barack obama debated each other, y...