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Drop on our generic ballot position. and we already have a tough generic ballot position right now. you take i know what that the optics of furloughed workers. it becomes difficult for the party in dloornlg argue that the democrats will pay a price. >> do you agree? >> yeah. i mean if youre in control of every arm of the government, it is very hard to pin the blame on other people. you can say the democrats, all of our members are willing but the democrats wont come along so its their fault but ...

There doesnt appear to be enough time to have them properly vetted. people have to take the information ask try to process it and hear the responses that are given and still determine whether or not they want to support judge moore or whether they want to support another candidate, either the democrat doug jones or a write in candidate of their choice. the information that continues to come in from the national commentators is not helping to clear up the situation. in many ways it intended to cl...

Officials to join us on "the beat." and one that does, a republican. thank you for joining me. you had said last being based on the information available, you hadnt changed your support for moore. what about all the new information? does that change your mind? >> i actually did not know about the two new allegations until i arrived at the studio this evening. we have been in the middle of interviews all day regarding this issue concerning judge moores candidacy, as well as other meetings with th...

>> we dont have a quality problem because we believe we have the best ticket. two two-term republican governors that served successfully and reached across the aisle and fiscally successful and welcoming and not mean spirited like the republicans, not spending and borrowing money like it was water like the democrats. we do have a quantitative problem which is getting gary johnsons name recognition up to 60% or 70% instead of 35%. if we do that, given that he doesnt have the unfavorables of the o...

You know, a president running for re-election and his actual ballot position, they converge. and notice hes at 50 in the matchup with romney, 50 on approval. look at the missing here three points. if you will for mitt romney, the 48% disapprove, you sit there, and romneys sitting at 45%. i think that missing ingredient there is that hes not closed the sale. those are those last -- you know, thats just to catch up to where it should be on election day, right? thats where it would be if the electi...

Forward looking vision. and i just think romney is going to be better on offense. it is easier to be he fighting in a lot of different places poking at the presidents record as long as he shares his own vision and for romney to get where he needs to go. >> when you were trying to get president bush elected his may 2004 approval rating 49%. president obamas may, 2012, 47%. george w. bush won reelection. that is not that -- >> and if you look at where our ballot position was it is roughly comparab...

They hear about romney, the more they like him. joining me now from las vegas, las vegas sun columnist and host of face to face, john rolston and from washington, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor jonathan kapart. thank you for joining me tonight. john, in the center of it all in las vegas, here you are in the state that produced sharon engel, just the angriest manifestation of the tea party possibly tied with christine odonnell last time around to actually reach a ballot positio...

Against sharron angle. so i think the reality is that none of the above isnt looking to bad if youre in an anti-washington mode. >> tony, you think ballot position will come into play? >> ballot position is interesting cause in nevada, you have an alphabetized ballot. you have sharron angle being the first name you see. what you heard electric jason is the talking point of the day when they attack tea parties. republican coming out against sharron angle is no big news. shes capturing the mood of...

Just got breaking news moments ago that the libertarian candidate who had been in contact with people with the murkowski folks, they have said they will not give up their ballot position to her. so she would have to if she mounted a third party candidacy, it would have to be a write-in. but i talked to a political consultant, he believes she still has a very good shot just because of name recognition. megyn: how does miller do in the polling against the democrats? if miller pulls this thing out,...

Ballot position to murkowski and letting her take over as a, as an independent, as a libertarian. there have actually been polls done looking at how she would do in a three-way race, and she leads 38-34 over miller in a three-way race with the democrat getting only 32 -- 22%. so the murkowski people are looking at every different possibility if they come up short in these absentee ballots. there was another poll showing murkowski versus the democrat leading 60-28, so she blows away the democrat ...