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$50,000 and less it was rick santorum. >> and ron paul in this case. look, the composition of the republican primary, the republican electorate is changing. its different than it used to be. look at education. in 2008, 51% of the total vote in the republican primary were non-college voters, working class voters. 49% college educated. weve seen democratic primaries repeatedly divided along this line with an upscale candidate and down scale candidate. we call it the wine track and the beer track. ...

cafe. and official, a few hours ago, mitt romney, 30,015 votes. santorum om eight votes behind, and both candidates coming out to speak before the final votes came in last night. romney moved on. his eyes on the big prize. take a listen. >> you are working, i am working and were all working together because of our passion for this country and a concern led by a president who may be a nice guy but just is over his head, and i look at his campaign -- you know, four years ago tonight he w...

High-end retailers dont even bother to offer the discounts. so it is places like walmart, so theres a class divide who is doing the shopping, but then theres also these giant corporations that are just bringing those hordes of people in. >> yeah, i look at this from the boring perspective from the economics and the consumer. isnt this materialistic? havent we just been through the worst recession in the decade? with the 9% unemployment thats the wrong thing. every time i see the consumer spendin...

more to the middle might have been able to get something through congress. once he started talking about a big tax increase on the rich, theres no way republicans were going to go for that. i think this has become a political debate not a debate about what we can pass right now. thats a problem when you have 14 million unemployed people. >> didnt the summer teach the white house there was going to be no consensus and trying to do a deal, trying actually to move to the center is what th...

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Medical officials tell nbc news that since the protests began, at least 100 people have been killed, 4,000 injured, and around 500 people are missing. we are told that many of the missing, of those missing, are women. >> oh, boy. richard, in terms of those prisoners that have been let out of the jails, what are they in for, in general? i know there are some extremists, they were saying, but are they murderers, are they robbers? do we have any idea? >> reporter: almost every kind of criminal you ...

>> you said hes giving the image of moving to the center. the question is how much of this is perception and how much of this is actual policies that hes going to implement. the regulations and announcement of review of regulations and his administration is writing new ones to implement health care and financial reform. >> talk about republicans and whats happening in the republican field now. >> first of all, you have the republican partys coalition being transformed in a mirror image of the de...

There used to be. youll see a class divide in 2012 particularly if sarah palin runs. mitt romney does well in that professional republican new you. i call them managers. you have people like palin and mike huckabee and maybe rick perry if he wants to come out of austin who will be stronger with national conservatives. you dont have a candidate in the republican field who can unite these two wings of the party and thats why you see no one at 20% in your survey. >> tim pawlenty and newt gingrich s...

Being transformed in a mirror image of the democratic partys coalition. it will shape the 2012 race, in the same way that the democratic coalition has been moving upscale and doing better in middle/upper class, white collar suburbs with people who are liberal on foreign policy and republican party and there are more blue collar individuals than there used to be. youll see a class divide in 2012 particularly if sarah palin runs. mitt romney does well in that professional republican new you. mitch...

Is arguing they should not dignify with a vote. thats -- its a powerful moral argument. it is an historical argument but, you know, the question of whether or not it will go beyond the giant class divide that were seeing in this race really remains to be seen. >> yeah, i think politically obviously a lot is at stake seeing it in the polls. democrats are more enthusiastic. doug jones has a lot of people excited about the race who typically wouldnt be excited about an alabama senate race. we are s...