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Mitt romney is suffering a gender gap. this is terrible timing for the republican ticket. and obviously they dont want to be talking about. they would like to be talking about anything but this. but its more than just highlighting a bad policy platform vis-a-vis womens health issues. it paints the party as somehow unscientific or defying logic. my colleague, laura bassett who reports on this stuff, it took her two minutes to find a woman who had a pregnancy as a result of rape. anyone who consid...

Hannitys radio show today. >> if this becomes a big enough distraction that you lose this race and it hurts mitt romney and paul ryan in missouri, how are you going to feel the day after election day? >> well, obviously, terrible. and if i thought that were going to happen, then i would get out of the race. >> congressman akin then touted a new robo poll conducted after his, quote, legitimate rape remark, showing that among likely voters in missouri, todd akin polls now one point ahead of democr...

Legitimate rape. >> erin, we know exactly what he meant by legitimate rape. in legislative language, he called it forcible rape. thats what he called it with paul ryan. and that means that paul ryan and akin believe there is some kind of rape that is not forcible. >> yesterday they were saying that this is about forcible rape versus -- i swear to god, this is a word that you find on anti-choice literature -- con sensual rape. today he says its about women lying. they both come down to the same t...

Stupid party. >> and the clock is ticking for congressman todd akin. >> todd akin is not leaving his race for the u.s. senate. >> hes digging in. >> stop digging. >> and now running a new ad -- >> asking for forgimpbs. >> i ask for your forgiveness. >> forgiveness? unlikely. >> todd akin is really inconvenient. >> he is thumbing his nose. >> the timing couldnt be worse for this. >> republican party leaders are calling for his ouster. >> im tired of us being stupid! >> theres just one issue for t...

To provide the bounce, provide the lift that mitt romney was hoping he would get from a paul ryan. and, you know, i agree with karen 100%. paul ryans nomination, while it might have seemed good for mitt romney at the beginning, at least tying down the base and allowing the base to view mitt romney as, okay, hes one of us, hes a true conservative, if hes going to pick someone like paul ryan, the problem was and continues to be, while mitt romney is still a bit of a blank slate, paul ryan is not a...

>> and mitt romney has had a lot of different positions on abortion, but either way, they have very absolutist positions, and they come down to one thing, which is to say, i mean, we all -- as ana marie mentioned, rape exceptions, in practice, involve rape victims having to go before a system and prove that what happened to them was bad enough that they should be allowed to not be pregnant anymore. were talking about, i think its actually great that they are so absolutist, because we can honestl...

Close his deficit among female voters. >> if you were in romneys position, dont you think that he may have bid this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldnt he run his race and i run mine? >> the interview came moments before a 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time deadline for todd akin to easily exit the senate race, leaving that race now will require the complexity of a court order. as the deadline approached, mitt romney released a statement reading in part, "i think...

Mitt romney and paul ryan tried to distance themselves from the akin remark, but the fact is theyre in lockstep with akin on the major womens health issues of our irin carmon, they are in lockstep with ryan on abortion. >> and mitt romney has had a lot of different positions on abortion, but either way, they have very absolutist positions, and they come down to one thing, which is to say, i mean, we all -- as ana marie mentioned, rape exceptions, in practice, involve rape victims having to go be...

Why couldnt he run his race and i run mine? >> the interview came moments before a 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time deadline for todd akin to easily exit the senate race, leaving that race now will require the complexity of a court order. as the deadline approached, mitt romney released a statement reading in part, "i think akin should exit the senate race." earlier today, todd akin released a new television ad that will air in missouri. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong...

And this week, the highlight is about rape. that is a serious problem for the republican party. >> yeah, and it couldnt come at a worse time. i mean, we are literally days before the republican convention, and a moment when mitt romney is suffering a gender gap. this is terrible timing for the republican ticket. and obviously they dont want to be talking about. they would like to be talking about anything but this. but its more than just highlighting a bad policy platform vis-a-vis womens health...