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The reagan democrats? >> thats the other side of the argument, chris. exactly right. would santorum be a tougher candidate than romney. >> older people once voted democrat are now picking up republican. >> tougher in ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, because he has that cultural down market appeal in a way that romney has proven again and again in the primary he has not. >> who has run the better campaign? santorum has no money, no endorsements. >> hes coming off an 18-point loss in pennsylvania. >>...

Morning was like stepping into a time machine and going back 50 years, seeing the headlines and the photos of an all-male panel in the house, talking about a womans right to access birth control. >> when will they get this simple, nondebatable fact? the power to decide whether or not women will use contraception lies with her, not her boss, not her employer. >> lets go on to this issue. it seems to me, in all fairness, joan, you and i had a different perspective on this. i dont think different v...

The sexual union should happen. >> where are we going, sherman? all the way back to 1953, debating contraception. >> my view on that is theres a reason why no presidential candidate or president has talked about this issue before, because the church itself has not talked about this. >> i havent heard a sermon on this since the 50s. >> no. rick santorums surge is real and now the obama campaign is considering taking him on down the road. they may have to fight this guy come november. theyre get...

Morning was like stepping into a time machine and going back 50 years, seeing the headlines and the photos of an all-male panel in the house, talking about a womans right to access birth control. >> when will they get this simple, nondebatable fact? the power to decide whether or not women will use contraception lies with her, not her boss, not her employer. >> lets go on to this issue. it seems to me, in all fairness, joan, you and i had a different perspective on this. i dont think different v...

>> let me show you one of your top candidates. i think we can clear the air here. i may not be fair. but in an interview last october, not a million years ago, this past october, rick santorum who is now running head to head for the republican nomination, talked about what he called the dangers of contraception. lets listen. >> one of the things i will talk about that no president has talked about before. i think the dangers of contraception in this country. many in the christian faith have said...

I think he finessed that. henceforth, you think they would have pushed back and said we made our point. instead they pushed forward and said lets make this a birth control issue. right? >> right. this is not their point. that was the point of certain church leaders and certain catholics who felt strongly about it. that was their point. but once that accommodation was reached and you had catholic charities and catholic health association applauding it, chris, you saw republicans whose real proble...

The sexual union should happen. >> where are we going, sherman? all the way back to 1953, debating contraception. >> my view on that is theres a reason why no presidential candidate or president has talked about this issue before, because the church itself has not talked about this. >> i havent heard a sermon on this since the 50s. >> no. rick santorums surge is real and now the obama campaign is considering taking him on down the road. they may have to fight this guy come november. theyre get...

>> theyre moving away from our leading candidates, santorum and romney, around this issue. and they have to figure out a way to stop the bleeding and retrack the conversation about the economy and other things that women are more concerned about than having a bunch of men sit down and decide what their health issues should be. >> they keep doubling down. >> they want to know about this -- keep people from having birth control as part of their lives. >> right. >> especially in modern day. we all ...

Santorum is a nominee, thats a good contrast for president obama. >> thats a bonus. >> yeah. >> does rick pick up -- just to make his case, does he pick up the reagan democrats? >> thats the other side of the argument, chris. exactly right. would santorum be a tougher candidate than romney. >> older people once voted democrat are now picking up republican. >> tougher in ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, because he has that cultural down market appeal in a way that romney has proven again and again i...

The window. this situation is a little bit worse than schiavo. at least you had some woman who understood and probably would be with the partys position in terms of wanting to have the family make this choice or that choice. but here, this is much more personal to every woman. and so now you have the party or at least certain voices out there that have moved this off of the conversation that it was, i think, rightly on, on the role of church and state. the freedom of church and religion. now you...