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Of a right wing candidate? thats my question? because theyll vote republican for romney, theyll vote for a john mccain. theyll vote for even a w. but theyre not going to vote for a ted cruz, i dont think. >> i think youre right. thats the general election problem they have. but the thing is the people who get to decide in the primaries and caucuses really dont give a fig for that argument that you have just made, the whole electability argument. theyre going to point to mitt romney. we went with...

With gay couples. if you have a person who is sensitive to cultural issues and is not a right winger, how can you sell that couple on the idea of a right wing candidate? thats my question? because theyll vote republican for romney, theyll vote for a john mccain. theyll vote for even a w. but theyre not going to vote for a ted cruz, i dont think. >> i think youre right. thats the general election problem they have. but the thing is the people who get to decide in the primaries and caucuses really...

Hes walked away from same sex marriage, lost a little of his credibility on same sex marriage, but will not be the conservative candidate in the primaries. i will say that. >> thats why his electability argument will be very important. the party divides almost exactly in half between what you would call the managerial side, more upscale and affluent and economically focused. the populist side, heavily evangelical. the divide last time was romney was the managerial candidate. they kept looking fo...

Face the turnpike and this new jersey with new jersey. >> i dont know which i like more. anyway, im joined by a visiting fellow who writes for national review and bloomberg view and an editorial writer for "the washington post." all right, ramesh. beat us up for doing polling too early. >> youre doing polling too early. >> but thats okay. it did sort of present a reality check. christie had the best week hes ever had ever. if hes making the electability argument, hes got a long way to go. >> i d...

Red. electability will be his contention for the 2016 presidential race. chris christie can argue, i won the womens voight and the mens vote and will argue that not only did he carry the white vote big, but among african-americans, even though his democratic challenger won the african-american vote, chris christ christie, 20% of the african-american vote. compare it to mitt romney and compare it to john mccain. chris christie will say he can broaden the republican base. even more importantly in ...

This is the third time now hes tried out an industrial midwestern union state and not succeeded. and i think conservatives will have to think through whats the right strategy if they hope to stop romney. lets bring in right now nbc news white house correspondent and political director and host chuck todd. also moderator of "meet the press" david gregory. also i think we have the most interesting man in the world still with us in washington, d.c. there he is. so lets go to our two washington ex...

And two, chuck, just for the record, the fourth place was about the flint tropics making the nba after the aba. >> good job. >> i dont see a change in this dynamic between home and away games for mitt romney as if he is a baseball team. i think somehow he has to get past that and start winning states that you wouldnt think youd otherwise win because the party is starting to fall in behind him. but i dont see it happening in louisiana. you know, you get back into a calendar mode that starts to fa...

>> they like catholics. >> that is not my point, he is speaking the language of the evangelicals, and newt has never locked it up with women. >> that is true. >> what is contrary is the electability argument is not carrying the day. >> you are right about that, mitt romney need as bigger story, if the romney campaign were a company, this would be the moment that you call in the private equity guys to fire everyone and it would be interesting to see if they do something like that. its time for a ...

Are you excited because even if you dont win ohio, you have had a good night? >> well, all of the above. we had huge wins in tennessee, and huge wins in oklahoma and huge wins in north dakota, and now after being outspent $11 million to $1 million, we are in a dead heat in ohio, and whether we come up a couple thousand ahead or short, it is a big night for rick santorum and declare him a winner for the entire night. >> i keep hearing the argument for everybody who is a santorum partisan, it make...

To romney. >> but its also the case that rick santorum shattered his electability argument with a series of statements from the criticism of john kennedy speech to the sometimes you have to be a team player quote, and on and on and on. in all of these states what has driven the ballot is the notion of who can win in november against the president. and those voters may be angry, but they are also focused on electability and that is what has done harm to rick santorum, wasnt the tv ads that did it...