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Time on talking about mixing the economic and values message. you know, not dissimilar to what are bill clinton did in 1992 or what pat buchanan did in 1996. you know, when you take values and merge it with the economy -- and if you do it effectively, thats how you can win in places that have a heavier blue collar population. whether its western pennsylvania or parts of new hampshire. and he emphasizes that a lot. and lately he has thrown in the electability argument. he pushes back on this idea...

With barack obama. and if santorum shows almost as well as romney, if it looks like 45-46 race, thane the electability argument, a lot of republican who is are torn say, wait a second, i could be for santorum f. thereby their could be a big gap, then romney could continue to play the electability card. >> okay. unfortunately, the two minutes has come and gone. >> we are waiting to find out exactly whats going o. we have reported from two sources that it has been determined that mitt romney will ...

All happened for rick santorum, mika. yesterday we had lunch with a couple of people who helped run the santorum campaign. he said, hey, i remember eating here, we came here after we were at 2%. can you believe that? then the campaign manager came to him and said, yeah, i ate here last year when we were at 4%. last night, 25%. oh, the great wall of chocolate, seriously. >> salt and sugar. >> just stop it. >> all right. >> im trying to make an important point here. >> im sorry. >> the surge that ...

With barack obama. and if santorum shows almost as well as romney, if it looks like 45-46 race, thane the electability argument, a lot of republican who is are torn say, wait a second, i could be for santorum f. thereby their could be a big gap, then romney could continue to play the electability card. >> okay. unfortunately, the two minutes has come and gone. >> we are waiting to find out exactly whats going o. we have reported from two sources that it has been determined that mitt romney will ...

With barack obama. and if santorum shows almost as well as romney, if it looks like 45-46 race, thane the electability argument, a lot of republican who is are torn say, wait a second, i could be for santorum f. thereby their could be a big gap, then romney could continue to play the electability card. >> okay. unfortunately, the two minutes has come and gone. >> we are waiting to find out exactly whats going o. we have reported from two sources that it has been determined that mitt romney will ...

With barack obama. and if santorum shows almost as well as romney, if it looks like 45-46 race, thane the electability argument, a lot of republican who is are torn say, wait a second, i could be for santorum f. thereby their could be a big gap, then romney could continue to play the electability card. >> okay. unfortunately, the two minutes has come and gone. >> we are waiting to find out exactly whats going o. we have reported from two sources that it has been determined that mitt romney will ...

With barack obama. and if santorum shows almost as well as romney, if it looks like 45-46 race, thane the electability argument, a lot of republican who is are torn say, wait a second, i could be for santorum f. thereby their could be a big gap, then romney could continue to play the electability card. >> okay. unfortunately, the two minutes has come and gone. >> we are waiting to find out exactly whats going o. we have reported from two sources that it has been determined that mitt romney will ...

Potentially. i think he has an electability argument to make, and i think thats a major sticking point for him and well go from there. >> so you obviously working for the christian broadcasting network, youre hooked in we van jell caevangelicals in iowa. did anybody see this coming in? >> yes and no. i dont think santorum saw it too much here, as well. but there were a lot of undecideds. what they got to think was perry had his oops moments, and a lot of oops moments. and people looked at bachma...

To. he went to his stump speeches. he makes an explicit appeal to reagan democrat, even calling them reagan in thees and makes the case in a broader electability argument, that i am the person -- not mitt romney -- he doesnt say romney -- but i am the person who can bring the second type of independents that bill is talking about. look, he can make a plausible case. thats why he gave the speech that he gave. i thought it was a compelling speech, at times, a moving speech. its one reason that ric...

To. he went to his stump speeches. he makes an explicit appeal to reagan democrat, even calling them reagan in thees and makes the case in a broader electability argument, that i am the person -- not mitt romney -- he doesnt say romney -- but i am the person who can bring the second type of independents that bill is talking about. look, he can make a plausible case. thats why he gave the speech that he gave. i thought it was a compelling speech, at times, a moving speech. its one reason that ric...