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Fallen on hard economic times. and the second thing is that it is a kind of meta messaging to democratic primary voters everywhere, she can go anywhere in the country and talk to anyone. and that is a very explicit intent of hers to allay possible concerns or fears about her being caricatured as a harvard liberal from massachusetts or having electability problems. >> so interesting when you put it like that. a lot of folks watching, as we mentioned with warren on policy, with her being an unapol...

disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying theres a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because thats what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due...

mitt romney is picking up a significant endorsement in south carolina today. one that could help boost his standing with tea party republicans who continue to question his conservative credentials. romney now has the backing of governor nikki hailey, who herself was propelled into office with tea party support. can she convince those same tea party voters to back mitt romney? joe johns is joining us now. this is a huge day for mitt romney. tell us what we know. >> mitt romney continued...

Internal polls tells them newt gingrich is on the slide. the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll doesnt support the romney camp theory. it shows newt gingrich with a 17-point lead among the nations republican voters. at the same time, gingrich has clear electability problems. he trails president obama by 11 points if an e today. with a 13-point lead over newt gingrich. republicans are stuck with these two candidates at the top, whether they like it or not. unless, of course, ron paul can ...

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Workers face another looming government shutdown. and donald trump pulls the plug on his much ballyhooed republican debate after newt gingrich and rick santorum promised to show up. thats not the reason he cites for dropping the plan. its wednesday, december 14th, 2011. 20 days until the caucuses. its "the daily run down." im chuck todd. to my first reads of the morning, according to the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, two leading republicans have one thing in common, electability pro...

Six times in the popular vote. it they lose to hillary they have lost the supreme court for a generation they have lost a government for a generation. combine it with the eight years that obama has been president. how much are they willing to compromise? >> the interesting thing among the iowa voters on the republican side there was a lot more on the subject of jeb bush a lot more new hampshire voters we talked to earlier had are more ideological problems with bush. and ohio voters had more elec...

Journal" poll doesnt support the romney camp theory. it shows newt gingrich with a 17-point lead among the nations republican voters. at the same time, gingrich has clear electability problems. he trails president obama by 11 points if an election were held today. and the numbers are similar in another new poll. showing that president obama with a 13-point lead over newt gingrich. republicans are stuck with these two candidates at the top, whether they like it or not. unless, of course, ron paul...

Missou positively. we have two reporters for our gail daily fix. john you have looked a it the numbers. can republican voters end up choosing ideology or choose pragmatism? >> well theyve got electability problems with either of these nominees. thats one of the things we saw in the poll, andrea. mitt romney is also under water in terms of his favorability. not as badly as newt gingrich is. he has problems the party has image problems. on the primary choice, pragmatism is a weak reed to count on ...