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>> martin, from a democratic perspective, who are the democrats worried most about? >> i dont think you have to worry about any of the individuals. the president has to be worried about the economy. if the economy isnt doing well, whoever the republican nominee is will make a strong race. if the economy is doing well, obama will be in very good shape. the republicans have an interesting situation here. either going to go with an insider or an outsider. romney really now is an insider. hes run be...

>> he didnt care about how it played, he just wanted to get it over with. >> it was too late to be in the sunday papers? except the indianapolis papers. they gave it to them at 7:00 p.m. >> very peculiar. >> hes out. >> hes out? >> yeah. >> what does that mean, i want to ask you andrew sorkin, does that help tim pawlenty? >> i have an answer. >> there are three former governors and mitt romney is clearly the strongest and most likely nominee and tim pawlenty and jon huntsman have obvious paths t...

Open question. i mean, mitch daniels -- the race isnt settled. and so, if mitch daniels gets in this thing, keeb real factor in the state like iowa. >> dana what do you think? who is the best anti-romney candidate among republicans? >> on paper, tim pawlenty, has the establishment support, has real social conservative credentials but he has yet to catch on fire there as david knows better than anybody in the world, the republican electorate there in -- the actual caucus, the number is so small t...

He was in the low single digits even in places like south carolina where he should have been a powerhouse. so i really think haley barbour, the strategiest, made a very good decision yesterday. jon: all right. so who is the beneficiary of his withdrawal? >> well, if mitch daniels gets in -- and who knows, hes indicated kind of both directions -- if he gets in, i think he would inherit a lot of the establishment support that barbour had among fundraisers and senior republican party officials. by ...

Throughout the united states. quite frankly, it is that enthusiasm thats separated the democrats from the republicans where the enthusiasm gap, as we call it, is 15% in favor of the republican party. more republicans are turning out in these primaries, all of which bodes well for us as we enter into the november elections. then when you start to get to the generic polling, this is going to be, unless something dramatically changes in the next nine weeks, this is going to be a watershed week for ...

Way charlie crists hand-picked chairman spent monday eight the state party, getting this information out in the open will be the best way to deal with it. as far as my spending is concerned it was for legitimate political purposes when i made personal charges i paid for them directly to american express. i have not been contacted and i dont know anything about any potential inquiries but i welcome the chance to set the record straight once and for all. as i mentioned hes in a double-digit lead o...

You look for ads. if youre prognosticating in an old school fashion, you add up all this stuff that tends to be a sort of oblique measurement of establishment support. and so when establishment candidates dont do well, it does usually blindside everybody. but i mean, this year with the kind of politics that weve got right now actually in both the democratic and republican parties, i think prognostication is a very dangerous business to be in in general. >> well, it is as you mentioned, steve kor...

Republican primary. in that case the g.o.p. could turn to mitt romney. he received more than 59 million votes last time around. is well known and has establishment support. something to consider. and thats the memo. now for the top story tonight reaction. joining us from washington charles krauthammer more perspicacious analysis from me, am i correct? >> yes. i wouldnt exaggerate the use of the word perspicacious. reasonable analysis. thats as far as i would go for at least right now. look, what...

Do is establish himself as the anti-trump, and so in a sense, this may be distinguishing himself from the kasichs of the world and from rubio and from the others who have some establishment support. and he can figure that if he can be the anti-trump, then if and when it gets down to just a two-candidate race, trump versus the anti-trump, hell be there and maybe he can take him then. >> is it convincing, though? trumps been taunting him all summer, calling him names, hes basically telling him, hi...

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