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Obama 51% to 45%. in comparison, real clear politics average shows a dead heat with obama leading by one tenth of a point. joining us, frank newport. how do you explain the fact your poll is so out of line with seven others national polls which show obama with a small lead or romney with a lead of just one point? >> well, there are many different explanation. we spend most of our time looking at our own method doling, how we do it. its a seven day rolling average of the one you quoted. a large s...

Its time four or sunday group. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. liz more lan tess and -- >> before we get to libya, what do you make of the lead story in the "new york times" today the u.s. and iran agreed in principle to one-on-one talks after the election about irans nuclear program? >> i dont know what to make of it. they agreed to talks and it was all set or the suggestion it was all set and then there was -- the white house said no, no, we havent agreed in any final way to anyt...

Weve even romney move out to the 51-45 seven day average. thats what were showing among likely voters nationally. registered voters is closer to even. >> you had a poll this week of 12 battleground states showing romney leading by four points in the 12 battleground states. 50-46. the gender gap among women was gone, obama leading by 49% to 48. most polls show obama leadingly more in the battleground states with a bigger lead among women. >> that was a couple weeks ago when that field work was do...

Pointellist painting let me explain it, states in red are romney leading, and there are 230 states. and the blue states are for president obama with 201 electoral states and now there more is more gray states which are a toss up or undecided. what do you make of the map and that the number of states that are too close to call is growing, not decreasing? >> what is most striking is holy cow, romney has a slight lead in electoral votes, the first time that has occurred. that confirms the trend tha...

Whether obama should pull out of florida and there was a story in the "new york times" about that, this weekend, so, in that sense, the midwest really is where this is going to be won. although romney just has a path to victory without ohio he would like to win ohio because it is low low making it very close without that. obama has had a lead there. he it will is ahead but not by as much, but every poll shows obama ahead in ohio and that makes it hard are for romney. >> what do romney and obama ...

President obamas hopes especially in key swing states. but gallup polling shows more than half identified as independents. 52% call themselves democrats and just 11% who say theyre republicans. when asked which way they lean, the the independents switch to 2-1. well be right back. the postal service is critical to our economy, delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet the house is considering a bill to close thousands of offices, slash service and layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal servic...

romney built a major lead among republicans and the gop infighting has been nasty and brutal. is he ready to take on president barack obama? and already focussing in on a november matchup and his campaign is depicting mitt romney as an out of touch millionaire. will that strategy pay off. im wolf blitzer? im wolf blitzer? youre in "the situation room. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com were also learning that george zimmerman, the shooter of trayvon martin, will be speaking public...

Theme in all the polls that have happened over the last couple of months. >> can i just ask you something? how can 66% say they want a nominee but 55% say they want someone else. >> because i think it just shows what this election cycle has been all about. people are frustrated. just watched the frontrunner that keeps changing, how many times have we gone -- >> can i throw a number out here? the fox nation did this. they said if it was someone else who would be -- and they went through the list ...

National polls. if the director of the gallup polling is to be believed. and i suspect he is. so that makes it difficult, i think for newt gingrich, structurally as you look ahead to florida. but it will become an important state. and as you look at the money over the next week, you dont need to have the most money to whip, you need to have enough money to win. think theres no question, if he wins tonight, newt gingrich is going to have enough money to compete all the way through the super tuesd...

im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with breaking news on wall street. a dramatic rescue and equally dramatic reaction on wall street. the stock market skyrocketing today on new that is the federal reserve and other central banks are taking direct action to prevent a financial meltdown in the euro zone using the their resources to keep money and credit flowing amid the staggering debt crisis. its the largest coordinated move ...