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Females that mitt romney has had on board with him, and that he had when he was governor of massachusetts. we see it in indiana, and getting the war on women charge, but the lieutenant governor is a woman and the secretary of state is a woman and on down the line. so what they needed to accomplish last night, they did and hopefully that will carry some momentum over the last couple of weeks. >> liz, i was struck by i felt almost direct references to the gender gap problem in the speech. >> well,...

Things dominating the news cycle, kevin yoder, the skinny dipping thing. that is going to go away. people arent going to be thinking about that too much. people will especially women and men who are paying attention to the conversation about right to life and a womans right to choose will be thinking about akin and also drawing a lot of distinction and correlation between the republican ticket of that of mitt romney and paul ryan. and the fact that they need to know where these men stand. now es...

Aisle. >> yeah. one of the ways he won that really tough first race, again a democratic, blue-collar district that had been held by democrats for many, many years he did very well, martha, with the blue-collar working class voters and also with women. mitt romney has a gender gap problem, there is no question about it. obama does better with women than mitt romney does. paul is very appealing to women voters. he always done very well because he speaks of those kind of kitchen table issues, marth...

Mitt romney it seemed that mitt romney made a hard pivot away from really campaigning against rick santorum and now is focused almost solely on president obama. so in some ways symbolically, losing wisconsin last week for rick santorum seemed to be the beginning of perhaps the end here because it was yet another defeat in the industrial heartland. this part of the country that may decide this election in november, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, states that hes all lost to mitt romney. so the tax iss...

Rights, but to help fight for issues they care about, and mitt romney who just doesnt seem to get it. so -- >> david, let me ask you this. what on this -- this poll, to go back to what stu was writing about, its this -- he is sitting there going, wait a minute, the news that is staring me in the face is romney has got a man problem. >> hes got a big man problem. >> a bigger male problem. >> yeah, its interesting. im trying to square that with the likability numbers, this 20 -- >> 40 -- >> 2 to 1...

Valerie jarrett with kathleen sebelius and hilda solis. fits nicely into the obamas m campaign to use the white house to take advantage of a republican problem with women. team obama plans to jump on a chance to drive a wedge into republicans and women voters. rnc chairman reince priebus to a question on the gender gap -- >> the democrats, of course, say youre waging a -- the gops waging a war on women. you dont agree with that. looking at the polls you have a gender gap problem. how big a probl...

Waging a war on women. i know you dont agree with that. but looking at the polls, you have a gender gap problem. recent polls show a huge, huge margin for democrats among women voters. how big a problem is it, and how do you close it? >> well, for one thing, you know, if the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars, and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that the republicans have a war on caterpill caterpillars, then wed have a problem with caterpillars. the fact of the matte...

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coming up shortly. gloria borger is standing by with david gergen, donna brazile, and ari fleischer. >> governor romney, what kind of debate did you think you had tonight? >> i thought it was terrific, and i was delighted with the debate. it was a big night for me and for the people who support me. you saw the response of the audience. its a big step forward and its going to give me the boost i need going into the last couple days before the primary. >> you were pretty aggressive, i co...

with david gergen, donna brazile, and ari fleischer. >> governor romney, what kind of debate did you think you had tonight? >> i thought it was terrific, and i was delighted with the debate. it was a big night for me and for the people who support me. you saw the response of the audience. its a big step forward and its going to give me the boost i need going into the last couple days before the primary. >> you were pretty aggressive, i couldnt help but notice, in taking on newt gingric...