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Can we go to a bigger question with mitt romney? every day it seems, you know, does he really -- has he ever answered the question, why i want to be president? we know why he wants to be the republican nominee. do we know why hes answered that fundamental question? and does he answer it every day? and you wonder if thats -- theyve had a message problem i would argue since last summer and cant figure it out. >> he has, it was -- >> he cant answer that question given the context of the primaries h...

But they dont like to talk about although under duress they will admit that, yes, the candidate is an issue, too. m >> they have a message problem and they also have a competition problem, look who they are losing to in the south, rick santorum, hillary clinton lost many races, and john mccain lost plenty of races, but none of like mitt romney. he has the establishment behind him and he wasnt able to pull away. thats the biggest problem. >> he won the night on delegates. >> thats the story of th...

Back and watch, you know, the destruction on the other side. >> i agree. and i think the big part of this is what we see in campaigns, which have three layers. theres a money layer, theres a message layer, which we focus on, and which matters, and theres the field layer. and one of the key differences thats been pointed out from last cycle to this, is that the field organizing is not helping the republicans in most of these states, in contra distinction to where hillary and obama were both organ...

Hes got. >> should the romney campaign be making the argument or saying lets remember we actually have a message problem. we are only winning by bludgeoning. >> looking at places, jonathan ran through all the places that romney needed to win. florida. he had to win and he won. he had to win there. how did he win? the only state where he won on a positive message was new hampshire and nevada. one is the form on population. i just feel like if you get the campaign, the obama team started to make t...

On ab krrk. on cbs. really reversing position from everything he said. >> i assume the only person who doesnt read it is somebody from "the new york times." it is mitt romney has this message problem. >> its a fundamental problem. the fundamental problem is mitt romney eels crowning achievement as governor of massachusetts looks a lot like obamas achievement as the the u.s. how is it different? but for a president who is so unpopular with the base of this party, and with obama care being the ral...

>> i think its both. at the end of the day, this is a message problem. theres no question. theres no one in the campaign able to say to mitt romney this is not the way we need to do things. we need to handle x, y, z differently. weve seen it with the comments on wealth. weve seen it with his taxes. wer going to see a very different race going forward in terms of how mitt romney manages his own campaign if he loses on the. >> he was asked this morning about the state of the campaign. heres what h...

He has the money, he has the organization. the problem that hes run into is a message problem. is that republican voters are rejecting his candidacy in these states for a reason that is different than money and different than organization. he wont win every state, but when you look at the problems that are spelled out with the results last night, he does have some real structural problems in the race. now, i still believe that he is likely to be the republican nominee at the end of the process f...

Because i dont think it works in the same ways as gingrich. >> today, mitt romney likened his campaign to senator mccain. >> senator mccain after i think winning florida he went on to lose 17 or 18 contests after that. but was able to put the delegates together by focusing on the process of gathering delegates as we will. >> steve, is this the right comparison? >> i dont think it is the right comparison. the day john mccain became the defacto nominee of the party, there were 35 people that worke...

I think hell not have a lot of luck in the northern tier states. missouri would make sense because it has a bit of that kind of southern element to it. >> not on the primary ballot there. >> no, indeed. i think to demonstrate he has viability in the border states. thats an incredibly important component of a republican victory in the future. >> its interesting as arizona to me is the one that stands out, except its a winner take all state. they pulled the same florida deal, they took the penalty...

Conservative because they cant carry that argument. its -- >> they are calling him a crook? >> they are calling him a crook and they cleverly cut in the fact he had the ethics violation and left congress with fannie and freddie which really werent related at all but they make it look that way. that can cut down here. dont you think, chuck? >> it can because of the foreclosure and all that thing but it doesnt deal with the romney problem. thats the issue. hes got a message problem. >> weve got to...