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Not, they showed that the race was tight and suddenly, things widened out or you could have a point where it is carter over reagan or a point later on where it was gore over bush or john mccain over obama. but the bottom line things change. what gets them to change in a big way? what becomes the force that does it? or is that still rare? >> you always look for inflection points in a campaign. an inflection point is a point when people really pay attention, for whatever reason it could be a debat...

Debate over gun control? >> all evidence of previous mass shootings suggests that its not, they havent been inflection points. you know, most americans who die of guns in this country are from suicides. and we know actually as a matter of social science that the availability of a gun makes suicide fatality far more likely. doesnt make the impulse to do it more likely but it makes the actual fatality more likely. thousands of people die every year from that. thats a scourge that is something that...

Made-to-order set of policies, set of issues that began, im just surprised the romney team didnt anticipate coming. remember, though, its early in election time, its like dog years. the damage that team romney has is this has been litigated now sooner than later. >> that is really a big question, something alex wagner was talking about on the show on friday, which is theres a conventional wisdom particularly in washington that people tune out during the summer and there are definitely elections ...

Inflection points and we have seen the momentum change with who wins the races. mitt romney knows that he has actually cant count on having one arizona and michigan, tonight, but he has to count on a big speech. >> jimmy carter would do that after winning one of the surprise primaries and sit down with a top anchor person in a hotel room, and have a conversation and sometimes that is more effective, because it can talk to the people. >> i expect mitt romney to knock it out of the park right here...

Showing romney winning. of course its to the advantage of romney that its the last two polls that have been the best for himle and for santorum the earlier six polls were better for him, but youre right, its between geez, i like santorum, he looks good, he sounds good and geez, romney sounds like the guy who has the better chance of beating obama and thats the tension were seeing played out in the primaries and were going to see it played out in the next seven days. we have this contest and the ...

Should be government spending cuts and a trillion dollars should be additional tax revenues. we need both. we will not accplish this until they come to that realization. >> chris: during the debt ceiling debacle this summer the markets dropped 2,000 points late july early august. assume for a moment that we get no deal. on the one hand, a terrible failure and on the other hand the automatic triggers kick in. what do you think the reaction will be from the markets? >> i dont think it will be much...

Place, that means we have taken our eye off the ball. with the long-range presence, we shouldnt build this country. if we are going to build a country, it needs to be america. >> we cannot leave afghanistan a failed state. if we do, we are right back to where we were prior to september 11th, a day where we lost over 3,000 americans. >> you know, savannah, i know this senate democratic debate is in who is the nominee and it will have an uphill battle against richard burr, but afghanistan is the n...

It. "for a year now sarah palin, glenn beck and their minions have been warning that america is morphing into a police state. so where are palin and beck, latter day paul reveres, now that governor jan brewer is doing to the southwest what president barack obama supposedly hopes to do to the country? theyre blissfully unconcerned, they dont see any threat to liberty at all." peter barnhart is the senior political writer for the "daily beast" and were also joined by "daily beast" contributor, mar...

That governor jan brewer is doing to the southwest what president barack obama supposedly helps to do to the country. theyre blissfully unconcerned, they dont see any threat to liberty at all. peter barnhart is the senior political writer for the "daily beast" and were also joined by "daily beast" contributor, mark mckinnon, the vice chairman of public strategies and a former campaign adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. this is one of those interesting little inflection points where we le...

Donald trumps world, personal business and otherwise, are facing this kind of heat? we talk a lot about inflection points. this is an inflection point in the sense we havent seen anyone this high profile jailed. paul manafort is in jail. its the kind of thing you cant say enough and if you think about other people that filled his role, if one imagined a david axelrod in the obama era in jail, it reminds you were not living in normal times. one of the things thats up for debate is whether paul ma...