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house? "outfront" tonight, maegan carberry, former communications director of rock the vote. alice stewart is a republican strategist. and michelle goldberg is a senior writer for "newsweek" and the daily beast. lets start with you. whats your sense of how much of this is coincidence with president obama being president and how much of it hes able to take credit for? >> im sure he can take credit for a lot of it. but whats really important is that voters dont hang on every single numbe...

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I agree that the whole gay rights movement gained ground. but i dont believe that same-sex marriage is a majority position of americans. it polls well, but then when you see people go to the voting booth, where there is a secret ballot they are not answering to anybody but themselves, look what happened to north carolina. lost by # 2 percentage points. that is incredible. north carolina is a state obama won by narrow margin. 14,000 votes in 2008. i think he, his fleeting thoughts of winning it a...

Which we can have great id yoe logical battles, then you might as well throw our constitutional republic out the window. >> you know, i think a lot of people share that sentiment. yet, the republican party, or its most active wing, especially in the house, has doubled down on a tactic of, you know, championing those who are furthest right. the mourdock-lugar race -- >> thats winning at expense of the republic. >> its also winning at expense of their own party. mourdoch is currently tied in the l...

Disappointed the president was using the death of bin laden for political purposes. i have to ask you then, what is mitt romney doing in new york this afternoon. eating pizza with firefighters alongside rudolph giuliani? >> this is all a game, it seems. you know, martin, that im partial to a certain book thats out now called "showdown." but colonel jack was right talking about the nature of the decision. i go into great details with the meetings where bob gates and vice president biden said dont...

Create a roll call vote because whether they can make it a presidential issue or not, they do not care. its about snenate races in places like missouri and virginia and ohio that they want to see those senators cast votes. >> i think you may be on to something, chuck, and im not taking any offense to the bait and switch to come to the "andrea mitchell reports" and see you chuck, i think you are on to something. what we have right now is a fight of. and the perfect conditions of a fight. at the m...

Its even more remarkable that mitt romney, the overwhelming front-runner, also can take a public position of opposing birth control, the most popular kind of birth control. what is most remarkable, most remarkable about this years republican presidential field, the thing of opposing popular forms of birth control is the majority position among the entire field of candidates. five of the hopefuls signed a personhood pledge from a group called personhood usa. of the candidates still in the race, r...

I know rick santorum wants to be the number one anti-romney candidate there is not much policy difference on whether or not a state can infringe your right to have birth control. its rasemarkable a candidate c be considered a top tier candidate. its even more remarkable that mitt romney, the overwhelming front-runner, also can take a public position of opposing birth control, the most popular kind of birth control. what is most remarkable, most remarkable about this years republican field, the t...

Not talking about beating romney, im talking about beating paul and gingrich, why not? >> well, again, new hampshire marches to the beat of its own drummer to begin with. the second thing is, theyre distinctly different electorates, in hawaii six out of every ten voters are evangelicals, protestants, strong social conservatives. in new hampshire one of the most secular less than a quarter evangelical and born again. and marches to the tune of a different drummer. south carolina, however, pays at...

Not talking about beating romney, im talking about beating paul and gingrich, why not? >> well, again, new hampshire marches to the beat of its own drummer to begin with. the second thing is, theyre distinctly different electorates, in hawaii six out of every ten voters are evangelicals, protestants, strong social conservatives. in new hampshire one of the most secular less than a quarter evangelical and born again. and marches to the tune of a different drummer. south carolina, however, pays at...