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"what it takes." romney does what it takes over and over again. its often mercenary and bloodless, but he gets it done. >> mark haleprin in washington, you know there was a point last night around 10:30, 10:45 where the romney people were just holding on for dear life. it was with the ohio results coming in, they felt like things might be breaking their ways because where the votes were coming from. but it would have been hard for them to survive in ohio -- not survive, but it would have been ha...

Street journal." the republican split decision. and a good one from kathleen parker with advice for mitt romney. but first the "wall street journal." if republican poohbahs were hoping the super tuesdays contests would settle the republican contest, they woke up this morning disappointed. rick santorum did well enough to more than justify staying in the race. republican elites are aching to declare this race over and take aim at mr. obama. the fear is that intraparty debate is hurting the gop br...

Are a lot of republicans that are concerned that mitt romney has done damage to himself and his ability to sway those voters over the course of the past few months. both by running too far to the right on certain issues, but through the series of unforced errors over and over again that will allow the presidents people to caricature him as out of touch, member of the out of touch 1%, doesnt care about their problems, doesnt know how they live and what theyre facing. and that has been an effect t...

True mitt can win. >> this is spectacular advice by kathleen parker. you know, mark, it reminds me when george h.w. bush was running around in 1988 telling people he went around in the vice presidential limousine listening to country music. no, thats not what we like you, george h.w. bush, we like you because youre a serious man. he finally got that. i wonder if mitt will and stop reciting lyrics to davey crockett which just make him look dumb. >> and awkward. >> i agree. that is great advice. a...

Down, he does much better on social conservative issues. on electability, winning against obama which will drive this republican process, romney still gets it but with an asterisk. >> does this, mark haleprin, with us from washington, does this make romney better, more prepared for the general if he can get there? >> it does if he does it right. its not going to naturally make him better. he must do the things that allow him to continue to win enough delegates, but also think of independent vote...

Jimmy carter on iran and the backlash was immediate. >> that was carters great strength. carter was in charge of that situation. the american people had the yellow ribbons around the trees. everybodys rooting until it became a point that he didnt have a plan. and it was a horror. >> mark haleprin? >> see if nicolle agrees with me on this. but i saw in the presidents performance yesterday something very reminiscent of our other post 9/11 president. dealing with these wars overseas, going after al...

Settles out and well get a chance to go one-on-one, and we feel comfortable were going to win this thing. >> welcome back to "morning joe," top of the hour. mark haleprin is with us. and joining the table we have financier "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner. along with president and ceo of the national urban league, marc morial, good to have you both. >> great to see you guys. how yall doing? >> its a beautiful monday. >> it is a beautiful, beautiful monday. >> beautiful monday for the...

>> president gave a pretty strong speech to apac yesterday talking about israel and iran. is the white house, the administration failing to do anything youd like them to do right now on the issue of israels security and making it clear where the united states stands versus iran? >> well, mark, i was at the speech yesterday and i appreciated the presidents statement that he doesnt support a containment policy and doesnt support a nuclear iran. but what i think is going on right now, not only some...

Were going to look ahead to a few super tuesday races. anyone want to talk about the polls? >> lets go ahead and do the -- do we have the head-to-head match-ups from the president in ohio and virginia? guys? lets go ahead and do those really quickly. >> in virginia, only mitt romney and ron paul are on the ballot. romney is leading 69% to 26%. a much closer race in ohio where we have a statistical tie between santorum and romney. romney has 34%, romney has 32%, followed by newt gingrich at 15%, ...

These elections dont happen in isolation what people are thinking about. >> yeah, its a great point. and mark haleprin, while the economy seemed to be improving, maybe that is causing some -- there are many that believe the economys going to get worse. i personally dont. i think the numbers are stacking up in such a way that were going to have the gathering momentum and maybe, maybe unemployment wont be in the sevens, but i dont think its going to be in the nines. people talking about a double d...