Mormon Issue News Today

He improvised, got him in trouble rhetorically in the primary. very nervous about the mormon issue. every conversation for whatever reason we have, goes back to that. when you talk to republicans when they talk to evangelical christians, they are picking up something that public polling is not. there are much bigger concerns about his faith than you might think if you are looking at polling data on this issue. a lot of people remain very skeptical. his inability to connect with hispanics and als...

. >> and this morning the times is out with a very lengthy examination of romneys mormonism. president obama, meanwhile, has been getting a very different reception. >> which one of us here at "the view" was on "dancing with the stars?" >> that would be sherri. >> are the media giving romney far more scrutiny in this campaign? facebook goes public with a bang. >> tonight the facebook frenzy. >> tonight on world news, facebook fever. one of the biggest stock sales ever creating a thousa...

The structure. >> mitt romney is running for president for six years and he had a lot of time to figure out the narrative and his story and find ways to tell it in a compelling way and say he is catching up and thats a liability for him whether its a mormon issue or he got a right. he knew it was coming and its time to get at it. its trick to describe because it was to create wealth and not necessarily to create nobs. he neats to redefine it. >> you dont believe that mitt romney will have a prob...

Out of office for a number of years has this inside outside dynamic going on. >> joanne, coming to you, the new polls are remarkable. gingrich is surging. iowa is 33%. just 28 days away. he isality 38% in south carolina where the victor has been the nominee since 1980. people talk about him in electability, but that doesnt seem to trouble newt gingrich. >> how sad for the tea party movement. they were this outsider movement and the choices between mitt romney who they dont think is conservative ...

If you talk to conservatives in iowa, there is a big opening for him. they dont see much of a way for him to crawl out of it. the advantage for everyone else, if its gingrich whos rising on this, you know, he -- there is a very long record. hes kind of tried to preempt this, a long record of newt coalition building you can attack in the same way. we all come back to romney. hes been vetted on this issue before. the other things have been aired in the debates and kind of fallen off. >> you have g...

Theres just -- youve really -- if you talk to conservatives in iowa, there is a big opening for him. they dont see much of a way for him to crawl out of it. the advantage for everyone else is that if its gingrich whos rising on this, you know, he -- there is a very long record. hes kind of tried to preempt this. a very long record of newt coalition building that you can attack in the same way. we all come back to romney. he has been vetted on this issue before. the attacks on him on immigration,...

Right now. he had no problem saying yeah, he chose this person and there has been a person about whether he chose this person or not. romney decided yes he did on his own. the perry campaign said the voters people picked this person to introduce regardless, you heard both say perrys job is to repudiate the endorsement and the romney campaign, they know perry is wound and they want to make him own the cult comment and the bigotry stuff. >> go ahead. >> the interesting thing here martin is the per...

The right direction on the night of the election. i dont think there are any other lessons than that. >> if mitt romney is not the republican nominee, how do they blow it? is it his to lose, number one? >> yes. he has the financing to stick this out. >> but what would it cost him? >> well, you just dont know. hes got to get through new hampshire. thats going to be -- hes got to run out in new hampshire clear and you want the other side to continue to be -- to diffuse itself so conservatives dont...

Strategists, and donors have tried to find a positive all the terntive to romney. and again and again they have failed. for about 15 minutes, that alternative seemed to have at last formed in the form of rick perry. perry is still raising money, yet its hard to miss the loud hiss of air escaping this political balloon. >> surely the issue is, the good news is, the campaign may finally moving away from the "american idol" stage and getting serious. but its hard to see romney carrying it without a...

The talk of red sox with the latest issue of "time" magazine. what is it? >> theres a slash down the center to represent the great and widening divide between the wealthy and less than wealthy in america. >> lets explain were looking at that cover, rick. explain what americans are looking at in the stacks of dollar bills. >> we had an artist who was working on the cover and we said one way to demonstrate -- its a jeffrey sachs piece, saying theres a greater economic divide than any time in the h...