campaign today. joining me now, chris cizilla, msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and ruth marcus. ruth, first to you, we re talking about abortion and seen in some considerable movement in the numbers, the polling numbers, at least the pew poll about women and the closing the gender gap, for mitt romney, is this another case where he was trying to pivot? moderate mitt and might be too much to bear for conservatives who are not yet spoken out? it might be remoderate mitt. remember back in massachusetts, he said he was supportive of the right to abortion and so there s really i think this could be an issue for him with certainly a certain element of the conservative movement other than taxes and for some of them even more than taxes abortion is the litmus test issue. it s also the issue on which governor romney has been