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The Federal seat of Fadden is currently up for grabs after the exit of former member Stuart Robert, whose numerous scandals may affect the LNPs chances of re-election.

Election hell get beat up pretty bad in michigan just over that decision alone. >> well, thats right. theres a lot of interesting stuff going on in what you just said. for one thing, republicans said at the beginning of this race that if it went on for a long time, that would be good thing. remember in 2008, barack obama and hillary clinton were duking it out for months. it allowed them to talk about whab they didnt like on the other side. im not sure were seeing that same dynamic i think theres...

This evening, dave weigel at slate.com. someone is robo polling new hampshire about obama versus mitt romney, obama versus newt gingrich and obama versus jeb bush who supposedly is not running for anything. nobody knows who is putting out these calls. karl rove says jeb bush told him hes not doing the robo polling. so at face value that rules out two possibilities. karl rove or jeb bush. this kind of thing doesnt just happen. it costs money. you dont do this accidentally. who would spend money a...

Obama may be the antichrist. may be. er that theyre not sure. 45% believe he was not born in the u.s. and 38% believe his policies are similar to hitlers. >> im looking forward to looking at the cross-tabs of this, looking at the specific data. because im sure its fairly skewed. but at the beginning point, the moment that you ask the question, is obama like hitler, youre prompting the respondent to answer a question yes or no. i mean, theyre not -- and frankly, like if these are people that are ...

Who they support. mitt romney won this back in 2008 with 52% to john mccain 22%. maine a neighboring state to massachusetts, a lot of massachusetts folks moving up to maine. do we expect mitt romney to walk away with this one or could there be another surprise like we saw this past tuesday? >> luke, im not making any bets after what we saw on tuesday. particularly even in colorado which was again a contest that romney won four years ago. even the polling, robo polling had shown he was probably g...

Correspondent chuck todd has our daily fix today. republicans are now saying that they are looking at all of these candidates, newt gingrich says he is the front-runner. on what does he base that? >> reporter: hes basing it on what hes seeing in the polls and the fact is its been sort of a hard thing to judge post thanksgiving day polls, we havent seen a lot of numbers. there will be new numbers on "meet the press" on sunday out of eye way and new hampshire. but when you see the robo polling out...