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With you. let me make this joke, make you feel better about it? >> theres some number of those voters who might be off line who might be brought online. theres no one who could be persuaded from one to the other. to place the math, 50.1% is a crucial number because its going to be a really close race. everyone understands that. this looks a lot more like 2004 than 2008. 2004 was a real base election. a base mobilization election, the legendary election of the gay marriage amendments and getting ...

Community -- >> its a cruel hoax, you say, thats helping 1.8 million people starting tomorrow. >> you know what would have been helpful? for senator obama to live up to his rhetoric and sit down with senator rubio and other republicans and sit down on something that would have been the law and comprehensive. >> nia, some thoughts on how you think its going to play come 6th november? >> i think its going to work down to president obamas benefit. weve already seen these polls that show president o...

gillespie on why his candidate gambled on a wonk who is wanting to overhaul medicare. and then risk/reward, ron brown, and cnns dan lothian. im candy crowley. this is "state of the union." the campaign trail is most often a series of mind-numbing days interrupted by the ones that you will never forget, and the days when you know that one way or another, something has changed, and saturday was one of those days for mitt romney. >> what works here, and what works around the world is fr...

Hit with it and the lily leadbetter act. >> the student debt thing is revealing in that romney first embraces the paul ryan budget and then yesterday you see him walk it back, that part of it, and say no, i support extending low interest rates. that crystallizes for the obama team their sort of message challenge. the one option is to paint him somebody who you cant trust whos here and there. probably the preferable option is to paint him as the extremist. >> the a flip-flopper says well, maybe h...

Romney. this is less about anything other than not happy with mitt romneys rhetoric on immigration. >> he still isnt. >> does this start haley barber or mitch daniels. >> i helped you swallow that. immigration isnt like -- >> you know, when romney first -- >> he is married to a mexican-american. >> when romney first ran for president, there were a lot of bush people in florida who admitted that jeb was fired up about mitt romney. and liked the idea after hands-on governor. he watched him go thro...

Bill: bob cusack from "the hill", joins us out of washington. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: talk about romney first. what dawes the day or map look like for him? >> the map looks pretty good for romney because going in he had built-in advantages, massachusetts, vermont and virginia and i also think idaho. i think he is heavily favored in those states. he has those states in his pocket. if he can win ohio, whether some of these other states, whether it be alaska, he has the po...

Morning. so they will directly follow one another. i believe it will be romney first followed by newt gingrich coming up. >> also, if youre in michigan because michigan is just whisker tight right now. if you have made up your mind who you are going to vote for in the last couple of days, e-mail us and tell us who thats going to be and why youve decided to vote for either newt -- well, actually, you cant -- newt is not on the ballot in michigan. either for ron paul or mitt romney or rick santoru...

I wonder how that plays out in nebraska and the rest of the country? >> well, its his legal and in fact to a certain degree its double or even triple taxation when he got the money he had to pay income tax on it. im sure at 35% rate. then he invested it. and now he is paying taxes on again the profits of it so, yes now and you are right, some people are going to say this is the poster child for exactly what obama is talking about. unfair tax system where people who earn their money pay less than...

Sector job creation. a lot of what this country needs at this point, he is also a former white house budget director so if president obama spends a lot of time going after republicans in congress, it doesnt hit governor daniels, >> shepard: shep mike emanuel outside by the statues, thank you. tonight will mark a first for the reporters who cover the state of the union address from the house chamber. finally reporters will be able to take smart phones and laptops into the press gallery. until ton...

for mitt romney the expectations couldnt be higher. hes declared new hampshire front-runner and nationally as well. his business record has been turned into a target. theres intense pressure on the former massachusetts governor to post a big win. >> if were able to win tonight, itll be historic. itll be the first time anyone who is not an incumbent in our party whose won iowa and new hampshire. i have my fingers crossed. it could be a big night for us. >> candy crowley is at the romney...