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Heather you made it through to the end of the week. On Heather Childers in for jenna lee and everyone at home, republicans are talking about them first. Spanning across new york state hoping to win some or even all of the 95 delegates up for grabs tuesday. After appearing last night at a republican gala where each candidate made his case for becoming the gop nominee. My opponents in this race, all four of them pledged to maintain that Iranian Nuclear deal. One says he will renegotiate it. Let me...

Guaranty you or i predict at least it will probably be a very short turnaround before we see a web video from the republican national committee or the romney campaign, sort of ridiculing this choice of former president carter speaking at the convention and making that comparison. gregg: by videotape. does that alter the equation? >> it ult ears -- all thers it a little bit. he has done that before at previous conventions. it is different than having the former president walk out on the stage and...

Race to the white house? shane april, campaign editor, elections and campaigns magazine. shane, good to see you. governor romney was struggling to raise money. he was vastly outspent over president obama. why is that reversed now? is romney more adept and organized over fund-raising? are people angry with the economy and president obama? what is it? >> i think there are a few things at work, gregg. it starts if you go back to 2008 and put your mind in the of the democratic donor these are folks ...

Tight race. they include the fact that gop voters he says are more fired up than democrats. the enthusiasm among young voters is lower than it was in 2008. and the president is losing ground among middle class voters. shane april is editor of campaigns and elections magazine. he studies this stuff like, well, like nobodys business. shane, i wanted to read to you part of what karl rove wrote in that op-ed piece in the "wall street journal." he says elections about numbers and right now the presid...

And find a way to appeal to these independents. rick: so, it is really the super conservatives and the ultraliberals. they will sort of vote for who they are going to vote for but the folks in the middle will pick the next president, isnt it? >> rick, if you actually look sort of under the surface a little bit who the self-identified independents are the reality a lot of folks who identify as independent really are partisan leaners. they lean democrat or they lean republican. so really the true ...

Rick: "happening now", this independence day were taking a closer look at the independent voters. a "fox news poll" finding if the election were held today 37% of those who identify themselves as independent voters would choose president obama compared to 31% who say that they would vote for governor mitt romney. while it is hard to define exactly who makes up the independents there is one group standing out right now. theyre called the wal-mart moms. mothers living in the suburbs. they arent ex...

Next week could be the last one i celebrate as president of the united states, but thats not up to me, its up to you. shane in a separate fund-raising ploy he posted a blog, i wrote this down, as his gift to people out there, he will let them donate a portion of their birthday gift money to him. have you ever seen anything like this? >> you know i think when youre trying to raise money on line in small dollar amounts the more creative or more interesting, sometimes the better. those are interest...