joe biden has managed to brush off several controversies without losing his standing in the polls, earning him the nickname teflon joe. is he electable. michelle goldberg writing even if you don t support him, it s hard not to feel anxious on his behalf. biden at his best is undisciplined but with a big heart. personal warmth all be enough without the ability to inspire masses of people. anyone convinced that biden is the safe choice should go see him for themselves. joining me now, national review contributor luc tomlinson and jessica tarlov. great to have you. jessica, michelle goldberg has been a skeptic of joe biden for a long time. she says when she went, with an open mind and understanding that there are democrats all across the country saying that we like him, she said i understand you like him but she does not think he s going to be able to win the election. that has been the worry. we have 24, 25 candidates now. people lining up on either side of it. i ve seen it pushed by
of the allegations with his former wife mary anne. nationally the polls have not shown good things for newt gingrich and the female vote. last night. we do like him and 41% married women and romney 28%. last poll taken in south carolina had a 18 point gap among women favoring mitt romney. alisyn: look at the poll of exit voters, you ll remember that electability was another big issue. yes, we may like gingrich, was he electable, last night 51% believed he could beat president obama best of all the contenders. clayton: can t read this other than this is big trouble for mitt romney and maybe the voters looked at and we had a guest describe newt gingrich and maybe not as baggage instead of freight and said we re fine with us, fine with us.
more than i do and i m gay so i don t get the guy. let s turn to ron paul, we ll leave it there for santorum. let s turn it to ron paul who is second in that des moines register poll. always a question whether he is too outside of the mainstream to be electable in a general election. here s what he said this morning on cnn s state of the union. i m pretty electable. i was elected 12 times once people got to know me in my own congressional district so i think that s more propaganda than anything else so we ll wait and see and we ll know a lot pore about how the election goes tomorrow. will, is ron paul letting the iowa poll numbers get to his head? no, i mean that s perfectly rational reason he just gave. look, here s my issue with ron paul. is he electable. there was a book called the your-hour workweek. perato s position, you can break it down 80-20.
dana, santorum is leading, ten points in those national polls. is he electable. if karen and the other democrats are not salivating, it s only because they are not confidence that santorum will prevail. of course, he would be an enormous gift to the democratic party. it s hard to imagine that republicans won t come to their senses. the birth control issue. now we have him saying that public education is an anacroism. he s so far outside of the re realmany of where a plausible candidate could be the it seems like it s in state of suspended animation. you see that republicans have know it s not going to get them where they need go. suspended animation.