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Its possible but not likely. if he were to be re-elected, he would be able to work with president in congress. >> the bitterness between the two campaigns is palpable. there are signs that governing will be a huge challenge for the winner. protesters interrupted the presidents rally in ohio and at every stop romney seized on this recent comment from the president. >> dont boo, vote. vote. votings the best revenge. >> president obama asked his supporters to vote for revenge. for revenge? i ask pe...

>> right. what he is really trying to do is to divide the country and to get his people to turn out to vote. there are two models for democratic models. mine and james carvilles. carvilles energize the base. get your george stephanopoulos. energize the base. get them to turn out. mine was always move to the center and get the swing voter to come. and the problem with the first strategy is once you start to do it, you have to do it because you have already alienated the swing voters. you dont hav...

>> right. what he is really trying to do is to divide the country and to get his people to turn out to vote. there are two models for democratic models. mine and james carvilles. carvilles energize the base. get your george stephanopoulos. energize the base. get them to turn out. mine was always move to the center and get the swing voter to come. and the problem with the first strategy is once you start to do it, you have to do it because you have already alienated the swing voters. you dont hav...

What he doesnt do yet is crack the demographic strength of rick santorum, which is the more conservative heart and soul of the party. thats not w and what has to trouble him about that is not whether hes ultimately the guy. who gets the nomination. but what its going to take for the rest of the party to fall in around him. youve got newt gingrich out there, you know, analyzing this race. and still staying in it, saying that there is still a stop romney force out there. and theres enough place fo...

Standing among college voters, voters making over $100,000, and those who would identify as liberal and moderates. he improved by 13 points, 12 points, and 14 points in each of those categories. so that was significant. but what i find most significant about last night in the overall dynamics about what will happen long run is not the numbers, but apparently what gingrich said about romney last night. whats really important ultimately here is what gingrich does. >> yeah. >> because if he stays i...

Tried out in industrial midwestern union state and not succeeded and i think that conservatives are going to have to think through whats the right strategy if they hope to stop romney. >> yeah, that was a very good point. if you didnt know that gingrich was still in the race, you would think he was a pundit talking about whats going on. >> he needs five states in order to have any of his delegates count for him. he needs five state wins. hes got two. he believes hes going to get louisiana and he...

This is the third time now hes tried out an industrial midwestern union state and not succeeded. and i think conservatives will have to think through whats the right strategy if they hope to stop romney. lets bring in right now nbc news white house correspondent and political director and host chuck todd. also moderator of "meet the press" david gregory. also i think we have the most interesting man in the world still with us in washington, d.c. there he is. so lets go to our two washington ex...

The only hope santorum had was that gingrich was going to get out and throw his support to him. and now you have gingrich saying nice things about romney and implying he might get behind romney. so i dont really know whats left here to have happen. yes, yes, i think that santorum will win louisiana. wisconsin will be really interesting. and pennsylvania of course is a must have for santorum. each of those will bring some chatter around them. but i think the next path for romney is happening. >> ...

Reserve. is he a voice in the wilderness. he has a tremendous number of young people. probably the most dedicated supporters anywhere are his supporters. >> shepard: his numbers will never go above 25%? >> never. >> shepard: no matter what he does. >> i dont believe that. >> shepard: basically because of foreign policy. >> best opportunity was iowa. it has diminished as time has gone on. >> shepard: closeness in virginia was what. >> protest vote. other candidates basically saying go vote for ro...

It. what was said? what was done? who was scolded? give us the dirt. >>chris: what happened is the rnc is meeting in new orleans and there are reporters there and they asked, what do you think? a bunch of them expressed disstress with the idea they are going after each other particularly the line of attack that romney is a vulture capitalist as rick perry puts it but i dont think there are any formal requests by the rnc or party leaders to the candidates to knock it off and if they said it the c...