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This time romneys own personal unfavorability is a huge problem in his campaign. and unless they do something about it at the convention or soon thereafter, i think it could be the reason he loses the presidency. >> let me ask you this, are you watching romney having john p kerry flashbacks? >> they come from the same state. i guess theres similarities. obviously john is a very different person. but a challenger to an incoming president to make mistakes. romney is going to pay a costly price for...

>> basically cut our throats. >> thats an ad from ted kennedys 1994 senate race in massachusetts against mitt romney. and it may have team romney feeling like its deja vu all over again. the romney kennedy battle was hard fought and for a time, it looked like the young upstart from bain attempted to knock the line of the senate off his perch. just two months before that election, romney led by two points. but after a barrage of ads and devastating debate performance, romney ended up losing by 17...

Behind him this election. joining us from washington, democratic strategist tad devine. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> karl rove writing the pages of the "wall street journal" making a big point about the importance of cash in this campaign cycle. he brought up the example in 2008 president obama outspent john mccain by 7-1 in some red swing states and basically makes the case if nothing else cash may win this race. what do you make of that? >> well, you know, i cant dispute t...

Make no mistake, this years election is going to be about two americas. the america of the republican candidates or the america built on fairness, equality, and americans working together. joining me now is steve kornacki, political columnist for salon.com. and now an msnbc political analyst. and democratic strategist, tad devine, a senior adviser for the perry and gore campaign. thanks for both of you for being here. steve, it used to be mitt romney and the others. now theyre all to the right. ...

Every other area, he lost. in mississippi, romney lost to the more conservative candidates too. other than high-income voters. so with all of this moving over, hes not even winning the support of the conservative base. >> right. and whats really interesting to me about those findings, the case can be made, romneys people can say this, and i think theres validity to it, hey, if he wins the anonymonomination, those conservative sectors of the republican party, they may be suspicious of romney, but...

Absolutely no wiggle room, absolutely no latitude to sort of move to the center, sort of distance himself in the base, do the things that a general election republican candidate really has to do to have a chance against obama. and so hes delayed in doing that. also, in that time, hes going to rack up a paper quote. all sorts of quotes and clips that will be fresh on peoples minds and can be recycled in the fall hoopest got a couple more months of that now to look forward to, because of what happ...

>> in 2010, when i was can deployed to iraq, i had to lie about who i was, because im a gay soldier, and i didnt want to lose my job. do you intend to circumvent the progress theyve made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? [ audience boos ] >> when you see cheering death sentences, cheering executions, booing gay soldiers, i mean, the landscape, i keep saying, has changed in american politics from tolerant and growing to where were going off the deep end. >> yeah, well, i think whats h...

March. when is it going to get better? i listened to him last night and he didnt sound much better to me. >> yeah, i agree with you, reverend. the truth is, i agree with charles krauthammer who last night said romney is getting weaker and weaker every week. thats the problem. and these process, when you win, and when your party starts to get behind you, you are supposed to get stronger, bigger. romney seems to think winning the nomination is like going out and gathering fruit in a field, putting...

>> we decide what that next chapter is going to be. and im confident working with folks like you, we can pull together and remind everybody around the world just why it is that the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. >> joining me now is democratic strategist tad devine and chip saltsman, a republican strategist who was mike huckabees presidential campaign manager in 2008. great to have both of you with us tonight. let me start with you, chip. should we just name president ...

A stronger, better nominee for having gone through this. but you all enjoy it now. >> the president did get more votes in ohio than the republicans did. i realize that some republicans, the most votes dont count, but he literally got more votes yesterday in ohio. >> not you add up all the candidates. he just got more votes than one of the candidates. all the other votes, more republican votes yesterday than barack obama did. if you want to talk about that, we can go to oklahoma. we lost a delega...