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You took a look the some of the key voting groups in your state and you found something out really interesting, that there are voters in the state that fully approve of governor walker and even supported him when it came to the election for governor, but also fully approved of the president and planned to vote for him. so they voted for governor walker and also plan to vote for the president and that might be counter intuitive for some of us from the outside looking in. tell us more about that. ...

We had a likely voter model that had the president only up 3%. the question is why. what is going on that has republicans doing better and becoming more likely voters? its simply an enthusiasm gap. and were seeing it across the board. look in the first one. 79% of republicans call themselves extremely interested in this election. on a scale of one to 10, they say they are a 9 or 10 on interest in the election. 73% of democrats. look at four years ago. it was a 13-point gap in favor of the democr...

>> this is before the debate. we had a likely voter model that had the president only up 3%. the question is why. what is going on that has republicans doing better and becoming more likely voters? its simply an enthusiasm gap. and were seeing it across the board. look in the first one. 79% of republicans call themselves extremely interested in this election. on a scale of one to 10, they say they are a 9 or 10 on interest in the election. 73% of democrats. look at four years ago. it was a 13-po...

Our nbc/"wall street journal" poll. we had a likely voter model that had the president only up three at the time, 49-46. the question is why, what is going on that has republicans doing better and becoming more likely voters? its simply an enthusiasm gap that were see being across the board. >> 79% of republicans call themselves extremely interested in this election on a scale of 1-10, that meanser that a 9 or a 10 on interest in the election, 73% are democrats. four years ago it was a 13-point ...

The show yesterday chris saying that the hispanic voters, they dont care only about immigration. they also care about things like debt, deficit and jobs. >> you make a great point, and senator rubio made a good point. for these women, yes, they hate debt, because it is the cloud that hangs over their lives and their families and their households and they think its immoral that the federal government has the debt, they dont like the credit card debt that they are care inning their house. a good i...

Thats probably romneys strongest point. and the president, though, i mean, despite the economy the president has continued to poll even or slightly ahead of romney here, so, you know, its hard to say how its going to play out. jenna: lets talk a little bit about specific voting groups in florida, one being the jewish vote in florida. were awaiting the prime minister of israel, netanyahu, to address the u.n. today. the state of israel, certainly, is in the top of the news. how has that affected t...

Issue as well for maybe even different reasons, regarding their nominee. but the bottom line, give me numbers compared to 2008 so that people know that this is just not some myth swirling around through the media. >> right, tamron. you are right. all voting groups are down from 2008. 2008 is once in a lifetime election. when you look at the wall street journal poll, you see two key demographic groups, latinos and young voters, almost 20 points off for 2008. shouldnt be a surprise that convention...

Ahead to 2016 if romney doesnt win here and think about okay, who has the most prominent position. i mean, i still think its what weve been talking about, can he stay in the game? theres the four critical hours, three debates, i think hell debate well. there are other, you know, outside forces that can happen and hes, you know, very tight in this race. hes right there. >> right. >> hes right there. i think he probably took some strides towards shoring up some of this. again, thee matically, appe...

The largest generation. as they get older, they are voting more often. they are key to this election. but most of -- most people know who they are going to vote for in 2012 and in 2016, we are talking about a very small group of uncommit the voters, that this race is being fought over and they are not paying attention. >> thats very interesting since most of us done know what we are going to have for lunch, much less who we are voting for. now that we know the baby boomers are the largest voting...

As mitt romney has a biography test here this is a republican party test as well. he owns the party, its a difficult party right now in terms of the various strains. im talking to governor jeb bush who is an elder statesman in the republican party, a lot of people hoped he would have run for president. he talks about using the convention to turn the country into a nation of converts for the republican party. the difficulty of the party faces right now, among the fastest growing voting groups, hi...