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Polls? to 28%. who would have thought this was going to happen? >> who thought the republicans would be so egalitarian, giving absolutely everybody a chance at first place? i mean, what youre seeing is a big chunk of the republican party that just cant get to mitt romney. and they keep looking for someone else. and i was struck in the cbs poll last week that if you put together the 17% undecided and the 14% who said they wanted somebody else, thats 31% for none of these guys. now, cbs doesnt pre...

Would be so egalitarian, giving absolutely everybody a chance at first place? i mean, what youre seeing is a big chunk of the republican party that just cant get to mitt romney. and they keep looking for someone else. and i was struck in the cbs poll last week that if you put together the 17% undecided and the 14% who said they wanted somebody else, thats 31% for none of these guys. now, cbs doesnt press people, so you get a bigger undecided although i think thats more accurate. but what it says...

Sampling of my twitter followers yesterday for a piece in "the daily news" today, and now that christie is out who is your guy? and i got write-ins from many to yours truly. >> there has been no shortage for candidates court for the 2012 run. lets look at a few of the contenders who have said no. >> i will once again say that i am not going to be a candidate in 2012. >> i am not one of the guys who planned on running for president all my life. this is a ten year commitment to the most consuming ...

We want an important victory in november, but we dont control the government. >> molly: later this hour, conservative author anne coulter will speak and then the keynote speaker will be florida representative. he will give the final speech. >> jamie: so what do we expect from the straw poll? >> so its the first glimpse of what this gathering thinks about the candidates. we can show you what it looks like. 15 names on it and room for write-ins. daniels, mitt romney is on the ballot. sarah palin w...

Hes trying to sell the idea that he lives in chicago when obviously his job was in washington. >> but hes -- >> one of his arguments is and the lower court said ok and the appellate court said no and now the chicago -- excuse me, the illinois state supreme court will ultimately probably rule in his favor. but heres the thing, what he says -- what i did for the white house is almost like serving in the military. so you should look at my service there as service in the military. he kind of stood b...

Really the actual vote totals. behind that are all the appendix with the write ins, is that right? >> yes, sir, thats correct. >> for the members of the board, prior to you all entering the room, we gave out some statistics related to the results id like to share with you. based on the feshl certification of results, the margin of victory in the election was 21,924, which is 1.63% of the votes. that went up from 1.54, based on the unofficial results on election night. the total number of votes c...

This race. now they are also saying it is hard to believe that given what they are seeing right now in terms of the turnout that they will not hit 100% of their targets. >> alex marquardt. thank you. lets go over to john king. were going to le learning a lot more about alabama. what would it take, for example, for these candidates to win. >> a little after 8:00, well start to fill in the map. one key point to make right off the top, number one, whats the percentage of write-ins? do a lot of repu...

Were important to their vote. there were also more than 22,700 write-ins, greater than the 20,700 plus by which moore trails. >> i felt a lot of people might possibly go down an alternative road. that is, vote for a write in or choose a write-in. >> the president to eventually endorsed moore says he predicted this would happen, tweeting today: "the reason i originally endorsed luther strange and his numbers went up mightily, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. ...

Bring in politics reporter and sarah westwood is back with us. shes the white house correspondent for the washington examiner. as we go through all these exit polls trying to find out what was motivating the people in alabama, what do you see? what tipped him over the edge, doug jones? >> i think its a combination of factors as eric was describing. its almost sort of the perfect storm that doug jones needed to pull off this victory. you have the combination of the heavy african american turnout,...

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