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Welcome back to "hardball." if you saw tuesday's presidential debate, the republican one, you know there's no love lost between rick perry and mitt romney. and the new attack ads out this week from both campaigns continue to knock down the nature of the primary. is that bad news for mitt romney, who many people presume to be the likely nominee? is rick perry essentially doing the obama team's dirty work for them? there's another school of thought, of course, there always is one, that romney is getting battle tested, ahead of the general election, and a drawn-out campaign against perry could he...

Strongest moment in the debate when he talked about how he shouldn't be subject to a religious test. this party is a southern party. if rick perry, because of his financial resources if he is resurgent and this becomes a romney/perry race, we're going to see a difference between the northern part of the republican primaries and the southern part. in the southern states where rick perry will be strongest, there is a strong feeling among a lot of evangelical voters that mormonism is not christianity, that it is a cult and perry will exploit that and see it throughout. >> the funny thing is democ...

Million a year, that same shaped family making $1 million a year, is currently paying $289,000 in federal income tax after a $50,000 mortgage deduction and a $25,000 charitable deduction, which is reasonable to assume at that income level. under herman cain's 9-9-9 plan, that million-dollar family would pay 9%. $90,000 in federal income tax. assuming they put $300,000 or so in the bank and spend the rest, the remainder of that spending, they would pay $55,000 in federal sales taxes. the new cain federal sales tax. that would bring their total federal tax burden to only $145,000. so herman cain...

Away? >> no. that's an apple. >> okay. >> we are replacing a bunch of oranges. >> herman cain is having trouble defending his 9-9-9 plan especially now that people are catching on to the fact it will result in some americans paying more in taxes. a fact cain was forced to concede for the very first time on sunday's "meet the press." >> you're acknowledging this morning, which i haven't heard you do before, that there are individuals who are going to pay more in taxes. >> there are some, yes. >> you think those people are going to rally around tax reform where the wealthy pay less and middle cl...

Financial resources if he is resurgent and this becomes a romney/perry race, we're going to see a difference between the northern part of the republican primaries and the southern part. in the southern states where rick perry will be strongest, there is a strong feeling among a lot of evangelical voters that mormonism is not christianity, that it is a cult and perry will exploit that and see it throughout. >> the funny thing is democrats and liberals would have no problem as they showed in massachusetts when they elected romney, the mormon, governor. they have no problem at all. >> rightly so....