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Much. mike emanuel watching things from capitol hill for us today i thanks, mike. >> reporter: thank you. jon: right now some brand-new numbers on the republican race to the white house showing newt gingrich and mitt romney in a statistical dead heat. our chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in washington with the latest. so, carl this slow, steady race that newt gingrich has been sort of bragging about seems to be paying off, at least for now. >> reporter: and surprise, surprise, jon the slow, steady race that's been underway for a year and a half is getting quick and chaotic si...

Democrats. >> that never happens. >> never happens. it's difficult for those running in the congressional election in november. >> you talked to robert gibbs and had him on "the daily rundown" today. how nervous are they getting about what they're seeing in the poll? you're now about halfway point in terms of the mid term elections to try to turn it around. >> this issue with independents, i think we've seen it in polling, as susan brought up. this is about three or four months now going, that we've seen this erosion of support for democrats in general, and the president as well and his job ra...

Board and do that fast for the country. >> ed rendell, governor of pennsylvania, thank you very much. >> thanks, andrea. >> good luck in digging pennsylvania out. let's turn to straight politics. is the president in danger of losing support of more of those independent voters, the very people who propelled him into the white house? right to nbc news political director and co-host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd and "usa today's" washington bureau chief susan page. let's share some of the big findings. >> what we're seeing with the polling at gallop and elsewhere, new quinnipiac poll that's...