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Never been turned around, never. it doesn't happen. >> not never in the history of american politics for someone who has 100% name i.d. he's not been famous in american politics for a year or five years or ten years, he's been famous in american politics for the entirety of the last generation and you have 60% of the american people in total have an unfavorable view of him. it's just a remarkably high number for someone who could be the republican nominee for president. >> never is a long time. this guy knows the media, he is cagey, he is crafty. i agree with chris tonight, this is more than a...

National campaign. all of that is to say, i'm the most electable. and he's even lost on that score in south carolina against newt gingrich. we will talk to gingrich tomorrow about how he thinks the race is fundamentally changed. and what he makes of the fact that this level of volatility, chris, that we have now, at the end of this week, had three different winners, of the three big contests to start this thing off. >> well newt gingrich has done good job of organizing the sort of sparring match with juan williams and jon king. i'm wondering, he has a tougher fight it seems to be not with tryi...

Republican strategist, steve schmidt, the chief strategist within the mccain campaign four years ago and the host of "the he had show" on msnbc, ed schultz. lawrence o'donnell, the host of the "last word" on msnbc. and the former presidential candidate, the reverend al sharpton. chris mauttthews is with us fro tampa, florida. >> i think everyone paying attention can see what this fight's about. mitt romney is the usual republican front-runner. the usual candidate positioned on snrt right to win the nomination and compete in the general election. he's polished, practiced, ready to serve. he i...

I would love to see his debate prep. i bet it's a half an hour of just kind of pausing. >> my favorite thing on the negative ads. a 59-year-old office administer in south carolina says last night i was trying to watchmond, i was like, i just want to watch steph steven tyler, i don't care that they're all a bunch of big fat liars, i just want to see a coffee commercial at this point. >> going back to what chris and howard said earlier, what is an important point in presidential campaigns, the free media narrative is so much more important than the ad buys in a presidential race. it's what makes...

Was lying to her while giving sanctity of marriage speeches, turned it into a net positive for himself. >> it's an acting performance worthy of meryl streep, and it's remarkable, and it worked, it's effective. the problem for republicans is this and what makes newt gingrich different from mitt romney, when you look at the general election is he is massively unpopular with the american people. newt gingrich lass a staggering level of you know, his favorable to unfavorable ratio is massively upside-down. he's known by 100% of the people. so there's a consequence for republicans, potentially of p...