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>> we begin tonight with presidential politics. new numbers that underscore just how important our big debate here is tomorrow night and a new twist in the campai campaign conversation. a new cnn times poll shows a statistical dead heat this arizona. 36% for mitt romney, 32% for the surging rick santorum. add in a small santorum lead in michigan which also votes next tuesday, and what you get is a tense, volatile gop race as the final four candidates prepare for their first debate in nearly a month. in a moment how the tightness of the race is playing out among the candidates. but fi...

Let's bring in comcast network washington bureau chief robert tranum who was a santorum aide in more than a deck kald. six months ago did you think rick santorum would still be part of the conversation going into new hampshire? >> no i did not. you know, as you know i worked for rick for ten years and so i have a personal friendship with him. i thought he was going to be perhaps maybe fourth or fifth in iowa and he himself said that if in fact he came in dead last in iowa just a couple weeks ago he said, quote, i'd pack it up and go back home to my seven kids and my wife. i never thought in my...

This morning talking about the jobs number, the 8.5% unemployment rate, saying that despite the president's policies that the economy seems to be improving and people are going back to work. but he's kicking off what he calls today this faith, family, and freedom tour, something he tried in iowa and to great success there and is trying to replicate here in new hampshire. the trouble is he has four days left. he is still well behind mitt romney, the front-runner here by about 29 points according to the latest suffolk poll nan a lot of ways a loft campaigns outside the romney campaign are essent...

Race after super tuesday and i think rick santorum will have the momentum and conservatives will get behind him. >> we'll see how it all plays out. we'll know more by this time wednesday. iowa secretary of state matt schultz. thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. programming note, you can hear more of andrea mitchell's interview with rick santorum this afternoon. 1:00 eastern only on msnbc. want to take a closer look at all of the players in this race now with our panel. alicia menendez is senior adviser to the new democrat network and robert crane um is washington bureau chief for t...

Race after super tuesday and i think rick santorum will have the momentum and conservatives will get behind him. >> we'll see how it all plays out. we'll know more by this time wednesday. iowa secretary of state matt schultz. thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. programming note, you can hear more of andrea mitchell's interview with rick santorum this afternoon. 1:00 eastern only on msnbc. want to take a closer look at all of the players in this race now with our panel. alicia menendez is senior adviser to the new democrat network and robert crane um is washington bureau chief for t...