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Americans. what it comes down to for the averag illinoisan is about $1000 a year. if congress fails to extend the payroll tax cut, it's a new tax, an added tax nxt year for average working people. what the president said in nsas really applies to this debate. this is a make or break moment for the middle class. and to this point, the republicans haveconsistently said they will refuse to increase the taxes on the wealthiest people in america one penny, if that's what it takes to make sure that working families get payroll tax cut. it is a clear, defining oment, a contrast between the parties, t...

He builds companies. transfmational change in massachusetts. that's the mitt romney i know. this campaign has dinished him by maki him smaller than his great base heal really revea. >> there ishis attempt at real contrast. what i thought was another major moment and it wasn't the debate last night, was the contst romney painted of himself versus gingrich on thisissue of gingrich saying that the palestinians were an invented peop. watch. >> i wi exercise sublime care, stability, i'm not a bomb thrower. rhetorically or literally. >> i think sometimes it is helpful for the president with the crag...

Federal reserve, we want it under the congress s we can oversee the overseer. here's policies of why hard-working americans are going to lose now, and they will never get better in the second term of obama administration. that's why we're going to win as republicans. >> finally, senator durbin, as you look at the president's prospects, you look at the status of his approval ring, how much of a challenge does he face for re-election? >> letme tell you what the president's done, particularly in the last few months, where he has stepped up with a jbs program, supported across the board by the ame...

Contrast. >> lisa myers. >> well, i think clearly governor romney needed to blunt gingrich's moment last night and he didn't accomplish that. this is newt gingrich's wheelhouse. verbal combat. no one is better at it. no one enjoys it more. you know, the key for him is not to appear too mean. not to go totally off message. and he didn't -- neither hapned last night. soery successful evening for him. so you know, unfortunately i think for governor romney, the clip that will be played a lot is himtrying to make the $10,00bet. >> u don say. here was the fight with rick perry over the individual ma...

He builds companies. transfmational change in massachusetts. that's the mitt romney i know. this campaign has dinished him by maki him smaller than his great base heal really revea. >> there ishis attempt at real contrast. what i thought was another major moment and it wasn't the debate last night, was the contst romney painted of himself versus gingrich on thisissue of gingrich saying that the palestinians were an invented peop. watch. >> i wi exercise sublime care, stability, i'm not a bomb thrower. rhetorically or literally. >> i think sometimes it is helpful for the president with the crag...