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Down scale income voters and a normal political environment. the problem for the democrats is history tells you, a normal political environment means a huge midterm election in a second term president, the six year itch election history says on average the president's party loses 19 seats in the house. if the democrats lose 19 seats in the house next year, republican haves a shot of keeping the house majority and getting the half dozen plus seats they need to take the senate. so this is going to cause a lot of jitters, maybe stronger words among democrats. >> one of the most overused cliche is...

Has among college educated women, the other is to drive up the support built in for republicans among less educated women sort of down scale women. i think that might be, yes, this issue will fade but this might speak to how they approach the gender gap to use cultural issues among less educated women. >> the statistics are actually, although there's a lot of talk about the opt out revolution, college educated women choosing to stay home, it's anecdotally true, not statistically true. the women who increasingly do stay home are noncollege educated who can't make enough money to make it pay for...

How much is too much. a new debate day over what doctors are calling unnecessary testing and treatment. want to debate that. dr. marc siegel, fox news medical a-teamer and dr. robert osfeld a cardiologist in new york city. doctor, good morning to you as well. here's what happened. a group led by the american board of internal medical foundation and "consumer reports." a lot of medical advice from a lot of different areas. they're saying cardiac stress tests not necessarily needed. chest x-ray before minor surgery. that got a thumbs down. other things like mris, some doctors even said the antib...

Demographics of the state, who is going to win? anyone who pays passing attention to politics can tell you. >> you're in washington so you can't see the head nodding. >> is heilmann nodding? >> heilmann is nodding. >> if traynham and heilmann and nodding -- >> there's almost nothing to add, except to say the religion thing really matters. it's interesting that the income thing matters and it matters in a great deal in the sense that of the -- if you look at those income brackets, 60% of the vote tonight was under $100,000 a year. that is rick santorum country. so if you think about the religio...

Interesting thing. mitt romney appeals to swing voters who are kind of economically conservative, but socially liberal. rick santorum would be appealing to the opposite swing voter. he would be appealing to cult churl conservatives who are economic liberal. you would see a campaign based on trade. you'd see a campaign based on a down scale economic appeal. those are some voting groups the president hasn't been super strong with. i'm not trying to say rick santorum would have the advantage, but there would be a very different dynamic in the race if rick santorum were the nominee. >> good case. ...