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and good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. the senate voting right now on the buffett rule. senate democrats called for a vote on the so-called buffett rule today. it is one of the president's election year priorities. it calls for people who earn a million dollars in adjusted gross income to pay a minimum tax rate of 30%. now, the left-leaning group moveon.org was chick to jump into the debate. target number one, mitt romney. >> when the wealthiest 1% pay a fair tax rate like the rest of us, it keeps the american dream alive for everyone. so tell mitt romney are ...

This is a fairness issue. >> nobody wants to get rid of the loopholes. >> so the guy says get rid of the loopholes. >> i know a lot of democrats don't want to get rid of the loopholes. >> it's a dirty little secret. >> democrats and republicans, newt gingrich his campaign millions of dollars in debt. a new report claiming that he is now loaning his campaign thousands of dollars to stay on the campaign trail. also atry beauties to the former speaker's money problems to lavish lifestyle, not willing to give that up. >> when i ran for the senate, after i lost, people offered to buy my donor list....

Of the economy. yet, the same poll puts him ahead of alum rock. the campaign thinks the buffett rule is helping. likewise, polls suggest rolling back the bush administration upper income tax cut is popular proposal that the republicans oppose. republican thinks there is leftover resentment in that. >> they are less likely to be raised. >> rolling back the upper income bush tax cut would cut the deficit ten times as much as the buffett rule. democrats say it's a fairness issue. republicans say it's another way to kill job growth. >> bret: wendell goler live on the north lawn. thank you. ugly da...

Re-election. if i'm the romney campaign, i'd duck the fairness argument and i say, look, right now, the most important thing for americans is to get a job, so we've got to get the economy moving again, and here's our plan. and again, it's a very well-defined plan up to now and it's a plan that has a lot of the old mumbo jumbo that doesn't work, but that's where they want to fight. they want to fight on the economy's not recovering fast enough, here's our plan, we can get people back to work more quickly. if they're forced to defend the fairness issue, they're cooked. >> every night the reveren...

democrat. then never too late to talk vp stakes in election 2012. with dana dash and jeff zeleny "the new york times." i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." a new cnn/orc poll shows president obama's job approval rating is over 50% for the first time since last june, but americans are worried about rising gas prices, and in an election year, when americans worry, politicians act. the president wants congress to end tax breaks for big oil. >> it's time they got by without more help from taxpayers, who are already having a tough enough time paying the bills and filli...