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"meet the press," who has to deal with this latest news. first you, ingestion, digestion. you, what's new here? >> let me tell you, we do national polls all the time, but we don't have a national system. we have an electoral college system. these are the states, these 12 states are the ones that will determine who wins the presidency. we went back and looked -- and polled in those 12 states. the thing that is alarming for the obama white house that we found is he's in a tough situation nationwide. he's in a worse situation in the battleground states. people are more negative about their lives....

Welcome back to "hardball." the 2012 election will be decided by voters in a handful of key states that could swing either republican or democrat. take a look at this map. the states in yellow, there they are, are the 12 toss-ups at this point, a year before the election. barack obama won, this is the scary part for the democrats, he won all those yellow states in 2008. but he's facing a tough fight to win any of them back or all of them back. here to break down some new numbers on these all-important swing states are susan page, washington bureau chief, "usa today," which is in any hotel room...

Mike, first you, who has it right? >> small business has it right, david. look at the new dodd-franks is will killing the banking industry . coming-- look at energy. shutting two plants because of epa regulation and 400, employees it will lay off. heritage foundation david estimates that regulations extract over trillion from our economy every year. >> kim, the treasury department said the opposite. that i am quoting from jan here who works for the assistant secretary two commonly repeated misconception. regulations is holding back business investment and hiring. the white house said it is not...

Instant reaction. charles, first you -- first, your assessment? >> there was the moment of the debate that clearly was garr -- gary johnson shoveling dogs. i'm not sure it will be remembered as that. but that was the best line. had he said it early on, he might now be a top tier candidate. there were themes. they terms of did this change any of the fortunes of the candidate? i think they played to type. there were few surprises either in terms of policy or in their sort of demeanor. i thought perry and romney were again interesting. romney was as in the other debates, practiced, fluent, fairly...

Instant reaction. charles, first you -- first, your assessment? >> there was the moment of the debate that clearly was garr -- gary johnson shoveling dogs. i'm not sure it will be remembered as that. but that was the best line. had he said it early on, he might now be a top tier candidate. there were themes. they terms of did this change any of the fortunes of the candidate? i think they played to type. there were few surprises either in terms of policy or in their sort of demeanor. i thought perry and romney were again interesting. romney was as in the other debates, practiced, fluent, fairly...