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Games, margaret, where the vikings were leading in the first quarter and go on to not quite make it, so i think you see a fluid race, and, yes, there are a lot of candidates and you're going to see that narrowed down over time. i'm clearly on the debate stage and expect to be there in the fall, and i think that's going to give opportunity to voters in iowa and all across the country to real narrow it down. >> we still have 240 days before iowans first express their preferences in the caucus, so we're certainly disappointed this week when we heard they wouldn't count one of the polls but if i h...

He can use this opportunity and make the most out of it and we will see him tomorrow, monday. >> you think he could be a town meeting guy, go there and gets people excited at a small level. >> i spent time with him recently on the trail with him, and you see christie, and he overwhelms voters and donors with livliness and his personality. just the kind of candidate the republicans were looking for a few years ago, and he is still plagued by the scandals, and you will have more indictments and trials for his former aides. >> who tells him, if it is over, if he doesn't have a real chance, how do...

Cry from victory. the primary is still more than two months away, and if no candidate can muster 40% in the party primary, the top two vote getters will face off in a runoff october 1st. >> that's when the whole scandalous past really will be brought out and politically litigated. that's when it will really be talked about in a very pointed way. >> what i think is interesting about this is mark sanford was sworn into congress just a month ago. he didn't use jenny sanford in his campaign because they divorced, but he also apologized right up front as he was announcing his campaign, just like an...

That is a tie. >>doug: the numbers are jumping around. when you see poll numbers jumping around, you say to yourself, this is a fluid race. what pat and john said was equally true: the president's job approval is inching up and governor romney has yet to articulate a clear alternative pentagon for why people should vote for him. given that, the numbers are fluctuating. >>pat: the other day gallup had it even. >>heather: rasmussen still has it even. >>pat: but one poll had romney up several points. they bouncing around. the election is close. i agree with doug, the romney campaign has not been

>> mitt romney is having a happy day. he has nearly half the delegates he'll need to secure the republican nomination. newt gingrich is by all accounts out of the running. is his campaign whistling past the graveyard? i spoke earlier to his chief of staff patrick milsap. he explained their rationale. >> obviously we're not going to get to the 1144 dels. the strategy has changed to the effect of this is a fluid race and that if one of our candidates do not get to 1144 and after the first vote at the detention it continue becomes a jump ball. >> the washington post's karen tumulty joins us now. ...