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John mccain didn't have a united party behind him until he nameded sarah palin. now a lot of opinions she was a disaster and all of that but i won't get into that here. but at the sime he did it, it -- time he did it, it had galvanizing effect on the party and the convention. people forget this. on september 15, that year, when the market meltdown happened after the republicans in my view were finished, mccain-palin ticket was ahead in the polls. so it's an important consideration to get party rallied behind you. other candidates might do that, but santorum could do that. the question i think ...

Galvanizing effect, that would generate enthusiasm. and the second thing is the resistance to the president is going to motivate a lot of voters in the fall. i think this president has proved very devicive and if you look at the number that the pollster scott rasmussen uses to compare the very -- the -- the people who are dead set against you, against those who are very strongly for you, president has been under water in that number, 10 to 15 points for a very long time. that will generate enthusiasm because they want to get rid of this sitting president. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> we go to ...

President obama. the big thing, though, is with the very low turnout. it was only 24%, you know, it was a beautiful day out in illinois and a lot of people did not go and pull the lever. >> maybe that's why. >> maybe that's it. but the thing is come november, how would, if he is the nominee, mr. romney generate some enthusiasm, brit hume was on the greta van susteren program last night and he had an idea. >> one to choose a running mate that ignites the party much the way that sarah palin ignited the republican party four years ago and she really did do that. she brought in all these conservat...

Galvanizing effect, that would generate enthusiasm. and the second thing is the resistance to the president is going to motivate a lot of voters in the fall. i think this president has proved very devicive and if you look at the number that the pollster scott rasmussen uses to compare the very -- the -- the people who are dead set against you, against those who are very strongly for you, president has been under water in that number, 10 to 15 points for a very long time. that will generate enthusiasm because they want to get rid of this sitting president. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> we go to ...

get to the bottom of this. he continues to insist his twitter account was hacked. the congressman says he does not want to make a federal case out of it. the congressman sat down with cnn's wolf blitzer this afternoon. >> did you send that picture to that college student in washington state? >> i did not. she says she never got it and doesn't know me. i certainly don't know her. this seems like it was a prank to make fun of my name. when you're named weiner, that happens. got 40,000-some-odd twitter followers. this seems like a prank that has an enormous amount of attention. >> this ...