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and extraordinary influence on american life in the middle decades of the 20th century. boin to presbyterian missionary parents, loos was a god-driven man. an optimist reformed by christian hope. his weekly picture journal "life" first appeared in 1936. it was the most successful new publication in american history. by 1945, nine years later, 15 million american families read "life" each week. loos used his influence to try to shape a better america. for example it was in "life" he first used the phrase, the american century. in 1940, to highlight this nations emerging global respons...

an hour two key southern primaries close. alabama and mississippi. to see if mitt romney's electability passes its southern stress test. the mississippi governor is going to join us. one more story we're covering tonight. president obama tells china to play fair on key commodities. he is going to haul them off to the world trade organization and, you know what, folks, i am going to agree with the president on this one. we begin with the markets. it was a terrific day. dow up 218 points. s&p jumping 25 points. nasdaq up 56 points to get past 3,000. for the first time ever the dow is o...

Draw last night. and i think if people were doing what they should have been doing which is watching the returns on fox news last night, they would have seen rick santorum give a speech that was 95% on the economy. and i believe that's what he has been doing all over michigan. there's an effort by big media to sort of pigeonholing just because he's brought up values issues. the catholic vote was divided. nobody got a majority of it. i think among generally values voters, rick santorum did fantastic and among strong conservatives, rick santorum did fantastic. >> if you look at the exit polls, e...

Candidates fare against amongst christian voters that is? gary bower is the president of american values and former presidential candidate himself. good morning to you. >> great to be with you. good morning. >> great to see you again as well. let's look at the exit polls in michigan. these were some of the romney strengths there, seniors went for him 49%. catholics, 44%. women, 43%. but the most important thing for mitt romney was whether or not he could beat obama in the voters' minds, 61%. what do you make of the fact that so many catholics went for mitt romney when rick santorum is a cathol...

However, we are hearing that there is severe damage down in branson. back to you. >> all right, kim hudson reporting live from missouri. thank you very much. as the sun comes up, they'll be able to get a better idea of how much damage out in the heartland. >> coming up, say -- some say rick santorum is campaigning too much on religion. not enough on the economy. is he missing the boat? gary bower begs to differ and he'll be joining us now, he's the president of american values. he's next. >> check it out, a school that needs a spelling lesson of its own. i guess they're going to be talking abo...