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11-point advantage over rick santorum. santorum there at 34%. that is an interesting dynamic there we want to take a look at some other numbers there perhaps give us more insight into what you were talking about. who understands the average american? santorum, 32%. i told you earlier in the day, the average or median income in ohio is around $40,000. that is below the national average or median that we are talking about here. they feel that santorum feels their pain when it comes to relating to americans. what about the government snow a lot of people in this state pretty angry, 37% have a lot...

Michigan so much, why doesn't he live there? >> that's a good question. >> it's not like he has a job somewhere else. the whole question of the bailout, how does it work politically out there? >> there are some people who vote in the process who agree with him about markets and the way it should have been handled. clearly though, if he wins on the backs of independents and democrats flocking to santorum, i think the bailout issue it's such a hot button. the fact that he's opposes the bail out the way he did. >> he'll have the brand of the guy who loses michigan, if he does, he'll have the bran...

Make the base enthusiastic, who are you exciting to turn up to vote? >> richard, let's be honest here, mitt romney has been more tempered than some of the other candidates. he has not had incendiary. i think those comments today will help him in the jeep election. we all understand right now the polls aren't doing that well for republicans, not that surprise, a very bruising contest in the primary level. but once we get through this, i think mitt romney's best -- in the best position right now and even those comments to go after the middle -- the vast middle and get more moderate voters. he is...

Figure, he has that poise when it comes to these debates that he can either sees the advantage in them or trying to just rise above it. so he doesn't have to prove anything, other than, you know, he is stable and sensible, whereas mitt romney those try to convince people that he is where the base of the party s there is a fundamental mispatch there and just as big as the reverse mispatch, which romney has all the money and organization and newt's just got the name. >> now, let me ask you, steve, when i look at these figures, this is romney's unfavorability among whites earning less than $50,00...

Nomination, by the time we get into the jeep election, he is going to be tough.ed up by having to go toe-to-toe with gingrich, whereas if they had just left everything alone, romney might well have been able to just kind of skate through and then obama could just kind of sheer the skin off, we have been better prepared at that point. >> newt offered a new defense of why he was not a lobbyist. i, of course, insisted for practical purposes he was. i know you made the case that technically he wasn't, but newt's defense he absolutely wasn't a lobbyist was basically i didn't need the money because ...