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Stories that, it doesn't seem as natural as the way santorum is doing. santorum is able to get into people's guts right now and romney hasn't been able to connect at that level, at least right now. >> thank you, an mark. our news nation political panel, michael smerconish, radio talk show host, also with us today, a.b. stoddard, a columnist for the hill. thank you both for your time. michael, i'll give you the mike first. what do you make of rick santorum's success last night? >> i know it caught a lot of people by surprise. i think it's he's little explainable. it's the nature of the process....

He is the chairman of the biggest private ecity fund in the country, blacktone group, that has lobbied in washington to maintain the 15% tax rates on private equity managers, the very one that mitt romney has benefited over the years. this was an event not on the romney public schedule, about 40 wall street kingpins, other hedge fund billionaires like john paulson and private equity moguls were attending. this is a core constituency for romney for his financial contributions, but it's not one he wants to have publicly out there displayed precisely at this moment when there's this growing contr...

Either. >> no, this is a much broader problem of american political discourse, that is clearly sort of a post-9/11, posttraumatic stress disorder response that in that moment, we decide that there's a whole another group that is our enemy, and that is -- >> this is the central demographic problem of the republican party on the right, which is that their main constituency is white men who have been left behind in the economic, you know, in the economy, over the last 30 years, and so the right -- >> well, they still hold most of the wealth and most of the income. >> well, working class white men...

The bill as it stands and they passed the house earlier in the week. that's the only bill that is standing. they will be back next week to deal with it. >> the pipeline when assessed by the most authoritative figures in academiaing issing it creates 5,000 jobs. is this an accurate claim are sf thousands of jobs are being affected. that's not the case. >> we know that labor in the form of the afl-cio wants it built. labor in the form of other major labor unions are staunch backers of the president. the republicans know that as well. they are pressing what they believe is a political advantage b...

Mixed result in iowa. you could have five or six people coming in around 15%, 20%. i think ron paul could win iowa and even new hampshire. raw milk, i'm telling you. there's a message. >> the revolution, baby. >> imagine, and i think jon huntsman is very well poised to breakthrough new hampshire now given the unsettled nature of the race. >> i think michele bachmann. >> jon huntsman. >> i think michele bachmann could make a charge. >> i do too. >> in iowa. >> bachmann's surprising me she hasn't broken through more in iowa. >> i think santorum could oo. i hate that ad, but i ink it's got appeal...