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>> how crucial is the win in virginia? >> i think virginia is important for the president. i don't think it's this the must-win category liking ohio or pennsylvania. but it's definitely important. i think there are 13 electoral votes there. the latest real politics average show barack obama with a three-point edge over mitt romney. it's very competitive. romney has taken campaign trips to virginia but not as froektly as barack obama. perhaps because that's also because the white house is just a few short miles from virginia. but it highlights what an important state it is for the president. >>...

He is from a competitor. >> yo, mike! we're to you. hi! >> that won't be helpful. >> stand by. >> mike! >> anchor! >> all right, mike. thanks. safe travels and enjoy that press bus. must have been just scintillating conversation. let's switch gears. the controversial ryan budget plans awaits its fate on the house floor today. that's after barely getting the green light from the house budget committee wednesday night. joining us now from capitol hill is the one and only luke russert. luke! >> karen, i'm not on a bus so i can't help you as much. i'm here in the halls of congress. >> it's so go...

Effort. had. >> gregg: let's exclude the is democrat and the president and all the likely gop contenders, but i wouldn't put chris christie and paul ryan given the comments they have made but romney is still at the top? >> no matter which candidates we put in the mix is always at or near the top. i think the fact that chris christie is doing less well is less than a reflex about christy the republican voters want to see someone else. a lot are unhappy with president obama but they are not too thrilled with the republicans. they are looking for an outsider but there is an opening there and long...

Invol involved. >> first of all, that's not the case. i'm the one who brought the lawsuits. here's the problem. do you know how it was cleaned up? by building smokestacks that were 1,000 feet tall. it sent the pollution not down into pittsburgh, but over to new jersey and new york. and so you shifted the burden. and the reason the epa was created, the reason the clean air act was passed was to deal with -- therefore you support it. >> why should you have two sets of rules, one prior restraint on every kmik matter, but i'm not allowed to have prior restraint on your tv program. it's not the sam...

>> any way you look at it, to be hospitalized in three times in as many months it's not a good indication of where things are going. you think charlie sheen, if you took a vote, might have been the worst celebrity influence of 2010. you might think lindsay lohan. it's miley cyrus. >> worse than charlie? >> worse than charlie. the kicker on this one, this is the second time she's gotten this undesirable honor. they took a vote of 99,000 18-year-olds. 58% of them took part in this poll done by aol and their other website, just so you know, jfyk.com. the target audience, 9 to 15-year-olds. they...