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When thinking about what they want to vote for in the presidential race some people put politics aside and say would i want this person to be my neighbor? would i want to have a beer with them? well how about this? would i want them to be my office mate? a recent orc poll asked just that question. as far as the republican candidates go, these aren't big numbers. 10% of those polled would like to share a cubicle with mitt romney, 10%, one out of ten. 9% one out of 11 went for ron paul. even less went for gingrich and santorum. how many went for president obama? whoa. 41%. the likability factor ...

Against a democrat, you're in trouble. because as we said earlier, david, no democrat has won this state since 1976. >> south carolina was a big breakthrough for obama in the primaries last time. why? because there's an enormous african-american vote in that state. and i guarantee you that's what's booing him there. >> that's when president clinton seemed to be dismissive of that victory. >> how do you reconcile a poll like that with some of the polls we looked at earlier that shows the president's in trouble? what do they mean? >> what it means is you have a historically weak republican field...

Gingrich. she wouldn't let them stay overnight in iowa. chris, she wouldn't let him stay on the road for a couple of nights. and you know that's how you run for president. so they left largely because of that. and what did he do? he empowered her. calista gingrich is now much bigger in the campaign. in an interview newt gingrich told us that she is involved in every key e-mail chain from the campaign. now, christie worked in politics. can you imagine the candidate's spouse on every e-mail? >> no, i can't. let me go to the weird case here of failure. mitt romney, evan. mitt romney has all the c...

She wouldn't let them stay overnight in iowa. chris, she wouldn't let him stay on the road for a couple of nights. and you know that's how you run for president. so they left largely because of that. and what did he do? he empowered her. calista gingrich is now much bigger in the campaign. in an interview newt gingrich told us that she is involved in every key e-mail chain from the campaign. now, christie worked in politics. can you imagine the candidate's spouse on every e-mail? >> no, i can't. let me go to the weird case here of failure. mitt romney, evan. mitt romney has all the cards to be...

Strangers." do you think this is fair? where is it coming from? >> there's no question, this is a president who is calm, cool, collected in terms of how he applies himself. you look at the leadership record. stop the economy from going up, the healthcare, bin laden, libya. the successes are there. one of the things chris matthews mentioned is the likability factor. despite the enormous economic challenges, this is a president who is still very much liked. that's really interesting. if you project this out into the campaign, that means two important things. number one is that the public is open...