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From 2 new opinion polls. government run healthcare was front and center in the democratic debate this week and take a look these numbers. in the fox news poll the majority, 61% of democrats who say they plan to vote in their state's primaries favor getting rid of private health insurance but only 43% of voters overall feel the same. a merit poll drilled down on healthcare finding 64% of registered democrats support medicare for all while 90% support medicare for all with a private insurance, registered republicans with 14% and 46%, back to fox news 4, 82% of democratic primary voters say they...

They're going to drop the guillotine somewhere in the middle of that list. i'm not a pollster but we have one here to tell me if it's as random and crazy as it seems. joining me the director of the merit poll. thank you for being here. >> it is as random and crazy as you said. >> when i compared the margin of error to the margin of difference among candidates it looks like nonsense to draw a dividing line. >> these are meaningless decimal points. so you're exactly correct. i agreed with 99.03% of what you just said. what's the margin of error? all polls are estimates. they're all within a rang...

His unconventional path seems to be working. >> clayton: there have been no votes yet. >> alisyn: straw poll. he's first in the latest merit poll. >> dave: he's been in alabama for 48 hours, everywhere all over the state. romney almost tied him virtually spending no time there. i think the strategy is different, i don't think he has to be there. >> clayton: let's hear what he has to say about winning south carolina. >> i predict that we will win south carolina. i will predict that we will finish first or second in iowa, first or second in new hampshire, not going out on a limb there, but i'm g...

Governor mitt romney, who has a commanding lead in new hampshire, is leading in iowa and leading nationally. the merit poll has numbers that demonstrate this profoundly. in the granite state, new hampshire, mitt romney is at 44 percent, that is a whopping 31-point lead over his nearest competitor, the georgia businessman, herman cain at 13 percent, and cain is tied with texas congressman ron paul in new hampshire at 13. that is a huge gap, the nearest competitors after that, you got to go down into single digit, rick perry and jon hauntsman --sman, way, way back. then there's iowa, the leeoff ...

Turned into a must win for santorum. a merit poll over the weekend shows the race is razor-tight. mitt romney narrowed the lead to two points. that gp is within the poll's margin of error. unlike in earlier contests, romney is not running up the score among those who already voted. he leads among early voters, 39-35. on sunday, santorum tried to manage, but may be out of hand with expectations. >> it's a tough state for us only because of the fact that with a money disadvantage, we have a great grass roots campaign. it's harder when you have two conservative candidates running in the race. >> ...