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Be able to ban quish his opponents. unless they're able to consolidate behind one champion, he'll probably become the john mccain of 2008 and thread the needle and become the establishment candidate able to prevail over the majority of the party that's more conservative but fragmented among many candidates. >> john, quickly before we go, they're talking about it even when they're not talking about it. there's a newt gingrich who talks about religion at length up there on the debate stage saying the only important thick thing is you have faith, have a religion, must not be an atheist, that's th...

Of south carolina and florida republican voters goes to another problem that appears to be, it doesn't exactly say how it plays in the campaign, but the question, the mormon question that we all don't even quite know how to talk about, for example, in south carolina, the nbc poll found that of republican primary voters, 53% say no, a mormon is not a christian. in florida, 42% of republican primary voters say a mormon is not a christian. and then there's another question. a recent poll, it asked to describe mitt romney in one word. 60% used the word mormon. the next thing down was health care a...

Stable 20%, 25% of the republican establishment there. he just needs to be able to get incrementally 5% or 10% more to be able to ban quish his opponents. unless they're able to consolidate behind one champion, he'll probably become the john mccain of 2008 and thread the needle and become the establishment candidate able to prevail over the majority of the party that's more conservative but fragmented among many candidates. >> john, quickly before we go, they're talking about it even when they're not talking about it. there's a newt gingrich who talks about religion at length up there on the d...

Most potent thing that can stop him? >> i think it is. and the surprise has been that so far he's been able to handle that issue. we all thought it would wrap around his axel much earlier. he showed great candidate skills and learned a lot from the last election. but last night i think was reaffirmed for everybody, reminded everybody this issue was kryptonite for him and they pushed out the kryptonite and could see him start to wilt and start to fade and see the others gaining strength as he was losing his. so i think everybody smells that now and i think he's going to get a lot more of it in ...

This is about electability and winning as opposed to just, you know, dying on the spear of a particular principle so i think you'll see more and more folks around. it's going to take time. >> michael, just following up on something jonathan asked which is this sort of mormon question. i mean, if we assume or if it's inevitable at this point that mitt romney will receive the nomination, at what point does he have that kennedy moment, where kennedy explains, you know, talked about catholicism and he was the first obvious catholic president. >> right. >> at what point would you advise him to actu...