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Ballot in our state. this is sort of the most basic thing in politics. it's called a wedge issue. it's a way to drive your people out to vote on your particular issue and to get an instant base of support, which is exactly what donald trump is trying to do in his own campaign or whatever you want to call it. there's a group of people out there who believe anything about barack obama and the birther issue is one of those thing that they rally around easily. so in an instant, donald trump is a credible republican presidential candidate. >> earlier, we played the sound bite from donald trump. you...

Lot to do with name identification. but the cynicism of what he's doing is just so astonishing, because i had believed that birthers generally fell into two categories. biggots or crazy people and the third is craven opportunists and that's what donald trump is. he's preying on the fears, the anger, the bigotry, the craziness of a lot of people in the republican party and he's building a campaign around it. but i have enough belief in the sanity of the republican party not to mention the general electorate, that this is going to fade over time. but sit astonishing that he's gotten this far. >>...

With 25%. palin right below him with 24%. you can see huckabee, gingrich, and then the rest are much lower because this is all about name identification right now. so republicans don't really know who their candidates are. and let me recall president lieberman, president guiliani, even president clinton, if you recall, they were all doing really well in their polls early on because people knew who they were and then of course never quite made it to the oval office. so there may be somebody that we haven't even put on our list yet. and the big elephant in the room, of course, as you know, is sa...

In his house, he interviewed, greene, by the way, which he apparently did the entire campaign, i don't think he ever left his home. >> well, and here's the question. the guy who was the presumptive nominee in this race, who would be a colleague in the state legislature, with mr. rutherford, believed he'd win on name identification and the fact that he had been in the state house for four terms, but the point is, he raised all of this money, rehahe raised $130, and didn't spend any of it, and he did what candidates frequently do in long shot races, raise money and build name recognition for fut...

Leading independents, and congressman meek, who a lot of people until this happened, didn't think had much of a chance, now everyone says as soon as his name i.d. grows up, because remember, rubio and mock, none have name i.d. now. as soon as he has more name identification, and it's a democratic state now, i think this is now in the doable column for the democrats where as a month or two months ago, a lot of people didn't think so. >> gregg: would you agree,allian, with what brad is arguing, that crist is unelectable, and that's what a big political pro says, he says crist cannot win. >> well...