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States is his stand among independent voters. these are voters not totally affiliated to one party or another. who reviewed both men. who honestly is better for the next four years, mitt romney even in democratic polls is showing an advantage among independents by 16 points. some polls by 22. martha: tony, let me jump in. how do you explain that? how do you explain the advantage with independents, when you look at head-to-head, many cases president obama has a one percentage, one point gain, lead? >> that is a great question that should be asked of those who conduct the methodology of these po...

Wearing. >> but i'm getting brain waves from it. it's inspiration. >> the reason why. that's actually the first time a call has ever gone through on your at&t phone. >> come on. >> let's talk about ohio. you're digging into the numbers there. this is getting so frustrating. because a poll comes out that shows obama five point as head in ohio. immediately everybody screams on the right, oh, it's plus 9 democrat. it's skewed. the polls are blah, blah, blah. you hear the same thing on the left when mitt romney started moving ahead. liberals started saying oh, the poll samples can't be believed. i...

just into "the situation room," brand-new poll numbers confirming a new lineup in the fight for the gop presidential nomination. the cnn/orc survey has just been released and shows a two-man contest at this point. the poll shows 34% of republicans asked say santorum is their choice. 32% say romney. with a sampling error, that means it's a statistic cal tie. ron paul and newt gingrich are far behind at 16 and 15%. first big picture, ron, what do you make of santorum's rise? >> i think this continues the extraordinary, even unprecedented volatility of this republican race. jessica, if ...

[ laughter ] but this is the first time that arrows have felt really really good. >> shepard: the 9-9-9 plan would replace the current tax code with 9% income tax plus 9% business tax, and a new 9% national sales tax. that would be on top of any state or local sales taxes you already pay. so let's get to carl cammeron live tonight in concord, new hampshire. i'm guessing that new tax idea did not go over well there in the tax-free state? >> no. not at all. the state motto is live free or die. the history is here no sales and no income tax ever. in fact even moderate democrats have been voting a...

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