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Gender gap problem, the gender gap you don't hear about which is traditionally democrats have had problems wooing men just as republicans have had issues wooing women, and it gets worse among white voters and even worse among white male not college-educated voters. and so he -- but here's the thing, where do those guys matter? they matter in iowa, ohio, new hampshire, and that's why they're trying to close that gap. i'm not sure that talking about almost exclusively women's issues at their convention was the way to do that for democrats, but that's why you see, for instance, barack obama doing...

He got a $50,000 fine for it. rob, i want to show everybody the front of "the post." oh say can't owe see? they have a good time with the headlines. but explain what the very latest is now. that's been talk this afternoon that maybe they were going to go back under one roof and hash this out. >> yeah, thomas. after monday night's debacle, the owners and officials stayed up until 2:00 in the morning last night trying to hash this thing out. reports are coming out now this afternoon that they're very close, that they have agreed on some key issues. the big issue that's still outstanding, of cour...

All season the replacement refs the league has brought in have been the source of enormous frustration. who are they? according to espn, the man called touchdown, is local e fo we also learned that another replacement ref, not involved in the game, had been fired from something called the lingerie football league for incompetence. if there's any good to come out of this aside for seattle fans -- >> oh, my god. it was amazing. it was the best seahawks' game i have ever seen. >> reporter: -- that this uprohr may help end the lockout. dan harris, abc news, new york. in otheis mcf1 reob r o e pd...

>> a wisconsin eye doctor, love this, now offering the refs free lasik surgery to improve their vision, surgery that costs roughly around $3,000. >> i don't get it here too. if you look at the background, some of these replacement refs, they're not qualified to officiate an nfl game. not at the pace of, you know, pro sports compared to collegiate, high school, some of the guys are, you know, that's what their background is in. but nothing kind of -- i spoke to the moment, one photo, one saying touchdown. ref to the left saying no it's not. that to me says it all about how the officiating has g...

And because of that the play should have been nullified, whistled dead, and the game would have ended. after that, the controversy begins as to whether jennings or tate has the ball. as you can see there, one official comes in and says touchdown, the other signals time-out, possibly touchback, interception. no definitive call. they go to the replay. the replay booth determines that it was concurrently held, that it was a dual position, and in that case it goes to the offensive team. it was ruled a touchdown. certainly the replay to me doesn't look like that. to most of the fans, almost everybo...