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iowa is close to the gipper there. his first job after college broadcasting for iowa football in the 1930s. bill clinton was the last democrat. in the 90s he could be found sharing common rural roots on campaign stops. iowa has picked seven of the last ten presidents of the united states. >> fascinating stuff. thank you, richard liu. i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. >> good morning to you. good morning, everybody. the agenda next hour, 13 days, two candidates, seven battleground states. it is all about the final stretch and the math versus momentum. president obama delivers live remarks in iowa next hour with while romney's super pac relations a new eastwood ad. plus, early voing crosses the 5 million mark. we're going to talk about how the. your to get souls to the polls could decide the outcome in ohio with state senator nina turner next. the romney campaign tries to make gains with women voters. jacquie spear joins me live at 30 rock coming up.
question from reporters today. >> until those problems are addressed and solved, starting with jobs and spending. >> thank you very much. >> 47%! >> i mean, let's get out of here before they ask if some republicans are running away, and others are basically punching back. senator lindsey graham of south carolina criticized romney's campaign schedule this week. "he needs to be talking about the economy and not in utah. he's not going to get beat because of money. he ought to be running in ohio and florida like he's running for governor and running in virginia like he's running for sheriff." good idea, but that's just not mitt. romney's super pac founder karl rove wasn't so crazy about the 47% comment either. his comment was, "a lot of people who get a social security check paid into that their entire lives and they're plenty wired up about the deficit. and there's lots of people getting an unemployment check who would love to have a job. so you've got to be careful
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>> thank you very much. >> 47%! >> i mean, let's get out of here before they ask if some republicans are running away, and others are basically punching back. senator lindsey graham of south carolina criticized romney's campaign schedule this week. "he needs to be talking about the economy and not in utah. he's not going to get beat because of money. he ought to be running in ohio and florida like he's running for governor and running in virginia like he's running for sheriff." good idea, but that's just not mitt. romney's super pac founder karl rove wasn't so crazy about the 47% comment either. his comment was, "a lot of people who get a social security check paid into that their entire lives and they're plenty wired up about the deficit. and there's lots of people
"politicsnation." uh-oh, it looks like senator mccain's gone rogue. guess he never got the memo about not attacking hidden money. >> much of the profits come from the casino in macow. >> which says what? >> that says maybe farm money is coming into an american political campaign. we have to have a limit on the flow of money and that corporations are not people. >> hear that, willard? corporations aren't people. and billionaire donors like sheldon adelson, they're not leveling the playing field. they're doing the opposite. adelson has already given $10 million to romney's super pac and promises limitless support. he's just one of many betting big on willard. and they all want something in
fund-raising for them once they get into office. the president is the president. you know? much powerful office in the land. you can kind of push back on the people that put you there. this kind of money coming in, i think it really raises the question of how beholden the president could be to the people who raise this money. again, it's just we have never seen anything ellike this and n way to predict what is going to happen once the election is over. >> professor peterson, romney's super pac ally karl rove is in some hot water as the story of the commerce secretary car crash was still developing. rove super pac tweeted this. how does the commerce secretary have three car crashes in five minutes and alcohol not be involved? then it's #skills. it turns out john bryson may have had a serious seizure. american crossroads tweeted a correction. but shouldn't rove apologize for this kind of a comment about secretary bryson? >> well, don't hold your breath,
negative ads about the president. obama's super pac has run a few. the real money is outside groups. you mentioned the obama gu handsome as george clooney but has more money is sheldon addleson and he'll spend a lot of money through crossroads gps to help romney-m. there's a story ken vogel posted saying he may give another million to romney's super pac. so addleson will be a huge factor -- >> a million is nothing compared to what he gave to newt gingrich, so do you think that's just the start? >> yeah, he gave -- he and his family gave about $21.5 million, as you alluded to to newt gingrich's super pac. i think sheldon didn't like all that attention. he won't give as much to romney's super pac. remember, crossroads gps doesn't have to disclose donors as a c-4 and i think he would like to do more underground giving and i
>> i don't recall the incident myself. i've seen the reports and i won't argue with that. there is no question that i did some stupid things when i was in high school. >> the problem isn't so much the story itself, bad as it appears to be. the problem is that it feeds into a large he portrait of romney romney, the political bully. this is what mitt's former classmate, philip maxwell said about participating and now call a haunting memory. the boy was pinned down by the state champion wrestler, the captain of the football team. this was bullying supreme. other people did the real work but maxwell said it was romney who wielded the shears. match that with how newt gingrich describes the onslaught from romney's super pac buddies just after gingrich's primary win in south carolina. >> he has a basic policy of carpet bombing his opponent. he doesn't try to build up mitt
success. it's like he uses a comparison like the lottery. when the jackpots gets huge, what happens, a lot of people who never play start buying tickets. that's going to strike a lot of people as simplistic. ed spent the entire book supporting it with a lot of research and it's interesting. >> one fact we should note about ed connard, he was the person who made the $1 million donation to romney's super pac through a company that was essentially a shell company. >> so that he could make the donation. >> has nothing whatsoever to do with his book. >> he did mention the story. >> if we talk about romney's views on income inequality and his idea about the top 1% or.1%, this is illuminating. "the new york times" magazine says are his views the politic version of the man he hopes will be president in the romney campaign said they wouldn't comment in any way on unintended consequences and connard wouldn't share with me anything about his private conversations
here. >> let's pull up that poll screen, susan, and take a look at -- this is funding through february, by the way. restore our future, this is romney's super pac, $42.3 million. winning our future, gingrich's super pac, $18 million. susan, what do you think about super pacs in general? >> well, what worries be is that super pacs are a way for candidates effectively to put on the kind of nasty, ugly ads, that turn most of us off from politics, hard-core negative stuff that the official campaign wouldn't run. so i think those guys are in a race. by the time we get to the general, both romney and obama will have plenty of money, and i think what it foretells here is