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Qualify on the virginia primary ballot where he lives, how does he come back from that. >> if they don't have the structure and the organization to go for the long haul and win delegates, romney is the only one who has that all in place which is why all things being equal he has a strong advantage over the rest of the field. about it problem is, the base does not like him and does not want to nominate him. you have a strange thing where i think romney is probably going to win by default with little enthusiasm from the base of his party and have a lot of liability in the general election. mitt ...

He is in trouble. but you have got to remember, presidential campaigns, incumbents don't run against polls and statistics. they run against candidates. they run against other candidates. just like in sports. politics is about matchups. the matchup with the republicans, there are a lot of negatives. their polling is worse than president obama. approval ratings republicans are trailing president obama by 8 points in terms of the general election. >> dan, you know enough about polls to know groups trend lower. the 12 battleground state polls. he's up by 5 points. but at end of the day, incumbents...

A huge campaign war chest. and he's holding his fire as the republicans go after each other. thank you, gentlemen for talking to us about this. the real clear politics national average. the average all polls for gop nominees have gingrich ahead of romney. romney has 24.4%. in third place you have got ron paul with 12.6% followed guy perry, bachmann and rick santorum. huntsman barely on the map. dan pretty much spells out how volatile the political environment these candidates are in going into this election. >> absolutely. what we have seen is the problem mitt romney had all along. he is the b...

Spending, reducing the burden of taxation and getting our economy on track. and the way you do it is to get rid of this president and take back the senate. and if we do that, i think america will be on the right track. rick: and, dick, with an election 11 months away and a top priority to the republicans to make sure president obama does not win a second term, are we going to see any compromise on capitol hill? >> well, you see there's where brad and i have a difference. the top priority of the freshmen republicans, all of congress shouldn't be about who wins an election in november. it ought ...