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People would get lost in the honey pot orchard so they can be on our show? i know everyone wants to be on our show, but you will keep your current insurance! no government takeover, nobody is changing what you ve got if you re happy with it. martha: all right. so that was president obama, and that was back when the debate was raging over the health care overhaul, as you well remember, but now it has been passed, and people are going through the details of what s in it. some critics are zeroing in on what they say is actually a hidden marriage penalty in the health care bill. some argue that might lead some people to want to stay single. imagine that. let s talk to singleman peter doocy on capitol hill. hello there, peter! hello martha. reporter: according to republicans, if you take the plunge, you re going to take a hit under this new health care law, a new report by the white house oversight committee says the joint committee on taxation crunched the numbers and found that ma ....
Barack obama did focused on the wrong problem. greg: that was former pennsylvania senator stapbt r- senator rick santorum. he is my guest. how are you doing, senator. i m doing fine. greg: you like that don t you, you like the verbal sparring. i think it s important that people see the differences between the candidates. on the issue of healthcare governor romney did focus on the wrong problem. in fact his governor came out a couple weeks ago, the day after that debate and said now we ve got to focus on the big problems in massachusetts which is healthcare cost. that is really the issue. greg: the other thing it does for you is gets you attention. attention is something you need at 3%. i have to ask you, only 3%, what is up with that? you know what, if you look at ....
To blame other people and paul ryan is absolutely right, he has to rely on the politics of division rather than the politics of unity that he ran on in 2008 and 2008 and the idea that you can fund the government we have based on the top 1 percent is ularly dishonest as paul ryan pointed out in his speech, you could confiscate all the wealth of people making more than $250,000 a year and you re funding the government for six months, so eventually the tax burden it has to fall it will fall on the middle. that s what president obama is not telling people. that s why he s dishonest. martha: hold on. i have a question for you christopher han with regard to that. i thought this was a really interesting point. you talk about paul ryan s plan and one of the things in it was to do means testing for social security and for medicare, because the notion is we all know that there s a lot of people out there who don t need these checks and they fall into that percentage, so it s very interes ....
Will turn their backs on you. but you believe this race will break late, and if you can finish in the top three in iowa then you start to draft towards new hampshire. that is your whole strategy because the money is little. right, the whole strategy is, we re making phone calls right now in all three states. 75% of the people say they are rile undecided. there there as you a pew poll out about a week ago and people were asked, could you name any republican candidates for president. and less than half the people could name one. it really is a very wide open race, and people are going to break late in this race, and we are building the kind of organization that can take advantage of that. and i m convinced we are going to do very, very well. greg: iowa always brings a surprise. we saw it especially with governor huckabee. our polling finds this number one overwhelmingly is the economy, 76%. it would take the corporate tax ....
The fact that i ve been spending most of my time in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, and don t have the big checkbook, and have not got even necessarily the most press attention. we ve gone out there and focused and talked to voters. i ve been to 70 counties in iowa. we ll be in every one of the 99 counties by the time the election comes around. people see us and we get a chance to kick the tires we do very well. we have a conversion rate of people who come to the meetings and we ask them to sign up. well over 75%. we feel like greg: on the way out the door you say three-quarters of the people buy your message. they sign up to help us in the campaign. greg: i see your strategy, though it s all in in iowa. michelle bachmann is similar in that way, because 99 counties that was the strategy that hillary clinton had back in 2008 and that s how she sold herself. you re right about the strategy when it comes to iowa. because if they do not see you taking an interest in them, they ....