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Probably know a run away for romney. so much he didn't have to spend any y to win the state. but underdog candidates like rick santorum and jon huntsman are still hoping to pull off second place as an exhibition of momentum regardless of who wins tonight. voters we talked to are all in agreement about one thing. they are frustrated. >> everything is wrong now. i mean, look at the debt we're in. look at the foreign relations we have. everything seems to be going downhill. every stride that we ever made going forward, we're going backwards. and, you know, things aren't good. people aren't workin...

The real challenge is, if there isn't a government, american troops are truly now confined to their bases and the militant groups are somewhat energized by this moment. they say, this is our time to try and bring this whole project down. that's the danger going forward on the ground. >> it is one thing to recognize that things aren't good. it is another thing to recognize the limits of our ability to make them any better, essentially. >> well, the troops have achieved a lot. and the speech tonight, they've achieved everything they asked for. and they were there and we were talking about it. th...

Leaving, that any of those things wouldn't be true? >> no. for the last year or so, the combat troops really haven't been doing anything. so what's on the ground in iraq today or two weeks ago or three weeks from now doesn't change very much. the combat troops there were just kind of waiting to leave. a lot of them were in iraq still to give the iraqis a little bit more time to try and create a government, which they never were able to do. the real challenge is, if there isn't a government, american troops are truly now confined to their bases and the militant groups are somewhat energized by ...

>> bret: charles, unemployment number is 9.5. underemployment number, people you don't see that have given up looking for a job could be 17-18% according to some. >> historically high and number of unemployed for six months also historically very, very high. i think there is something new happening in terms of the economy, at least the perception of it. that is a sense of fear. we happened in 2009 where they thought yes, we're in a recession. things aren't good. but as obama himself said, we came, we were pulled back from the brink. and we were in a bad time, but not a scary time. we had impro...

>> bret: charles, unemployment number is 9.5. underemployment number, people you don't see that have given up looking for a job could be 17-18% according to some. >> historically high and number of unemployed for six months also historically very, very high. i think there is something new happening in terms of the economy, at least the perception of it. that is a sense of fear. we happened in 2009 where they thought yes, we're in a recession. things aren't good. but as obama himself said, we came, we were pulled back from the brink. and we were in a bad time, but not a scary time. we had impro...