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Do we need to see it? >> absolutely we do. the white house has seen unemt go down to 8.8%. they need a lot of improvement quickly to improve the president's popularity. certainly after the arizona shootings and tax deals he got up to 50%. even above that in some polls. now he's slipping back. he has to hope for progress with republicans so people think washington is working. that's another concern for the economy. trying to get some accommodation with republicans so investors don't create more economic problems that make the president's political problems worse. >> john harwood, good to see

Your positions. only 38% say make compromises. the democrats being pressed to stick to positions, only 26%, make compromises. 68%. they're being pulled in opposite directions. >> they are. both sides want to avoid a shutdown. my own mother left me a message this morning saying she is disgusted by what's going on in washington. that's why. they don't want this reaction. this is not serious adult behavior in washington, d.c. but as you know, speaker boehner has got a caucus. and that conservative caucus made up of tea party folks and the polling bears this out, they say don't compromise. this is...

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Organization overrated? we had newt gingrich at the top of the polls in iowa even though he had almost no organization. santorum suggests maybe the old shoe leather that you associate with what you have to do in places like iowa and new hampshire is working. no candidate has worked iowa more traditionally than rick santorum. i think ann's point is the exactly right. people liked him but they didn't want to throw their vote away with santorum. when he started to look like, wait a minute, gingrich is falling. we don't want to be with romney, maybe this santorum guy, once he crested that kind of ...