him in this race. the structure of this race, chris, is 51/47. that s the ceilings and the floors for both candidates. the race is not going to spread much beyond that. no matter how bad a campaign they run, mitt romney is going to be in the game here all the way to the end. he s not going to have to overcome 8, 9 point deficits to try to get into it. he needs to go out there and communicate in a clear way where he wants to lead the country. what is the alternative vision that he has vis-a-vis the president and he s been unable to communicate that over the entirety of the election. tonight is one of his last chances to start doing it. let me give you another scenario and that is that the president has a good night tonight. he gets it up to 51, as you say, and the other guy is going down and very few opportunities left. that would be a bad night for mr. romney. thank you, howard fineman, and
problem is, they are heavily armed and rebels have said please put down your weapons and it s going to be a massacre. it could prove to be pivotal it is dominated by a tribe of million strong people, that is about 1/47 of the population here. you would be having a battle, cousin on cousin where the culture is on eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. there are many that fear there could be a war and depending on what happens in balawalid, the future could be played out and one that causes rivalries and bitter feuds for decades to come. also people are concentrating in the home town of qaddafi himself in sirte, a similar situation there, an trenched loyalists who did not want to give up easily. heather: i know from the very beginning you said the battle between the tribes
we ve got all this unrest. let s jack up the prices? that s a conspiracy theory and it s wrong. ok. where are you laughing? i love when you come after me. it is a conspiracy theory. speculators are in the market. of course they are. they are expecting the price to go up because of restrictions on the supply. that s not wicked speculation. that s merely playing the markets. it s the fear factor. it s the fear factor and it s got to be accounted for in the marketplace. let s take a look and put it in perspective and look at where gas prices were from 2001 to 2011, they went up $1.47. good job with this chart and we have a hit of $3.14 in 2008. it went down and now it s back up. well, actually that graphic might need to be amended because back in 2008, i think it was, july, gas prices went just over $4 a gallon. very, very briefly but you hit $4 a gallon. what you re seeing now is a spike and it s happened just in the last few days because of
time? you may need to run to the far right in this context, wolf. i think gloria is absolutely on target, and what i find interesting about this poll, a eni think one of the reasons republicans are saying sh there s more sentiment than i had expected to believe that barack obama will be unseated. if you ask all americans who would they vote for, it s 51/47 against obama. particularly among whites when you ask who you think is going to win, it s like 61/36 thinking obama will lose among whites. what that suggests is all of us thought that he s had a fairly significant bump since the elections that he seems to be riding much higher. this poll suggests we ought to be cautious about how much we interpret that. maybe the bump disappeared. but there s more sentiment against the president today than i would have assumed given the bump. in this new poll, gloria, you know, huckabee, palin, mitt romney, they seem to be the
and amazon has the money to pay the fair rate at the post office, which would be much more than they are paying right now. we are giving a subsidy to amazon and we re talking about billions of dollars a year. the real cost. and a report just came out, they said 1.47, i believe or about that for every time they deliver a package, the united states government, meaning the post office losing 1.47. so, amazon is going to have to pay much more money no to the post office. shepard: the postal service s own numbers show it makes money by delivering packages for amazon and other companies. as for taxpayers, the post office s own website points out and i quote: the postal service receives no tax dollars for operating the space. none. and that reference to 1.47 that the president came up with there, a citigroup study showed last year on average the postal service was charging 1.46 below