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polls. there is a reason, chris, that both the white house and the politicians on capitol hill try to postpone this until after the elections in november. it turns out they may have failed. they may have failed because the economy may be slower. if the economy is slower then tax receipts are down and the treasury doesn t have enough fresh money to compensate for borrowed money. if that s the case, this is going tone an absolute catastrophy. in terms of a political moment of crisis it would be a very big deal if this happens before election day. megyn: for both sides. we saw the republican numbers fall precipitously. and there was a question about whether they should have dug in as much as they did. so what is likely to happen? if the economy is so sluggish
what s going to happen. megyn: talks about a catastrophy. it puts pressure on congress to say we better do thatter to we ll spiral into depression. the nact fact that he s doing that after seeing these clips blows my mind. megyn: like a lot of politicians he talks out of both sides his mouth on this. the question is whether he s got own alternative. we sue this huge fight over the summer whether we could find some way to cut spending and approve the increase in the debt ceiling. about it was such a catastrophic catastrophy that they aren t going have it every time. if we don t raise it we ll default on our debt and we can t do that. at the same time we can t say we are good until november. so then what happens is we wait until the first week in november with the same discussion we had in august. you look back at what happened
rick folbaum has more. reporter: you were right when you said this was a near hit. a close call. we are just learning about it now it was december 1. a southwest airlines boeing 737 just land in chicago. the pilot wanted to cross over to another runway. he asked the control tower for permission to do that. the tower said okay, but there was a sleer jet getting ready to take off from the same runway. it starts after what could have been a catastrophy.
some absent some catastrophy he will come out on top on tuesday. what about the next tier? ron paul still remaining in second. where do you think most of his support is coming from in new hampshire? i think there s a libertarian streak in new ham new hampshire that is strong and vie want and he has 20% of the electorate and staying in that number so he s right now in second place. see in the overnight tracking polls based on the debate this morning, santorum, gingrich and huntsman trying to vie for that last opportunity to jump ahead of maybe ron paul and try to challenge mitt romney. it will be interesting, 48 hours is a live time in granite state politics. you are going to see a number of these candidates continue to stay in new hampshire, focus on their message and earning the vote. we ll see how things shake out. it has tightened. 48 hours ago mitt romney was