you still have almost 10% unemployment here in florida. you still have home values down and continuing to go down. you still have record number of foreclosures in florida. you still have median incomes suffering, middle income families suffering. florida is an epicenter of the housing crisis that put us into the great recession of 2008 and 2009. cnn senior political analyst david gergen joins us from jacksonville. david, mitt romney is not only focused on president obama, he s got newt gingrich to deal with as well. florida was one of the states that was hardest hit by the housing crisis. its unemployment rate remains above the national average. so is tuesday s primary going to end up as a referendum on whether voters who are focused on the economy can get behind mitt romney as the man to best fix it? reporter: probably so, ali, but i must tell you this has become such a personalized race. romney and gingrich have gone mano a mano in the several debates and we ve had sort
pac supporting them make it a deluge. that s a met for, really, since almost half of floridans are under water on their home loans, that is. mark preston, john avalon i want to start first with this field. mitt romney, you say he defined himself, mark, in florida at the cnn debate. and he s turned the page. i want to listen real quickly to what he said that you think is a turning point. is he still the most ant anti-immigrant candidate? i think of the four of us, yes. go ahead, governor. that s simply inexcusable. senator mark arubio came to my defense and said that ad was inexcusable and inappropriate. mr. speaker, i m not anti-immigrant. my father was born in mexico. my wife s father was born in whales. the idea that i m anti-immigrant was repulsive. was that the moment for him to take the upper hand again? the republican candidates have been distracted by issues such as immigration, legal immigration and mitt romney had taken heat from that. newt gingrich seeme
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