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he wound up being able to use that to leapfrog to other states. i think when you look at this inner it in er in terms of presidential politics, you can have somebody like marco rubio maybe take a small hit with conservatives but that s why you see him boomerang back the other way about health care. when you saw his negatives tick up, they only ticked up a bit. it s not like he s completely under water. but he s also not as well liked as he was before he started this immigration push among conservatives. to your point about sort of trying to reaffirm his conservative, with the 20-week abortion ban as well. i want to go through the numbers. i do think they are interesting. as dom points out, it s not a collapse of his numbers but this say morni among conservatives. in april, 45% positive. in july, 35% positive. his negative went from 6 to 13.
difficult for a candidate. dom, i want to go to immigration, because it s something i think, you know, you saw marco rubio sort of go say, we need to do this, i m going to be in the center of it, get it through the senate, now kind of in the house. we don t expect much to happen till the end of the year. rubio s numbers, they didn t collapse, but they took a hit among republicans. what do you make of that? is that sort of negative message for other republican establishment, guys wanting to step out? i think that, you know, you certainly have these two wings of the party that are still, you know, they hadn t figured it out yet. you know, you have the chris christie establishment quote/unquote new hampshire types versus the iowa, rick santorum, ted cruz types. that always winds up working itself out in these primaries. probably if you talk about grassroots support and energy, you would have thought mitt romney would be the nominee. he had all the rest in place. he had new hampshire
about, you know, the party needs to change with this demographic or that demographic. christie doesn t like to spend a lot of time thinking about all these kind of broad sweep things. when his philosophy is more practical. says, let s just get it done. let s get out and win. let s do the nuts and bolts stuff that needs to happen in order to win. i do think chris christie, he was pretty well received in the room. frank thorpe, one of our producers, up there in boston. talked to one south carolina committee woman who said she went in pretty skeptical of christie and came out a supporter. so that s a pretty big deal considering south carolina and new jersey are not exactly always aligned, chris. right, really good point. dom, one thing i want to get you on, for the democratic side, we spend so much time talking about hillary clinton, but howard dean going back to iowa, i m pretty sure you agree with me, no politician goes to iowa by accident.