new nbc news/ wall street journal polling numbers out, we will talk about them later on the show, but specifically on the question of women. obama is leading romney by ten points, 51% to 41%. when asked who is better in dealing with issues of concern to women, 52% go for obama, 24% go to romney. we understand that the president has been, for lack of a better term, killing it among single educated women, but and to a certain degree, john heilemann always says women are to some degree baked in the cake for obama, but mitt romney still can t afford to just give up the female vote entirely, especially married women and independent women. one of the most damaging things about this entire debate is heretofor, sort of independent women who think mitt romney doesn t seem like a bad guy, paul ryan seems like a young exciting guy, he s energized the conservative base, where they might be attracted to that ticket. then you hear this as i call, i don t know what else to call it, this hocus-pocu
movement decides to coalesce behind either mitt romney i mean, either newt gingrich or rick perry in south carolina. if that happens, we will have a two-person race coming out of south carolina going to florida and beyond. matt lewis, the debate thing john brings up is a very good point. heretofor the reason newt gingrich has surged is because of his incredibly strong debate performances. there haven t been debates in recent weeks, a barrage of negative advertising but two debates scheduled for saturday and sunday. does that help newt gingrich. absolutely. he s a great debater. you re absolutely right. that is what propelled him. the clip we played earlier is very telling. you will hear newt gingrich call romney a massachusetts moderate. he knows granite staters hate massachusetts. do you think that s i guarantee you. nothing happens by accident. listen, that is that s intentional. there s a pulse running here. you have our good, close friend
movement decides to coalesce behind either mitt romney i mean, either newt gingrich or rick perry in south carolina. if that happens, we will have a two-person race coming out of south carolina going to florida and beyond. matt lewis, the debate thing john brings up is a very good point. heretofor the reason newt gingrich has surged is because of his incredibly strong debate performances. there haven t been debates in recent weeks, a barrage of negative advertising but two debates scheduled for saturday and sunday. does that help newt gingrich. absolutely. he s a great debater. you re absolutely right. that is what propelled him. the clip we played earlier is very telling. you will hear newt gingrich call romney a massachusetts moderate. he knows granite staters hate massachusetts. do you think that s i guarantee you. nothing happens by accident. listen, that is that s intentional. there s a pulse running here. you have our good, close friend
roy blunt. earlier today i spoke with senator barbara boxer. over and over again everyone comes to the camera saying they are sick of this debate and want to move on and want to get this done for the american people. yet when the cameras go away and everybody goes back to work, it doesn t seem like they can get this done. what is it going to take to get to a plan that everyone can agree on and feel as if they have actually made a compromise? you should do what i do for a living, thomas, because i m hearing the same sort of thing via the telephones constantly on the air. people are just so frustrated and thus far it doesn t seem like anybody is coming out of this thing looking like a winner, although i would argue that some are losing more than others and chief among them would be the hard core gop members of the house who are perceived as having drawn a line in the sand and being absolutely unwilling to compromise, so unless there s some compromising among those who heretofor have be
roy blunt. earlier today i spoke with senator barbara boxer. over and over again everyone comes to the camera saying they are sick of this debate and want to move on and want to get this done for the american people. yet when the cameras go away and everybody goes back to work, it doesn t seem like they can get this done. what is it going to take to get to a plan that everyone can agree on and feel as if they have actually made a compromise? you should do what i do for a living, thomas, because i m hearing the same sort of thing via the telephones constantly on the air. people are just so frustrated and thus far it doesn t seem like anybody is coming out of this thing looking like a winner, although i would argue that some are losing more than others and chief among them would be the hard core gop members of the house who are perceived as having drawn a line in the sand and being absolutely unwilling to compromise, so unless there s some compromising among those who heretofor have be