could, y aal. the resurgence of newt gingrich may be the reason marianne gingrich wanted to come forward. she was not trying to target him or torpedo his campaign. i think she basically told me this idea the inevitablity that he probably is going to survive south carolina whether it be first or second, and the fact he s going to go into florida means he s going to continue to be a candidate. the idea that his second marriage is going to be out there without any discussion happening and her concern and there s some legitimacy, i think, to this that she was being tarnished by supporters of newt that somehow she was at fault for the failure of this marriage. she felt it was inevitable and unavoidable that she d have to do an interview. she wanted to do it sooner rather than later and get it out there and be over with and then not talk about it again. she did say in all fairness. nice thinsome nice things a.
this politics of envy, trying to throw the democrats backwards on any charge there s unfairness in our tax system. it s set very easily that it s easy to become rich now, or doable and very hard to survive in the middle class. anybody who talks like that is some sort of trotskiite. you heard john sununu, the former new hampshire governor, push back. he s a romney surrogate. push back against that idea essentially saying if you believed in what if you believed in the idea of government intervention as anti-american. so a lot of hot rhetoric. one, chris, you are 100% right. that speech was 95% mitt romney aura of inevitablity. i m going to be the nominee. this is what we ll be talking about in the election. still he has to go to south carolina. the most conservative electorate, trying to convince people through rhetoric, european style socialist, welfare state, et cetera, that
government intervention as anti-american. so a lot of hot rhetoric. one, chris, you are 100% right. that speech was 95% mitt romney aura of inevitablity. i m going to be the nominee. this is what we ll be talking about in the election. still he has to go to south carolina. the most conservative electorate, trying to convince people through rhetoric, european style socialist, welfare state, et cetera, that he and they are not that far apart in how they view the world. he still has to get over that south carolina hump. he came in fourth in 2008 in south carolina. he spent lots of time and money there. it is definitely the most conservative electorate he s going to face. if he loses south carolina, i still think he winds up as the nominee but it s a bumpier road. he and his advisers know that. the president said his focus was the president was on the middle class. let s listen to the president to what he said in his speech at the white house about the american economy. this is preside
care. basically made it bamney care. we have essentially the same features. karen, they re now moving away from obama look at each other and have to dif isht themselves. romney has to walk a fine line, his tactic is clearly to be presidential, appear presidential. he s going to try to deflect as much as possible from the other candidates on the stage tonight and really go after make his argument about president obama on jobs in the economy. we see that in a web video that his campaign put out today. you saw the dnc put out a counter on some of the romney record on the economy. now the other candidates they re going to have to go between attacking obama as well as attacking romney. they don t want him to get too far out in front. what happens is this air of inevitablity which we ve been talking a lot about how he s the
of seats that are naturally republican and a lot of those will go back. but i think democrats are feeling like the what seemed like the i in inevitablity of a republican takeover of the house looks less inevitable today and we have a pretty good shot of holding it even though there will be significant losses. shannon: do the republicans pick up the 39 seats they need to take back control of the house? there are many traditional guideposts we look at trying to determine who is going to do well in the mid term elections. many of those look good for republicans. some look good for democrats like the money advantage. what we saw last week was there was polling coming out in districts that aren t even in the 39 targeted seats that show republicans up and up within a comfortable margin. one example is pennsylvania s 8th congressional district. mike fitzpatrick is a congressman ousted in 2006. he was beat by patrick murphy. he is running again this time