hurd, one of only a few african-american members of the republican party in congress, is retiring. not just him, mike conaway is retiring, martha roby is in a safe seat in alabama. i do wonder, it s not fun to be in the minority, but i also wonder how much of it is like i don t want to carry water for this guy anymore? oh, i think that s a lot of it. it becomes too much. it becomes a burden that eats at your very dignity. you find yourself out here standing in front of a bank of cameras trying to explain the inexplicab inexplicable. you dodge and weave and it becomes too much. particularly for someone like will hurd, the only african-american republican in the united states congress who has the largest border to mexico in his congressional district of any member of congress, lacking the kind of support on this issue that he s gone to the leadership, he s gone to the
look at this. the number one issue to all of the voters today was the economy. and not by a little bit. a massive amount. this is just one of the indicators here. look at who voted today. the biggest single group in this was people who made $50,000 to $100,000 a year. but if you look at everybody from $200,000 on down in income, down here we have $200,000 or more, look at who won in these categories. rick santorum, at least in terms of what we heard from the exit polls, everybody in each of these categories said they wanted him and they re the ones that they voted for. and look at how massively, particularly we look at the numbers down here. in this case santorum, 48%. gingrich got the sikd number. romney comes in here at 22%, tied with gingrich. but still a massive lead for santorum. even bigger when you go down here to the under 30,000. look at that. santorum, 64%. romney tied with ron paul at 12%. the only area in which mitt romney won was in people who made $200,000 or mo
is what is leading to the stumbles and miss steps and mistakes. the abortion blunder was kind of inexplicab inexplicable. trying to it doesn t walk it back when you say it ought to be the person s choice but oh yeah it is also illegal. i suspect herman cain may have peaked and may begin to decline. on one other point there s a lot of people who think this debate with romney and perry, perry took more. he took a cheap shot on romney. what he said was romney hired an illegal. he thought it was a company he hired. which unknown to him hired illegals. he told him to stop it they said they would when they didn t do that and more legals got hired he fired the company. that is something no smart