age i have say long friend. long time. i m thrilled to be here. nice to have you. will cain is here as well. we all know will cain. back again. got lots to talk about this morning. our starting point though is rick santorum waking up a big winner this morning as he swept all three states last night. strong victories in missouri and in minnesota. and a nail baiter win in the state of colorado. santorum says it is not just a victory for him but for the party overall. tonight was not just a victory for us. tonight was a victory for the voices of our party, conservatives and tea party people who are out there every single day in the vineyards building the conservative movement in this country, building the base of the republican party, and building a voice for freedom in this land. thank you. ron brownstein is the editorial director at the national journal and he will join our panel this morning. he has gotten so much better as a candidate, not ron brownstein, but rick
more emotional anxiety about the idea of america in decline. the challenge for president obama is as of yet the economy is not glet a place he can go out and say something like this. in 1980 we asked the people of america are you better off than you were four years ago? well the people answered then by choosing us to bring about a change. we have every reason now, four years later, to ask that same question again for we have made a change. are you better off than you were four years ago? if president obama asked that question today the answer for most americans probably is yes. but it is a much more ambivalent, equivocal yes than 1984. ronald reagan ran his famed morning in america ad campaign, which touted the fact the economic picture in the country improved since he took office. the jobs picture was better,
that the economic picture had improved since he took office. the jobs picture was better, inflation was down, things were according to reagan, looking up. as barack obama heads in his reelection, things are without a doubt much much better than they have been. and much, much better, much, much better than they could have been. so how do you turn much better than they have been in something that packs the rhetorical force that morning in america packed back in 1984? how do you convey the feeling that things are getting better into an effective message? it is that central rhetorical problem that none other than dirty harry himself, mr. i ve never voted for a democrat for president in my life, seemings to have solved for president obama. by now you have seen the clint eastwood chrysler ad that aired during the super bowl last night, right? it was an ad that focused on the success of the auto bailout specifically, but may have served as an update to ronald reagan s morning in america as we
the challenge for president obama is as of yet the economy is not glet a place he can go out and say something like this. in 1980 we asked the people of america are you better off than you were four years ago? well the people answered then by choosing us to bring about a change. we have every reason now, four years later, to ask that same question again for we have made a change. are you better off than you were four years ago? if president obama asked that question today the answer for most americans probably is yes. but it is a much more ambivalent, equivocal yes than 1984. ronald reagan ran his famed morning in america ad campaign, which touted the fact the economic picture in the country improved since he took office. the jobs picture was better, inflation was down, things were according to reagan, looking up.
identified themselves as mormon. now take a look at the latest polling numbers how things are shaping up ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. romney with 45% of the vote. gingrich with 25%. rick santorum polling at 11 and ron paul with 9. 10% of voters say they re undecided and still do not know. 28 delegates are up for grabs here and will be awarded proportionally to the candidates. martha? martha: casey stiegel in last last, the city where you can leave whatever happens there right there. bill: you can t leave the vote. we ll find out that tomorrow. you can not escape the economic reality in nevada and the way this state has been hit economically and the jobs picture. we mentioned this at the top of the show about the unemployment rate. on our screen here, the more deep in the read the more trouble you re in. if you re a green state you re doing really well a place like the dakotas. if you go over past three