moves to mississippi, tennessee, georgia, it moves to southern states where the evangelical conservativism is pronounced to the extent this is resistance to a mormon candidate is where you will see it. the tea party is more pronounced there. romney is not winning those people over and santorum may have an opportunity there. the reason i think mitt romney has been able to hold on to the inevitable candidate title is not by strength shown by him of. he has taken hits in terms of his favorable it isn t about his strength but the perceived nonviability of any of the challengers. how does rick santorum escape that perceived nonviability. what can he do to make himself the alternative. there wasn t much polling in any of these states but p.p.p. found that in all three states that voted today santorum s
claiming that the economic problems that we are facing, the fiscal problems we are facing are somehow related to the so-called moral issues of marriage equality, women s reproductive rights, the president needs to switch who we say when he says a moral issue. the issue is the tax code. gene robinson, i want to make this poll fact part of our discussion here when we talk about this politically. a gallup poll conducted in june asked americans, if your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be a person? 22% on the basis of that question simply said no. so there is a serious problem in that poll for any mormon candidate. and if the obama campaign is aware of that number, as we know they are, it would seem to me that they would have a political calculation based on that number
faith talk a central part of what he was up to. in this campaign, because the republican party is consistently claiming that the economic problems that we are facing, the fiscal problems we are facing are somehow related to the so-called moral issues of marriage equality, women s reproductive rights, the president needs to switch who we say when he says a moral issue. the issue is the tax code. gene robinson, i want to make this poll fact part of our discussion here when we talk about this politically. a gallup poll conducted in june asked americans, if your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be a mormon, would you vote for that person? 22% on the basis of that question simply said no. so there is a serious problem in that poll for any mormon candidate.
newt still has money. newt is still sitting on enough cash to play if not for himself, he s already openly said he ll do it for santorum. if you look at the map, that s been my issue for mitt romney. look at the map, he has to go down south, perform in jonathan said, unfriendly state for a mormon candidate. he goes to florida, heavily tea partied and influenced. rick perry is still out there. rick perry is still out there. what about that, bill? there s a lot of money in texas still there for rick perry. though he was terrible in the debates, he was very smart about how he spent his money. he ended his campaign in iowa as the candidate who had the highest favorables in the whole state. people may have made up their mind about rick perry. what he s probably doing is standing by hoping that rick santorum falls apart like every other front-runner has done in the republican field. you know, as long as he s in,
he s already openly said he ll do it for santorum. if you look at the map, that s been my issue for mitt romney. look at the map, he has to go down south, perform in jonathan said, unfriendly state for a mormon candidate. he goes to florida, heavily tea partied and influenced. rick perry is still out there. rick perry is still out there. what about that, bill? there s a lot of money in texas still there for rick perry. though he was terrible in the debates, he was very smart about how he spent his money. he ended his campaign in iowa as the candidate who had the highest favorables in the whole state. people may have made up their mind about rick perry. what he s probably doing is standing by hoping that rick santorum falls apart like every other front-runner has done in the republican field. you know, as long as he s in, he s a factor, that s not helping rick santorum. isn t this great for the obama team to see the fighting going on on the right? mitt romney will still probably