he improvised, got him in trouble rhetorically in the primary. very nervous about the mormon issue. every conversation for whatever reason we have, goes back to that. when you talk to republicans when they talk to evangelical christians, they are picking up something that public polling is not. there are much bigger concerns about his faith than you might think if you are looking at polling data on this issue. a lot of people remain very skeptical. his inability to connect with hispanics and also can he appeal to disgruntled independents, clearly if not turn owning obama, are certainly skeptical of obama s performance to date. jim, are you nodding your head? he gave a speech to the commencement address at liberty university, not the kind of thing you do once have you won a republican nomination fight. that s still shoring up your base, not pivoting toward your
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the structure. mitt romney is running for president for six years and he had a lot of time to figure out the narrative and his story and find ways to tell it in a compelling way and say he is catching up and that s a liability for him whether it s a mormon issue or he got a right. he knew it was coming and it s time to get at it. it s trick to describe because it was to create wealth and not necessarily to create nobs. he neats to redefine it. you don t believe that mitt romney will have a problem with the e van yell cal voters? i don t think so. i don t think they will come out in droves for president obama. the question is will they be energized. do you buy the idea of gay marriage? i don t know. my theory is for people who gay marriage is number one, i assume
out of office for a number of years has this inside outside dynamic going on. joanne, coming to you, the new polls are remarkable. gingrich is surging. iowa is 33%. just 28 days away. he isality 38% in south carolina where the victor has been the nominee since 1980. people talk about him in electability, but that doesn t seem to trouble newt gingrich. how sad for the tea party movement. they were this outsider movement and the choices between mitt romney who they don t think is conservative enough. newt gingrich who is the ultimate insider and who represents who they supposed 3 hate in washington. he is the ultimate creature of washington. what he has going for him is these early primaries are in the conservative states. the mormon issue will hurt romney. gingrich is from georgia. he is a man of the south and he
if you talk to conservatives in iowa, there is a big opening for him. they don t see much of a way for him to crawl out of it. the advantage for everyone else, if it s gingrich who s rising on this, you know, he there is a very long record. he s kind of tried to preempt this, a long record of newt coalition building you can attack in the same way. we all come back to romney. he s been vetted on this issue before. the other things have been aired in the debates and kind of fallen off. you have gingrich surging in the polls in the last ten days to two weeks. you got three marriages there, the christian coalition folks are not going to go along with that. you have mitt romney, the mormon issue there. herman cain is polling but now, of course, this latest gaffe with libya ought to signal to the folks in iowa that he s just not ready for primetime. so is there any way perry could come back? i ll say to you tonight, dave, i