teddy turner. not so subtle hint who he s talking about there, if you see the mark sanford picture in the background. turner, of course, is the son of cnn founder, ted turner, and one of many republicans trying to beat former governor mark sanford. we ll have more on this race in tomorrow s show when we talk to one of the democratic candidates in that race, elizabeth cullbert busch. but she goes by kolbert. and tens of thousands of people jammed st. peter s square for pope benedict s final audience this morning, cheering and waving signs that read thank you in italian. anne thompson is live for us at the vatican. and anne, i know the pope gave a reason for why he s leaving. what did he share with the crowd? reporter: well, he told them, chuck, it was a very personal address during his final papal audience. usually those sermons are a lesson on religion, but he spoke quite eloquently about his eight years as pontiff and why he was
sound a little bit like a broken record, because i ve said this before. if you look back at march 2002, eight months before we gained 63 seats in the house, we aren t far from where we are today. march of 2010. i m sorry, march of 2010. we aren t far from where we are today. and that gives you some perspective about how much is baked in here and also what it means for electoral i want to go back to the larger theme that it seemed to be throughout this poll. and that is, if you took the president and democratic numbers in isolation, you d sit there, oh, they re treading water, maybe losing ground a little bit. but when you put the comparison in and throw in the alternative and the republican party, the joke is, the president s the tall guy at the short guy convention. absolutely. and this shows sort of the same thing. i think in the big picture, this does not help anybody. at some point, we re all going to be dragged down a little bit. i would argue for the republican part
about noon, after the popemobile left st. peter s square, suddenly, on his twitter account, appeared this, if only everyone could experience the joy of being christian, being loved by god, who gave his son for us. now, his last tweet will come tomorrow, and then after that that twitter account goes silent until a new pope is chosen and if that pope chooses, he, too, can use the handle @pontifacts. msnbc will have continuing coverage of the pope s final day, the resignation all day today and tomorrow, including that final meeting he will have with the cardinals and his official departure from the vatican. up next, it s a bird, it s a plane, no, it s a rock the size of half a football field hurtling towards earth at speeds of over 17,000 miles per hour. we re taking a deep dive into the threat of objects falling from the sky and whetherw should
in the sort of modern era since we have been tracking this. and yet the reason he s not winning this race is that the president is winning hispanics by a margin that s never been seen before. it s by 45 points. this is among likely voters. 70. the president is hitting 70 and could go above 70%. so for every white male voter that the president has lost going back to 2008, he s gained demographically with hispanics and the republican party. the most fascinating thing peter heart said if mitt romney comes up short, he may have rick perry to blame. for that one-month period when rick perry was mitt romney s chief challenger, they made the strategic decision to go to the right of rick perry on immigration and he s paying for it demographically. if the president doesn t win
of the economy and that s exactly what s happened. we haven t talked about the economy. i would argue in a coordinated way from the romney campaign since before the london you re totally right. what s so fascinating is the push back you get up when we bring it to the romney people we re playing offense it s built in. and may be playing offense but the economy still hasn t gotten increasingly or measurably better and we now have five days in which we haven t talked at all about it and people say, five days, whatever no one is paying attention, only 82 or 81 days nis election so five days is not insignificant. let me back up the romney assertion jonathan, it s baked in and helps them. listen to this focus group in wisconsin peter heart did with women undecided women voters and they were asked to talk about the economy villa the weather. right. here s what they said.