she said it s just a general concern about child baring that we all share together. i agree with that. but i m saying it s also this other piece that doesn t get talked about in terms of the responsibility of fathers, or potential fathers, in this relationship. that s between two people. it seems to have inserted itself by offering up the pill. let me tell you the bad news for republicans. they will have to vote. the men are going to have to vote 65% republican this time to make up for the trouble they have caused with women. the white men are going to have to vote 85%. thank you michael steele. thank you joan walsh. we re all in this together. up next, barbara bush is not so positive review of the republican campaign. you re watching hardball s coverage of tuesday, only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] is zero worth nothing?
the holiest. are they your true leaders? not in the sense that they are political leaders within the party. they have not been elected to office. they hold no rank or constituency per se. but in terms of messaging and connecting with a lot of republicans of all stripes around the country, these guys are personalities. they do have a resonance there. but the most important question and the broader question for the presidential candidate is at some point, you assert yourself as a defak to leader. if you want to be the nominee, you become the head of the gop. you take over the operations of the rnc. you have your hands on all the mechanisms of power and control. but it s that spirit, that sense of who you are in your leadership that defines you. and i think this was a definable moment that was lost. it wasn t just missed, it was lost by the republican
president obama is crushing his republican six to one right now. three quarters of latinos approve of the job president obama is doing. none of the republicans running for president polled higher than 14%. one in seven in a head to head matchup with the president. wow. we ll be right back. [ kyle ] my bad.
the guy playing you has all the nuances of conflict when you re trying to win a presidential campaign and it s you and your candidate. and the rest of the crazies. coming up, the republicans women s problem. this is a party that s facing a gender gap. 55%. 37% against obama s 55%. also rush limbaugh helping out of course. that s ahead. you re watching hardball s coverage of super tuesday, only on msnbc.
ing. our poll shows 40% of adults now say the opinions of the republican party has suffered as a result of this long primary season. did you sense that before you saw these numbers, joe? no doubt about it. i have been talking for the last three weeks about my pro-life wife, her friends who are all conservatives, all republicans, who have lectured me about being sufficiently pro-life because i believe in the dreaded exceptions, we re sitting around breakfast tables over the past couple weeks calling each other on the phone saying, what s happened to our party? i mean, this is not about being pro-life. this is about being pro-grizwald. we are not debating what happened with abortion. we re debating what happened in 1965. when my wife, and when my first chief of staff, are saying that the republican party seems like they are moving further and further away from them, we re a