[ cheers and applause ] so what was their first song? any guesses? we know the president likes this one. i so in love with you we all remember the president singing al green s classic let s stay together at a fund raiser last year. so really, was there a better choice? jennifer hudson straight from their hometown of chicago did the honors. i m so in love with you whatever you want to do is all right with me the first family and their amazing kids. that s next.
massive crowd singing aloud and getting the crowd to join him. that s about as unplugged and untethered as you ve seen mitt romney in any of his two, now, presidential campaigns, and clearly an exhibition of his sense of relaxed good nature and belief that he s going to pull off a victory here. of course, up until today he d been pretty far ahead in the polls, so singing is about as risky as you can get. jon: we heard the president singing al green a couple weeks back, i guess mitt romney was inspired to follow suit. what about newt gingrich today? reporter: again, sort of trying to look past the current race and position himself for upcoming battles and vowing that he will not get out of the race should he not win the florida 50 winner-take-all delegates and saying he s going to go on for some time, and he s also pressuring rick santorum to get out of the race and allow republican conservatives to coalesce behind newt gingrich which doesn t go over particularly well with rick santor
to get out of this race. santorum has no intention of it, both he and ron paul recognized they didn t have a chance to win in florida because this is not a proportionally-allocated state, it is winner take all. they moved on to future contests which newt gingrich has also said he ll do. today he said maybe june or july or until mitt romney drops out which seems unlikely in the wake of florida which hasn t yet tallied its votes, but the gingrich and the romney camps seem prepared to accept the idea that the former massachusetts governor will win the sunshine state. jon carl, any chance we ll be hearing you singing on the campaign trail anytime soon? is. [laughter] reporter: absolutely not, although i do know the lyrics to both america the beautiful and al green s tune, but i m not doing it. [laughter] jon: all right. thanks, carl. jenna: excellent question. i was waiting for it, carl, but he didn t bite on that one. a.b. stoddard s joining us now, associate editor of the hill.
47th in job creation. she balanced the budget and is loved in arizona. loved? really? where does her approval stand. in the ppp poll, 49% disapproved of her performance. when it comes to the arizona governor, love is not all round her. now for the big number of the night. remember when president obama went musical last week? i so in love with you thanks to the president, al green hit is making a comeback. how much did weekly sales of the hit surge? 490%. talk about a sales bump. as for the president singing al green said he nailed it. a 490% increase in sales.