is rough, especially if you re talking about a citizenship. i just i don t see that happening. marco rubio has seen how tough it is wading into it and taking the lead on it, being accused of being for am necessity. it s hurting him on the right. you mentioned the columnist steve diese wrote a piece for politico, if i know anything about the iowa caucuses that s that marco rubio should not show up in 2016. if you ask state party officials and other big names they ll say all the political correct thing about rubio chances publicly to preserve the process, plus iowans are nice. i don t know about iowa politics. from an influential iowa radio host. that might be hurtful. jeremy, we hear a lot of positive talk on the hill about immigration. because you ve got a lot of people in the media cheering for immigration reform but you
political panel. david goodfriend and a.b. stoddard and nationally syndicated radio talk show host steve diese. look at the polls here. let s go down the line where the president is leading governor romney right now. he is ahead in all of the categories, the economy, taxes, health care, international affairs. medicare. romney is leading in the conversation regarding the deficit here. what does romney need to do? what is the key to his message beyond showing the ability, which you re skeptical if he has the ability to show this connection and warmth, that certainly people need during these hard times? tamron, just to allude to what chris matthews said earlier, i m happy to be the friendly neighborhood theocrat this afternoon. i think governor romney needs to continue doing what he did in
i think the metric system here, because he had a phenomenal debate performance to get it to even to him as an acceptable alternative. that s the phrase we re using today. now you wonder if the president comes out and hits a home run in a town hall format that you think might benefit him with his charisma, maybe it goes back to a couple of weeks ago. i m interested to see how romney will perform here. he s really good when he has prepared text, but in a crowd he comes across at the guy who shows up at the party with a sweater vest and it is, you want to play yahtzee? this is the logical question anyway, our first read team says will this be his in touch or out of touch moment? they refer this to blowing up the stereotype, that he does not understand the plight of the average americans. does he understand, steve diese, the plight of the average
if we have another showing by president obama like the first showing, my guess is they would move more significantly. the obama team knows it and i expect him to come out better. chris, thank you again. that s does it for us this edition of andr andrea mitchell reports. tomorrow we ll be live at hofstra university in new york. we ll be joined by robert gibbs and mr. madden. tamron has a look at what s next on news nation. in the next hour we follow the latest polling showing this race is a dead heat. president obama, mitt romney very close, but what can break this stalemate? next 24 hours, we know the big debate. we re going to talk about it. the dnc s patrick gaspar will join me, the washington post anne cornbluth and steve diese will joan begin. senator lindsey graham leads the charges of republicans who accuse the administration of
reconfirm her function. what does your gut tell you? should candy crowley and follow-up questions in tomorrow s town hall debate? go to facebook.com/newsnation to cast that vote. that does it for this edition. tomorrow is the big day. and chris matthews will join us, a.b. stoddard and steve diese and a body language expert joining the team. the cycle is up next. overmany discounts to thine customers! [old english accent] safe driver, multi-car, paid in full a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. thou cometh and we thy saveth! what are you doing? we doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts? here we go. thank you. he took my shield, my lady. these are troubling times in the kingdom. more discounts than we knoweth what to do with. now that s progressive.