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Because rick santorum continues to outperform his polling numbers. i think there s a good reason why. the intensity gap. if on tuesday, you look out the window, it looks like it may be a chance of rain, the romney voters say oh, i don t think so. but the santorum voters say oh, biblical reign? this makes sense. i m going to the polls. i love it. let s look. here is mitt romney. this is the kill joy of all time. what we have been watching. the absolutely negative ads run by romney, usually by the offshore operation, restore our super pac. this one run by his campaign with his name on it. look at the new mitt romney campaign ad running in illinois that goes after rick santorum. who can turn around the economy and defeat barack obama? not rick santorum. his real weakness is the ....
It was a big number then. and back then the obama campaign caps off march with a women s week of action, phone banks, campus and media events getting the full force of the juggernaut. thank you so much. joining me now is msnbc policy analyst and president for the center of american progress who served as the senior adviser to help the obama administration pass the health care law, good to see you both. let me start with you, i think one of the most fascinating aspects i have seen in all of this, i have richard leaving it out because i want it, but until six weeks ago democrats suffered from the intensity gap, but women are closing it. what do you think has been the real impact of this whole fight over contraception in women s rights? oh, i think that the most significant issue is that women see that the republican party is willing to put politics and people like rush limbaugh ahead ....
To i think a deal with beijing. it s not going to shift the energy independence debate in terms of its direction. can i ada thid something, itt politically a winner either way. the democratic base is divided. there s an intensity gap in this. there s much more awareness among self identified republican voters about this issue in general. than there s among independents and democrats. this is an issue that sort of conservative talk radio and rush limbaugh and guys like sean hannity, they have been pushing it and it is at the top of the list of what they do not like about the president. president needs to not have a war there and hope it s under the radar, the republicans that care bit, will always be against obama. because the narrative, it s so, we care about jobs, this guy is a greeny, lefty, who just cares about the environmental ....
elections center. it is on to south carolina for the republicans who would be president with mitt romney looking to run his win streak to three and to use his dramatic momentum to raise millions more this month. the texas governor rick perry is among those vowing to stop romney in south carolina. he s right here to answer republicans who say attacks on the frontrunner s business record are over the line. just wait until you see governor perry s backdrop. a plot worthy of a spy model. a bomb attached to the car of an iranian nuclear scientist who s dead tonight and nobody knows who did it. the fight for the republican nomination roared into south carolina today, and with its full cast of characters. mitt romney s easy win last night in new hampshire didn t convince any of his rivals to drop out. instead they now insist south carolina is january 21st primary will be a real race, not a coronation. cnn s jim acosta caught up with rick santorum in south carolina. this is ....
High turnout, we have a big intensity gap this time? many democrats will say no, many republicans will say, it s an improvement. one other point i want talk about. if we have a close race, i want to look at candidate visits. let s close this down, take away the graphics. this is rick santorum, he visited all 99 counties. look at him out in the western part of the state that mitt romney carried four years ago. let s look at mitt romney, he visited this area the least. of the candidates who visited iowa in this cycle, it was romney the least. santorum tonight is going to claim doing it the old-fashioned bay has helped. if you close this down and just come back and look, we re filling in the map at 88%. wow. just wow. and we re going to look at who s left. you look at these open counties, there s no votes here, tiny counties. they could make a difference. in a very close race, they could make difference. ....