and sandwich gate in wisconsin keeps getting hotter. i appreciate getting a free sandwich today. john nichols has the latest on the romney campaign ethics investigation. good to have you with us tonight, folks. the republican party anti-obama policies are costing them support of women all across america. so now they are trying to sound bite their way out of this huge gender gap issue they have. the head of the party told bloomberg tv the republican war on women, it doesn t exist. if a democrat said we have a war on caterpillars and talked about the fact that there is a war on caterpillars, then we d have problem with caterpillars. the fact of the matter is it s a fiction. fiction? caterpillars? i don t think that the gop has ever been in such a public relations maze. republicans don t have any policies to close the gender gap.