And said it. i remember in south carolina. could never win. south carolina primary, the military state and won it easily. there was that. the other side of it, he did run on some degree of aggression. the distinction was he ran on bombing and not boots. when you start talking about even if it s own 3,000, 4,000 afghanistan, that is getting into an area he didn t run off. more details that dell gates authority over to the pentagon as opposed to the white house. i would be curious to see how russia reacts as well, there are reports that they are arming the taliban. if we fight against the taliban there we go. thank you, michael crowley for joining us and for our first show. back home and facing the wrath of veeters over health care, how worried should republicans be that obamacare is more popular today than on election day. i guess very worried but we ll get into that after this break. at red lobster s seafood trios
Re-election as senator in 2014. it s going to be a close election. they re hoping that voter i.d. can cause kay hagan to lose her re-election bid. i think north carolina voters have a surprise coming for them because they ought to be ticked off, really ticked off. look at who gets disproportionately affected. it will affect nonwhite voter who s tend to vote democratic. the state s population is 30% nonwhite but look at this, according to the north carolina secretary of state s office, 33% of those who voted early in 2012 were nonwhite. 46% of voters without a state issued photo identification nonwhite. and among veeters who registered to vote the last day they cast their ballots, 56% were nonwhite. i think maggie, something else telling is that a college i.d. is not permissible. so i mean, to me that s what exposes this for what it really is. i personally don t have a problem with saying show an i.d. when you vote but you ought to take into consideration what
Nonspecific as possible to swing voters. that strategy is good for 45, 46, 47% of the vote. it has not gotten them higher all year. there s no reason to think that that strategy alone is going to left them over the top. now you ve got republicans that are starting to pan he can e romney has choices, he can start saying something more affirmative but if he wants to appeal to swing veeters, he s going to irritate his base. or he s going to alienate the swing voters. i think they re just finding out now it s not getting them quite where they thought it would. let s listen to the advise bill o reilly has for mitt romney about how to handle the tax details question. i would say listen, with all due respect, scott, i can t tell you right now. because it s not fully formulated what i can do in that area. i don t want to hurt the housing industry, i don t want to hurt the chart tibl industry. however, we re going to take a
Nonspecific as possible to swing voters. that strategy is good for 45, 46, 47% of the vote. it has not gotten them higher all year. there s no reason to think that that strategy alone is going to left them over the top. now you ve got republicans that are starting to pan he can e romney has choices, he can start saying something more affirmative but if he wants to appeal to swing veeters, he s going to irritate his base. or he s going to alienate the swing voters. i think they re just finding out now it s not getting them quite where they thought it would. let s listen to the advise bill o reilly has for mitt romney about how to handle the tax details question. i would say listen, with all due respect, scott, i can t tell you right now. because it s not fully formulated what i can do in that area. i don t want to hurt the housing industry, i don t want to hurt
tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. let s begin with dana there. romney s two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasn t a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. it s the size of his win that s really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the party to finally rally behind him? reporter: well, fred, that s probably not going to happen immediately because as you mentioned, all of these other candidates are still in the race. effectively, look, this was no question a huge win for mitt romney. you said certainly he was expected to win here because he was governor of a neighboring state, but the size of his win in terms of the overall number, but also the kind of voter that he got, namely the conservative voters in this state. there