future of america. >> it's halftime in america too. people are out of work and they are hurting. they are all wondering what they are going to do to make a come back and we are all scared because this isn't a game. >> thank you michigan senator debbie spend it now. >> we bumped them together to show how different the messages were. but, patricia, let's tart with you, we know that the hoekstra ad is only playing in the local markets in detroit and the clint east wood ad was a national ad but different messages. >> different messages and the hoekstra ad is designed to appeal to peep ople in his area. there's a fear of the china

taking over the country. i think it's a stupid ad prosecutor t from the general election, but i think locally it will get him voters. >> we picked the two ads because the clint eastwood ad is a message that he has been touting, the president has been, on the campaign trail. let's play sound from mitt romney talking about china. >> i want to open up new markets for american goods, so we can sell on our products around the world and i'll crack down on cheaters like china that steal our intellectual property and hack into our computers. >> the otherism striking right there. >> the other word was muslims -- >> i would argue that that is

still one. >> they are, but it has shifted. the ground zero mosque was an issue, but now china is the safe other to bash. not our good chine chinese citi but those that are there. this cannot be discussed in a good manner because it just to begin gin up the fear people are anxious and it's easy to point fingers. if you think back to the republican debates i thought that some of the most interesting exchanges were those between romney and huntsman about what we should do with china trade policy and huntsman saying youer ing, you are not talking about things that will help. >> and he got far. >> a lot of the fear-mogering

worked in 2010. >> the contrast is the difference between catering to a republican audience in 2012 and catering -- it was not a political ad, but that eastwood ad is a general election ad. >> it's officially a chrysler ad. >> it not that he ran that ad you have the context s, you hav this ad coming out after the best jobs report. you have unemployment down to 8.3% and there's a poll that has him nine points ahead of mitt romney. halftime america, i think back to reagan's campaign. a new morning.

>> obama versus gingrich is 54% to 43%. >> i do not know why the chrysler ad iss democratic, because it's a an optimistic message that republicans would respond to, the hoekstra ad is saying it's china's fault, and the chrysler ad says we will turn ourselves around no matter what. >> it was not a political ad, but it was a chrysler ad, and everyone else projected that it's a political ad. the republicans cannot grab that message because they are so invested in the economy going do you happen and the president str destroyed things. >> i do not think the romney split, we are in the middle of a republican primary where every day, mitt romney's opponents are saying nasty things about him.

and he is under a microscope in a way that obama is not right now. so those numbers cannot be trusted too much. >> and certainly the romney pile on is something we talk about every day. the president did not lose any opportunity to say, i have a vision for the public. let's listen to what matt lauer heard. >> i think the americans have an ability to cut through the arguments to say is this a valid argument. you have to complain, i think they are sophisticated consumers, tell me what your plan is. >> this is the criticism that has been lobbied against romney as of late. you heard that from close-olumn he does not have any policy he is putting forward. >> the big idea of the romney

campaign is that the economy will not improve before election day for obama to say i deserve four more years and they will be able to hang over his head, the line, if i do not get it turned around in four years, you deserve to fire me. when that jobs report came out, it was telling. because the number came out and it surprised everyone. 8.3%. and the romney campaign took a long time to get a statement out. first they put out a statement that catered to the primary voters and they talked about the war on religious liberty and then they put out a passive voice talking about how jobs were created. the message he wants to run on is he made it worse. that is an effective message. but it could be better, that starts to sound like the walter mondale message. >> right. >> the other thing that we have not talked about as much, which may be a significant factor for the president, possibly in his favor. the white house breaking news

that the white house announced further sanctions on iran and iranian residents in the united states doing business in america. the question is how much we have the israel/ -- sorry, we have the israel situation and iran as a separate situation and syria as a third situation and the middle east is a powder keg right now. the foreign policy has helped in the past for obama, but how much does it help him going forward and whether it a plus or minus in his column in terms of the general election? >> it's a plus for him. because if you think back to two how and four, one -- 2004, people were feeling unsettled in iraq and people did not want to change horses. so i think if he is doing well as best people can tell and the world looks unsettled voters will say, let's stick with what

we have, and let's nlet's not t another variable. >> he has the temperament for the situation, and guys thinking they will take a strike for fun, that will scare people. unless he botches something publically i do not think the american people have the stomach for another war. all the i do the first strike on iran, no i would will turn people off in a time anxiety. >> the biggest problem he has is that he literally has no control over the situation in the middle east. all he can do is react to it. americans still expect the united states to be able to influence countries like israel. i see israel is not wanting to be seen as under our thumb and republicans want to exploit that. and there's anxiety that obama

will not be able to control. >> and yes, for every misstep or opportunity for a misstep the republicans hammer him. it's shocking that he is being called an appease. >> he has killed a lot of people. >> i want to go back to mitt romney. the thing about romney and we look at his policy proposals and him as a candidate, the more people find out about mitt romney. the less people like him. santorum backers say this more they learned about romney the less they like him. this seems like an issue, does it not? >> i agree, you can read too much into the perceived damage of a candidate in the primary season. nobody was talking about it by

the fall for other candidates. but what has happened to romney over the last few months are particular blocks of voters that are turning on him. these are the middle class, blue collar workers. republicans got 62% of that block in the 2002 mid terms. if that block falls away that is a huge problem. you look at romney's negative ratings they have spiked 20 points among that same block and there's a clear relationship, disa appeared florida a bit, but there was a relationship between how well romney was doing and the income of those voters. >> 200,000 and up, you have your candidate. we will talk more about the races and that state nevada that had their caucus and the mind of newt gingrich. an interesting place. does he have what it takes to stay in the race?

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i just suggest to you that there are underlying factors in the race and i'm quite happy to continue campaigning i'm mildly amazed at the media trying to find a way with to get me to quit. >> that is newt gingrich talking about his campaigning. voters cast ballots in colorado, minnesota and missouri, and delegates are up for grabs. note to the gingrich campaign, i do not want you to leave. >> i'm desperate for him not to leave. >> it's no fun without newt.

let's talk about nevada, mitt romney has done well with groups that he has not traditionally done well with. he got 49% of the very conservative vote and 50% of the tea party and 64% of the white evangelic evangelicals. is this turning around for him? >> i would not say based on the nevada revada results because s accounted for a quarter of the republican vote. and a lot of mormons call themselves conservative and they were voting for romney at a 90% clip. it like reading into new hampshire too much, where it was his second home state t more interesting story going forward is i'm ready to say it's turned around, and romney has it in the bag if and when he wins southern states. we have been assuming gingrich is a the big challenger there

but what will be interesting is if santorum wins in those shorten state -- in those south states. >> i do not think that romney can sit back and relax, his only benefit is that the other people have not organized themselves and gotten together to stop him yet and his other person is the reason his negatives are so high is not because the candidates are beating up on him, it's because he is opening his mouth. he is talking. >> that's a combination of factors. >> that is why the more that people hear him talk, the less they like, he is not a good candidate. you hear gop insiders saying my lord, i thought gingrich was the one that was going to say stupid stuff and it mitt romney. i would say not so fast mitt

romney. >> and an important word being used here is money. no matter what people think, if he has the money to keep him going forward. the other thing about romney's misspeaks and the more he talks the more trouble he is, it's fascinating, it happens when he is talking about wealth and who has it and who doesn't, that is when he gets in trouble. the pink slip comment etcetera. >> awkward about his own riches and unfamiliar with the lives of even middle class. i'm noti talking about the very poor, but normal middle class people, he seems to have no warmth toward and no real experience. it's like he live his life in the bubble. >> you had a great piece in the times this weekend talking about mormonism and how mitt romney is

so hesitant to talk about it. and yet it was his time out of the bubble. >> when he was doing missi inin work, he was dealing with poor people and his role of leadership in the boston area mormon church, he was dealing with a lot of people much less fortunate than he is. because he is so reluctant to talk about mormonism and the stuff had in the church, he does not connect with the voters is that are not as affluent. >> i think that mitt romney seems that it's too hard for him to go out and wear his religion on his sleeve. >> isn't that a commentary on the evolution of the republican party. the interesting thing to me is his father ran for president,

and mormonism was less of an issue for his father than it is it is more mitt. because mitt is running for a party that is 50% for evangelical christians. i think of reagan talking about himself as a born again episcopalian. and he was trying to blur the line and romney is trying do that. he does not want to cater to those ideas in the south. >> it's not acceptable to voters to not be authentic anymore. there was a time that a candidate could run a good ad and put a good face on and then have a good day. but voters want to know you are real and it not too much ask.

love newt or not, he is who he is and people respond to that in both ways. but romney cannot keep this vail up and succeed. >> voters want to see your soul. as long as he is not talking in a full way about his mormon background and what his religion means to him. he is not showing that. >> it's a good time tore discussion in class and vision he proposes for the vision of the america. these are his demons that he seems very, very uncomfortable acknowledging that it exists. >> his tax plan favors the rich less than newt gingrich's does. so that is nice. but it still favors the rich and it still cuts taxes and his entire economic vision reinforces this notion that he is mr. 1% and his plan serves the 1%, that does not help either. so he is saddled with a religion

that scares and turns off the evangelical base. how far can he go with it? >> this is a moment that he could throw the doors open and say why this is why this religion is great and why i believe in it. >> we are talking about how far republicans have become so religion. you have one of the most godly man that has ran for the president, but it's the wrong type of godly for them. >> on paper he should be doing great. but he is doing great because of his money. he have a de-- he is a deeply devout man, and he is a wonderful family man. knows how to recognize successful business and mknows how to dump one when it not successful. should be able to talk about it.

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party. and he has already. i would like to say, many, many roots of the tea party are embedded in ron paul and the ron paul nation. and the voters that are behind ron paul are not just going to go vote for mitt romney and hop on board after the republican convention, they are so loyal. they will want him to say, you want to run a third party, we are behind you? where do you want us to go. he has been consistent and has been who he is and loyal to his own principals and you just have to give him credit for that. he will not win. >> this is a bad weekend for the ron paul campaign, what happened in nevada, the strategy they have been the talking up, we will go into february and rack up delegates there, i don't know if the count is complete. he is hovering at 19% in nevada, the talk was they were not putting numbers on it, but the

idea you were led to believe was of 30% to 35%. he cannot get 19%. he will not rack up delegates. if romney runs away with the race after super tuesday. if ron paul brings a block of thr 300 or so, he will be voted down and then the trump card, i think it's clear now that romney will not run third party because he sees an opportunity for his son in the future. >> the legacy of rand. >> you cannot be ralph nader of the republican party and push forward. >> ron paul won true conservative voters by 39% and i think that is interesting kind of to the romney campaign insofar as he has his grassroots

young, he has young voters. they have l-o-v-e for paul. the other guy to look at is rick santorum, we know that they are having a conference call on pork barrel spending. how far can you go if you are rick santorum. it's minnesota, colorado and and missouri tomorrow and what is the prognosis? >> i think it's interesting that there was never a real attempt or maybe there was and it did not work, but putting together gingrich and santorum, if there was going to social conservative opposition to romney that had to happen and it just will not happen. he is not going to surge ahead of gingrich. he is doing what he did. he is not taking off. he had a magical moment in iowa

and has done nothing since except turn more people off. that had to happen. and if that doesn't happen, it will be interesting to us, but he will limp along getting very few voters. >> i disagree from this standpoint. what might happen tomorrow. i saw a poll that had the minnesota race at two points. 28-26 santorum. pat robertson got 30% and beat george senior. these are santorum's people and he put effort there. if you look at the press that gingrich has been getting he seems to be in a decline, if santorum can win minnesota and if he can really out pace gingrich in colorado. i could see santorum emerge in the next few weeks and play role that gingrich will play. i think he needs a big night to

do it. >> gingrich will kill it in the southern states because he is from there. gingrich is running away with f georgia, tennessee and alabama. and santorum is important to the republican conservative base. he has a history of earmarking. that puts him on not perfect footing and there was a poll last week. >> we love polls. >> it showed he was the only republican in the race beating obama in a head on head. >> and his unfavorables are the lowest of all the candidates. he has some juice left. >> he has not come under attack to the degree like the other ones have. that is why his unfavorables are

better. if he surged up, we would see an assault. >> it worth mentioning if we are talking abo inin ining staying is a benefit, but gingrich is $600,000 in debt and has paid himself back first. this is curious to me. $67,000 for web hosting and email hosting and $206,000 for assorted travel and expenses, paid to newt. >> newt has a much more sophisticated operation. >> it under scores that notion as a drifter. he wants to enrich himself and have a better base when the race

ends, and he took off a little and now he is a real candidate. when people look at him, this is what he does. he is in it for the money. >> it's like, i want to go to the greek aisles i need to get paid back. forget the campaign, i'm tired i to go listen to callista play the french horn. >> as long as there's a way to stay in, or a reason to stay in, they will. >> they have nothing else to do. >> they have us talking about them and cameras on them. >> can newt gingrich, the liberal media, and the media in general, not saying who i'm speaking for, wants you to stay in the race. has the administration walked into a fire storm? we will debate it next on "now." [ leanne ] appliance park has been here since the early 50s.

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he has basically declared war on the catholic church, i think you'll see a very severe reaction to the idea of a radical obama administration imposing secular rules on religion. >> that was newt gingrich on "meet the press "yesterday criticizing the rule requiring religious affiliated organizations to provide coverage for contraception. we talked a lot last week about t komen, and their decision to withdrawal funding to planned parenthood and now reversing that. it seems like this is going to be an issue that is discussed and debated hotly in the next couple of months. >> it's a huge issue, it's a false issue. speaking as a catholic, we know

that 98% of catholics practice some form of contra sepception. even their own people do not listen on the archbishop on that issue. it's an emotion reaction and we care about religious freedom but we have to get through our heads that we are all cdoing this in our private lives. we are talking about contraception, not abortion. it not minds boggling. >> there's an excellent point, there's a difference between the catholic church and catholics and how they live. what the vatican and the devout

cathol catholics live is different. i do not thatink that the president has declared war to the catholic church. >> one of the most interesting dividing lines is between sort of church going catholics and lapsed catholics. >> of which i know a few. >> right. >> go ahead. no and you'll find the rhetoric that newt gingrich works, it plays with people that more likely go to church. and abandon the party around reagan becoming practice. >> obama won the catholic vote 54%, but for those that attended religious services weekly mccain won. there's concern and it was said, that the administration has

woken asleeping giant on this. there are catholics that say, i don't know, that doesn't seem right to me. >> i think that newt gingrich taps into a part of the independent voters that the government has gone too far in a lot of areas in our lives. no matter your affiliation, those are areas that people do not want the government to be in. talking about a war on religion for newt gingrich is as old as ted dy bears. it a smart move for him to be talking this way. >> this is most dangerous for the president if it goes beyond religion and becomes a metaphor for government intrusion. >> it will, this is the

affordable care act it plays into the notion that obama is outside the mainstream and in the "wall street journal," it's being reported that joe biden said, look this will be an issue for you. >> we are talking about c contraception and not abortion. >> and we learned in the planned parenthood fight, they may have woke up asleeping giant, people want women to have access to contraception and they need to talk about how wonderful it is for the president making it included. women have not had contraception covered when men can have viagra covered. >> and this is maybe a health issue. you know -- >> exactly.

>> having access to contraception improves women's health. we ha we have a quote saying, we specificed carved out the religious organizations that employee people of their own faith this includes churches and other houses woreship and could include other religious organizations. there's confusion about what it actually is. and insofar as newt gingrich has made it a talking point, war on religion, you know what that is. it's an easy sounds bite the administration's stand is more rational but hard to present in sort of a two-second sound bite. >> and they paid a political price in terms of the grief they took, the administration from the conservative, sort of bishops and leads of the

conservative church, they went out of their way to make people come around on the abortion issue with health care coverage and what happened was they bent over backwards to make the conservative forces in the catholic church to be happy. instead they piled on and joined the gingrich's of the world. the administration concludes that that, maybe there's such a thing as bending over too far. >> nixon's support of planned parenthood and democrats were firmly pro life, those tables have have turned we will see what happen s in the coming day and weeks. what google can tell us about the supbpoen --

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media. >> she is the high priestest. >> and they had that guy on the jump line. >> massachusetts had has h-- ma had a creative needing, i want to be entering being pulled by a chariot. >> it was a great entrance. >> and on twitter there were so many comments about how old she is, and she looks so great considering how old she is. she is in our 50s, i feel like the rolling stones are 106 and nobody says anything. >> the sliding scale for women's athleticism versus women. if we were talking about the super bowl. there's an idea, out there that the president addressed yesterday, that if the giants

winity good f it's good for the house. >> when the patriots were in it they won it and george bush went on to the president of the united states. the patriots loft and a guy named barack obama went on to be the president. who do you want to win this year? >> wouldn't say it. wouldn't say it. but we know he wanted to say it. >> if he wants to have the celtics win he can pull for that. >> he does cover his bases but really, does a giants win, i mean, i think we are actually here, in the bag. it's worth noting the obama campaign opened its fifth office in north carolina last week. michelle obama will visit in march. the campaign organization cannot be under -- you cannot under sell the campaign organization here. >> they need to open offices in north carolina, virginia,

colorado, they are going to have a huge problem in the swing states that he picked up last time and democrats are saying yeah, we have him back now, let keep cruising, he has a major problem in the sougth. he is in deep, deep trouble down there. >> that is one of the things about the turn out, the mess that the republican party made out there, it part of the party activities, they are failing to take the spot in the lime light and develop an organization that can help them in the fall. nevada is a big swing state and the state republican party did not help them at all. >> they need ron paul down there. that is what i'm saying. let's talk about the top trending ads the acura ad and godaddy, painting a naked woman not a surprise, number three the

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