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it's bec there'sess identificationithe bl p ihe country.he polls are trending away from mitt romney, it's two things. number one, his poor performance, but also the fact that the republican brand is actually -- >> despite the fact that they're contlling for the decline as you put it. >> and it's controlled for. these polls all weight themlves aording to wre op thay whether you're a democrat, republican, or independent and then they ask the question. there's not some inherent bias. >> dr. peterson, we, the media, have been blamed repeatedly. now the polls are being blamed. whols t blamed? >> eventually they will blame the voters for not agreeing with them. at the end of the day, this reflects the fact that our country is no longer moving to the right in some ways. there's some ways in which the radical right has established a platformhat a lot of americans simply can't identify with. idanu bo.s petersonnd j stay with us, much more ahead. >> obama up by ten points in ohio, nine points in florida, and 12oints in pennsylvania. i don't get it. i

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they jackpacknowledged that bec he wanted to keep another campaign pledge, which is that he never paid under 13% in the last ten years. so they argue that, hey, you know what, he is doing a good deed. he's given a lot of money to charity, worth noting, he gave $4 million to charity in 2011. $3 million of it to the mormon church. and frankly, they hope to put this to bed. obviously their opponents are going to try to continue to stir it up going forward. >> here's the thing, though. if you are posting your tax releases and having your tax accountant do this work to match up the 13%, why not get them to match up the 13%? why come -- why come in at 14.1%? again, this is about the charitable donations where he gave $4 million in charitable donations which was certainly -- that's awesome. but they only took 2.2 -- right? 2.25 in tax -- >> reporter: about that. yeah. to be honest with you, this are about more than 1,000 page of documents that landed on most of our laps yesterday. not all of which i can memorize in complete detail -- >> what? you didn't memorize these? >> reporter: the jist i

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the economic tsat we ha, number two bec we're eply terms of personneand other inres and allies that weclear to establish the need of relationships with these emerging and provide them with the assistance they need to move forward. we can't start this arab spring and not direct this arab spring, but we need to be serious. >> not in a, of course. >> if we took the approach that president romney or frez mccain would have taken to syria, we would be now today engaged with ground troops in syria creating a humanitarian -- >> you're a prettyagr commander in chief for these guys. i don't think either suggested that. >> they call for a humanitarian commander. you occupy syrian territory. >> i don't think that is what that means. >> seizing territory. >> all i can tell you is that mouthing -- >> the american pple- are the american people ready for that kind of approach? the answer is no. >> i can'ta er you quite at muc but't tnk ignoring the death of 30,000 people is the right approach. >> no one is ignoring the death of 30,000 people. the regime is horrific and the president has spoken about t