>> you are not wrong but listening to doug schoen. he and i agree on lot of things but i think are boxing against a ghost. the policy is what the policy is. when they argue they try to make it about to be something else. it's not about the use of contraception. it's about compelling an organization and then fining them if they don't provide free. >> i'll be harsher. i think this is a cruel and arrogant move on the part of the president. it's cruel to tell catholics you must abandon your faith or abandon charity. that is a cruel decision to place upon anybody. >> sean: i think it's deeper than that. i think he is shredding the constitution. >> absolutely. >> sean: i think she ripping up the first amendment, freedom of religion, free exercise of religion. it runs very deep. now there is another issue as it relates to free speech because you have the office of the chief of chaplains for the u.s. army was forbidding catholic chaplains from reading a letter from the bishop that condemned obamacare. where is the freedom of speech now? >> pa

doug schoen is a fox news contributor wearing a giants t-shirt. aign manager aide wearing a patriots jersey. i challenge anybody who claims -- doug, let me start with you. that is really and ugly shirt. when romney ripped into the president in the drop of unemployment which is very high, 8.3%. he claimed the president's changing policies of stimulus spending mate matters worse and job numbers would have been a whole lot more. economy healthier. what is your reaction to that argument? >> i think its weak argument in light of the fact i guess some 3.7 million jobs added in the last year or so. unemployment down to 8.3, 243,000 new jobs on friday. growth across all sectors. i think what romney should have done is celebrated the fact we're finally recovering and suggest there are different policies that he would pursue from the president but by needlessly harsh and partisan he is playing to base and not advance ago broader argument. >> gregg: they accept the notion that president obama inherited an abysmal economy. it was sort of getting worse and wors

doug schoen is a former pollster and fox news contributor.s could be the president's biggest challenge on election day. why is that? >> because the republicans as a party are not doing particularly well vis-a-vis the president. his approval keeps going up, his vote share keeps going up. if prices at the pump go up to $4 or $5 this summer you could see economic activity slow. inflation potentially set in and real americans see their lifestyles cripple by higher gas prices. that could hurt the president badly in november. >> we normally see a pattern, gas prices are higher than they have been at this time of year. but we do see gas prices rise in the summer and come back down in the fall. that many the normal trend. how close to elections must gas prices be high to have a real effect? let many say by october 1, if they are down by that point, will they have less of an impact on the election? >> absolutely they will have leaves an impact. what the president is scared about is with the republican convention the ebtd of august, the 27th to the 30t

doug schoen joins us former pollster and nancy former senior advisor and spokesperson for john mccainu surprised that the guy who was so attacked for not being a conservative wins the conservative political action conference and two people who claim they are ardent conservatives didn't? >> you know, not really because i suspect romney put extraordinary resources in to it. he got well under a majority of the vote, gregg. as he did in maine, as well. he is only getting even count the delegates about 50% of them now. i don't think he has closed the sale yet, not by a long shot either with conservatives or with the broader republican audience. >> gregg: nancy, is there a sense among republicans, we're just not sold here on rick santorum or newt gingrich as being electable? >> i think that really is what we've seen here. i spent time at cpac, if there was any real passion, it was probably for santorum. at the end of the day, mitt romney is winning the electability argument. yes, of course, he is aided and abetted that because he is splitting the vote but that is where the passion, real pas

doug schoen, a former pollster for president clinton and a contribute.n is back from hanging out with the one percent. sorry had to bring it up again. gretchen, what does newt gingrich do? would you make the case that was classic newt? >> it was classic newt. he was himself, that is persistent. he needs to debate well, make it about the issues and give that historical context and the big ideas that people like. he needs to get out of the mud. bill: these debates are going to the sideline now. i don't believe there is one for another month is there? >> there isn't one for a while e. needs to get back to what he does well, present the ideas and historical content. that's what won eupl south carolina and what people like. he needs to get out of the snake pit he's been in the last week. bill: doug, are you going to calm down the pythons over there or what? your big point is that the message for gingrich is not as compelling as it needs to be. explain that. >> yeah, i think gretchen was really putting her finger on it. he has to have a message of change for b

let's break it down and take a look at some of these with doug schoen, and path kid den.h are fox news contributors. i spoke a little while ago to rick santorum. he said a big win for us in michigan last night. we are going to split the votes in] . >> clearly hurt rick santorum. he was on the cusp of pulling off. >> when you're appealing to one of the democrats to cross over it's hieracy. let me tell you what romney had going for him last night. he lost by only a couple of percent, voters less than $50,000, noncollege educated. he lost by only a few points. you look at that and i would have said my god he would have won big. he even carried 30% of people who had someone in their family laid off. he won those voters. that is an impressive -- this is a man who went and said, ann has two cadillacs and went to mass. you know what head him a lot. he had thaddeus mccaller. martha: he was the first person that ann romney thanked last night. >> romney is not connecting but he did better. the test is ohio. >> that's what i was going to say, martha. if rick santorum cannot improve

doug he schoen is former pollster for president clinton and fox news contributor and angela mcglowan,h join us now to shed their perspective from the left and right, if you will. is this a turning point for the president, doug. >> absolutely. kelly he made the case in the state of the union that the economy was recovering slowly, but steadily. these numbers tend to volume date that position, and with the republicans in an increasingly bitter fight and the president talking about economic growth and talking about job creation and getting corporate money back from overseas and standing up to the chinese, he's on a roll. >> kelly: we're in election year and you know, election year politics, it's always very strong in terms of its polarity and will the republican agree with him. >> agree with the president that the economy is getting better? agree with the president with his talking points? kelly, no. look, there's no question that the latest news has been great for obama, but doug, your democrats should not do a victory dance yet. an eternity away from election day and the perception dea