newsroom who can get into this conversation especially on the issue of this emerging and growing gender fap for republicans no doubt that this whole debate about contraception has hurt them with independent women. lois walk us through, how bad is the damage for republicans among independent women in particular and is it something that can be easily repaired? because jea, the focus groups for obama must show this is a winner because this is all they do in the behind the scenes in front of the scenes politics, some kind of event aim at women. >> it's really tpwheasmed recent polls are showing that in a matchup with romney, that obama can beat him by 20 points aamong women and with santorum it's 26 points. i think that the republicans, you know, since january have continued to shoot themselves in the head, the foot, the heart, on this issue. it was a series of events but they all contributed to it, i mean, santorum interjebting contraception into the conversation therks whole debacle with rush, it's rick perry in texas. it's bob mcdonald in virginia. there's just a series of events that are ma