nbc campaign embed garrett haake. always great to talk to you. thank you. >>> an emotional moment for marriage equality last night in washington state. lawmakers vote to approve same sex marriage. >> it was very emotional. it was amazing just to see so many people come up and say such amazing, supportive things. to have that be followed with a vote is fantastic. >> ecstatic. absolutely ecstatic. especially that it it passed with more votes than we thought it would. and that it had bipartisan support is just icing on the cake. >> that bill now heads to the house. if approved, washington will join iowa, new york, new hampshire, mahmoud, and connecticut where marriage equality is legal. lawmakers in new jersey and maryland are due to debate that issue this year. and maine could have a similar proposal on the november ballot. i blog ged about this issue on "the huffington post" website having recently interviewed the governors. check it out when you have a chance. >>> thousands of union protesters rallying at indiana's super bowl village. sending a m

. >> and joining me now by phone, nbc dmus campaignen embed garrett garrett haake. already we received a lot of tweets saying this is a democratic talking point from axelrod and others. we know gop opponent of romney have tried to paint him out of touch only caring about the wealthy. how is he clarifying this? >> good afternoon. he came back to the back of the plane on our way out to minnesota today and address this had question, almost cutting off a reporter who started to ask him about it saying you can't take the sound bite of this. he said "my focus on the campaign is on middle income people. of course, i'm concerned about all americans, poor, wealthy, middle class but the focus will be on middle income families." i've been following this campaign since late july. this is not a new statement from romney. he uses this sort of same talking about point about focus on the middle class, not the very poor or very rich going all the way back to this fall. i looked back to the giant filing cabinet and found a piece i wrote a few weeks ago. he said it slightly different

and now we are joined by garrett haake on the phone. and could spending ing iing in eclipse the spending in michigan? is romney really getting his money's worth out of that state? >> well, thomas, money may not be taking an effect just yet and to bob's point, you do not see any momentum here. you have a event billed as a rally, and just over 100 people there, and to michael's point, he did get back on the message and all about the economy and president obama, and you did not hear rick santorum's name or anybody else's name mentioned, and they want to hammer home the slogan to go forward, more jobs, less debt, and less government, and they will beat the drum all of the way to the campaign next week. >> thank you, garrett. i want to bring back the panel who stuck by us. richard, let me start with you, because the candidates are now as we are saying move on, and think have to focus on super tuesday and ten states and 100 gel g delegates up for grabs. but as garrett explains with romney back on message and acting like the inevitable challen

nbc's garrett haake.e'll take a look at that on "weekends with alex witt." ♪ i'm making my money do more. i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades are just the start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. and i'm loving every minute of it. [ rodger riney ] at scottrade, we give you commission-free etfs, no-fee iras and more. come see why more investors are saying... i'm with scottrade. if you took the top down on a crossover? if there were buttons for this? wouldn't it be cool if your car could handle the kids... ♪ ...and the nurburgring? or what if you built a car in tennessee that could change the world? yeah, that would be cool. nissan. innovation for today. innovation for tomorrow. innovation for all. ♪ it could be very abrasive. if the surface gets abraded, it's just the environment that bacteria likes to nestle into and they can cause the odor. your denture needs to be cleaned gently on

. >> garrett haake, see you again. many thanks. >>> new numbers out today.growing within the party about the infighting between presidential candidates romney and gingrich and how that could damage the party. a new hampshire poll out today shows what voting would look like if the general election were held today. look at this. president obama ten-point lead over romney, the republican front-runner. i'm joined by al, nice to see you again. good morning, al. >> hey, good morning, alex. good to be with you. >> let's talk about this new hampshire poll. you saw the numbers. obama is leading romney by ten points were that vote to be held today for the election. we are still a long way from november and give you that. does that poll raise alarms within the gop? do you think that is a valid snapshot of the sentiment across the country? >> yeah, probably is and it's bad news. you know, we were doing pretty well the first 10 or 12 debates and talking about our differences with the white house and with each other in terms of the issues, but it's gotten prim primal. it'