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i'm going to bring in analyst gloria borger. numbers are getting closer and closer t seems, and i have to believe that it's the economy and president obama and a lot of americans aren't happy. >> reporter: absolutely. one month ago, obama, president obama was up 6 points against mitt romney. you see how that's flipped. and i think peter hamby is absolutely right. it's the economy, and more fiscally, it's the gas prices. you see people are very upset about the economy. 59% believe that the president hasn't done a good job managing the economy. that's despite the fact that unemployment numbers are going in the right direction, so you have to believe it's because people are really feeling the pain at the pump, they're having to shell out more every weekend. they're saying, you know what, we cannot afford this. even though, by the way, voters admit there's probably not a lot the president can do about it, but they're still blaming him. he's the person in charge. >> right. i know it's painful for a lot of people on a lot of different

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gloria borger will be with us all night long as we find out where the republican roller coaster presidential republicans released what they're calling a blueprint for american renewal a budget plan among other things changes medicare as we know it. repeals health care reform and lowers the federal deficit but doesn't eliminate it. wisconsin republican paul ryan is the chairman of the house budget committee and key architect of this plan. >> we are sharpening the contrast between the path that we're proposing and the path of the debt and decline the president placed us upon. >> bring back kate bolduan, cnn congressional correspondent. what else is in this? >> there's a ton in this but some of the headlines really were a lot of the controversy, a lot of the fire is coming from, one big one is you're talking about some very deep spending cuts, so one element of it is cutting spending by about $5 trillion over ten years, compared to president obama's budget, that's a big number. also talking about an overhaul of the tax code, eliminating deductions, and credits, a host of them, but also taking i

and gloria borger and david gergen. promoted to new york tonight. >> happy to be here. >> let's start with wolf. looks like a big win for mitt romney. how significant is illinois to his general campaign? >> if he stays above 50% in this vote in illinois, it'll be very significant. illinois being a very important state because of its population, the diversity. it's a big state. a lot of delegates at stake. he's going to do really well in illinois. clearly come out with the most delegates. rick santorum, he did the best he could. i think it was a blunder on his part to go off to puerto rico for two days. he could have been spending those days in illinois doing a bit better. not sure it would have been much of a difference in terms of the final vote. his problem in illinois was he was not able to get on the ballot in four of these 19 congressional districts in illinois. so he's at a disadvantage in the delegate count even if he were to have gotten more votes in illinois and he's not going to. he's going to do more poorly t

i just saw gloria borger, she said we would be here until potential 2:00?ord "potential "potentially." >> who better to spend my evening with. huge night. top of the talk is ohio? >> ohio, ohio, ohio. if santorum can win in ohio, and our last poll shod neck and neck, if he wins, he'll survive. if romney wins in ohio, it's going to bolster this notion that it's all his for the taking, if you will. ohio is going to be critical. >> then you look at the south, of course gingrich needs to win his home state of georgia. >> he probably will win. >> he probably will. the next question is tennessee. romney hasn't won -- >> tennessee is like ohio. it's snick and neck between santorum and romney. gingrich is not necessarily all that much of a factor in tennessee right now, which is a surprise, because you would have thought in the south he would be doing better, but at least according to the most recent polls we have seen, tennessee is very much like ohio. >> a total of 419 delegates. >> and then the super delegates unplunged from the states that will be more. >> tune

. >> let's bring back david gergen and gloria borger. why is romney unlikely to du well in mississippi and alabama next week? >> count the ways. first of all, he's mormon and i think the religion -- gloria and i have been talking about this tonight. i do think there's more resistance to a mormon in places like that. a lot of resistance to catholics in earlier times as you remember. secondly, he doesn't speak the language quite as well. there's a question that's been asking, can you trust him if you're a true conservative? there's a lot of true conservatives and evangelicals in that area. i think it's more naturally more newt gingrich than santorum. gingrich does speak southern. he is a man of the south. i think santorum is great for the border states. but when you come down to a deep south, that's a very different culture. >> he did win in tennessee tonight, rick santorum. that's an impressive win. >> yes, it was an impressive win for him. and it was troubling i think for mitt romney because tennessee is not what you'd consider the deep

. >> let's bring back david gergen and gloria borger. why is romney unlikely to du well in mississippi and alabama next week? >> count the ways. first of all, he's mormon and i think the religion -- gloria and i have been talking about this tonight. i do think there's more resistance to a mormon in places like that. a lot of resistance to catholics in earlier times as you remember. secondly, he doesn't speak the language quite as well. there's a question that's been asking, can you trust him if you're a true conservative? there's a lot of true conservatives and evangelicals in that area. i think it's more naturally more newt gingrich than santorum. gingrich does speak southern. he is a man of the south. i think santorum is great for the border states. but when you come down to a deep south, that's a very different culture. >> he did win in tennessee tonight, rick santorum. that's an impressive win. >> yes, it was an impressive win for him. and it was troubling i think for mitt romney because tennessee is not what you'd consider the deep

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you do see the head-heart as gloria borger just put it. a lot of republicans say the most important thing is beating president obama in the fall, a lot of them go on in the next sentence to say they think governor romney would be the strongest candidate. many of those same people are voting for somebody else, rick santorum or newt gingrich or ron paul. what's made this so unpredictable? >> i think any of the candidates would be good candidates. and i think that governor romney probably has the best chance of winning the nomination. i mean, there's no doubt about that. but you know, you should always vote your heart, i think. and if you believe that someone is the best candidate, even though you don't think they're going to win, i think you ought to vote for who you think is the best candidate. >> you gave an interview to our former friend on -- you said you thought governor romney's mormon faith would be a detriment to some voters in the state of alabama. how significant do you think that is? and does it bother you, sir? >> you know, it re

let's go to gloria borger in "the situation room." >> thanks, brook. >>> happening now, americans are being hit hard by gas prices. president obama tries to hit back, why he's going after big oil. renewed concerns that israel may strike at iran's nuclear sites after a report that israel has secretly been given access to air bases across iran's northern border. and fresh fallout from mitt romney's suggestion in "the situation room" that russia is the number one geopolitical foe. they're reminding mitt romney that the cold war ended more than two decades ago. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm gloria borger and you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the average price for a gallon of regular gas today is about $4. make that $3.92. our new poll shows nearly half of americans expect that price to hit $5. that's $5 this year and most blame the oil companies. president obama tried to hitch a ride on those sentiments today. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here. >> jessica, is the president going after big oil? >> again. >> believe it or not, it

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let's bring in gloria borger.ething that we have not seen a lot of so far, but what's going on right now? >> reporter: you know, the only consistency we've seen, wolf is that there's inconsistency. someone wins a race and they're unable to build that wave of momentum to take them on to a bunch of future races. i mean, if you look back to mitt romney he won florida, then he was able to win nevada but then, wolf, he went on to lose three states to rick santorum. you saw rick santorum win in the south and he was unable to capitalize on those wins in mississippi and alabama and he lost all 20 delegates in puerto rico so what mitt romney is looking for is a victory this evening in illinois that he can capitalize and take with him all of the way to get those 1144, but as candy pointed out, the next state, louisiana, does not look like friendly territory for mitt romney. so even if he wins tonight, can he capitalize on it? >> as jim pointed out, the pro-romney force of the super pac, his own campaign, they expect about s

wolf blitzer and gloria borger are here to talk about what we are anticipating and expecting here.'s start off first, wolf, with afghanistan. obviously they have a lot at stake there, the british troops. the goal right now to get them out by 2014. >> 2014. >> the one thing that they are debating in the white house, however, is perhaps an earlier withdrawal, perhaps 2013. is there any daylight between these two leaders? >> i suspect there probably is. the british would like to get out more quickly presumably as well. they are going to show a commonsense right now, a common purpose. they are getting very close, these two leaders. we saw that earlier. the rifarrival ceremony. obviously they are the closest of allies. there is probably some distance the british would like to get out more quickly. the u.s. is beginning to catch up. as you know, suzanne, there's a lot of pressure right now. it's not looking good in afghanistan. the situation seems to be going from bad to worse. it's very, very expensive. spending a few more hundred -- billion dollars, i should say, to maintain that u.s.

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gloria borger is here. if ron paul were to pull it out that would be a significant development tonight. >> it would be. this is something that is taylor made for ron paul. he can organize in small communities. it's a caucus state. he is really looking for a win. he hasn't had a win yet. he would like one. and honestly if rick santorum is not going to win here, or if mitt romney is not going to win here they'd say the best choice is for ron paul to win here. then they can move on to supertuesday and neither one of them has the momentum. that's what this is about. >> if romney were to win or santorum that would give them momentum. ten contests on tuesday. >> that's right. that's what they are looking for. they are looking for delegates as well. 40 delegates. but if one is not going to win might as well be ron paul. he has been in this state. he has been organizing in this state. all of the candidates have been in this state. newt gingrich a week and a half ago, romney on friday and santorum on thursday. it's

it's so exciting, gloria borger.e've got so many caucuses, and try to tell us why super tuesday is so key. >> the beginning of the end. for example, mitt romney, if he were to win ohio and maybe win a southern state like tennessee, which, by the way, in 2008, he did not win -- >> he didn't win a single deep south state. >> not at all. but if he does, then you'll see the inevitability factor kick in, which, by the way, he just won five races coming into super tuesday, and what we've started to see so far is some leading conservatives coming out saying, you know what, we're going to support mitt romney. so if he were to do well -- and again, it depends on what metric you use. i would use the popular vote. we care about delegates, obviously, but say you win half of the 419 delegates and wins ohio, does well in tennessee, then i think you're going to start to see the beginning of the end. whether that means anyone else gets out is another matter. >> we talked so much about ohio because why? it's a bit of a microcosm, is

right now, back with gloria borger and david gergen. interesting to see her on our air, she is paid by fox. there's no chance -- she may be at the convention, but you don't see any possible role for her. this year? >> well, in this presidential race, no. she's not going to be a candidate. she's not going to be the white knight that comes in and rescues the party. i think she's going to be an important voice for whomever gets the nomination. i presume she'll support as she said tonight whoever gets the nomination. by the way i want to correct her, i don't think we were lucky. i think we were good. we were in wasilla. we were in alaska, and -- >> the importance of having reporters as we have seen throughout being in the right place at the right time. >> exactly. but i think -- i thought it was interesting that when she was asked about 2016 she didn't give the political answer which is i'm going to vote for the republican for re-election. >> david gergen, you don't see a political future for sarah palin as a candidate? you think the busine

let's go inside the battle with our chief political analyst glorn gloria borger and senior politicalnalyst ron brownstein. here's mitt romney in pascagoula, mississippi. >> i'm learning to say y'all and i like grits and things are -- strange things are happening to me. >> also says alabama and mississippi are away games for him. what do you make of what's going to happen? let's look ahead to tuesday. >> i think just watching mitt romney there, you understand that he knows that he's not going to do well in those states, that he's saying it's an away game as in okay, newt gingrich from georgia, he's got the home field advantage but it's clear, lowering expectations, trying to warm up the crowd saying i'm becoming one of you, but these two states coming are a bit of an issue for him particularly if newt gingrich does well and resurrects himself and puts himself right back in the middle of the race. >> it's do or die for newt gingrich. he did really in south carolina and his home state of georgia but got to do well in the two states >> if newt gingrich resurrects himself i'm not sure if

first, we want to bring in our political heavy hitters, wolf blitzer and chief political analyst, gloria borger, great to have you both here, onset, in the atl. we're watching closely here. wolf, you just got back from a roundtable that was streaming online. you had a chance to talk to voters live. what's the most interesting thing that they're interested in. >> you know, a lot of republicans, and these are traditional, conservative republicans, they're worried about what's going on right now within this republican race for the white house. they think it's doing damage to the republican brand, to the republican party. they're wondering if this is the best way for them to go ahead and conduct this process of selecting a nominee. so they're worried about what's going on. the acrimony between these republican candidates, almost like a circular firing squad, if you will. so they're worried what's going to happen down the road. >> gloria, is there anything that can happen tonight, throughout the day, where anyone can seal the deal? >> well, not in terms of delegate count, but i think what we could s

our chief political analyst gloria borger joins us along with jessica yellin over at the white house.s spent a huge amount of political capital on health care reform. how big of a blow would it be if, if the court were to throw out all or part of the law? >> it would be a massive blow, wolf, this is is the president's signature domestic policy achievement as you point out he spent an enormous amount of political capital on this issue. and it was the issue around which the tea party coalesced against the president. there would be a way that they could message for the campaign in response to defeat in the supreme court, but it would be a big blow. i should say, wolf, they are confident at the white house that they will not lose on this issue and that is because two conservative lower court judges sort of stalwarts in the conservative judicial bench, upheld the mandate so they think they will prevail at the supreme court. but you know, who knows. we'll wait and see. >> yes. stand by for a moment. we're going to get back to you. i want to bring in gloria. our new cnn international poll sh

gloria borger was there as well.m, a lot of washington insiders, that will we say. we're going to discuss the film "game change" and what happened 40 years ago. >> i thought woody harrellson absolutely stole the show, but we'll wait for your discussion with gloria. thank you, wolf blitzer. >>> meantime, peter grabe reabre band rush, telling rush limbaugh to stop playing their music. but can they do that? next. my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ since ameriprise financial was founded ba

. >> our chief political analyst gloria borger is with us from the cnn election center to help sort the truth from the spin. gloria i moved over to the wall to show folks the map. if you look at the map romney is starting to get impressive. wins new england, in the west, in the midwest. santorum in here. but i'm going to circle what comes. on? santorum in kansas today, mississippi and alabama the next. yes, tromney campaign has lead. what happens when you go to ground that is not romney territory? >> romney can lose. they know that, which is why his staff came out today and said he's a winner. we're going to win. and they figure the more they say that the more this inevitability takes hold and that people will vote for somebody that they believe is actually going to be the nominee. but they understand that they've got a bunch of tough races coming up which are really going to be contests not for mitt romney but they're going to be between rick santorum and newt gingrich. the problem for mitt romney is that honestlies john, he doesn't really want either santorum or gingrich to drop out.

does this kind of exemplify what gloria borger has said and she wrote on dotcom, saying gingrich andust don't know to lose? >> i think there's something else going on more systemic. the way in which presidential primaries have ended in the past don't seem to be operative anymore. in the past, what forced candidates out of the race, who were behind, was a deficit of attention and a deficit of money. they kind of ran out of news media focus and cash. now in this modern world of 24-hour cable and the internet, there's virtually infinite attention. between small donors on the internet and the big donors with the super pac, there's more ability to raise money, even when you have a little chance of winning overall. even though gingrich and santorum are denying the romney the 1144, they have no hope of getting there themselves, his only hope is if he doesn't get there, the convention may look another direction. in the past, it would have been much more likely both of them would have been forced out of the race, certainly sometime in april. >> despite the fight between the four, for that nom

let's bring in gloria borger and ron brownstein.supreme court rules the mandates unconstitutional, politically how does that play out looking into november? >> it's very hard to say at this point, wolf, because there's lots of ways the courts could rule. could you say the mandates are unconstitutional. you could keep other parts of the law which people like, for example, requiring that insurance companies keep your preexisting conditions covered. and that would be a very different political impact than in you threw the whole thing out. to me the democrats could then rally their base, it would be a blow to barack obama, no doubt about it, huge embarrassment. democrats could rally their base. and by the way, then, republicans would be forced to come up with a plan for health insurance, which they haven't done. >> i completely agree. i think if they do throw out the mandate, it would have the effect of probably rallying both parties' bases. >> james carville says it would be great for the democrats. >> you'd have five republican appoin