l.z. granderson, his piece on cnn.com/opinion. pull it up there and get a better sense of his sentiment in the written word as well. thanks so much, l.z. >> thank you. >>> and joining cnn's don lemon at 7:00 for a one-hour special on the trayvon martin killing as the national outrage intensifies. one group in particular caught our attention. the mothers. hear their unique perspective and the advice that they give their children. similar to what you just heard from l.z. in hopes that their children don't end up dying young. you'll also hear from neighbors and friends of both trayvon martin and the admitted shooter pap special report with don lemon, 7:00 eastern time. >>> "hunger games" mania, sweeping the nation. the movie is about a world where teens are forced to fight to the death. so it grossed nearlies 20ds million during the first midnight screenings on thursday. and since then, overall, $68 million already grossing. so yesterday one online ticket company reported selling 12 tickets per second. people cannot get enough of it.

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strategist with liberty to us l.z. cliff schecter cliff welcome thanks so much tom how are you great so what's your take is a absolutely pivotal state to the best of my recollection i think it could be correct me if i'm wrong no republican nominee has ever won the white house without winning ohio or at least not last century or so have not and i think you can easily democrat so it's easy to win ohio you know yeah so has a look in there. i mean well i mean as you point out just like they're doing in the nation as a whole and there is they're damaging each other i mean obviously i'm talking specifically about mitt romney and rick santorum they're both been here a lot. tend to form i think only maybe learned a lesson and as much as rick santorum can learn a lesson after turning off so many voters in michigan by talking about j.f.k. speech what made him want to puke which i'm sure made many catholic voters happy and talking constantly birth control and being the sex police so he got more back to economic message with the c

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. >> that was one of the first things i read yesterday was l.z.'out this. >> it's powerful. >> why so many are afraid of police. it was fantastic. i tweeted it all over the place. >> we'll talk about it beginning at noon eastern time but he'll join us at 2:00. >> i'll tune in. thanks, fred. >>> who tweets the most, republicans or democrats? the social media leader next. >>> batman, a none, a strip club, and some scary moments for a helicopter pilot. time to figure out what's happening around the nation. first to maryland. we begin in montgomery county. that's where police pulled over none other than the caped crusader himself or a pretty good look alike with his very own batmobile. photos of the traffic stop posted on facebook. police are not talking about the incident. >> our main message is we don't want this in our community because it does not only affect the small community, it affects the larger community. >> in stone park, illinois, a group of nuns is trying to stop a $3 million strip including from opening just a few feet away from their re

news like 200,000 jobs being created and how to keep it going but not -- >> not in an election year, l.z. >> you're right. right? they're playing the game. both sides are trying to make it look good for their party. what really needs to happen is they need to have good for the country. who does that is who is going to get behind. >> that's tough in an election year. when everything is so concerned about the economy, you won't let that go and say, the economy is improving. the republicans will not it get let that go. >> you know, i've been telling you the future is still uncertain. we'll see. 1980 we had a muddled election where george h.w. bush won iowa and the race muddled along for months. in fact, people talked about bringing former president gerald ford back into the race. as much people talk about bringing jeb bush or mitch daniels into it. the point isn't, mitt romney or whoever could end up being like reagan. the point is, at that point in 1980, reagan wasn't reagan. we don't yet know who these guys are, what passion they'll elicit in november. when you draw parallels, you need to

. >> l.z., thanks so much. >> thank you. >> all right. kelly, how do i say ohio properly here?um, we're going to talk about how and why they are spending their final eyes in the buckeye state. the countdown to super tuesday is next. but first our political junkie question, how many states were part of super tuesday in 2008? tweet me. i'll give a shout out to the first right answer. [ male announcer ] what if we told you that cadillac borrowed technology from ferrari to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v. we don't just make luxury cars. we make cadillacs. >> just before the break i asked how many states were involved in super tuesday before 2008? congratulations ash for tweeting me the right answer. it's 24. this is the big daddy. mark preston is here with me. we were talking about the importance. >> the problem is going in mitt romney's direction. let's take a quick look at the numbers. romney i

cnn political contributors will cain and l.z. granderson are here to talk about that., then candidate obama raised $750 million. the obama campaign may fall short this time around. i think they are up to 300 million so far. lz, do you care to expound on why? >> i think two main reasons you can look at. number one, senator obama was running against hillary clinton. he was in a primary. and so there was a lot of money raised early on because he was in the middle of a heavy battle. back in 2007, the first quarter, hillary clinton made big news because she had the record for the amount of money raised by any kaented at that time in 2007 for the first quarter. what you're looking at is a candidate who is not running against anyone else right now. and then, two, the reality is that there is some lack of enthusiasm. they are not necessarily enthusiasm for president obama and his policies but the fact they have made up their mind. a lot of his supporters know who they are voting for so no need to vote with their money because they will vote with their votes later. >> interesti