. >> reischea pero, white house correspondent for npr and also the president of center for american progress join us. welcome all. electability argument, ari, shapiro, we have all these polls out today showing romney is running a little bit better but not a lot bert and suddenly if the electability argument goes away for mitt romney, that's not great for those last-minute swing voters who may be looking for a conservative they connect with on a gut level. >> that's right. in terms of connecting on a gut level, yesterday i was at the yu jewish republican forum where six candidates spoke and people i spoke to loved gingrich, said he connected with them on a gut level. in the next few weeks as we see retail politicking in iowa and new hampshire, you'll see that play out and some undeseeded voters will make their decision based on who they personally liked, at least based on the jewish forum yesterday. they liked gingrich a lot. >> you spent a lot of time on capitol hill. one thing that the romney campaign is contemplating is just to bring as many members that worked with newt gingrich as possib