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Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich
Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich during a Republican presidential debate Jan. 23, 2012, at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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The GOP candidates continued to attack one another right up to the day of the Florida primaries. We talk today about the political scene in Florida and the political gridlock we've seen in the campaigns so far.

Kerri's guests are professor Daniel A. Smith, director of the Political Campaigning Program at the University of Florida, and Marc Hetherington, political science professor at Vanderbilt University. Hetherington has published two books about the American electorate -- Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism and Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.

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