mitt romney is that man. i've been reading the 200 peaches of single-spaced research on there the john mccain campaign on mitt romney. there is no issue i can find on which mitt romney has not taken both sides. he has no core beliefs, other than himself. is he the silly putty of politicians. press on him real hard, and he'll take on whatever image you press into him, until the next group starts pressing." that is damning description of anybody. bob schrum, you ran a campaign against him. you can think of something that mitt romney would stand on and admit defeat on. >> this guy gives zip flopping a good name. he's a warp speed weather vane. he has changed on issues of policy. steve is quite right, he was trying hard in that segment. kerry got caught up in this, because he voted for the $87 billion before i voted against it. his record was a lifetime of consistency on all of the big principled issues. romney's record is a lifetime of changing as your candidate, john mccain said in 2008. and when romney said i

so i don't want to say that mitt romney's going to be the nominee, but mitt romney's going to be the nominee. >> i think you're right. >> and when i talked to fá democrats about that, and particularly when i talked to washington democrats about that, i keep hearing pushback from romney, as a flip-flopper, is aá good way to run against him.fá there seems to be skepticism on the democratic side that mitt romney's inability to hold a single position on any major issue is a real electoral liability for him. do you see that as a liability for him?fá or are people going to need to go after him from a different way on the democratic side? >> i think it's a huge liability. democrats may be getting confused because they don't know which mitt romney to run t( against, but of all of the mitt romneys we're presented, when we talked to voters last week in michigan, the number one thing they said they wanted was people who stood for something. ifferent . position every night.t( it's not a minor one. he's like a 360-change.w3 it's like those dolls whose head goes around. you don't know what you

mitt romney and jon huntsman. one of them will probably win up there, it's probably mitt romney. what happens if that doesn't happen? >> well, i think it depends on what happens in iowa, chris. if mitt romney wins iowa and then somehow new hampshire does what it does often and hands new hampshire to someone other than mitt romney because they don't want to coronet him, i think rid romney could still survive that. i think if mitt romney loses in iowa and doesn't come in first and then loses new hampshire, he will be fundamentally crippled and won't be able to be the nominee. jon huntsman i think must win in new hampshire for the reasons you just said. maybe it's possible that a very, very, very, very strong second place keeps him in the race. but he has put all his chips on the table there and he's bet it all on black. >> let's go south with you. you pick it up here, john. south carolina's been the king maker for the republicans ever since the party went south and become a southern-based party. who has to win down there and stay in the race? it seems to be perry and cain have to d

mitt romney, you're amazing. mitt romney and rick perry, as well, both came out in favor of the mississippi personhood thing that got voted down yesterday by more than 20 points in mississippi. this thing that would ban all abortions, no exceptions, and hormonal birth control and iuds and the morning after pill and in vitro fertilization. now that it has been beating in mississippi, mitt romney says he was never for it. in 2006 and 2008, democrats had huge electoral victories, right? democrats in '06 and '08, they took the house, took the senate, took the white house, swung more than five dozen seats in congress from red to blue over those two elections. in 2010, the pendulum swung back the other way, right? republicans had a huge year in 2010. they took back all of the democratic gains in congress from the previous two elections and then some. now, the next big election is in 2012. is the pending lumbulum staying republican side or is it swinging back? joining us now is democratic pollster, celinda lake. miss la

>>> and later, that devastating new dnc video against mitt romney. >> mitt romney invented obamacare before he was against it, you remember? >> well, that's what we did in massachusetts and that is, we put together an exchange and the president's copying that idea. i'm glad to hear that. obamacare is bad news. and if i'm president of the united states, i will repeal it. >> well, can the democrats make that flip-flop charge hurt hard enough? you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. you name it. i've tried it. but nothing helped me beat my back pain. then i tried salonpas. it's powerful relief that works at the site of pain and lasts up to 12 hours. salonpas. >>> barney frank, the congressman from massachusetts, has announced we won't run for reelection in 2012. the 16-term congressman from massachusetts has been in office since 1981 and has been a major player in housing and banking policy. he's also been a lightning rod for republicans who oppose his consistently liberal positions and fear his wit. at a news conference today, congressman frank said he originally intended to run for

i'm mitt romney. candidate for president and the current leader in the polls for the republican nomination. you don't hear much about me in the news because the other candidates like herman cain and rick perry are hogging all the headlines with sex scandals and whoops a daisies. that's why my staff and i decided i'm too boring and i should become 15% to 17% more edgy. tonight, mitt romney is going to let loose. get ready for mitt romney, raw and unleashed. now, rick perry and herman cain are also getting attention for flubbing some straightforward policy questions. i planned my own embarrassing mistake. here it is. >> governor romney, what would be your first act as president? >> well, if elected president, my first act would be to repeal obama hair. oops. i mean obama care. what an endearing flub. >> that was jason sedakis playing mitt romney on nbc's "saturday night live". the real mitt romney is in new hampshire and is talking about job creation. take a listen. >> i tend to make america the job cre

mitt romney. to prove, it here's the full context. >> the nice thing about writing a book is that i can lay out what i believe on a wide array of issues to face the country. and i think you'll find that i've been as consistent as human beings can be as i look at those issues and as i try and apply those principles to government. i cannot state every single issue in exactly the same words every single time. and so there are some folks who obviously for various, you know, political and campaign purposes will try and find some change and draw great attention to something which looks like a change which in fact is entirely consistent. >> okay. that is the full context. that is the context. i am not taking this out of context. mitt romney's saying he is as consistent as human beings can be in his political positions. now, you, fair viewer, i know you well enough to know that you are debunking this in your own mind right now. but you know what? let's give john huntsman a chance. john huntsman could not

said that his name has always been mitt. >> mitt romney's full name is willard mitt romney. >> mitt is his middle name. >> i'd like to see your long form birth certificate. >> willard suffers an identity crisis. >> i'm mitt romney, and yes, wolf, that's also my first name. >> he has the distinction of being the luckiest bird on the face of the earth. >>> iowa christian conservatives are uniting to stop mitt romney from winning the republican nomination, according to a cnn report. representatives from leading iowa social conservative groups held a secret meeting on monday in des moines, which i guess isn't secret anymore. and they discussed which candidate they might endorse, endorse in order to prevent romney from winning the iowa caucuses. bob vander plots, the president of the family leader, who had a representative at the meeting and invited some of the attendees said, "our concern is that if the conservatives stay as fragmented as they are, that romney could win the iowa caucuses, and if he wins the iowa caucuses, he'll be the nominee. so i think there's an urgency to say, well,

not many people are talking about mitt romney. not many people have talked about mitt romney. this is what his campaign wants, isn't it? you and i talking about him, just talk about him. you know? what do you think? >> well, i mentioned there might be something to that in terms of the strategy. everyone is saying the ad that they just released. no the only in terms of ad time but news agencies are broadcasting it. it's important to realize that the public is being told throughout the day that mitt romney is caught blatantly lying. that's not necessarily somethinw that the campaign wants to be associated with, especially realizing that looking back over the last several weeks that romney has been caught in a series of lies. and once you have a reputation for dishonesty, it's hard to shake that once your integrity is undermined. >> speaking of integrity, all of them have denounced the stimuluç package and many say the economy would be in worst shape without the stimulus package. it has added as many as three million jobs in the third quarter of this year. will that make a diffe

there's mitt romney who has a stable 20% to 25% support. mitt romney did a fantastic job tonight. every debate he does incredibly well, looks presidential and says the right things for the republican conservative electorate. three out of four republicans don't trust mitt romney and that's probably not going to change. the other battle, the non-romney candidate that's going to emerge and get down to a two-pym=9ñ race between romney and somebody else. newt gingrich did a fine job tonight. it was interesting to see michele bachmann is the one person who did take a swipe at him on the immigration issue and challenged him going down the same path that torpedoed rick perry's campaign a few months ago. newt took a body blow. i'm interesting to see if that makes movement in the polls. overall newt had a very grasp of the issues and he's going to probably stay solid in the polls at this point in time. >> ron, let me stay with you on this immigration question, because it seems to me that newt gingrich found a new way of talking about it. perry's way of talking about it was obviously disast

mitt romney, you're amazing. mitt romney and rick perry, as well, both came out in favor of the mississippi personhood thing that got voted down yesterday by more than 20 points in mississippi. this thing that would ban all abortions, no exceptions, and hormonal birth control and iuds and the morning after pill and in vitro fertilization. now that it has been beating in mississippi, mitt romney says he was never for it. in 2006 and 2008, democrats had huge electoral victories, right? democrats in '06 and '08, they took the house, took the senate, took the white house, swung more than five dozen seats in congress from red to blue over those two elections. in 2010, the pendulum swung back the other way, right? republicans had a huge year in 2010. they took back all of the democratic gains in congress from the previous two elections and then some. now, the next big election is in 2012. is the pendulum staying on the republican side or is it swinging back? joining us now is democratic pollster, celinda lake. miss lak

>>> and later, that devastating new dnc video against mitt romney. >> mitt romney invented obamacare before he was against it, you remember? >> well, that's what we did in massachusetts and that is, we put together an exchange and the president's copying that idea. i'm glad to hear that. obamacare is bad news. and if i'm president of the united states, i will repeal it. >> well, can the democrats make that flip-flop charge hurt hard enough? you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. >>> barney frank, the congressman from massachusetts, has announced we won't run for reelection in 2012. the 16-term congressman from massachusetts has been in office since 1981 and has been a major player in housing and banking policy. he's also been a lightning rod for republicans who oppose his consistently liberal positions and fear his wit. at a news conference today, congressman frank said he originally intended to run for one more term but changed his mind because of the new redistricting map. >>> another blow for mitt romney who hasn't caught on with when a moment might turn into something more. a

i mean, mitt romney, it all goes to the overall narrative that there's not a lot inside mitt romney, and he in that interview really in a friendly environment with bret baier and fox news completely flubbed it. it doesn't bode well will how he'll deal with this major campaign vulnerability. >> we only have a couple more seconds before we go to newt here, but i want to ask you about mitt. cynthia it seems you can't go ha, ha, ha every time somebody catches you in a double cross. everyone time some commentator like me is going to say i don't know ha, ha, ha means when i catch you double crossing another issue. >> he was very condescending and very uncomfortable, but, you know, it reminds me that throughout the campaign season throughout these debates, common tators have talked about how polished mitt romney was, how disciplined and how well he's done in the debates. the fact of the matter was he didn't have any rivals who were anywhere near his level. once you have somebody lobbing tough questions at mitt romney, he begins to sweat. he gets snarky. he doesn't have any good answers, so

to someone other than mitt romney, i think mitt romney could still survive that. i think if mitt romney loses in iowa and doesn't come in first and then loses new hampshire, he will be fundamentally crippled and won't be able to be the nominee. jon huntsman i think must win in new hampshire for the reasons you just said. maybe it's possible that a very, very, very, very strong second place keeps him in the race. but he has put all his chips on the table there and he's bet it all on black. >> let's go south with you. you pick it up here, john. south carolina's been the king maker ever since the party went south. who has to win down there and stay in the race? it seems to be perry and cain have to do incredibly well or they're not relevant among the baptists. >> especially since neither one will be competitive in new hampshire, i don't think. south carolina, they're a regional-based candidacies. if you can't win the first southern primary based on regional strength, you're in significant trouble. mitt romney looks strong in florida, coming up right after that. so yo

mitt romney has valued outsourcing. in iowa, he said that corporations are people with all the same rights. in nevada, one of the states with the worst housing crisis and foreclosure crisis, he said the mortgage crisis should run its course and hit bottom. he had a plan for the speculators to step in, but not for the people living in those homes. people think he is a flip-flop peper. the only thing scarier are the issues where he has refused to change. he has been rock solid in siding with the privileged over the middle class. the autoworker versus the financial engineer, or employees of versus corporations, he has been consistent on whose side he is gone. if you are in the hard-working middle class, your left at the scrap heap. in the next four years, there will be more challenges, and more crisis. as good as i'm standing before you, that is what you can guarantee will happen. those challenges and those crises will determine the economic vitality of a middle class and the economic future of this country. those characte

romney and john huntsman, one will probably win up there, probably mitt romney. what happens if this doesn't happen? >> if somehow mitt romney wins iowa and then somehow new hampshire does what it does often and hands new hampshire to someone other than mitt mift because they don't want to core on eight him, i think mitt romney could survive them. if mitt romney loses in iowa and then loses in new hampshire, he will be crippled and won't be the nominee. john huntsman must win new hampshire for the reasons you said. maybe it's possible a very, very strong second place keeps him on the race. >> you pick it up here, john. south carolina has been the kingmaker for the republicans ever since the party went south and become a southern-based party. who has to win down there to city in the race. it seems perry and cain have to do incredibly well there. >> especially since neither one is going to be competitive in new hampshire. south carolina, if you can't win the first southern primary if you're a candidate who is going to win the nomination based on regional strength,

for mitt romney. chris: those romney madmen who he cooked up those ads, obsession. the obama crowd may not be obsessed at least not yet but they're definitely already focused on romney. and they confess they're disappointed that romney's emerging from the primaries so unbloodied. by his opponents. >> i don't know that his positions have been scrutinized that carefully. i know governor perry has made some halting efforts to do that in these debates. but he hasn't exactly got -- gotten the gun out of the holster. chris: rough talk. gun out of the holster. but they seem to be bugged and you heard it from axelrod talking to reporters that nobody has done any damage to romney in all these fights. >> well, give romney credit and his campaign credit. he took a page from the richard nixon book from 1968. limits his access to the press. so you have to give romney a lot of credit. i think the obama people are right to be concerned about it. i am not of the group that says romney has this tied up yet. i recogniz

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here was mitt romney today. let's watch him. >> some of the democrats were asked, what's the president role been to help the super committee come to consensus. the answer is he hasn't had any role. he's done nothing. it is another example of failed leadership. he has not taken personal responsibility to get the super committee to find ways to balance our budget and cut spending. >> well there he is, taunting the president to be a leader, joe. you're smiling because there was the president coming back with real mettle. he heard the taunt and responded all right, buddy, you want leadership? i'm going to veto it. >> exactly. that's the thing. hearing the president actually say no to something that the republicans have proposed is refreshing to a lot of democrats, who have pretty much accused him of bending over backwards to compromise. that strategy hasn't borkd. i worked. it's worked for republicans and not the white house. this is something new and does speak of leadership and reminds me of the fact that the supe

it's running a distant third to mitt romney and newt gingrich. for more on the state of cain, i am joined by msnbc contributor crystal ball and writer for "the washington post." crystal, is this herman cain deploying his wife as his final defense against accusations of sexual harassment? >> you showed the poll numbers. this is about the only thing he has left to do. he is plummeting. women are going away from him in droves. calling nancy pelosi princess nancy is not helping his case any. this story is not over. we are talking about more press conferences and more allegations and accusers and more information coming to light. he has a real problem. i don't think that gloria cain will save his bacon. >> you posted an article entitled herman cain has a problem with women and if the polls are to be believed, he does. >> the poll released on friday showed that for the 50 time, 38% of republican women say that they are less likely to pull the lever for herman cain because of the sexual harassment allegations and the fact that if she having trouble with

nobody sees the mitt romney or the various mitt romneys we observe as the authentic mitt romney. we are not sure which is which. and until he presents that authentic mitt romney that we can relate to, i don't think he's going to make the connection that you need to make to be elected president. >> all right. >> thank you. we'll be reading your column. everyone should. it's on the penn state scandal on "the washington post".com. take a look at it. really good. >>> still ahead, former president bill clinton will be here onset to discuss his vision for economic recovery. >>> up next, editor of the new yorker david remnick, also chuck todd takes us through the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll what voters are saying one year out from the presidential election and the cover of "newsweek" "money brain" the new science behind your spending addiction. i want to ask tina about that. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. when you're a sports photographer, things can get out of control pretty quickly. so i like control in the rest of my life... especially my finances. tha

mitt romney is that man. i've been reading the 200 peaches of single-spaced research on there the john mccain campaign on mitt romney. there is no issue i can find on both sides. he has no core beliefs, other than himself. is he the silly putty of politicians. press on him real hard, and he'll take on whatever image you press into him, until the next group starts pressing." that is damning description of anybody. bob schrum, you ran a campaign against him. you can think of something that mitt romney would stand on and admit defeat on. >> this guy gives zip flopping a good name. he's a warp speed weather vane. he has changed on issues of policy. steve is quite right, he was trying hard in that segment. kerry got caught up in this, because he voted for the $87 billion before i voted against it. his record was a lifetime of consistency on all of the big principled issues. romney's record is a lifetime of changing as your candidate, john mccain said in 2008. and when romney said i stand for change, and mccain say

there's mitt romney who has a stable 20% to 25% support. mitt romney did a fantastic job tonight. every debate he does incredibly well, looks presidential and says theç right things for the republican conservative electorate. three out of four republicans don't trust mitt romney and that's probably not going to change. the other battle, the non-romney candidate that's going to emerge and get down to a two-person race between romney and somebody else. newt gingrich did a fine job tonight. it was interesting to see michele bachmann is the one person who did take a swipe at him on the immigration issue and challenged him going down the same path that torpedoed rick per perry's campaign a few months ago. newt took a body blow. i'm interesting to see if that makes movement in the polls. overall newt had a very grasp of the issues and he's going to probably stay solid in the polls at this point in time. >> ron, let me stay with you on this immigration question, because it seems to me that newt gingrich found a new way of talking about it. perry's way of talking about it was obviously

carolina to attack mitt romney. we think there has to be a solid conservative alternativetive to mitt romney and i think i'm the one candidate that can bring together a national security conservative and economic and social conservatives in order to make sure we have a conservative nominee. i wouldn't lie to the american people. i wouldn't switch my positions for political reasons. it is perfectly reasonable to change your position if facts change f you see new things you didn't see. everybody has done that. ronald reagan did it it is wrong to go around an adopt radically different positions, based on your need of any one election because then people have to ask themselves what will you tell me next time? >> joining me is the former minnesota governor tim pawlenty and former presidential candidate. thank you for joining me tonight, governor. >> glad to be with you. >> as you know, i famously picked you to be by now the republican front runner by the process of elimination that i saw coming but i thought if you hung

they have conan o'brien saying that mitt romney's biggest ideological enemy is mitt romney. and they have a couple of conflicting mitt romney quotes that may bring in video of ronald reagan saying there you go again. >> wow, that hurts. and there's going to be a year of this, right? this is the case against mitt romney. >> it not only helps the obama white house, it helps every republican candidate while this stuff runs, which, of course, the obama white house is showing they don't want to face mitt. the reason why -- right, mark? the reason they're hammering mitt right now, they're hoping they make him bleed enough that one of these second-tier -- >> or that romney emerges really weak. and they're using humor in these things, which is key, because it takes the edge off of it a little bit for people and the press. >> you also have a story up, mike, about the arizona sheriff there, joe arpiao endorsing mitt. >> exactly. this was a real help to rick perry because republicans were thinking he was soft on immigration. it's a little tough to say that now that sheriff joe, one of

romney against mitt romney. >> you know that mitt romney invented obama care before he was against it. do you remember that? >> well, that's what we did in massachusetts. and that is, we put together an exchange and the president's copying that idea. i'm glad to hear that. >> obama care is bad news, and if i'm president of the united states, i will repeal it. >> well, could the democrats make that flip-flopping of romney hurt? you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. you name it. i've tried it. but nothing's helped me beat my back pain. then i tried this. it's salonpas. this is the relief i've been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it's the only otc pain patch approved for sale using the same rigorous clinical testing that's required for prescription pain medications. proven. powerful. safe. salonpas. >>> republican presidential candidate herman cain says another woman will soon come forward, saying she had an extramarital affair with him. cain says the woman was a friend he helped when she didn't h

why mitt romney? and what about your disagreements with him on some issues along the way. >> well, i've endorsed candidates for president since 1980. i've met governor romney and other candidates, and i've been phenomenally impressed with this remarkable individual. his business experience, his experience as governor of massachusetts. and i frankly think he's the guy who can take over the white house at the end of next year and turn this country around. both in terms of getting our debt and deficit under control as well as getting the economy turned around. >> now, there's a romney campaign e-mail about your position regarding the super committee and revenue. does this create some concerns for you? the "national journal" printed this because you were one of 40 republicans who signed off on the increase. >> i think it's important to clarify what the so-called go big coalition is all about. we want big answers to the deficit and debt issue. and we believe in order to get there, we need to work in a bipa

mitt romney, he survived this debate unscathed. he's yet to suffer a kind of campaign altering blunder that national televised debates like these tend to encourage. so he seems steadily on top of the pack and is showing prom nice stapromise in states like north carolina but others are trying to make their way to the top as well. >> shauna shepherd, thank you so much coming to us from columbia, south carolina. >>> while they take types at president obama, the president is talking trade and jobs now. he's at the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in hawaii. and mr. obama is pushing for a new free trade agreement, the transpacific partnership. it would include the u.s. and nine other countries and cover about one-third of the global economy. president obama says it would create jobs in the u.s. >> this is where the action is going to be. if we're going to not just double our export but make sure that good jobs are created here in the united states, then we're going to have to continue to expand our trade opportunities and econom

, while mitt romney does. and there's one other thing i'd add to that. you need to be able to survive scrutiny. and newt gingrich up to now has had the advantage of low expectations. the media hasn't gone and looked at the 17 organizations he's running -- he's run. one good example, the other night at the debate, on cnbc, they asked about $300,000 he was paid by, what was it, freddie or fannie. and you know, when they were trying to get political influence in washington to keep the regulators off their back. he said that they turned to him because he was a historian and he would give them historical lectures. i spoke to someone at fannie mae about that, and they were laughing about this. he wasn't telling the truth. no one's dug into a lot of these things, in 30 years of political controversies. so he may come up for a while, but he's going to fall down like everybody else, like we say see herman cain now. you may be left with mitt romney because there's nobody else in the barrel of apples. >> david, i agree w

mitt romney. we'll talk with the woman who shared a trip with mitt, in coach, by the way. >>> and let me finish tonight with the terrible position of the republican party right now as i speak. they have one candidate who has been perhaps fatally wounded today and another who has never been able to break through to republican conservatives, much less become their champion. >>> we start with this story. sharon bialek says she traveled to washington, d.c. to meet with herman cain for help finding a job. here she is describing a night in which he took her out for drinks, dinner and a drive past the n.r.a. offices. nbc has not independently confirmed her allegations. let's listen to mrs. bialek. >> infed of going into the offices, he suddenly reached over an he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt and reached for my genitals. he also grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch. i was very, very surprised and very shocked. i said, what are you doing, you know i have a boyfriend, this isn't what

plus, stephen colbert rushes to the aid of mitt romney. a great late-night clip coming up. >>> first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. fresh off his endorsement from the new hampshire "union leader" newspaper, newt gingrich is in south carolina today on a three-day campaign push. that state's primary comes 11 days after the one in new hampshire coming up in february. speaking to a charleston radio station yesterday, gingrich slammed mitt romney's record of changing positions while labelling himself conservative alternative to the former massachusetts governor. >> anybody who is honest about it knows that no person except christ has ever been perfect. so, i don't claim to be the perfect candidate. i just claim to be a lot more conservative than mitt romney and a lot more electable than anybody else. i wouldn't lie to the american people. i wouldn't switch my positions for political reasons. it's perfectly reasonable to change your position if facts change, if you see new things you didn't see. everyb

, while mitt romney does. and there's one other thing i'd add to that. you need to be able to survive scrutiny. and newt gingrich up to now has had the advantage of low expectations. the media hasn't gone and looked at the 17 organizations he's running -- he's run. one good example, the other night at the debate, on cnbc, they asked about $300,000 he was paid by, what was it, freddie or fannie. and you know, when they were trying to get political influence in washington to keep the regulators off their back. he said that they turned to him because he was a historian and he would give them historical lectures. i spoke to someone at fannie mae about this and they were laughing about this. he wasn't telling the truth. no one's dug into a lot of these things, in 30 years of political controversies. so he may come up for a while, but he's going to fall down like everybody else, like we say herman cain now. you may be left with mitt romney because there's nobody else in the barrel of apples. >> david, i agree with y

i think mitt romney is more comfortable being a gentlemen. i hope they stick to their guns on that one. they will take swipes and see how the republican primary voters and how they like that. i suspect they won't like too much. >> just a final question. gingrich has $370,000 in cash on hand. that's not a lot of money. is it? >> very few staff and the numbers are way behind. the reality of this is that poor mitt romney who is always the bride's maid and never the bride. he wins iowa and far ahead in new hampshire and does well in south caroline a. my guess is he wraps it up early. again, this is a campaign of seven dwanrfs and none is more popular and the american public looks at this cast of characters and they see what looks like a star trek convention for them and all of a sudden obama's numbers have gone from 38 up to about 45,ing even with republicans and this is good news. >> the president was under 50%, obama is in serious trouble. >> thanks so much for the afternoon. >> the man newt dethroned, the white house continues to target mitt r