jenna: exactly two weeks from today we're going to be through christmas, through the new year on to 2012 and voting will be underway in the nation's first primary contest, the iowa caucus on january 3rd. week later we turn to the new hampshire primary. today presidential candidates, mitt romney, john paul and jon huntsman at one point are campaigning across the granite state. rick perry, michele bachmann and ron paul focus on iowa today. we'll try to get a round up of all that is happening with politics, no easy task. start first, james with gingrich and romney. there is a dynamic at work. both are trying to court conservatives and both are trying to court independents. how is that working out for either of them? >> reporter: well, with middling results would say. they partner jenna in another kibuki dance for each man to polish, discard and reclaim the fiction