strength of rick perry? >> i think that, you know, it does start with the first, iowa, and new hampshire, but it's all about momentum and if he can stay in the game, you know, stay in the game against bachmann in iowa and mitt romney in new hampshire, and get to the south where he's stronger, i think that would be key. >> mike huckabee even though after he lost florida and the nomination was over in 2008, he won a bunch of southern states. i want to play sound, someone last night asked mitt romney would you consider yourself the front-runner for the nomination. here's what he had to say, and we'll come back and talk about it. >> i'm following the strategy i've had and that we've laid out from the very beginning. and the field is still fluid. they're going to be potentially other candidates. i heard today george pataki's thinking of getting in. i heard that potentially i saw karl rove thought sarah palin might be getting in. maybe when the field narrows down to two or three, we'll spend more time looking at each other. but my campaign approach remains exactly the same. >> would you consider yourself