gingrich victory seem smaller. and after all, you're talking about a small percentage of delegates that are abortioned off the first four contests. >> you know, it's so bizarre the way presidential politics and punditry works. if somebody had said a month ago, well, newt gingrich won't win a big enough victory at iowa, people would say, you're crazy. and then, if newt gingrich emerges winning iowa at all, he has already proven something. and he comes in to new hampshire, i think -- i think, pretty strong. and then the question is, does this same logic go back and hurt romney? romney was ahead of gingrich by 30 points. >> i think what's really changed in the last 20 days, and this change counts because we're close to an actual election is romney's sky-high expectations are now down. new hampshire can break romney if he didn't win, i believe. but now a smaller romney win means a lot more than it did three or four weeks ago. so this expectations calculator has been reset by the gingrich surge. >> we have a real sense, this is the question i asked speaker boehner and he sort of answered