in fifth just ahead of michele bachmann, just behind newt gingrich and all the other guys. this is from the guy who came into the race not that long before as the prohibitive front-runner. on the night of those iowa caucuses, he told reporters basically that he was quitting the race. would the voters decision tonight in iowa, i ve decided to return to texas. assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there s a path forward for myself in this race. in presidential politics, that is how you quit. you say you re going home to think about whether you are going to quit. that s quitting in presidential politics. then rick perry kind of did it again after basically bquitting the night of the iowa caucuses, as you saw right there, he did go home to texas whereupon he then announced he was running again. because why not? he had come in fifth in iowa. he came in sixth in new hampshire. he got 0.71% of the vote in the
after quitting the night of the caucuss, he did go home to texas where opinion he announced he was rung again. why not? he had come in fifth in iowa, sixth in new hampshire, he got 30.71% of the new hampshire primary. he said he was coming back in because he had a plan to win if south carolina. he did not win in south carolina. he dropped out for good from the presidential race two days before the primary in south carolina. but that extension of his campaign. it gave him an opportunity to screw one thing up. he stated turkey should be kicked out of nato because it was run by islamists. turkey was angry as you might imagine. he managed to create a small and inexplicable international incident where nobody had any
because why not? he had come in fifth in iowa. he came in sixth in new hampshire. he got 0.71% of the vote in the new hampshire primary. but he said he was coming back into the race because he had a plan to win in south carolina. he did not win in south carolina. he dropped out for good from the presidential race two days before the primary in south carolina. but that little extension of his campaign, i should mention, it did give him another opportunity to screw just one more thing up. just before the south carolina primary, he was in a debate in which he stated that turkey, the nation of turkey should be kicked out of nato because he said it was a nation run by islamic terrorists. turkey. turkey was very angry with this. as you might imagine. so as rick perry was failing, he
right now the minimum wage is about 80% of the poverty wage. we wanted to get it above the poverty line and index it from then on. $10.10 gets you just above the poverty line. if we had indexed the minimum wage from the 60s or 70s, it would be $10.71 an hour now. so see, people that are working hard at the minimum wage, they have lost about 30% of their purchasing power in the last 20 years. it s impossible to live on it. you can t. before you go, you did an sfw interview with the quad city times saying if hillary clinton is going to run, she needs to get to iowa. what s behind that comment? did she have some work to do there? what did you mean? what s behind that is my esteem and friendship for esteem for and friendship with hillary clinton. i think she would do very well in iowa. there s a lot of support there
higher open when trading begins later on tuesday. this is where u.s. futures stand in the premarket action. the dow 30 up 0.50. the nasdaq up 0.71 and the s&p 500 up 0.6. we take you to libya where leader moammar gadhafi in a rare interview with abc and the bbc denied his people of protesting in the streets against him. they love me all. if they do love you they will die to protect me and my people. well, whatever your position on that, gadhafi s opponents got a boost on monday from the united states and the e.u. both are freezing assets held bit libyan leader, his family and close associates. washington says it blocks $30 billion in libyan government holdings. we ll take a look at gadhafi s vast wealth, including some of the frozen assets a little later