yes. martha: stuart varney, thanks very much. coming up on fox business network. bill: check him out, right? meantime larry sabato has been crunching the numbers. he is center for politics university of virginia. we rely on him. we call this gameday. you look forward to this as well. no one predicted gingrich would take 43 of 46 counties in south carolina, no one. what is your best guess for today? a big romney victory and underline guess, you re absolutely right, bill. every day is super bowl sunday in politics in 2012 but romney seems to have gotten on game at long last. he recovered from south carolina. he learned from south carolina. everything has gone his way from the spending to the enormous number of absentee ballots and early voting. a group of voters that probably favors romney substantially. so, i think everybody s going to be surprised if romney does not win this handily with double digits.
a battle to the last minute, neil. neil: carl, thank you very, very much. and we ll be going back to carl when newt gingrich shows up and it s interesting we ll have a battle at the ham house, newt gingrich and mitt romney, romney gets there 45 minutes early to avoid, i guess, the clash, but to also, maybe, take early dibs on who got there first. all right, we ve got bob mcdonnell joining us, a big romney supporter. it s nice having you, but. thanks, neil. neil: i noticed in comments last night, appears to be a shot at the former speaker, maybe it s just me, sir. where you said of mitt romney let s elect a man of character and decency. were you making indirect reference to the speaker? no, not at all. i actually followed at that with a great washington quote about the character of our nation, and the importance of traditional values and supporting those values like supporting veterans, being pro-life and pro family and i was just vouching as a special
the turn too late. and also in politics, newt gingrich is making up some ground you might call it. he is closing the gap the front-runner mitt romney in south carolina. trouble may be brewing, though. his daughters are having to come to his defense after an interview which is scheduled for today is about to go after him from his ex-wife. and a rare winter storm that pounded the pacific northwest. it is now heading east. rob is tracking the forecast. where it will go next and how much snow we are actually talking about this morning. don t know if you re a tune or it s been a while since you were a student. things are different now. reading on an ipad. how about reading your textbook on an ipad? that would be fantastic. how nice would it be not having that backpack that weighs 50 pounds. rescuers resumed their search for the nearly two dozen missing cruise ship passengers. new fears this morning that stormy weather could push the doomed cruise liner into deeper waters
former aides running four super pac, spending a couple million attacking him. he said you should just tell them to stop the attacks against newt gingrich. would you do that? it s illegal, as you know. super pacs have to be entirely separate from a campaign. and a candidate. i m not allowed to communicate with a super pac in any way, shape or form. you re not coordinating it in any way whatsoever? my goodness, if we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house. mitt romney on msnbc. even some reports are saying restore our future was outspending the gingrich forces 30-1. governor romney denying any coordination with it. it s hard to deny he has connections to it. restore our future s organizers say the group s mission is getting him elected president. it was spearheaded by three former romney aides. big romney campaign donors are also organizing the super pac s fund-raising. according to the new york times governor romney they said, quote, appeared before dozens of
other guy s back or front. newt said attack ads helped knock him to a fourth place finish last night in iowa. romney squeaking to victory over senator santorum. santorum picking up congresswoman michele bachmann suspending her campaign today. but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry s or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, gingrich praised iowans who ignored attack ads. they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of these negative ads so shameful, every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do