byron josh, york, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner. what does this tell you? a lot of polls including the new fox poll with gingrich a big lead among republicans. republicans in south carolina, florida, their top priority is beating president obama. they say i would like to have a candidate who i most agree with philosophically, politically, a lot say that is newt gingrich but more importantly they would like to see a candidate who can beat obama. they will take numbers like this when they vote in the caucuses on january 3rd in iowa and primaries after that. bill: new hampshire a week after iowa. we also asked this. who is a stronger leader? we found romney and gingrich are both ahead of president obama. romney at 49, gingrich, 50, president obama at 46. what does that tell you?. that is bad news for obama. that is not just republicans. that s everybody. to show that either of the,
strength of gingrich. bill: perry told us that newt gingrich is the surge is the thing of day or week and he will come back down like perry did and others. we ll see whether or not these numbers hold up. we re getting real close. 24 days to iowa. thank you, byron. have a great weekend. thank you, bill. bill: martha. martha: mitt romney coming out swinging what he has to do at this point if he wants to get back into the game. he is releasing a new ad that hits newt for not supporting paul ryan s budget. he is out on the left wing of the republican party. martha: that s the basic tenor of it. it goes on in that vein, former speaker says he will not let the romney attacks change his focus. i will stay positive. i m going to talk about how we solve a bunch of problems. martha: we ll see. coming up we ll take a look