hello, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the republican candidates for president have just finished debating in iowa. this is important, because it s the last day before the iowa caucuses, just 19 days away. and while newt gingrich remains the national front-runner, he has been losing steam. take a look at the latest poll. this is a gallup poll that shows in the beginning of december, just ten days ago, 37% of republican voters say they will pick newt. 22% picked mitt romney. but here s how it looks now. newt s number has dropped to 29%. romney, as no doubt he s incredibly frustrated by, remains the same. but it doesn t go down, remains around the same, 24%. as we ve seen in this race, anything can happen in the next few weeks. the swings have been dramatic and certainly didn t require 19 days. so how did the candidates do at the debate tonight? game changers? joining us now, john avalon, contributor. david frum, former speechwriter for george w. bush, and ron chr
bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasn t going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, well, he doesn t have the right throwing mechanisms or he s not playing the game right. and, you know, he won two national championships and that looked pretty good. we re the national champions in job creation back in texas. but i m all ready for the next level. let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. all right, i m going to try to get jim acosta to be honest with me. he s in sioux city, iowa. tell me the truth, jim. when you heard that, what was your reaction when you h
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