so involved in this cam paper. i have now a daughter who s working for a television network and a wife who s got only one of two jobs in the government, the other being the department of defense, that s prohibited from participating in electoral politics, so you re stuck with me. we should note here that tv network is this one. chelsea clinton is a special correspondent here at nbc. they tuque the winners of a campaign contest, all online donors, to dinner on eighth street in washington, d.c. obama s guests all just happen to be from three battleground states, north carolina, ohio, and colorado. president obama will be visiting comedy central s daily show next thursday.
senate race. president obama is burning through campaign money faster than he can collect it as he tries to keep up with mitt romney s tv ads. the president spend $10 million more than he raised last year alone. the president may have a better jump shot than mitt romney but basketball team owners in the nba prefer romney with eight out of ten contributing to the republican campaign. but according to hoops hype.com, more nba players support the president, including stars participating in the obama classic basketball fund-raiser on wednesday. winners of the campaign contest had dinner with the president and first lady last night at a washington restaurant. the winners were a music professor from the university of north carolina, a smoke jumper from idaho and an assistant high school principal from florida. and earlier in the day, first lady michelle obama more than 50 kids at the white house for the first-ever kids state
those are all very understated signals. what you have with the reverend wright controversy attempting to resurrect that, it is an air raid siren. a call to arms. the problem i see with that is it would turn off moderates and people who don t really want to know that they re voting for a racist. they respond to these code words but they don t really want to go out and know that somebody is actually using this as a wedge issue. joe, mitt romney, he did issue a mild rebuke to the group that attempted to revive reverend wright. he has been more selective when it comes to other supporters who endorse this line of attack. donald trump, for example. we were about him a few minutes ago. a dinner with donald. the prize in a romney campaign contest. how come mitt romney hasn t rebuked donald trump yet? why is he going to stand with him on tuesday and use the donald to raise money? because of the last two words of your sentence. use donald to raise money. there is this appeal that i
didn t work. and reference to bob dole two days before the kansas caucuses, romney will have great success working with researches and democrats once he is i nug radar. shannon: ron paul had no events today but on the trail, season took aim at romney and begins. on the issue of healthcare and mandates asking supporters why they should nominate that gives away the most important issue. bret: president obama is having dinner with winners of a campaign contest. president has put in plenty of time raising reelection money, recently hitting a milestone in fund-raising proclivity. ed henry reports on the money chase. reporter: white house keeps dancing around how much time he spends on campaigning, it s game on with some help from hollywood. if we don t do this now, there will be a generation
good morning, everybody. i m gary tuchman. newt gingrich is celebrating a big win in south carolina. the biggest thing i take from the campaign in south carolina is that it is very humbling and very sobering to have so many people who so deeply want their country to get back on the right track. speaking of the right track, mitt romney is hoping to find it in florida. we ll get voter reactions from the next big campaign contest about what happened in south carolina. despite some immediate ra reports to the contrary, joe paterno is alive but in serious condition this morning. we ll get an update from state college, pennsylvania. we start with what was a runaway victory for newt gingrich in the south carolina republican presidential primary. look at these numbers. it was a double digit win. 12 percentage points for the former house speaker. easily beating mitt romney. rick santorum came in third place. ron paul in fourth. now, check out this cnn exit poll. there were man