that s what he would like to say. not so fast. guess who is committed to cauc nigh that could be santorum supporters. more than 3/4 of whom said they will definitely go to caucus, about 18% more than rock me in s folks and 20% more than ron paul s. by the way, 41% of likely caucus goers say they can still change their minds. what on earth are they waiting for? i hate to break it to you, but the good lord himself is not running. with what gallop calls the most volatile race ever, the front-runner changing seven times since last may, this is wide open. ask the man who once declared himself the nominee. newt gingrich. i don t think i will win. you look at the numbers and that volume has done enough damage. on the other hand if the des moines register was right on the 41% potentially, who knows
state until the final push. what the heck is a caucus any way? and are you looking for a job? one employer says you better not smoke. we ll show you how they are testing job applicants for nicotine. happy new year to you. if you re celebrating new zealand style. that s because it s midnight there. let s look at auckland. there it is. they are among the first to ring in the new year. they do it in amazing style. we will spend the next couple hours showing you the new year s celebrations from around the world as the clock strikes midnight in various parts of the world. there s a new year and perhaps changes for the better. iran says it has no plans to close the strait of hormuz. the country had said they would block the strait if sanctions on iran were enforced. reports said they fired a long-range missile during the training, but now a senior commander says they didn t, but will in the next few days. after complaints by defense secretary leon panetta, egypt says it will
we re picking up new information and he s also getting a nut ew endorse. . i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s not just the new republican presidential front-runner, newt gingrich is leading the republican pack by double digits in several brand-new polls. a gallop national survey of registered republicans shows him 15 points ahead of mitt romney. 37% to 22%. less than a month away from the iowa caucuses. a new cbs new york times poll has gingrich 14 points ahead of romney. as former front-runners know, top status meepz extra scrutiny and he was grilled about some of his past positions by conservatives. this is happening as we re meeting right now. jim acosta is watching all of this for us. what s the very latest? he s getting tough questions. his poll numbers have been good but it has been said his own worst enemy is newt gingrich. the two may have come face to face. glenn beck turns up the tea party heat on newt gingrich rubbing his nose in his past su
little bit of realignment in terms of who the caucusgoer is this time around. tell me this, how many new caucus goers made it into your you ve got a very strong way of deciding who is a cauc caucusgoer and who s not. how many new folks made it through your screening? relatively few. definitely small minority of who we have there. for now. again, this is early and at this stage in 2008 it also looked like a relatively small part. tell me this. what about this idea of, how engaged were these folks? how did you measure engagement? how many of them felt as if it they had already seen a candidate or already been following the race or listened to a speech or things like it that? well, i think the way that we would take a look at that, chuck, would be that only 14% were saying they did not yet have a fist choice. now, even though that s a vvolae number, you look at somebody
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