point. almost impossible to do it in a serious way. let s say romney is first or second. some people say why can t he grow? after tonight our next question is what s next and who is best positioned? mitt romney is way ahead in new hampshire. if he wins tonight or comes in a very close second. it s hard to see the bottom dropping out in new hampshire in one week. you only get one week. it will be interesting the tone. will people go after him in a nasty, negative way. the key test for romney, can he keep new hampshire? then as it was in 2008, south carolina, as it often is in republican presidential primaries, south carolina says iowa or new hampshire win over the field. we pick presidents. hot in new hampshire then he says he will go there because he knows he needs to prove he s not just mike huckabee, he is not just a christian conservative candidate. when he won his house district
he s become known as this christian conservative cultural warrior. he s been an incumbent just outside of pittsburgh. steel mill blue collar district. but issues that he s been hammered by some of his opponents. we saw the caucusgoer there saying i picked santorum because of the economy, which isn t what i expected to hear. we have ceos and i asked them which candidate do you prefer. they all said romney. that helps you read minds, too? that s right. and gingrich generally came in second. but when it came to ron paul and rick santorum, those who would expect the quote, unquote, the establishment, the big donors, the big economic voices to not back them, it wasn t like that at all. santorum more support than you would think. frustration on social issues. ron paul the biggest bond investor in the qulit of
the united states supreme court. i will have the type of individuals working, the philosophy that we share, to go into those agencies that are overregulating us, that are killing jobs, that will pull back all those regulations since the 08 and have them audited. if they re killing jobs, they re out of here. we need a president of the united states that not only respects that constitution but looks down at the bill of rights and gets down to number ten where we talk about the powers delegated to the united states by the constitution or or reserved for the states respectively or to the people. and basically says that that federal government was created by the states to be an agent for states, not the other way around. let s work together to get our country back. you have my backing in this caucus. and i promise you one thing. for the next four years, i will have your back in washington, d.c. god bless you, god bless iowa. we ll continue to be the greatest country in the world.