does not have the experience of being an effective leader. i am in fact the legitimate heir of the reagan movement. not some liberal from massachusetts. well, mitt romney has surged ahead in the race. and a win in florida could be pretty critical. cnn political editor paul stein haweshaus hauser is in tampa. we have four polls out over the past 36 hours, and they all indicate the same thing, that mitt romney is up by double digits over newt gingrich along people likely to vote in that primary tomorrow. take a look at the most recent out about two hours ago. you can see right there mitt romney with about a 14-point lead. 43% are backing him. 29% say they are backing gingrich. you see santorum and paul both further down at 11%. when you break that poll down, it s interesting. among tea party supporters, among social conservatives, these are the base voters for gingrich. but romney has the edge there. one more poll i want to share with you. take a look at this. it came out
sucked to begin with. all of the awesome plays and films praised by critics will now be reassessed as crap, but he abandoned group think. he will turn from legendary to lack luster whose attack on the left must be due to artistic suckiness which is why red eye started the countdown which monitors the day until a once glorified artist is dismissed as a buffoon. he is not, of course, but that does not matter. he walked away from his tribe and he will suffer for it. while our clock counts down to reputation and annihilation, i beg you to buy this book. i read it and it reminded me of my own journey. an abandonment with ernestness and the toxic stupidity that is political correctness. that he chooses america over crap, requires he be trashed by those around him which says more about them than him.
what has so far been an upbeat season. people are out here. they re enjoying themselves. and they re apparently a little more willing to spend. retail sales expected to be up at least 3% from last year. in the past, it was so dismal. everybody losing their jobs. i just think we re on the rise to, you know, spend more and help the economy. to take advantage of that, some stores plan to stay open 24 hours a day as clock counts down to christmas. good news for that one in ten who even now say they have a long way to go. up to the last minute. merry christmas to you. kristin dahlgren, nbc news, maclean, virginia. a big tax cut for americans and the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. will those events improve the opinion people have of congress ahead here on msnbc sunday. .
charlotte, north carolina, the president is talking about jobs, the unemployment rate remains at 9.7%. if you want to watch this, it is streaming live, fox news.coment. news.com. the pentagon giving an update this morning on the military s diminishing role in iraq, the drawdown posing a kind of logistical challenge. a huge logistical challenge, the military has not seen for years. what do you do with literally millions of pieces of equipment? we re talking humvees, choppers, armoured vehicles and more as the clock counts down for america to live iraq. mike emanuel is live at the pentagon. mike, so drawing down in iraq, while surging in afghanistan, equipment-wise, it has to be a massive undertaking. reporter: incredible, trace. and so yeah, we re drawing down to 50,000 troops in iraq, by the end of august, which is president obama s goal, adding 30,000 troops to afghanistan. they have equipment needs there, and so we talked to general william webster