newt gingrich and rick santorum tied for third and fourth and rick perry moved on to south carolina. the new battleground will start late tonight. first the wig big winner, mitt romney taking on president obama and drew the biggest applause lines from the speech. the president has run out of ideas and now he is running out of excuses. i m going to be joined by somebody who was a candidate himself, tim pawlenty. has he sealed the deal yet? well, that s an understatement, piers, to say good. he won iowa and be many people s accounts and now won new hampshire convincingly, he s the first nonincumbent candidate to win iowa and new hampshire in history so it was a spectacular night for mitt romney and his vision for america, restoring america, rather than barack obama s declinist view of america. i notice in his victory speech again he resisted the temptation to whack his opponents and focused on president obama and on improving america. is that going to be the consistent
newt gingrich and rick santorum are in fourth and rick perry goes to south carolina where the new battleground will start late tonight. we ll talk about mitt romney s lead. first, the big winner new hampshire, mitt romney, he lost no time taking on the man he cease as his biggest challenger. president obama, one of the biggest applause lines from the frontrunner s speech. the president has run out of ideas. now he s running out of excuses. i m going to be joined by somebody who was a candidate himself, tim pawlenty. has he sealed the deal yet? well, that s an understatement, piers, to say good. he won iowa and be many people s accounts and now won new hampshire convincingly, he s the first nonincumbent candidate to win iowa and new hampshire in history so it was a spectacular night for mitt romney and his vision for america, restoring america, rather than barack obama s declinist view of america. i notice in his victory speech again he resisted the temptation to whack
about. election day in new hampshire. republicans choosing a nominee to run against president obama. democrats choosing, well, president obama. these first in the nation primaries culminate months or even years of campaigning and most of the top republicans are still at it. here s why. the last new hampshire tracking poll by suffolk university puts to rest any visions of iowa-like outcomes. mitt romney s lead is actually a few points wider than yesterday. but jon huntsman has broken out of a three-way tie for third into a virtual dead heat for second. and as of yesterday, 7% of likely voters still have not made up their minds. no need for polls in dixville notch or hartsville locations. those towns voted at midnight and the results are in. drumroll, please. dixville awarded two votes each to romney and huntsman. hart voters gave romney five votes, paul 4, huntsman 2, and gingrich and rick perry, 1 each. whatever happens elsewhere in the granite state, you ll hear it first fro
13 sailors being held captive by somali pirates in the straigts f hormuz and draws the fury of the iranian military. up first tonight, the enormous stakes of new hampshire s presidential primary. remember, it was in this state, the hillary clinton come back four years ago, sent the democratic race into the historic obama/clinton marathon. tonight, starkly new numbers suggests former massachusetts governor mitt romney could all but lock up this cycle s republican race this month with a one, two, three punch. his iowa victory was by a mere eight points, but consider this, a new wmur poll just out tonight in new hampshire has romney leading with 44%, ron paul a distant second at 20%, rick santorum, gingrich, tied third at 8%, governor huntsman one point behind them at 7%. the race moves next to south carolina and this is eye-popping. new cnn/ time /orc polling shows governor romney leading 37%, a two to one lead over the second place rick santorum. governor romney is in the dr
we ll see you in a couple days. mitt romney has an overwhelming lead in new hampshire, but so far he is benefitting from that divided conservative field now evangelicals are calling a texas summit trying to unify behind one challenger. will it be newt gingrich or rick perry? todd, it feels funny being here with you being up there. coming up soon. we ll see you sunday. you know new hampshire so well. we want to ask you how you see this thing shaping up and whether you think santorum can play well here in new hampshire? there are obviously conservative voters with whom he would have common ground and whom he could appeal. you really still do have to make governor romney not necessarily prohibitive but the strong favorite. it s his neighboring state, had a house there for years, campaigned there before.