romney. jon, we ve seen this before with michele bachmann. then it was rick perry. now it is herman cain. this is what we re seeing. conservatives looking for somebody else. at the moment cain is a charismatic figure. he is kind of the anti-obama, an african-american conservative business guy. so he s caught people s fancy but this is a guy who talks first and thinks later and you see he already backtracking on his tax policy. so, i think it is unlikely that he will remain at the top of the heap, although, who knows, conservatives are looking for an alternative to romney. jon: well at the end of the day if romney becomes the republican nominee, i mean conservatives aren t going to vote for president obama. i mean, it is one of those cases where they would hold their nose and vote for the guy, right? i think you re right. when i write this i get an e-mail from people here or there, saying you re wrong i will never vote for him. there are people who won t vote for him for various rea
sanitation. police say they arrested 14 protesters today who blocked traffic and turned over trash cans. texas governor rick perry is unveiling his national energy plan in suburban pittsburgh right now. live pictures. he says president perry will expand drilling on federal lands and get rid of clean air rules and other, quote, activist regulations. perry says getting bureaucracy out of the way will mean 1 million or more new jobs. perry has stumbled in the polls. his wife came to his defense. it s been a rough time. we ve been brutalized, eaten up and chewed up in the press, to where i mean, we re being brutalized by our opponents and our party. so much of that is, i think they look at him because of his faith. anita perry went on to say, we didn t have to do this. she says we are running to save our children and the soul of the country. end quote. presidential candidate herman cain is on a roll in more ways than one. he s kicking off a bus tour across tennessee nex
merrihof. the man that is going to help us with our state primary polls coming forward. we have two more coming next week. let s start with, lee, what struck you the most, on one hand, you look at the horse race numbers. they weren t surprising. romney had big in new hampshire. a muddled field in iowa. the difference is in the electors in new hampshire. flush it out. night and day. you are talking about in iowa, a far more conservative electorate. 82% in iowa tell us they are a conservative, an evangelical christian or tea party supporting. 17% say they are all three. the number is 59% in new hampshire. only 7% tell us they are all three. for a lot of reasons, not the least of which, i was far more conservative. it is a very different race in iowa. no clear front-runner. even though people in new hampshire aren t sold on romney,
numbers, conservatives aren t moving to romney. in both iowa and new hampshire, republican voters say lec abili electability and experience are less important than those that share their value positions. expect more attacks on romney like the one from perry yesterday questioning his authenticity on some conservative positions. you see here, it is cain who is taking advantage of it. you see him overperforming as well among the more self-described conservatives in our new hampshire survey. it is not enough to close that gap with romney at all but when you look at what s going on among iowa republicans, you see why perry is trying to do what he is doing. there is a big chunk of conservative voters not going to romney. still sampling the candidates. the president travels to another swing state, pennsylvania. he will visit a union training
the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the army says some in the crowd had guns and fired on them. yet witnesses say it was the army that fired on the protesters. the stories may be different but no one can deny this. dead bodies in the morgue. the victims of this weekend s clashes. too many victims to refrigerate, so they are kept on ice. this is the reality in the new egypt, again, too similar to the old. once again the government has imposed a curfew from 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. the people of egypt still under emergency law, one of the main frustrations they protested eight months ago. the military is not turning the government over to civilians like it promised to do. back then people taking to the streets, climbing up on tanks joyous the mubarak regime was history. after weeks of