list of white house hopefuls to face off in the first of the nation primary held in new hampshire. the national team means the candidate will send more time on the trail and less time debating rivals. perry says there will be a lot of debates. it might get be a good debater before this is done. less than a week to go. perry does not have the granite state to himself. gary johnson scrambled to sign up for the primary in person. requirement on the final filing day. congressman bachmann planned ahead and mailed hers in, after her new hampshire staff quit last week. former massachusetts governor mitt romney is hosting a town hall in manchester today. the latest rasmussen poll shows he s a new hampshire front runner with 41% of the vote. perry is dragging with 4%. today cain? alabama. his 9-9-9 flat tax proposal garnered attention and earlier in week, perry revealed his own plan to allow taxpayers to stick with the current system or play 20% flat tax. despite the roll-
review online. charles lane, idtorial writer. david rucker, reporter for roll call. what he is saying, whoa about is the president said he wouldn t raise money from lobbyists but it turns out he is raising money from people who are not registered as lobbyists. but are in the lobbying business. a fine distinction some of the occupy wall street people may not have appreciated. what is going on here? the president is failing to live up to the standard. he never needed to say. nobody in washington believed that you can do anything in the town without lobbyists. that is because usually a lobbyist is somebody who started out as a hill staffer. somebody who worked for a congressman or a snarl. or member of congress in many cases. yeah. they learn of a particular, i. the vast number are not former members but the numbers we hear about. they learn a particular issue, whether it was environmental issues, labor issues, business
list of white house hopefuls to face off in the first of the nation primary held in new hampshire. the national team means the candidate will send more time on the trail and less time debating rivals. perry says there will be a lot of debates. it might get be a good debater before this is done. less than a week to go. perry does not have the granite state to himself. gary johnson scrambled to sign up for the primary in person. requirement on the final filing day. congressman bachmann planned ahead and mailed hers in, after her new hampshire staff quit last week. former massachusetts governor mitt romney is hosting a town hall in manchester today. the latest rasmussen poll shows he s a new hampshire front runner with 41% of the vote. perry is dragging with 4%. today cain? alabama. his 9-9-9 flat tax proposal garnered attention and earlier in week, perry revealed his own plan to allow taxpayers to stick with the current system or play 20% flat tax. despite the roll-
still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out and return to the states or do you want to retreat from that? i think we ought to have a conversation. we re having that right now, governor. we re running for president. yes. that was a really interesting exchange. david, who do you think came out on top? in that exchange it was mitt romney and i think the choice words he used there were you re running for president right now. you need to have something to say about this now. i think that s where mitt romney is doing very well and it s how he s keeping himself in the race. he s got something to say about everything and i think it s because he has been through the process before. major is right. for rick perry to succeed and stay on top he is going to have to have good answers to all of these questions and he s not going to be able to wiggle his way out of these things as the process unfolds. i want to
i think governor perry would agree with me that if you dump four aces that doesn t make you necessarily a good poker player. mitch, you were doing pretty good until you got to talking poker. i m not particularly worried about governor perry and governor romney frightening the american people when president obama scares them every single day. let s bring in our company, roll call s david rucker and major garrett. biggest winner, biggest loser? david, let me start with you. i think rick perry remains the biggest winner because nothing happened last night to take away his status as the front runner. i think it s good his opponents go after him now, go after him hard, so that we can figure out or his campaign can figure out if he can take these punches and still roll into the general election doing well. reading some of the analysis this morning, major, there was a sense he came into this a little less prepared than in the first debate. what did you think? i would agree. i