i understand that. but is this going to persuade any republican to switch from romney to him? it s hard to imagine. people tell me the critics of that performance last night say when rick santorum was doing that, he was trying to hook him into saying he didn t believe, but in massachusetts you gave them voting rights. romney is improving. e yes, it s bad whenever your answer starts about pacs, but at least he didn t ask the moderator for help this time. the problem with this whole thing, we re going to it get to the second part of this show. we re going e to something really awful about food stamps. but this debate process, are we getting near the end here? we have had 20 of these things. are we getting near the end? we re getting near the end of the debates people will actually watch. but there s still plenty to go. there s a strange development
able to defeat barack obama, we want to make sure that the candidates are concise, that they are sharp and that they have solutions and not just throwing out sound bites and this is what imseeking as i tune in to the forums and debates. particular rule like that where i guess a name wasn t supposed to be mentioned in a negative light in the forum. i m not aware of. i don t know how all of that works. again, because, you know, i m busy along with everybody else. and we are just trying to get to the bottom of this entire debate process. who is it best who can undo what obama has done to this country. what he has done, judge and this is the most important thing to remember. he has allowed for one our debt to gdp ratio to become 100%. our debt is equal to our entire economic output now in this country. a scary thing. that leads to insolvency in the country.
get real answers instead of sound bytes. and pete from florida, the current republican debate process is absolutely invaluable providing detailed insights into the each of the candidate s ideologies record positions and character, i don t care if it takes 100 debates slobz it prevents a contender from rising to the thrown. thank george w. bush. maybe more debates would have kept him out of the oval office. bill in new mexico says the candidates would not be allowed to hear the response to the question by the other candidates. the candidate would not hear the question until it was his time to answer. all candidates will then answer the same questions. if a candidate does not or cannot answer the question, he would get a strike after two strikes, you re out of here. i won t read the rest. dwyane in north dakota i like this. make the politicians wear jump suits like nascar so the rest of them will know who their corporate sponsors are. and ned maryland suggests to hook them you will up
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with
party was hillary clinton, barack obama, john edwards and so forth going back and forth for the drok nomination and and barack obama became the nominee. this is what no, ma am nags are all about. it s a battle for the heart and soul of the party moving forward. this is no different from what the democrats were experiencing four years ago. anne, we talk about this analysis, there s an interesting nugget from the iowa poll saying that 27% of tuesday s caucus-goers, it would be their first time. what does that tell you? that s a huge number and i will find out on tuesday night whether or not that s accurate. if that s the case more unpredictable than it looks for now. people who are new, there s all the procedural issues of actually getting to the caucus, getting there on time, being a part of the debate process. everything that goes in that, not to mention the weather. you know, newcomers may not be as firmly fixed this their opinions as they say. there s some evidence there are