nbc news s ron allen joins us from perdue headquarters in atlanta. really close one there, between jack kingston. establishment guy. 11 terms in congress. interesting race. against the classic outsider. david perdue businessman. first run for office. spent a lot on ads early on. got his name out there. got out in the lead in the polls. stayed out there. you are right, chris. numbers here have been around 29% for perdue. for kingston, with, karen hendel, a little bit back, 19%. former secretary of state. the only woman in the race. perhaps within striking dh distance. sticking to the prarameters. fulton county. metro area i am in now. historically, traditionally comes in late here. so that s what everybody is
establishment guy. 11 terms in congress. interesting race. against the classic outsider. david perdue. businessman. first run for office. spent a lot on ads early on. got his name out there. got out in the lead in the polls. stayed out there. you are right, chris. numbers here have been around 29% for perdue. for kingston, with, karen hendel, a little bit back, 19%. former secretary of state. the only woman in the race. perhaps within striking distance. sticking to the parameters. fulton county. metro area i am in now. historically, traditionally comes in late here. so that s what everybody is waiting for here. the vote early that camen was for kingston.
devil in official iranian pronouncements? i don t know and neither do you. but consider that there were six candidates running for president this year in iran. six candidates in the mix. nobody thought that any one of those candidates was going to get to 50%. and so there was going to have to be a runoff, but with six candidates running and only one of those six identifying as a moderate and running his campaign as a moderate, the moderate not only won the election, he won by a mile. hasan rowhani got 51% of the vote. he got a clear majority. the guy in second place only got 17% if you round up, the establishment guy. the hardliner who all the conservatives openly supported, he only got 11% of the vote. so there s no runoff. it s done. no runoff. no question. it is a clear result in terms of what the iranian people want. they want change, moderation. that is what they voted for very clearly by huge overwhelming numbers. so, yes, if you re after moderation in iran, optimism is warrant
surprise awesome iowa showing of the night? ends up being the social conservative guy, mike huckabee, under-funded guy who nobody really takes seriously except on abortion and what is wrong with gay people, maybe he should be taken more seriously, maybe he can go the distance, he has done well in iowa. that iowa success translates in essentially nothing for him in new hampshire. the campaign suffering from all the old weaknesses, goes back to puddling along and isn t heard from again. the dream candidate durns out turns out to be a laughing stock. tries to make a go of of it in south carolina. the media is interested in the elder statesmen married a lot guy. social conservative went no where. ron paul keeps being ron paul. this guy the republican establishment guy, hated by the base, is so he inspired the
this guy the republican establishment guy, hated by the base, is so he inspired the other characters to get in the race, the guy with no natural source of enthusiasm for his candidacy outside lobbyist politician fundraiser permanent republican class making deals in the back rooms this guy goes on to south carolina, after what happens in iowa, after what happens in new hampshire, this time in the race, last time around he arrives in south carolina. and he wins. all those other guys who were still in the race, they take a piece of the vote for themselves, split up the anti-establishment vote, but the establishment guy, who nobody liked very much, inherits the nomination with a period instead of an exclamation point. and then he pixcks sarah palin and he loses. that appears how the republican party is doing it this year.