consider overwhelming being behind by about 36 points among hispanics. he s not getting overwhelming support. but clearly, he got put in the box a little by president obama s announcement on immigration and the changes he would like to see for the children of immigrants who came here illegally, so he had to do something. he had to go to the conference and try to staunch the bleeding among the hispanic vote, and you know, he s not going to win hispanics. he just nes to drive down the margin. to go back to those ads, one thing that was interesting in ohio, he talked about china, fighting china, stopping china s unfair trade practices. that s one of the things in his pitch that s among the more controversial, particularly among a lot of constituency in the business community that fears a trade war with china and really fears he follows up on some of the stuff he says he would do, china s going to slap tariffs on us. that s a big risk for him but plays well in ohio in manufacturing. of c
troops in australia. he says, well we have to send a message to china. i didn t know china, i thought that was over, you know, quit fighting china after the korean war. this idea we re over there looking for a fight. other news out of the hawkeye state, nbc learned mitt romney will set up a campaign office there, adding to speculation the former massachusetts governor is planning to prepare a stronger iowa offensive but he s decided to skip socially conservative family leader forum tonight in des moines. rick perry, ron paul, herman cain, rick santorum and michele bachmann have committed to that event. joining me, political reporter for the washington post. good morning to you. nice to see you. good morning. good to see you. with newt gingrich s rise in the poll comes scrutiny. bloomberg reported he collected $1.6 million from the freddie mac and washington post wrote the think tank gingrich found