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actually called him dude on twitter. none of my business shouldn t you be in debate prep instead of explaining yourself to me? i guess we will find out in 90 minutes whether team romney was spending too much time fighting axelrod on twitter instead of getting ready. shepard: the first dude. ed henry on the white house lawn. each has a one in shot five of winning the g.o.p. demonstration. you can watch the newly narrowed field go at it in less than 90 minutes from now in first debate since new hampshire right here on fox news channel. moderating will be special report anchor bret baier live outside the convention center down south in myrtle beach. hey, bret, what should people be watching for tonight? hey, shep, should be an exciting night. obviously the different configuration without jon huntsman on the stage. we will also be asking a couple of topics that have not been asked before in any debate. i know that s hard to believe because there have been 15 debates up until this one
just mentioned. we asked few primary voters how important is it for the g.o.p. nominee to be able to beat obama? 80% agree with you on issues. 47% true conservative. only 42%. and then who has the best chance of beating the president? 63% romney. 9% gingrich. paul 7. santorum 4. you get the idea overwhelming for romney. that s why democrats told fox earlier today they re going to run on the economy and the fact they think it s getting a little better. take a listen. while we can debate whether or not the recovery is happening as fast as we would like, the fact of the matter is, we have had 15 months in a row under president obama s leadership of positive job creation. we haven t been able to do that as a nation since 2005. that debate about jobs continued this afternoon. a senior advisor to mitt romney, it sort of ended with axelrod finally said dude, he
the ballot in the first southern primary. here is where things stand right now in the real clear politics average. newt gingrich leads newt gingrich by seven points and romney hitting a new high of 40% in a fox news national poll. that s a 17 point jump since last month when newt gingrich was actually in the lead. see that? the former house speaker has plunged more than 20 points. he is now in third place behind rick santorum. here is the real clear politics average of all the national polls. mitt romney up by 15 points with newt gingrich, rick santorum and ron paul in a statistical tie for second. 25 delegates on the line in the south carolina primary this saturday. most of the candidates spent the day in myrtle beach, the site of tonight s debate right here on fox news channel and campaign carl cammeron is there among them. how much could jon huntsman endorsement really help mitt romney? well, it s probably not going to hurt. whether it really makes a
might be the end of his campaign. shepard: could be. carl cammeron live for us in myrtle beach. special report anchor bret baier will moderate tonight s debate. he will join us inside fox report. of course, watch the debate right after the o reilly factor 9:00 eastern time, 8:00 central. live coverage of the south carolina primary this saturday, same team starting 6:00 p.m. eastern standard time. the cruise ship crash probably has some folks rethinking vacation plans. and that could be a very big problem for the cruise industry. millions of people sign up for cruises every year and we re already seeing early indications of how bad for business this disaster could really be. plus, tensions with iran. we ll see what the united states and israeli military have just agreed to do to try to keep things from spiraling out of control. that s all ahead from the journalists of fox news on this martin luther king day, fox report.