the language of the ghetto remark made it into that ad. according to a count by the new york times, gingrich mentioned ronald reagan s name 55 times in the past 18 debates. in another romney super pac ad, questions the entire reagan story. from debate, would you think that newt gingrich was ronald reagan s vice president. i worked with president ronald reagan. ronald reagan. ronald reagan. president reagan. but in his diaries, reagan mentioned gingrich only once. reagan criticized gingrich saying newt s ideas would cripple our defense programs. on leadership and character, gingrich is no ronald reagan. last night, gingrich returned fire on the attack. governor romney was against ronald reagan. governor romney 1994 senate race he was opposed to going back to the reagan/bush policies. governor romney was giving money to democrats to suggest that governor romney is more reagan-like than i am is an act of total fantasy. the candidates were doing their best to play to the
cruise liner is suspended. rescue diver face new difficulties while the captain may face years of prison. i m wolf blitzern charleston, south carolina. you re in the situation room. just releasing right now, a latest poll showing a tightening race. newt gingrich is charging ahead, trying to keep the fight for the republican nomination going, and the new cnn/time/orc poll shows him closing the gap here in south carolina. mitt romney remains the front-runner with 33%. gingrich up now, though, to 23%. rick santorum third at, and rick perry 6%. joining us now our chief political analyst gloria borger and time columnist joe klein. gloria, let me say, the gap seems to be narrowing in these recent days. what evidence do we see? take a look at this, wolf. in the poll we did january 4th to 5th there was a 19-point difference. now, in our current poll there s a ten-point gap. i think we can explain that by the fact that quite honestly mitt romney hasn t had a good week. and the