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hours after mitt romney s double dinl it loss to mr. gingrich in the south carolina primary, the romney team outlined the new approach to the candidate, put aside the more acute focus on president obama and narrowed in on mr. gingrich. that s a quote from the article there. joining me now is former hike huckabee campaign manager, chip salts man and director for president obama, general saki. glad you re here. good morning. coming out of south carolina, the polls had gingrich tied or ahead in florida. look what s happened in a week especially as we examine the nbc marist poll numbers out a while ago showing romney up by 15 points. what is this dramatic turn around a result of, chip? do you think it s the gingrich camp getting overconfident, romney s camp scared into action? yes on both. i think happened when hurricane newt landed in south carolina, the establishment emergency network system went into full
endorsement? well, it s nice headlines and it gets people like us talking about it. they said they would not, these group of leaders, would not call on newt gingrich or rick perry to get out of the race. the gingrich forces insist the vote was far more split than the santorum endorsement indicates. and the polling in south carolina shows that newt gingrich not santorum who appears to be the viable consensus conservative other than mitt romney. he is in the low 20s and san p tore um in the mid teens. if you add them up, we have a winning margin, because they are splitting it, and again, look at 2008, hike huckabee, and thompson split the vote and mccain won with 33%. and part of the drama of this, the huntsman decision is
caucuses it starts counting. republicans will start choosing candidates in a campaign after everyone you see here and a few you don t, have been the front-runner or the front-runner or may soon become the front-runner. some of these boxes may soon be empty. politico s roger simon said iowa caucuses don t pick winners, they eliminate losers. a lot of people could continue on from here even if they don t place well. a loser here may take new hampshire. someone else could win south carolina and yet another may win florida. it s just been that kind of a campaign. the polls here reflect it. take a look. the latest from the des moines register, mitt romney and ron paul in a statistical tie. rick santorum close behind. newt gingrich fourth and fading. rick perry fifth and climbing slowly. michele bachmann in single digits. that poll came out over the weekend. arg showed romney in front. paul, santorum and gingrich essentially tied for second. it won t be dull and every move matt
eric: difference between establishment republicans and conservative republicans. some would call them tea party republicans or farther right republicans. romney 25 could be considered establishment. 75 may not be romney. could be all congregating behind one candidate. who is that one. cope in mind iowa in 2008, huckabee won and then you had romney and then you had fred thompson and mccain came in fourth. you are logs at a have a rite of different factors. how these men and win respond where they actually do have to go around. romney just got the george h.w.en doors. the same with the dan yil endorsement. for the first time the american people are really having a say and we are saying enough of business as usual. we want answers. we are going to ask hard questions and we want the people to perform.