out of puerto rico into as rick santorum heads into the next two primaries. somewhat the opposite for mitt romney trying to gain the upper hand. he s now in puerto rico, where santorum may have offended some spanish speaker, romney is courting them in their own language. jim a costa is in san juan. what s the latest from there, jim? reporter: candy, mitt romney is in puerto rico for a series of events. after rick santorum s trip to this island, the trick is pretty simple. don t get lost in translation. mitt romney is out to show puerto ricans he is speaker that i majority. if the majority of the p we realizo ricans wish to become a state, i will support that. reporter: romney has not only written letters to voters translated into spanish, he s running a radio ad featuring his bilingual son craig also in spanish. his arrival comes after rick santorum seemed to stumble over whether the predominantly spanish-speaking island should adopt english as a condition of statehoo
i m candidate crowley, and you re in the situation room. just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnn s chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think maybe a problem for mitt romney? absolutely a problem for mitt romney. as you pointed out, in january neck and neck. now president obama is up. what s mitt romney s calling card as he campaigns he electability? what do republican voters say they want in all those dpit polls we ve been taking and all those primaries? somebody who can beat president obama. he kind of loses that argument. it s early, this is good news for president obama. we should say it s february, these numbers can change. an
imgts i go to breakfast there every single morning. i knew that mitt romney was going to be there. however many politicians have stopped there during the political fury we have in new hampshire. i didn t expect to have i was getting frustrated that he was avoiding me. at least i felt he was. he seemed to be following the cameras, and i felt like standing up saying, hello, here i am. i was the last person he spoke with. he vacated my booth rather quickly. what i didn t expect from mr. romney is how confrontational he was and argumentative. i wasn t there for a debate with him. i wanted him to answer the question, and my question was real