mitt romney will try to make it 3 for 3, while his rivals hope to hand him his first defeat of the campaign season. tonight, correspondent jonathan serrie is in south carolina to give us a sense of what people there are saying about the race. g.o.p. candidates are in south carolina trying to connect to voters hard hit by the economy. at papa breakfast nook in spartanburg, bread and butter issues are on everyone s mind. what are the most important issue to the south carolina voter in this election? jobs. jobs is number one. then our security overseas. we don t hear enough from the candidates about these security overseas. south carolina, two of the most important things. getting the debt under control. trend more socially conservative than counterpart in new hampshire. romney s win in that state and iowa can only help says
mitt romney will try to make it 3 for 3, while his rivals hope to hand him his first defeat of the campaign season. tonight, correspondent jonathan serrie is in south carolina to give us a sense of what people there are saying about the race. g.o.p. candidates are in south carolina trying to connect to voters hard hit by the economy. at papa breakfast nook in spartanburg, bread and butter issues are on everyone s mind. what are the most important issue to the south carolina voter in this election? jobs. jobs is number one. then our security overseas. we don t hear enough from the candidates about these security overseas. south carolina, two of the most important things. getting the debt under control. trend more socially conservative than counterpart in new hampshire. romney s win in that state and iowa can only help says
carolina. he s also got at least from what i can tell from talking to sources a million dollars, possibly as much as $3 million, he can run a lot of television ads here and those can also have a pretty big impact in south carolina, but, again, rick perry also ran a lot of tv ads in iowa, almost $4 million worth, and he came in a disappointing fifth place. so two weeks, the key number as you said earlier, almost half of voters here are undecided, so there say lot that can happen in the next two weeks, fredricka and we ll be here the whole time. anything can happen. thanks so much, peter hanby in spartanburg, south carolina. on the topic of rick perry, he s talked about ways to expand on one of his priorities. jobs and how he can create them. americans want to have a job. that s the issue here. and the idea that there are people clamoring for government to come and to give them assistance is just wrong headed. and that s what we need to be focusing on as a people, is how do we create
there. in about 100 soldiers are on lockdown at a military base in washington state. that means no one in, no one out. commanders at joint base lewis mccord are looking for anyone who may have possession of some sensitive military equipment that didn t turn up during an inventory last month. and crowds of people packed public spaces across syria again today demanding the ouster of president bashar al assad. officials from the arab league are talking today about whether to increase the size of their monitoring mission in syria. a human rights group says 11 people died today in clashes between security forces and army defectors. all right there is a lot to digest in new hampshire where just hours ago the republican presidential contenders wrapped up unprecedented back-to-back debates. the two debates had striking differences, while the first last night on abc felt like a fight for second place, the latest, this morning, on nbc, appeared to be an all-out battle against can
amen. a very emotional game. a prayer, that prayer was for the eight alleged victim of former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky out of jail today on bail. the scandal leading to penn state s first game without head coach joe paterno in 46 years. beaver stadium was filled with navy blue. tears in the eyes of a generation of students, alumni and fan, many of them having to reconcile their loss of paterno who ran the program for so long. his departure might have seemed sudden but his fate was sealed long ago for how he handled and some would say mishandled a report that his former defensive coordinator raped a young boy in a locker room shower. paterno s son jay is still penn state s quarterbacks coach. he spoke to espn about the first of many saturdays without his father in command. joe has always taught us about the blue line at practice, when you cross the blue line, the only thing you can control is what you re doing right there. we had to imagine there s a blue lin