day ago. he also got booed on stage. first, the new polling. it shows mitt romney with a commanding 41% of likely republican voters. he s followed by ron paul at 18%. rick santorum at 8% and gingrich tied with huntsman at 7%. this in new hampshire. powell and santorum are on the rice. paul took the day off from campaigning. santorum had a full day trying to turn his near victory in iowa into gains in new hampshire, trying to sell his brand of social conservative. today at a diner in new hampshire, he was confronted by occupy protesters. then at a college event in concord, he spoke about same-sex marriage, polygamy, michelle obama s line, for the first time in my adult life, i m really proud of my country. he was booed leaving the stage. let me thank you all very, very much for being here for your time and attention. thanks. the former pennsylvania senator speaking tonight at a more friendly venue. keeping them honest had some other statements causing contin controversy, n
she s making it clear if she goes out, she ll do it with a bang. she has planned a labor day voting blitz. she ll be at a tea party event in iowa on sunday and on monday she heads to new hampshire with a late skemged speech to the same group as mitt romney. ben smith is senior reporter for politico. ben we ve been talking about sarah palin for a long time. is this is end of the end? i would never make a prediction about sarah palin. smart man. she s an unpredictable character. sarah palin will talk about
bill: very snappy reply now confirming. bill: saturday. is he going to make it justin, watch those. official on saturday in south bill: that s interesting. carolina. bill: is he going to iowa on sunday. my talking points i said romney, perry and bachmann outside chance. they are the three that really, at this point in time, have a realistic possibility of being nominated. am i wrong for doing that baier? i mean, because it s a no spin zone. that s what the numbers and all the polls say, is it not? yeah, but i mean, if you went only by the polls, you know, bill: that s because of the bill, that it would be a massive amount of botox i put dramatically different situation back in 2008. on my cereal each morning. we would have a president giuliani or a republican nominee being 45 is no easy thing. giuliani or hillary clinton would have been the nominee just by the polls. people like tim pawlenty need to make their stand here tonight and by this saturday. they realistically co
longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention
creating distance away from that heckler, i think that says something. here s live pictures right now of mitt romney out at these events. this is an opportunity for a lot of these candidates, debate tonight, straw poll this weekend, to go out and do a lot of glad-handing, to meet people face-to-face and give iowa voters a chance to see who they are outside of the edited sound bites and things like that, but sarah palin s crashing the party a little bit. her bus tour s kicking off again, she s going to be in fact, she s in iowa now. mark, how is she, rick perry, who has not yet announced his presidential aspirations, whether he s running, it s expected this weekend, but how are they sort of overshadowing or at least informing what the announced candidates are doing in iowa? well, they are crashing the party a little bit. i think perry more so. it is pretty clear that he s going to be getting into this race, having some events in new hampshire and south carolina on saturday, coming