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
it. all of these are blue or swing states. you might look at the map and say arizona, that s as red as red can get. that the state is starting to trend towards blue with the burgeoning hispanic population there. but nevada it, iowaen an certainly michigan are going to be vital to the president s re-election efforts. the mike viqueira from the white house for thus afternoon. thanks. the republican presidential candidates have been bashing president obama s address while they re on the road in florida today. larry kudlow interviewed mitt romney for his show tonight. romney told him that many obama s millionaire s tax is aimed directly at him. while newt gingrich told the today show he liked obama s rhetoric, but that was it. well, it s designed to commit me if i m the nominee, if i happen to be not the nominee, he s trying to divide america and try and say that republicans are all about the rich people. look, republicans are about middle class americans. i m fighting to help midd
old-fashioned retail campaigning, and we are in the last week, mitt romney t. gingrich, bachmann, perry have bus campaigns going, and we re talking about a really small audience, what, 119,000 iowaen voted in 2008, so what s your strategy if you re any of these folks, what s your closing argument? who do you aim it at? they can switch the votes in the middle of the caucus. so it s a very, very fluid process, including when the actual ballots are being cast. again if you re romney, your strategy has to be an ant-gingrich strategy, which seems to be working. it seems the iowa voters are taking a close look at newt gingrich and the closer they look, they don t like what they
with people among the first to cast votes next year. we talked to folks who live had iowa about their lives and what they want to see from the candidates. i was born and raised in iowa. been here my whole life. i have two children and my husband and i have been married 14 years. started coming in 1983. and i started on a piece of paper with a logo while i was basically unemployed. and i sort of tried to find my way in the world. somewhere between 120, 130 employees, all full time. we have some part time for summer students. we started in 77 and it s a family operation. we re a little bit different in the midwest and the livestock operations just because of i think we know how to be lean when we need to. three different iowaen with
with people among the first to cast votes next year. we talked to folks who live had iowa about their lives and what they want to see from the candidates. i was born and raised in iowa. been here my whole life. i have two children and my husband and i have been married 14 years. started coming in 1983. and i started on a piece of paper with a logo while i was basically unemployed. and i sort of tried to find my way in the world. somewhere between 120, 130 employees, all full time. we have some part time for summer students. we started in 77 and it s a family operation. we re a little bit different in the midwest and the livestock operations just because of i think we know how to be lean when we need to. three different iowaen with