re-establish himself, to reinvigorate his campaign. he was going to be walking down this very street to meet with voters before having a town hall meeting later this afternoon. well, all of that is off the table now. he s back in texas reassessing his campaign. and leaving everyone to scratch their heads, wondering what s going to be happening with south carolina in the days to come. we know that mitt romney has already acquired some backing from governor nikki haley here, but rick santorum has also spent a lot of time in south carolina. expect him to come here soon to appeal to the conservative voters of this state. and as they wake up today, south carolina voters are going to be finding out they re exactly in the position that they wanted to be in when they moved their primary up to ensure that they would be the first southern primary of this race. they wanted to be the ones who maintain that tradition of actually being able to say, we re the ones who pick the true front-runner, the
digits. now he lost by eight votes. this is something he can take and recruit volunteers, recruit money and say, listen, i have the washington experience and i am the anybody but romney candidate that does not have the personal flaws that newt gingrich has, or the foreign policy flaws that ron paul has. or who the flub we ve seen at the debates that rick perry has had. he can start solidifying that base. ge down to south carolina in a politically savvy state that s used to seeing him in washington from his time as a congressman and as a senator and start galvanizing that conservative base, and if he can do that and start raising the money, he can start making himself more of a formidable candidate moving forward from here. this is something that will definitely give him that bounce if he takes advantage of it properly. i get it. gets bounced. i don t know how much bounce you need to move beyond new hampshire, and then to south carolina and to florida. i almost feel like howard dean r
1990s as speaker of the house, somebody who is into changing washington, or do we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact, will be pretty good at managing the decay, that has given no evidence in his years in massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. let me be clear because i think it s important given all the things that were done in this state over the last few weeks. we are not going to go out and run nasty ads. we re not going to go out and run 30-second gotchas. but i do reserve the right to tell the truth. and if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on
momentum from iowa. we ll see. and huntsman, 13%. we say flash poll a moment in time. last night the new hampshire voters are watching iowa and for about 45 minutes we re asking the question, what do you think this will mean for you? but this is the best part. while you know, jon huntsman is expected to do very well new hampshire s the cornerstone, make no mistake, of jon huntsman campaign. he has been focusing on that state, and he was the subject of a nasty, nasty little tweet by ron paul last night. you ready for this? ron paul tweets out, hey, jon huntsman, we found your one iowa voter. he s in precinct 5. you might want to call him and say thanks. we thought it was a hack job. we checked it out. cnn had our folks checking out our tweet machine and it really was ron paul s tweet machine. whether that will have any effect on voters, huntsman has the support he thinks he may,
this is 2012, last night here in iowa. but i want to go back to 2008. remember, 2008, that was huckabee. huckabee was the story in 2008. and he s this orange in the middle. he took the whole sort of center swath of iowa. and down here, this peach, that was ron paul who only had 10% of the vote back in 2008. just that one little county down there in southeast iowa. and then the whole middle here went to mike huckabee. and you haditt romney in the red around here. and then, of course, around des moines and a county here in the south. let s go back to 2012. you can see that that huckabee momentum went to rick santorum. he got this middle swath of this very rural part of the state here. these are small farms. these are people who many of them said that they were voting for values reasons. right here down the middle. and then look at what happened with ron paul. he came in with 21% of the vote. ron paul, instead of having one little county, ron paul came up here and got a lot more momentu