phone. as he travels from myrtle beach, site of last night s debate. to florence, south carolina. can you ask him to grade our first hour. i need an a, i haven t had an a in a long time. hello, all y all. you re right about harvard, hard to get bad grades there. but the thing about my grades is i m not a fear critic. i m trying to figure out who is going to be the nominee of the republican party. half of my grade is performance, how they did on the stage. but half is, what does it do to their chances of being the nominee. so romney got a b. now, you re right, his performance was a lot lower than a b. but chances of being the nominee are still very high. but that brings his grade back up. newt, i gave an a minus, very strong performance. but i still don t think he went all the way into making it more likely that he s eventually nominated. does that make sense? no! no! it makes sense to me. i don t care who wins on the stage, if it s whether the