masogenist. even worse? i think racist masogenist she flubd it because she told them afterwards not before. but again where was the stigma? it looked like a very reluctant candidate, the candidate was dragging her feet on this. sort of like romney you wonder why it took the strategists, there is always one of those cases the candidate is driving this. we don t know yet. stick around. we ll talk about bush and obama, 43 and 44 getting together today. should be interesting. breaking bread, all sorts of stuff. we asked mitt romney third presidential nominee from massachusetts in the past 25 years but before romney who was the last republican presidential nominee that called the bay state home at the time of his nomination? the answer? calvin coolidge, 1924, the most recent presidential nominees hailing from massachusetts, john kerry in 04.
wouldn t you expect in the middle of the campaign that somebody did this. i don t get why it s become such an issue, politically. i really don t. i share with arianna huffington, i don t get why anyone would think the president is wrong or using it to say a year ago today, we made the decision, we made the decision to go after osama bin laden. it s fine to wallow around in it? look at the history of politics. look what the republican party has done to the democrats. they hung that around every democrat running for office in the land. look what they have done with national security. look what they did to john kerry in 04. do you think they would not be accusing barack obama of being soft on everything had this decision not been carried out successfully? i think you put it all in
decision not to run for reelection or by the time that happened do you think he already knew he wasn t going to try to get reelected? i don t think it had anything to do with that. even early on, although it s very popular now, it was 40-40 in favor and against, the rest undecided, i think there were other factors. i don t think he ever intended to run for reelection, he wanted to get on the national stage, run in 08, a lot depended what happened with john kerry in 04, once kerry lost, he was off and running. his unfavorability was in the high 50s, he could have come back. i think he could have gotten reelected, not a certainty, but he s a strong candidate, he did a decent job in a lot of ways as governor, nothing overwhelming, but he was very competent
get re-elected? i don t think it had anything to do with that. even early on, although it s very popular now, it was 40-40 in favor and against, the rest undecided, i think there were other factors. i don t think he ever intended to run for re-election. his whole idea was to get on the national stage, run in 08, a lot depended what happened with john kerry in 04, once kerry lost, he was off and running. his unfavorability was in the 50s, 50% or so above. but he could have come back. i think he could have gotten re-elected, not a certainty, but he s a strong candidate, he did a decent job in a lot of ways as governor, nothing overwhelming, but he was very competent governor here in massachusetts. frank phillips, state house bureau chief for the boston globe. i always enjoy the chance to
endorsement from the state s gop king maker. they fought wars over their borders. now a strange bit by pakistan s turning, once again fwloob a big tourist attraction. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. the first vote in 2012 presidential campaign is only eight days way. we re talking about the republican caucuses in iowa. and the latest poll there shows what amounts to be a dead heat. ron paul is on the rise. he s the current favorite of likely republican caucus goers. the arg poll shows him with 21%. mitt romney is next at 20%. and newt gingrich who s been slipping a bit lately is at 19%. there s a big drop off to rick perry at 9%. michele bachmann, 8%. jon huntsman at 6%. rick santorum who has been to every iowa county and there are 99 counties. he gets only 4% in this arg poll. with time running out, you would think the candidates would be pounding pavement in iowa but santorum on this date, is the only one on the campaign trail and he is getting a visit w