politics.com, it s the first time that santorum has been in the lead character as conservative foil of the on again off again mechanical front-runn front-runner, mitt romney. you are right, if you go back and look at polling you ll see everyone to now rick santorum they have rose and fell. perry rose fell and rose and fell again. romney never goes above 30%, i usually dismiss it and we have talked about it. it s always a lagging indicator and it s notity a national election, the people saying i am for this person. now, we are getting very close, super tuesday, you have ten states voting. it s going to be a national election that means the polling, more important than it was say a
ron paul now running in fifth place. it gives you an idea how dr dramatically things can change in two months. how will the field look come january. hear what the senior advisor to george w. bush says. he s a well known fox contributor, best known for his white board, the one and only karl rove. sir, how are you? fabulous. how are you, sean? you want to add more texture. i understand you have a perspective going back to 2008 that s pretty interesting. what have you got? first of all, let s use one set of numbers which is the real clear politics average of all the recent polls. you re right. herman cain has come from nowhere to lead in that by 25. mitt romney at 24. rick perry at 11, and newt gingrich at 9. now, the real clear politics average is a good way to get sort of the outlieliers by averaging recent polls but it s a lagging indicator. herman cain sort of peaked two
ron paul now running in fifth place. it gives you an idea how dr dramatically things can change in two months. how will the field look come january. hear what the senior advisor to george w. bush says. he s a well known fox contributor, best known for his white board, the one and only karl rove. sir, how are you? fabulous. how are you, sean? you want to add more texture. i understand you have a perspective going back to 2008 that s pretty interesting. what have you got? first of all, let s use one set of numbers which is the real clear politics average of all the recent polls. you re right. herman cain has come from nowhere to lead in that by 25. mitt romney at 24. rick perry at 11, and newt gingrich at 9. now, the real clear politics average is a good way to get sort of the outlieliers by averaging recent polls but it s a lagging indicator. herman cain sort of peaked two
shepard: this is studio b and i am shephard smith at the bottom the hour. red across the board with the cow do you down 400 points, foreign debt and the job market and manufacturing and the european central bank all pushing investors to sell off if an enormous way. it has been a broad-based sill off with financials leading the way and commodities, though, cheaper today, as well, and oil has gone way down, below $87 a barrel, which means maybe the price of gas will come down. maybe. it is a lagging indicator. the bank of new york is reporting today that instead of giving you interest on your big dollar deposit, you have to pay to keep your millions with that
percent in ten trading days. we were off eight sessions in a row physical a small bounce back yesterday and, today, the bottom has fallen out, bank of america is way done, and gold is down, and oil is way down which means the price of gas could come down, but it is a lagging indicator. you will not miss a moment on white news channel. neil cavuto at top of the hour. i am peace. we are told that is all the polygamist cult leader warren jeffs said today during closing arguments at his trial in texas. according to court observers he spent the majority of the time staring at the floor. he has 30 minutes to deliver closing arguments and throughout that time we are told the judge counted down the minutes outloud and just before warren jeffs time expired he looked up and stared down each of the individual juror in each individual set of eyes, one by one, before he mumbled the words