that mitt romney s greatest strength/biggest weakness is that in every single national republican primary poll that i ve seen he s somewhere between 18 and 25. he almost never goes above 25. you don t win in a one-on-one or maybe 13 a three-person race with 25% of the vote. that s always been his problem. go ahead. here s the math. i m loving the math. we re really getting logical here. if he can t get above 25, you throw a big chunk of cain s vote over to gingrich, he starts going into the mid-30s, susan. he s way ahead. he starts getting a lap on romney. right. although, remember, if cain withdraws entirely, some of those voters will go to romney. some of those voters might go to ron paul, kind of liking an iconoclast. we just think the lion s share will go to gingrich. look what happens, though. gingrich starts with a base of low 20s. you throw 10 on top of that, it s mid-30s. he s already ahead of what romney s been able to do. this has been romney s nightmare scenario, tha
iowa or nationally and you just throw that 15 over to gingrich, or say you throw 10 of it or 12 of it over, he gets, chris, a big chunk of a lead on mr. chrisi think one of the things that s been overlooked as we ve gone through this litany of conservative alternatives that have risen and fall season the fact that mitt romney s greatest strength/biggest weakness is the fact that in every single national republican primary poll that i ve seen, he s somewhere between 18 and 25. he almost never goes above 25. you don t win in a one on one or maybe even a three-person race with 25% of the vote. that s always been his problem. go ahead. here s the math. i m loving the math. we re really getting logical here. if he can t get above 25, you throw a big chunk of cain s vote over to gingrich, he starts going into the mid-30s, susan. he s way ahead. starts getting a lap on romney. right. although, remember, if cain withdraws entirely, some of those voters will go to romney.
that s a big chunk of change to throw to somebody. if you just throw that over in iowa or nationally and you just throw that 15 over to gingrich, or say you throw 10 of it or 12 of it over, he gets, chris, a big chunk of a lead on mr. romney. chris, i think one of the things that s been overlooked as we ve gone through this litany of conservative alternatives that have risen and fall season the fact that mitt romney s greatest strength/biggest weakness is the fact that in every single national republican primary poll that i ve seen, he s somewhere between 18 and 25. he almost never goes above 25. you don t win in a one on one or maybe even a three-person race with 25% of the vote. that s always been his problem. go ahead. here s the math. i m loving the math. we re really getting logical here. if he can t get above 25, you throw a big chunk of cain s vote over to gingrich, he starts going into the mid-30s, susan. he s way ahead. starts getting a lap on romney. right.