it was romney that decided, this is the way to save money and cult down on the free ride for uninsured people who go to the emergency room. jonathan gruber is quoted as saying, mitt romney should be considered the father of national health care reform. not a comment that the romney people are going to be particularly excited to read. as you pointed out in your piece. he wasn t meaning it to be an attack on mitt romney. he was meaning it to be a compliment. he was very complimentary of romney s role in the state license. he is a little bit disappointed about the way that romney has tried to walk away from the state law now that he is running for president. mike isikoff, thanks a lot. we are going to dive a little deeper into the new nbc news marist poll from iowa/new hampshire. who better to do it than lee
merrihof. the man that is going to help us with our state primary polls coming forward. we have two more coming next week. let s start with, lee, what struck you the most, on one hand, you look at the horse race numbers. they weren t surprising. romney had big in new hampshire. a muddled field in iowa. the difference is in the electors in new hampshire. flush it out. night and day. you are talking about in iowa, a far more conservative electorate. 82% in iowa tell us they are a conservative, an evangelical christian or tea party supporting. 17% say they are all three. the number is 59% in new hampshire. only 7% tell us they are all three. for a lot of reasons, not the least of which, i was far more conservative. it is a very different race in iowa. no clear front-runner. even though people in new hampshire aren t sold on romney,
in neck but under the hood, some greater solidfy kags for the backers than for romney. that s something to watch, particularly in a low turnout environment like iowa. lee, our partner at marist. we allow other folks to go under the hood. we put up all of our cross tabs, everything we got on both states. it is online, msnbc.com at first read. we have it all up there, likely electorate. potential electorate. see you next week. all about transparency. thank you, sir. our super tuesday political panel joins us next and even more news from the campaign trail. first, the white house tip of the day. it was nothing yesterday. today, pretty good opening offer, tuscan chicken. i never quite know what it means when you add the tuscan. is it more rosemary, oregano? you are watching the daily