and you just watch it and shake your head. it s been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isn t doing so well is because of those last two debates. don t you think? for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. we can t beat the money power romney himself. we can t beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prepared to go out and prepared to stand for conservatism and prepared to tell the truth and we need to run a big truth campaign that beats the big lie campaign. jim acosta is following the romney campaign. let s take a peek and share the video of mitt romney joking with reporters on the campaign flight this morning, throwing bags of chips around, carrying a birthday cake. the images of a confident man. what are his people saying he needs to do as we show the pictures now? can t hear his voice.
does not have the experience of being an effective leader. i am in fact the legitimate heir of the reagan movement. not some liberal from massachusetts. well, mitt romney has surged ahead in the race. and a win in florida could be pretty critical. cnn political editor paul stein haweshaus hauser is in tampa. we have four polls out over the past 36 hours, and they all indicate the same thing, that mitt romney is up by double digits over newt gingrich along people likely to vote in that primary tomorrow. take a look at the most recent out about two hours ago. you can see right there mitt romney with about a 14-point lead. 43% are backing him. 29% say they are backing gingrich. you see santorum and paul both further down at 11%. when you break that poll down, it s interesting. among tea party supporters, among social conservatives, these are the base voters for gingrich. but romney has the edge there. one more poll i want to share with you. take a look at this. it came out
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tuesday. that s why floridians are about to get a fresh bombardment. sounds like a horror movie or a trailer from a horror movie. it s a tram trailer for another of those superpack what s almost certain is that it s designed to damage governor romney both now and further down the road. despite romney s momentum in florida, the gallup s national polling says the fight could rage on. gingrich has a hefty lead over romney. that eight-point gap is the widest it s been since polling began earlier this month. for now they give the gingrich camp reason to continue, whatever happens in florida, whatever happened last night. what s happening now in florida is the gingrich-romney brawl. it erupted in last night s debate. we discovered to our surprise, that governor romney owns shares in fannie mae and freddie mac. maybe governor romney in the spirit of openness how much minute he has made on households that have been foreclosed. the investments that we made, have been in mutual f