satellite on veterans issues. tonight s lineup includes mike huckab huckabee, condoleezza rice, her first ever national political speech and new mexico governor, susanna martinez. and will there be a break-out star tonight we re not talking about? the president wraps up his college tour today at the university of virginia, charlottesville, bucking the tradition of lying relatively low during a convention, the president spent yesterday rallying young voters and managed to slip in a dig at the proceedings right here in tampa. the show in tampa, i m sure, will be very entertaining. and i m sure they ll have wonderful things to say about me. they ve hired all kinds of fancy tv producers. and the only problem is, it won t offer a path forward. and some news overnight. the obama campaign will spend thursday night of their convention next week highlighting the president s record on national security.
greater good. and we ll see. you are confident he will do that? i didn t say i was confident. but i m hopeful he will and i believe he will. he s an engineer, he s a quantitative guy. i think at some point you have to add up the columns here, and is my belief is by any way you add them up, they don t add up. have you had any conversation with mike huckabee? is he seems to be his most vocal supporter, giving a speech tonight, don t know if he ll bring it up but gave an interview with christian broadcasting network and he said here s an individual who admitted what he said was wrong, apologized, that s all he can do. the issue is not one comment that person made and reputated and apologized for. it is a litany of what barack obama has done. have you tried to convince mike huckabee to maybe back off? i haven t talked to governor huckabee about this. i think to come extent when you have run for president, been at a place when people are asking you to end your campaign, you have mor
control in florida to help him lie. he s been the purporter of this lie throughout. i don t think we ll get that tomorrow night. we won t get any numbers that says he won t be detail, but lofty. it will be i love medicare night. that s right. i will say to chris, it is better to look lie prince charles in new guinea than prince harry in las vegas. fair enough. i think he has to show he s more than an ideologue, and that he can rise to the national stage and be trusted to stand there if he becomes vice president and for whatever reason have to take over. i don t know if he can rise to that occasion. i want to say to chris, though people love ralph cram den, they didn t want him to choose the next president. tomorrow night, honestly, i think it s todd akin s night. we have his biggest defender, mike huckabee. condoleezza rice beloved and
point. almost impossible to do it in a serious way. let s say romney is first or second. some people say why can t he grow? after tonight our next question is what s next and who is best positioned? mitt romney is way ahead in new hampshire. if he wins tonight or comes in a very close second. it s hard to see the bottom dropping out in new hampshire in one week. you only get one week. it will be interesting the tone. will people go after him in a nasty, negative way. the key test for romney, can he keep new hampshire? then as it was in 2008, south carolina, as it often is in republican presidential primaries, south carolina says iowa or new hampshire win over the field. we pick presidents. hot in new hampshire then he says he will go there because he knows he needs to prove he s not just mike huckabee, he is not just a christian conservative candidate. when he won his house district
overly complicated. politics at the end is about math. 22% of the vote in and 57 votes separating ron paul and mitt romney at the top with rick santorum in the middle. as this begins to fill in, look at this. purple, that s rick santorum. the dark red, that s mitt romney. the pinkish orange, that s ron paul. i just want to show you something. this is a three-way race in iowa tonight. four years mitt romney, mike huckab huckabee, ron paul one lonely county. michele bachmann is leading in one small rural county. newt gingrich leading in one small rural county. the rest of the map, this is romney, santorum and paul. so in a close race, 22% of the vote counted, out here in the middle, you see all those empty counties in the middle, they re very tiny counties. marshall county, 1.3% of the population. story county, there s a college campus in here. ames, iowa. that s important to watch the