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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120104:02:02:00

is the most organized campaign gets people there early and in this case the paul campaign did that and four years ago the romney campaign was the most organized and they were over stated so this is why this could be somewhat of a long night. it s going to be a while until we think we even have a clear leader let alone a clear twosome. it is a three way tie with this trio for real. it s not just based on nervousness about the entrance poll. it s based on the data we re seeing come in. that is fascinating. chuck todd, thank you very much. i do want to add one piece of news to what we re able to report tonight. that is the former new mexico governor garret johnson. never got much traction in his effort to run for the republican nomination. recently dropped out of a run for a republican nomination to seek the libertarian party s nomination for president. we are hearing tonight that gary johnson has dropped his bid for the libertarian nomination and instead will be endorsing ron paul. let

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120104:02:08:00

go in a small town. and they are also very open to political events. and if this remains the way it s beginning to unravel, this will break to help santorum because he is the one that has somewhere to grow because bachmann and others may be more inclined to go at him than paul. so if this stays bunched up like this santorum is the one that could make the appeals to the bachmanns, to the other conservatives, and he has gingrich ready to start smearing mr. romney so all he has to do is stay in the top three and he starts leaving his way because gingrich becomes his hatchet man. if he can get one of two of the other right wingers who can t get paul to go with him he can come out of this with momentum. how does it actually work? we all know the dynamic we re watching for is to see if they can gather around a non-romney candidate. that is the thing we ve been watching through the entire year

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120104:02:06:00

going to say is represented by mitt romney here. okay. who has become a tremendous hawk on things. the libertarian wing, antitax antigovernment wing which is ron paul in the extreme. and rick santorum being what i call the pizza ranch candidate. pizza ranch being the pizza chain here in iowa owned by an evangelical christian and rick santorum campaigned at every single one of the pizza ranch restaurants throughout iowa to the point where it became his official place. i guarantee you that 80% of the patrons of the pizza ranch chain around iowa are turning out tonight for rick santorum what is it about pizza? dominos is pro life. it s interesting. i guess the bottom line is our anecdotal information, our reporting matches up with what tamron hall just gave us, rachel, from the entrance polls. thank you. i appreciate it. i think the idea that the pizza ranch candidate would become sort of one of the three legs of the republican party stool would

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go in a small town. and they are also very open to political events. and if this remains the way it s beginning to unravel, this will break to help santorum because he is the one that has somewhere to grow because bachmann and others may be more inclined to go at him than paul. so if this stays bunched up like this santorum is the one that could make the appeals to the bachmanns, to the other conservatives, and he has gingrich ready to start smearing mr. romney so all he has to do is stay in the top three and he starts leaving his way because gingrich becomes his hatchet man. if he can get one of two of the other right wingers who can t get paul to go with him he can come out of this with momentum. how does it actually work? we all know the dynamic we re watching for is to see if they can gather around a non-romney candidate. that is the thing we ve been

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