sport. and these guys ought to get used to the fact that there will be moments like this when in politics, particularly in a multicandidate race for presidency. they re not permanent enemies. they are potential lies and adversaries all the time. martha: is there an alliance already between the two candidates, between romney and paul and agreement what might happen if there is some sort of contested deal at the convention? no, i doubt it go that s far but i m shower there is a marriage of convenience. both say different reasons important to keep santorum down. paul wants to keep santorum down because he gets conservative votes. if he can say i m solid guy on earmarks you re the phony conservative, fake conservative he says in his ads he wins in places in virginia where he is on ballot, santorum is not and places like arizona where santorum is hurting. this is all marriages of convenience. you know what is interesting though to me, martha? let s step back a minute from last night s deb
feeds by some of the candidates or groups supporting them. there is not very much time left of nonholiday variety between today and january 3rd, the evening when the caucuses will take place but i think this picture is fluid and i think in iowa you take the polling a little less seriously or with a little more skepticism than you do in other states because you re trying to sample what turns out to be an electorate that is a very small percentage of the population. jon: we mentioned it before though. ron paul s supporters are very fervent and pretty well-organized. he has got a great internet operation. what if ron paul wins the iowa caucuses? well, if he wins the iowa caucuses he will get a big boomlet of attention. it is my own view there is a ceiling on ron paul s support. while in a multicandidate race he might be able to win with a percentage in the 20s, he is unlikely to beat, prevail in a within one
that speaker of the house pelosi at 50% negative, that s a big, big negative. you have to say the same about governor palin. it means, should she run, she has a large shot to do to soften the numbers and try to change people s perception. hard to do in america. and i think the sectsd thing about this poll is that it reflects, we ve also been talking about. the spread doing extraordinarily well, african-american, latinos, age 29-year-olds and asian and a base that s no insubstantial of a multicandidate race for president. one more item, leaving troops in afghanistan until 2014. 53% overall. the democrats, the president s potentially really going to face an uprising with the democratic race over this war issue. i think that is a possibility. there s question in the poll about what issues are most important to you, and for a liberal democrat, the issue of