in order to be awarded all the delegates that if you would win the state, the romney folks have that stuff down to a science. todd, there may not be a long haul. if newt gingrich pops off four quick victories, mitt romney isn t going to be looking like anybody. not only will he not look inevitable, he may not look viable. conversely, from ron paul wins iowa, or does so well there that he takes any wind out of gingrich s sails, you know, right now mitt is still the front-runner in new hampshire, but if gingrich doesn t go into new hampshire with a certain amount of momentum, you know, i think what mitt needs to prepare for is either a quick knockout, which starts with ron paul winning iowa or the long slog. let s talk about the possibility of the more interesting to me, the more compelling case is that newt wins iowa. he then goes on and challenges mitt romney in new hampshire to the point of coming in second, and then kills him in south carolina and goes on and beats him in f
and david made this point also. that if it looks like newt is the only alternative to business as usual, newt could still win. that s how he won the first time. exactly. exactly. people like lynn martin, moderate republicans from illinois said, rather than lose again, we ll go with him. i want you to comment on this. this is really pitchfork fighting. here s ron paul going after gingrich getting all those deferments from the military back in the 60s. now, when you go after people s military deferments, this is in the gut. let s listen to this. he s probably as aggressive with the military as anybody. he support always the wars in the middle east, a thousand times more than i would. but, you know, when in the 1960s, when i was drafted, you know, into the military, he got several deferments. he chose not to go. now he ll send our kids to war, but at that time, he said that one person wouldn t make a difference. he didn t know how he could make a difference. so i see that as im
it would really sell. and finally, looks like someone neglected to think this one through. any visitor to the campaign website of newt gingrich, newt.org, can glance through a number of news articles plucked by the candidate s campaign team. well, obviously the ones that shed a positive light on newt. but how about this headline from cnbc news that recently joined the lineup. a tale of three wives: life on the campaign trial. is that a reminder himself that gingrich himself is on his third marriage? why put that in the spotlight? well, not quite. the article is a piece on callista gingrich as well as the wives of two of his opponents, but still the headline points in a very different direction, don t you think? anyway, up next, the race to 270. president obama has several projected paths to win the number of electoral votes he needs, and tonight we ll take a look at what the republican nominee, gingrich, romney or whoever needs to do to win.
that seems logical. your take on how mitt romney can turn it around and be the front-runner in two or three months now. similar to what steve said, i would boil it down to two things. number one, you ve god to do something that he s been unwilling to do this entire year, which is to take the fight directly to his opponent, whether it s bachmann, perry, all of these others have had their 15 minutes of fame, and mitt just sort of stood back and let it all unfold. you re starting to see them do this now, i think, yesterday, he called he called gingrich s ideas zany. so they are doing this. the second thing is to gird for the long haul. right now you re seeing this classic battle of intensity versus organization, and the intensity seems to be on newt s side, but newt really has very little organization. if this becomes a protracted slog, if no one can stay white-hot for months and months at a time, that means it does come down to organization very mundane things about, did you file a
what is his involvement? is he driving people like newt out, driving palin away into th sunset? killing the chances for a debut by bachmann i would not discount bachmann, because she knows how to win a close race where she had a lot of money thrown at her in minnesota. it s kind of a swing district she won. i think she ll be running a real campaign. but for trump, it might have kind of started out as a joke, but he wakes up now and sees himself and he s a very competitive guy tied for the lead or running a solid second or third in polls, maybe you have to to take it seriously now. i don t think he d do very well are the voters serious? voters voted for ross perot after he said that north koreans had run across his lawn, after he was making incredible statements that suggests that he was certifiably nuts, and after doing that, 19% of the country, chsz basically the only part you know 40% is liberal, 40 is there s only about 20% in the