security guards could haul him away. the crazy part gives the goalie a red card for violence. he was clearly furious and had to be restrained by the other players. his coach then pulled the entire team off the field to protest the ref s call. it s not exactly clear when the game or if the game will be rescheduled. coming up at the top of the hour on morning joe, new polling points to a changing race in iowa while newt and mitt fight over who is the front-runner, a third candidate is now sneaking into contention. when we come back here we ll huddle around the water cooler to watch jon huntsman rock out on the piano with late night host david letterman. it worked for bill clinton with the saxophone. [ female announcer ] you use the healing power of touch every day. the healing power of touch can be even more powerful.
that sense of scrap. instead of capitalizing on the biggest opportunity that republicans have had probably in how long? they re going to put someone nasty it s 1980. i can t believe it. that as complete waste. good luck to you and new polling points show a shifting dynamic in several key battle grounds where eroding support for democrats could spell trouble for president obama. here is usa today and gallup. they surveyed voters in 12 key swing states around the country all of which were carried by the president in 2008. since then the number of republican leaning voters in those places has jumped by five points while the democratic ranks had thinned by nearly the same amount. in those swing states, the president is trailing mitt romney among registered voters by five points and newt gingrich tops president obama in the battle grounds by a three-point edge. this is completedly out.
representatives with a republican majority. so i wouldn t underestimate him. new polling points to a shifting dynamic in several key battleground states where eroding support for democrats could spell trouble for president obama. usa today and gallup surveyed voters in 12 key swing states around the country, all of which were carried by the president in 08. since then, the number of republican leaning voters in those places has jumped by five points while the democratic ranks have thinned by nearly the same amount. in those swing states, the president is trailing mitt romney among registered voters by five points. and newt gingrich also tops president obama in the battlegrounds with a three-point edge. president obama will speak with u.s. troops in north carolina tomorrow as the administration marks the end of the american-led war in iraq. it follows a white house meeting with iraq s prime minister nuri al maliki yesterday, just weeks
of his eight or nine polling points be in terms of how to fix the outcome of this race, which is now a gingrich-romney race? well, it also could end up going, some of those votes, to perry. this favors newt gingrich because once again we can see what newt is doing with his outlandish statements that you discussed in the program. he is appealing to that tea party crowd, to that base and that s what you have to do in a primary. now, it won t get him through the general election. well, that s what i want to know, joe. that s the problem. you ve got to play to his base in the primary. right. but how does any one of these guys come out and really compete with president obama in a general election? what does this say about the whole crowd and how do they
it s coming from fundamentally different places. when you talk to occupy wall street people, they think washington is owned by wall street, and they are mad because washington has not done enough to fix the economy, and when you talk to tea party people, they think people have been overrun by special groups they have been on the program. and what they think the problem in washington is, that it s taking money from the top to the bottom, and one of the key polling points around that is that when you poll tea party people they think government does too much for black people, and that s one of the markers of whether you are in the tea party or not how you respond to the question. this is just a fundamentally group of people that you are talking about, and it doesn t matter what the candidates are talking about, the base here is