a boost from iowa. he was in single digits in new hampshire before. in the beginning it was double digits. i don t think he s really had a one-state strategy and having that national campaign to be able to go the distance is so important. martha: i think he s been in new hampshire 31 times. i think he says it s not a one-state he spent a lot of time there. well i have to tell you, though, in the last couple of months really his focus has been iowa where mitt romney has been here much more than he has, and when you look at who is supporting governor romney, he really has that grass roots support from strong conservative support here. myself, many other strong conservatives that are supporting him here. i think it will be very helpful on january 10th. martha: when you look ahead at south carolina and florida, interesting that the real clear average right now has gingrich up pretty substantially in both south carolina and in florida, and you talk about rom no s national status as it g
new hampshire as well? i m not surprised that he got a boost from iowa. he was in single digits in new hampshire before. in the beginning it was double digits. i don t think he s really had a one-state strategy and having that national campaign to be able to go the distance is so important. martha: i think he s been in new hampshire 31 times. i think he says it s not a one-state he spent a lot of time there. well i have to tell you, though, in the last couple of months really his focus has been iowa where mitt romney has been here much more than he has, and when you look at who is supporting governor romney, he really has that grass roots support from strong conservative support here. myself, many other strong conservatives that are supporting him here. i think it will be very helpful on january 10th. martha: when you look ahead at south carolina and florida, interesting that the real clear average right now has gingrich up pretty substantially in both south carolina and in flori
western iowa out here is conservative country. rick santorum really chewed in from rom no s lead from 2008, four years ago and took a lot of this vote last night. in the eastern half of iowa you see ron paul, ron paul is the blue area here, ron paul shooed into mitt romney s lead in this part of the state in 2008 as well -p up around the border i up here. right here in the center part of the state is polk county where you find des moines and dallas county to the west. romney did better this year than he has four years ago, that s part of the reason he was successful by eight votes last night. let me take you back four years ago and i ll show you and compare. we ll jump out of this right now. and we ll go to stand by one second, guys, give me a moment here, on the historical map we can show you how it plays out from the iowa caucus four years ago. that was a year when mike
western iowa out here is conservative country. rick santorum really chewed in from rom no s lead from 2008, four years ago and took a lot of this vote last night. in the eastern half of iowa you see ron paul, ron paul is the blue area here, ron paul shooed into mitt romney s lead in this part of the state in 2008 as well -p up around the border i up here. right here in the center part of the state is polk county where you find des moines and dallas county to the west. romney did better this year than he has four years ago, that s part of the reason he was successful by eight votes last night. let me take you back four years ago and i ll show you and compare. we ll jump out of this right now. and we ll go to stand by one second, guys, give me a moment here, on the historical map we can show you how it plays out from the iowa caucus four years ago. that was a year when mike
jobs have been created in the obama administration. we are not hearing an honest accounting from the right. we can keep them honest with this digital ability we all have. jon: how does romney take on what alan just said regarding bane capital and job loss? there are two different issues. romney will only take so favre taking eight seconds of gingrich praising romney s record. there is plenty to criticize there as well. what romney has to do is just look, rom no has to run his own campaign. he has to go positive. the viral video videos, especially when they are hidden. they appear in your inch box on facebook and you never know who posted them, who edited them, so the most powerful thing to do is i think the ads you showed earlier from romney, a positive ad in iowa with the kid in the corn field, i think those are more effective from rom no