candidates taking shots at each other. at least over the holiday weekend. they elected to pull all of the attack ads with the notion that all of the bad mojo won t play well with the iowa voters in the run up to the caucuses, jamie. jamie: it is an interesting strategy. it s the holiday season. let me ask you about donald trump. we haven t heard from him in a while in terms of the race. we haven t heard the last of him, have we? certainly haven t heard the last of him. today his camp has announced he has changed his voter registration status to unaffiliated and independent. according to a source close to him, that gives him the option to run as an independent if he doesn t like the republic no, nominee or think the republic nominee can beat president obama. however, we have heard from the board of elections throughout in new york that he missed the deadline to make this affiliation switch official in the upcoming year, jamie. jamie: oh so interesting. always is thank you so much,
where people actually learned about him. that s now happening as well. that s the entire point. of course gingrich is getting some of the protest vote for people who don t like romney. if he really wants this, he can blake it work. eric: john, we have seen the non-romney support go to michele bachmann she jumped to the top. rick perry, and herman cain and now ron paul, newt gingrich was in there as well. have you ever seen a race where so many have shot up astronomically and then inflamed out so quickly? this has been like a game of whack a monthly where sometime somebodiens head backs up. the news s. news media knock themselves down. i would imagine looking it the poll numbers there is a lot of whipping and nashing of teeth at the specter of ron paul potentially winning iowa and becoming the republic no, ma am he knee. eric: tammy, john makes a good point. yeah.