i m erin burnett. out front tonight, romney on a roll. mitt romney squeaking out a win in iowa and immediately hitting the new hampshire air waves. it s time for this pessimistic president to step aside and let american optimism that built this greatest nation on earth build a great future for our children. but are people buying what mitt s selling? conventional wisdom says the former ceo will be the republican nominee and that the quote, unquote establishment is behind him. well, we wanted to know if that is really true. so we reached out to the out front strike team, our exclusive group of the best and brightest minds in the business world in this country and asked them which gop candidate is best for the kun successfully here are the results. it turns out most do support romney. 12 of 15. two preferred gingrich over all other candidates and one person said ron paul and i ll get to that. that s really important. another thing. in a head-to-head matchup the strike te
now. rick santorum is joining us at this hour. you may be the winner. you re, by all accounts, the winner. it is a virtual tie. let me congratulations you, senator santorum. have you done an amazing job, as you well know. it was not that long ago, you were nowhere in iowa. but now it is a virtual tie. you may win or lose by one or two votes. but for all practical purposes, you re a winner. give us thought on how it feels. well, you know, this is the first step in the process and well be on to new hampshire. we will work hard and compete there. a little bit behind the curve in the sense that governor romney has been spending a lot of money and a lot of time up there. and has been running for six years. but we feel like we can go up there and compete. we have a great team on the ground. my campaign manager is from new hampshire. he started out as my new hampshire guy. he knows how to win races. he managed frank gintha s campaign up there. we have a lot of frank s campaign tha
image is taking. mr. speaker knows enough to be president but his past frightens some voters. we do not, do not expect mr. gingrich to finish in the top three. rick santorum polling in the top three. he is mad at me saying i have not featured him on the broadcast. that might be true. we tend to avoid campaign segments unless there is a media controversy and until a week ago the senator was polling in the single digits. however, we have invited rick santorum to appear on wednesday. and we did do an extensive interview with him on the radio special in november. rick per continues to poll just above 10%. campaigning ferociously in iowa and could surprise. governor perry has a lot of money and vows to continue his campaign no matter what happens tomorrow. michele bachmann another story. congresswoman must do well in iowa to continue because she is out of money. all the polls say mrs. bachmann is not in good shape.
most, you first, mark? four years ago mitt romney had to run against three establishment candidates, fred thompson, rudy giuliani and john mccain. and huckabee. huckabee was the evangelical to consolidate, a mirror image. they can t consolidate because all of them have had moments and all have sacrificed for months to run for president, rick per little bit less than the others. don t want to give up and don t particularly like each other and they all think that they can be the one to emerge from kind of a romney dilemma, a prisoner s dilemma. got together they can do what they want individually but fighting each oh, romney now, mirror image, only establishment candidate against not the three you named, but gingrich and to some extent ron paul. right. also have the same kind of backing. at that 8 a 01 steakhouse and the lobsters in the lobster tank that got through the night, the one that are still there. the 1% lobsters. don t let any lobster get out of the tank. see o
donald trump section of the book was reals interesting in the sense that, you know, he was rocketed up in the polls. but when the correspondence dinner came, obama had released his birth certificate, just a few days prior. really had set this up. he planned to go in and humiliate him. seth myers, the talent at the white house correspondence dinner, did a bit on donald in his opening. you know, obama really went some people think he went overboard in the way he went after donald in the public setting, a thousand people you know what the dinner s like. and obama really took it to him. and donald was not happy about that. you also talk a lot about michele bachmann nher feuds with tim paulentyulenty and rick per. in the short time we have left, describe that. well, the bachmanna campaign, after they won the straw poll in iowa, you know, perry had