get up to 25% of the vote, may be. but if you look at the totality of all poll numbers, what they show is a total collapse for mitt romney in the state of south carolina. it looks heading into this evening that newt gingrich is going to win there. five short days ago, it looked like tonight was going to be the night that mitt romney went 3-0 in the first three contests. and really effectively ended the republican contest. now tonight, it s wide open and it looks for the fist time ever, you ll have three different winners in the first three contests. it will be 1-2 instead of 3-0. we re going to find out if south carolina is the land of redemption and all sins forgiven for newt gingrich. we may not see a big coalescing behind one, but we might see a guy entrenched in southern politics pull it out tonight. on the other hand, has there ever been a candidate with so much money and so much infrastructure who has run for president for so long, have such a terrible week as mitt romney? su
handle people you could arguably say heckling him. to the tax issue. to poor debates, i mean it s like he just got on the campaign trail and didn t know how to handle any of this stuff. was this a week that gingrich won or that romney lost. it s a romney loss, it s a romney collapse and gingrich was there and he was there with the right move when the collapse came. to ed s point about money, think we have seen this before. we saw it in this campaign, rick perry came in with even more money than romney and collapsed instantaneously, i pronounced his candidacy dead after the first debate and he proceeded to do that. phil graham coming out of texas many years ago was the massive, money bags that was going to show up in new hampshire, republican again, complete collapse. so this may be, if we see the romney collapse continue, we may be seeing a failure of big money politics. a profound and important failure of big money politics.
national polls. if the director of the gallup polling is to be believed. and i suspect he is. so that makes it difficult, i think for newt gingrich, structurally as you look ahead to florida. but it will become an important state. and as you look at the money over the next week, you don t need to have the most money to whip, you need to have enough money to win. think there s no question, if he wins tonight, newt gingrich is going to have enough money to compete all the way through the super tuesday states. you know, today is, i should say, happy birthday to citizens united. citizen united turns two today. not only are we talking about money he can raise from individual people donating to his campaign. but he s an eccentric billionaire, or some other eccentric billionaire can come on and donate a multimillion-dollar chunk of change to his super pac. so the monty can be on tap from humans and from billionaires if these guys want it, does that
this congress. polls are all about contrast and you contrast him even though he may not be a good president or want to be a good president with what s going on on our party and people looking more kindly toward him. equally important the chaos going on in congress. worst rated congress in history. people say the president is not as bad as they are. you know, long-term, you know, going to be very competitive race and very close race. shepard: if ron paul does as you say he will win the iowa caucuses then the money goes towards ron paul. he has money. he doesn t need the establishment money. shepard: i meant the fight against the other. the fight is then against ron paul? i think they are already starting to bad mouth him a little bit. my sense right today is romney money is going against gingrich. gingrich could be, rick perry could be and obviously that s their focus. shepard: peter king coming out and newt gingrich coming out. the bottom line newt has many allies and fri
take money out of the cash flow situation because cash needs to flow. if it s not funded by spending cuts. this payroll tax situation right now is basically funded by a government that s able to borrow under 2% for 10 years. it s not the worse thing in the world to kind of keep the cash flowing through as i say a fragile economy. shepard: prediction? i don t know. i think by the way it doesn t matter that much. if it s two months it doesn t really matter. shepard: mike, nice to see you. thank you very much. shepard: new video from the peninsula shows divided reaction to the dear leader kim jong il s death. they ran pictures showing his dead body or i should say body in a glass coffin surrounded by red. kim jong illa blossoms. the late dictator had his own flower and who doesn t? a reporter from the associated press is the only independent foreign journalist reporting from north korea and he described how people in pyongyang are reacting to the death.