at 27%. that is a slight uptick, a couple of points. mitt romney, 21%. ron paul, third at 12%. again, this is a national poll. if you look at one of the latest polls out of iowa, ron paul is actually in the lead. this is iowa state university. 28%. you can see gingrich at 25. romney at 18. what about the state of this race? endorsement today that the romney campaign is touting, george h.w. bush saying he supports governor romney s deal. that is the expected establishment stamp of approval for romney. better to have it probably than not but i don t think it will get conservatives on board who romney needs. the interesting thing about the poll with respect to ron paul if you look deeper in the poll, the issue that they care about, they care about the job and economy and debt and deficit. size and scope of the federal government. number one thing they said
poll that puts newt gingrich at 27%. that is a slight uptick, a couple of points. mitt romney, 21%. ron paul, third at 12%. again, this is a national poll. if you look at one of the latest polls out of iowa, ron paul is actually in the lead. this is iowa state university. 28%. you can see gingrich at 25. romney at 18. what about the state of this race? endorsement today that the romney campaign is touting, george h.w. bush saying he supports governor romney s deal. that is the expected establishment stamp of approval for romney. better to have it probably than not but i don t think it will get conservatives on board who romney needs. the interesting thing about the poll with respect to ron paul if you look deeper in the poll, the issue that they care about, they care about the job and economy and debt and deficit. size and scope of the federal government.
political university for the republican white house hopefuls. most of the candidates have iowa on their schedule today with their eyes on the all important caucuses less than three weeks away. that includes newt gingrich, who s iowa campaign director resigned amid reports he called romney s mormon faith a cult. but do voters share that view? and could that be part of the reason why mitt romney isn t xweting even more support? joe johns is joining us with more. he s been taking a closer look at romney s faith. i guess the question is mormon faith holding him back? it s a very good question, wolf. what about mitt romney s faith? one of those questions a lot of people dismiss as soon as it s asked. partly because people of both parties say they want to believe that a presidential election ought to be about issues, that the religion is beside the point, but polls show it was an issue four years ago and believe it or not, it s still an issue today. when you ask a lot of evange
romney emerged as the overall winner, but what romney needs is not take perry on one on one, he needs to have the tea party vote divided and bachmann got back into that mix and i think that helped romney in the long run. bill: you have seven hours to catch your breath and we ll see you at 5:00. i ll catch it as best i can! bill: thank you bob, andrea. martha: very darth vader. this is an incredible act, the amazing rescue, caught on tape, next.
the border is a treasonist comment. if you re president what will you bring to the white house? motorcycle rider i would bring my harley-davidson and my motor cross bike. jonathan martin, last week jon huntsman appeared to understand what he had to do at his debate, he had a plan and went forward. at this one it seemed as if he was lost the whole time and didn t know how to read the crowd. i think he s trying to find it still. i m not sure in a republican primary kurt cobain shoutouts are the way to go. he s got a much more dire problem and that is, given his poll standings, what are the threshholds going to be for these debates coming up and is he going to be in these debates. that is the big question now facing huntsman. quickly ron, how much new life did michele bachmann breathe back into her campaign? i think she brought in enough life in her campaign that mitt romney can sigh a sigh of relief he s going to have her around a little longer to beat up on perry. ron and