110,000. see, i think if ten people showed up and mitt romney couldn t get over two and a half of them, why can t he improve his 25% over four years of campaigning. spent $10 million. it s $9 million newt is going to put on him between now and new hampshire and south carolina is going tonight problem. there s nothing but blue skies for governor romney tonight provide he had finishes in the top three. his most dangerous opponent that emerged during this, you know, year of asininity as lawrence pointed out was speaker grinchings and spe gingrich, and speaker gingrich has been hobbled by the pros nez iowa so the most dangerous opponent governor romney had to face is going to come out very weak. i will say this by governor huntsman. his calculus what happens in iowa doesn t affect what happens in new hampshire, that he could campaign in new hampshire pretending iowa didn t matter what. will be interesting to see if in fact senator santorum has a good
what is your sense of where the movement is going since the pollsters stopped? well, i think santorum does have a lot of momentum right now. you see it out on the hustings with senator santorum. but i think romney, too, is showing a lot of strength. we simply don t know. on the republican side, they re doing callbacks, trying to gauge that level of intensity. they re doing a lot of crowd estimates and trying to judge enthusiasm. but there s a great deal of both intensity but a lot of questions. there are so many undecided voters, a lot of volatility. we ve been talking about it for weeks. look how many republicans have been up and then down, all is that alternative to romney. here s the point of strength for romney tonight. that is his opponent is not a candidate. it s a constellation of social conservatives. nobody has yet totally emerged and then separate from that, you have ron paul. i talked to a prominent
it s so extraordinary. you can t predict what kind of president anybody will be until they are in that office. that s a wise assessment actually. thank you, nicolle wallace, i think all of better of you, i mean, madam. thank you, jennifer. jennifer, you re strong tonight, very strong. you don t like romney tonight. up next, we ve got the final word on herman cane s 999 plan. next in the sideshow. i don t get this anyway. i think it s better than 666 from what i ve heard. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. [ cellphone rings ] cut!
all three of us may be talking about the entirely wrong cast of characters so i m not ready to count anybody out. i need to i need to check in with to i need to check in with you, haven t talk with you for a while, nicolle, do you think herman contain would be a great president? he would be a great nominee for our party. how can you ever know? no one can predict. the job is extraordinary. that s why i write a novel about the presidency. it s so extraordinary. you can t predict what kind of president anybody will be until they are in that office. that s a wise assessment actually. thank you, nicolle wallace, i think all of better of you, i mean, madam. thank you, jennifer. jennifer, you re strong tonight, very strong. you don t like romney tonight. up next, we ve got the final word on herman cane s 999 plan. next in the sideshow. i don t get this anyway. i think it s better than 666 from what i ve heard. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc.
orlando as well. it seems as if rick perry may have read your power play where you write the following. the for romney hits perry on social security, the more republican primary voters who mostly agree with perry will be annoyed by this line of attack. so when perry was given an opportunity to respond. he tried to focus on president obama, then a few jabs with governor romney at the end. do you think he s reading power play ? i think what you are seeing right now you called it sparring, and this is like before a heavyweight prize fight that the could combatants are sizing each other up and looking for each other s vulnerabilities. perry s people are making it plain. here come some knockout jabs when they come after romney tonight.