few of the romney pacs i guess can throw a few elbows. if rick perry recovers, he loves to throw punches. if ron paul wins iowa, you ll see more negativity. if he wins new hampshire, you ll romney is smart enough to know maybe ron paul winning iowa prevents a candidate like gingrich who might be more viable, that might be good for mitt romney. it s not good for mitt romney if he were to lose new hampshire under any circumstance at all. you could have a huntsman rebound or have someone come back in south carolina and make the race more complicated. mitt will go negative on paul as soon as he needs to. and as soon as he figures out how to. what you were saying about south carolina there is what we re going to talk about next. i feel like horizons are already turning to south carolina because of the chaos here. this is a great deal of fun to cover. thank you. thank you, rachel. nate silver. when you call up cabinet agencies in south carolina, the person picking up the phone say it
for whom the earth shook in 2008 when mike huckabee won in iowa. nu polling from cnn and time magazine showing romney ahead in the race that will follow iowa, way ahead in the new hampshire primary that takes place a week after iowa on january 10th. quote, romney who owns a house in new hampshire earned 44% followed by mr. paul with 17%. if it s one of this year s ç huckabees who wins, a ron paul, a rick perry, a michele bachmann, a rick santorum. if one of this year s huckabees wins iowa and mitt romney wins new hampshire, everything will have gone according to plan. we ll be no closer to knowing who the republican nominee for president will be. the first race will be an open question politically, will be on the saturday january 21st contest in south carolina. you have to win south carolina. everyone who s won south carolina has been the nominee. every single one.
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asked if it s a good idea for iowans to vote rogue and campaign for her on tuesday. we ve had no response from her office. hope springs eternal. we got a second round of pollinç out of iowa today from cnn and time magazine. like the ppp poll i just described, this date to did come out today. in some cases, these were iowa voters being polled before the christmas holiday. it s being released on the same day. in some cases, these questions were asked earlier than the ppp poll. while the ppp poll had ron paul first and mitt romney second, this one has the top two reversed. mitt romney in first and ron paul in second with 25% and 22% of the vote respectively. that interestingly reflects a five-point gain for each of them since the last time this cnn/ time poll was done. where are they getting the five points each from? well, again, look at newt gingrich. mr. gingrich s support falling from 33% to 14% in this poll in
what you re looking at right there is a campaign event that is under way right now in des moines. it s a campaign event for republican congressman ron paul of texas who you see speak there. the two latest polls out of iowa show congressman paul in first place in the ppp poll and second place in the cnn poll. more on that in a moment. the breaking news tonight is ron paul appears to have scored a bit of a coup in his effort to win iowa. shortly before dr. paul took the stage there, in des moines tonight, an iowa republican ç state senator who s named kent sorensen was introduced to the ron paul supporting crowd. up until tonight mr. sorensen had been serving as an iowa state co-chair for the michele bachmann campaign. the reason he was being introduced at a ron paul ro rally was to announce he s switching sides. tonight s been tough for me. i ve been serving as michele bachmann s state chair over the last year. and while michele has fought tremendously for my conservative