sanders brand. sanders is running kind of a different sort of campaign, above the kind of politics we ve seen in the past as part of the argument of his campaign. so this, i think, in some way mars that a bit because it reminds people what they don t like about politics. this unfair edge. if, in fact, they were peeking at clinton s data. we have a debate coming up saturday night, hillary clinton and bernie sanders. do you think it s worth hillary clinton bringing this up because you could make the case cyber data issues are complicated, for the former secretary of state? she could make that case. frankly, she s kind of starting to move ahead, if not in all the numbers, certainly in the psyche of a lot of people in the party. people are interested in bernie sanders, they like some of the messages sanders has.
last night, i think was a really strong for romney. actually used some of newt s old tricks by playing to the crowd a little bit more. for rick santorum, he s not going to do well in florida. everybody knows that he s likely to finish very distant third there but i think that santorum is running kind of a case campaign. if i m team santorum, i m telling him don t go anywhere. stay in this thing and try to raise as much money as possible to stay viable just in case a newt gingrich implodes one more time. he has twice already. if he does, he s right there. right. and the republican establishment seems to be going after newt in unison. bob dole coming out yesterday in elliott abrams article, former secretary of state going after his days in congress. rick santorum did so well last night. i m not too far he s going to pull up. i ll ask him in an hour. if he pulls out of florida early, he might lose any momentum he might have gained from the debate. if he does gain the school of thought
as the outsider, somebody who is running against the democratic leadership. but, you know, in the end on that ballot it s going to have the d next to his name. you know, he s saying he s not in lockstep with the democratic leaders and the speaker, nancy pelosi. but here s what he had to say. i m not running in san francisco, and if my opponent wants to run against nancy pelosi, it s like, what, 700 miles to the south. feel welcome. reporter: so you can see the strategy, jon. it s about the democratic candidate running kind of away from his party and saying that he s the independent-minded guy trying to get the middle and trying to localize this race. and you ve got the republicans also trying to localize and talking about spending and reining in control of spending in congress but also trying to make it a national referendum and saying a vote for me, the republican, is a vote for a change in direction, and that s happening in races, a lot of these swing district races across the co