number of verbal gaffes that we have seen out of mitt romney in the last couple days, you know whether the pink slips or saying how much he enjoys firing people. i do think there is the potential that some republicans could look at this and say oh my goodness is this another massachusetts politician keep sticking his foot in his mouth. why do you think rick santorum didn t get more of a bump in new hampshire after iowa? seeing him on the campaign trial, a little bit myself, i felt new hampshire voters even if they were just didn t like him very much, i wonder what your perception is why santorum hasn t gone further with the iowa performance. it s interesting because the friday before the iowa caucuses, i did an interview with santorum, i asked him, i said a lot of people think you re kind of nuts to be going to new hampshire you should go right to
paul s message, so i really don t see a lot of overlap there. one thing that i think could there. one thing that i think could help huntsman or some other non-romney candidate is just the number of verbal gaffes that we have seen out of mitt romney in the last couple days, you know whether the pink slips or saying how much he enjoys firing people. i do think there is the potential that some republicans could look at this and say oh my goodness is this another massachusetts politician keeps sticking his foot in his mouth. why do you think rick santorum didn t get more of a bump in new hampshire out of his performance in iowa? seeing him on the campaign trial, a little bit myself, i felt new hampshire voters even if they were just didn t like him very much, i wonder what your perception is why santorum hasn t gone further with the iowa performance. it s interesting because the friday before the iowa caucuses, i did an interview with
and debt collectors. the republicans are saying no. who has the better side of that argument politically? politically the white house believes the president is going run against a do nothing congress and he has done so effectively. affected his approval rating so far in the battle back and forth as we continue to live on the precipice every few months in washington of the next crisis. back to the campaign, i think republicans come back to what is the starkest difference between president obama and the nominee and that is where the argument for the newt gingrichs and the rick perries and they say that they are more of a stark change, a different change than mitt romney. and they are hoping to gain steam that way. so far it hasn t taken off, especially not here in new hampshire. chris: a.b., do you think that the white house is playing between the payroll tax last month and now the fight over the consumer financial protection bureau, do you think that they are winning on that? i th
examples where new hampshire voters are fiercely independent and they will vote for the person who brings the best message and who in the end can win the nomination. we are usually behind the candidate that carries the nomination and i think that will probably happen again here in new hampshire if that person can sustain their campaign past new hampshire. that has been a different primary cycle. no question about that. chris: pick up on that. the surprise sox few surprises. romney came in with the 20-point lead and still has the 20-point lead. santorum hasn t gotten much of a bounce. really hasn t moved at all so far. the other history lesson here is that most republican voters seem to pick people who have been on the ballot before. we look back to nixon, regan, bush as you mentioned. even mccain. the fact is that romney has been on the ballot before. so has dr. paul. we have the first and second place people who have already been on the republican ballot. known commodities and the
voters are fiercely independent and they will vote for the person who brings the best message and who in the end can win the nomination. we are usually behind the candidate that carries the nomination and i think that will probably happen again here in new hampshire if that person can sustain their campaign past new hampshire. that has been a different primary cycle. no question about that. chris: pick up on that. the surprise sox few surprises. romney came in with the 20-point lead and still has the 20-point lead. santorum hasn t gotten much of a bounce. really hasn t moved at all so far. the other history lesson here is that most republican voters seem to pick people who have been on the ballot before. we look back to nixon, regan, bush as you mentioned. even mccain. the fact is that romney has been on the ballot before. so has dr. paul. we have the first and second place people who have already been on the republican ballot. known commodities and they seem to be going into the e