himself said, he is the gin side the frame on the frames you buy at the store. we have the exit polls from nbc news. i thought this was interesting in terms of by income. under the this is the breakdown of south carolina by income. 73% make under $100,000. only one that mitt romney one were the people that make $200,000 or more. he was winning i think mitt romney and we are going to talk about it more lay other the show. to what you are saying, dave, about the this issue that he has and ginrich s alternative, romney seems to have thought at one point he can win, he can score points in the kind of conservative tribalist mode by being mr. 1% and forgot, i think, that s not actually appealing to actual republican voters despite the ideology. can i make a slightly different but i think recommend point. mitt romney played defense the
he, that kind of rhetoric, would be seen as inauthentically conservative, insufficiently republican at this moment. that s an indication of the party dave, thanks for joining us this morning. really appreciate it. thank you. our pregame show for today s sunday morning political talk show right after this. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self?
citizens united, i don t want to belabor this too long. but i exchange is important. i just want to have one more close the loop on this one part. i will no. i m actually going to give thank you last word. here s what i want to hear you say before we turn our attention back to mitt romney who is having a bad sunday morning. okay. so there s not citizens united is nothing new. interpret first amendment law correctly. all that sufficient is protected on the first amendment. i will concede that. what s the solution if that s the case. the solution is vastly greater transparency and david was talking about one six-year term for the presidency. there is a fundamental interesting concept. i don t know if we go there, parliamentary system. radical ideas out there. what the public has got to appreciate is this is a fundamental tension between our desire to limit the amount of influence that wealthy people have which is crazy outrageous corrupt and i was in that
it is fascinating. a week ago, no one thought that this was going to happen. talking to my staff four day ace go thinking that sunday s show should be a kind of look back at the republican race. a season finale. i said that. those were my words. we should be like can we cut boyz 2 men. newt gingrich finished with 243,000 votes or 40%. mitt romney finished with 167,000 votes. 28%. rick santorum, 100,000 votes, 17%. ron paul, 77,993. total number of votes from the first three contests. this is eye opening. these are all votes, all three states, it is close actually. mitt romney just narrowly edging out newt gingrich. i most important interesting thing to me has been the way