it s not surprising that newt gingrich is going nuclear with the super pac attacks. absolutely. the super pac that is supporting him is getting a pay back for what was done to newt gingrich in iowa. newt gingrich has been complaining instead of fighting back. h this could have done more more gingrich if they had tried this in iowa. good look out there on the trail. thank you. discovering mitt romney s roots south of the boarder. don t forget, you can get the latest political news at our website. nbcpolitics.com.
is, saying something like that, not a benefit. my guess is his campaign will say, he is being tough and honest. but that is spin. this is not a ideal thing, we are talking about it now, it will continue to come up, jon huntsman, moving up in new hampshire has already hit romney on using that line. mitt romney is looikly to w llyy to win the primary tomorrow. in a general election he has to sharpen up because the obama team will not miss these kind of opportunities. let s look at the polls. the daily tracking poll shows that he lost ten points since iowa but still a favorite. ron paul at 20, which could be the top for him. jon huntsman with momentum, 13, and newt gingrich falling a bit behind, 11, and rick perry not a factor here. he has not been camp baaigning
press. we said there will be a thousand more people like us coming down there. it s an interesting and completely unknown aspect of the romney family story and the mormon faith. just remember, mike, what happened with barack obama s grandmother and other relatives in kenya, they were overwhelmed. it s not easy to get to mexico and remote places but kenya was farther. and remember in october, when the houston pastor said that we all know that mormonism is a cult. that was in the news cycle for a few days. it will likely be an issue as we move forward. how they all deal with it may play into the campaign as it goes ooalong. it will be a big issue in south carolina where the
employee he could worry as every young man that he could be fired. come on. i do not think that was the journey through his life worries like middle class folks are worrying. he did say he did not grow up poor, so i ve not been on that walk through life. i had a different kind of experience. as you look ahead to a general election, the truth is, president obama is, may try to come at him as a middle class warrior, he is kind of the same kind of leader as well. that is fascinating. yes, what is interesting now, you have jon huntsman with a bit of momentum, as more of a centerist, trying to play to new hampshire voters. he endorsed debt reduction and then you have the gingrich and santorum fight which is who emerges out of here to say to south carolina conservatives it s time to force the other guy out of the race. this was huntsman trying to
event, i asked him about all of today s big new attacks that put romney on the defensive including newt gingrich s attack against romney s work as an investmei investment banker. this could have the same impact as romney s ad had on gingrich. one thing, how did newt gingrich know about the ad? more importantly, this is an old line of attack that barack obama and the democrats have tried to use against mitt romney for years, which is the experience at bane, and what the record at bane shows is when governor of romney, the successful leader then of bane capital, invested in a number of businesses and some of them made it and some didn t. if you look at the total number of jobs added, it s a net positive, not a net loss. did some of the companies not make it and have a hard time?