experience for them. i don t have the authority to commit to you. i will commit to you that i will make the case for you. every university in this country is hoping that it will be them, so we have a great opportunity to choose. thanks to you where to go with the president. if he s ready, many schools will be ready to receive him. david axelrod, good luck in the campaign. i mean, that thank you, sir. joe kleine covers politics for time magazine and one of the great reporters in the country and i m always fascinated by his thinking. look at the polling. i understand through the grapevine, you don t think newt has this locked. polling is showing that newt has problems in the general but we look at our polling at the wall street journal and nbc. he looks really good for the nomination. we ve reached a stage in the campaign that i really love because every day you have a week s worth of events happening, and today you you re beginning to feel a little bit of ron paul boom. you
every university in this country is hoping that it will be them, so we have a great opportunity to choose. thanks to you where to go with the president. if he s ready, many schools will be ready to receive him. david axelrod, good luck in the campaign. i mean, that thank you, sir. joe kleine covers politics for time magazine and one of the great reporters in the country and i m always fascinated by his thinking. look at the polling. i understand through the grapevine, you don t think newt has this locked. polling is showing that newt has problems in the general but we look at our polling at the wall street journal and nbc. he looks really good for the nomination. we ve reached a stage in the campaign that i really love because every day you have a week s worth of events happening, and today you you re beginning to feel a little bit of ron paul boom. you had that one outlier poll yesterday that had paul one point back of of gingrich. you have the romney attacks, the
makes the times when he s learning over the lectern and starts leaning down home and makes very simple arguments on the economy. that s when he s at his best. you know, he might stray off the reservation a little bit when it comes to talking about the president. let me ask you about the president right now. do you have a sense that that he really wants to run against mitt romney still, and really i m sorry? no. he wants to he still wants to run against newt? yeah, i think he do, and, you know, the point that you were raising before about whether a long republican campaign is a really interesting one because those of us who are covering this crazy primary race are kind of like locked on to one of newt s moon colonies, in a hermetically sealed world where all of a sudden people can talk about privatizing social security as if it isn t the most ridiculously controversial idea out there. yeah. and the longer that the
i think you may see a changed dynamic on the stage tonight. but, bill, the fact is, since november, look at this poll. newt has dropped 12 points in iowa. uh-huh. usually newt can afford to be graceful and will we see newt fight with both barrels? i don t think newt can help it. i think there s going to be a great show tonight, al. this is a last chance saloon, okay? i really believe mitt romney can almost afford to ride it high and talk about the economy but for michele bachmann, rick santorum, rick perry, ron paul, this is their last chance on stage, maybe forever, and their last chance to bring newt down. newt s numbers are already
to the nomination. there s really a narrow path for the republicans. and the thing about mitt romney is new hampshire, michigan get thrown into a battleground that i don t think newt brings in. and i would also argue pennsylvania. obama s not so strong in all those carry states. anyway, good luck with that. shameless plugs? what have you got? at bloomberg, we go back in time and we look at although in the debate tonight we ll hear reagan was the greatest guy who ever lived. we go back and see, they weren t all fans back in the 1980s. newt really was a kemp guy, not a reagan guy. and ron paul left the party to run as an independent as part of the reagan years. steve? a new poll coming out on monday and a surprise trial heat that everybody will be talking about on tuesday. three-ways, i smell a three-way. i m not sure it s an e-mail i ll