carlrove.com. ed rollins managed ronald reagan s re-election campaign in 1984. he ran mike huckabee s campaign in twalt. now a fox news contributor. with me now and good morning to you. how are you? bill: i m doing just fine. what does that map tell you, ed. there is still uphill battle for romney but he is making great momentum. the president s team is spending millions and millions of dollars in negative advertising and doesn t seem to be knocking him back. the map is still the same. if we don t win florida, ohio, virginia, can t put it together. if you don t win florida, that is 29 electoral votes. you can t make it up anywhere else. ohio is a real concern. florida we ve done pretty well. there is couple polls indicate we re slipping back. bill: why is ohio such a concern? as you answer that, quinnepiac came out, florida, ohio and pennsylvania has barack obama hitting 50% mark? that is obviously a bad
two years. prior to that he was speaker of the house in florida, representing representing a district in miami. with regard to the percentages, i know you are not a pollster, but they say that mitt romney needs to gain at least 35% of the latino vote to have a chance of this election. maybe little too late and i think that number came from george w. bush gaining 35% of the latino vote, the last time he was elected. and so that seems to be kind of a magic threshold and you can t win the general election with less than 35% of the latino vote. looking like he can t get to that to that number, especially with what s happened on the immigration front are especially with the president running an end-around on congress and really seizing an issue that hispanics care about so much. so it s definitely an uphill battle for romney to get to 35% of the latino vote.
mitt romney begins a battle in south carolina am it s five days until the primary in new hampshire, right? that s where the massachusetts governor has a solid lead. so where he decided to spend most of the day was south carolina. i want to restore to the america the principles that have made us the power house morally, economically, and militarily in the entire world. romney, his pal john mishg ca mccain and nicky hayley were there. the primary is january 21st. the palmetto state has the highest concentration of he van gellic all voters in america. nearly half the population identifies themselves as evangelical. in iowa, 44% of ivevangelicals voted for rick santorum. but here s what s amazing. we don t know if romney made end roads with the christian right in south carolina because the last polls are about a month old. and while even a week ago convention wisdom would that romney didn t need to win south carolina, a lot has changed and many see it as a must-win state if h
hampshire, right? that s where the massachusetts governor has a solid lead. so where he decided to spend most of the day was south carolina. i want to restore to the america the principles that have made us the power house morally, economically, and militarily in the entire world. romney, his pal john mishg mccain and nicky hayley were there. the primary is january 21st. the palmetto state has the highest concentration of he van gellic all voters in america. nearly half the population identifies themselves as evangelical. in iowa, 44% of evangelicals voted for rick santorum. but here s what s amazing. we don t know if romney made end roads with the christian right in south carolina because the last polls are about a month old. and while even a week ago convention wisdom would that romney didn t need to win south carolina, a lot has changed and many see it as a must-win state if he is to be the presumptive nominee. john avalon joins us. gloria is also us with. first of all
do you have the tape? yep. let s listen. guess what, joining us now on the phone, edith and carolyn. let s give them a big round of applause. yeah! by then it was almost 3:00 in the morning and all of us were giddy to begin with. we were having a little fun covering this election. wolf, this is the back story, he never left the computer, never goes to the restroom. anderson was sitting on the floor. erin took her shoes off. what was john king doing? he was looking at the map, looking at the percentage of this and that. everybody was working but we were having some fun, too. erin burnett had lovely shoes but she took them off. she was standing. gloria borr glor gloria borrow borrowi gloria borger was sitting but erin was standing. i felt bad for her. the situation room, 4:00. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. the president makes his own choice for 2012. the battlefield shifts to primaries in new hampshire and south carolina and count mich