up to her death today because that was photos from a day and a half ago, but yes, as you were saying, she was supposed to and preparing for a huge event happening tonight with her mentor and the man who basically made her career, clive davis. as many as about 80 performers, r&b stars, the who s who of hollywood and the music world are at the beverly hilton right now for this gala where she was supposed to present, possibly supposed to perform, and that s now become an impromptu mourning session and tribute session to her, and of course, page, as we all know, the question is what will happen tomorrow at the grammy awards. you can bet it is a hectic scene there as the organizers are trying to figure out how they wrap their minds around this latest development and how they incorporate it into music s biggest night. this is a huge story for the entertainment industry out there. isn t this, wouldn t you say, gina, on par with the michael
organization could be effective and romney won colorado last time. you have a straw poll in missouri, but that doesn t control delegates at all. and then three weeks later, you have michigan and arizona. and michigan was romney s father s home state. he was governor there. and romney won it last time. so if romney wins on tuesday, the race won t be over but it will be a strong advantage to romney. if gingrich wins on tuesday, romney will have a chance at coming back in february and the fighting will probably continue. and wouldn t you say, dick, thaurz a possibility that mitt romney has already got part of it in the bag because they ve got the early voting down in florida. he has led for quite a while. during the early voting time as well and something like a half a million absentee ballots have been requested and 350,000 early votes already. yeah. i think that s absolutely true
romney is proving decisively that the moderate vote is about 23%. our chief political analyst gloria borger joins us now. one of the key questions we begin to answer in iowa is how different will 2012 be from 2008? here is the map from 2008. president obama carried iowa. this is the general election. let s go back and look at the republican caucuses. here s my big question. here s the middle of the state. this is mike huckabee. these are the small towns, rural evangelical voters. can we say with the split, will the evangelicals be as powerful this cycle as they were in this state last cycle? i think the question is will as many turn out this cycle as they did last cycle? last cycle, 60% of the voters around were evangelicals. some of the polls we re seeing now are only 37% or so might be evangelical. i think you would have to say mike huckabee. wouldn t you say mike huckabee brought out the evangelical voters. now they re not a solid block.
wouldn t you say, honey? i fold my socks. i do. but lately, we ve been using k-y® intense™. it s this gel that stimulates arousal. she s a screamer. .so that big moment feels like nothing i ve ever felt before. pretty loud. and it s scientifically proven to. [ female announcer ] k-y® brand intense™. k-y s first and only arousal gel proven to intensify female satisfaction.
he promote her let s move initiative. 11% said the apology is enough, but 89% said no, he should become involved in that campaign. folk diagnosis not specify the level of involvement. we will ask that question at another juncture. that does it for this edition of news nation. you can catch news nation every weekday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. richard lieuy is in for martin bashir next. have a very, very happy holiday. . wouldn t you say, honey? i fold my socks. i do. but lately, we ve been using k-y® intense™. it s this gel that stimulates arousal. she s a screamer. .so that big moment feels like nothing i ve ever felt before. pretty loud. and it s scientifically proven to. [ female announcer ] k-y® brand intense™. k-y s first and only arousal gel proven to intensify female satisfaction.