editorial director at "the huffington post" and an msnbc political analyst. let's take a look at that question, with you two gentleman. here we are going into a big weekend. it's the first weekend where it really looks like newt is going to be the front-runner, going through -- right to january 3rd. and all of a sudden we're hearing from all across the board, especially the intellectuals, like peggy noonan and kathleen -- kathleen parker. a lot of them are starting to write up now, oh, my god, oh, my god, in the modern lexicon, this guy, newt, might win the nomination. >> well, i think there's a sense, yes, that he'd do that, he'd be bad for the party. if you look at our poll, the nbc news/washington journal poll, it gets republicans to focus here on the fact, can he really beat obama? and don't forget, the anti-obama vibe, that sentiment is really what's driving republicans more