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When we heard from michele bachmann last night, it wasn t a concession. it was confusing. right? what is she going to do? what is that final decision she ll make? kind of made it seem like she s going to stay in, but how is she going to stay in? michele bachmann was predicting a miracle going into the caucus. what we ve seen, really, a time for prayer. it didn t work out for her. her vote total was actually only around 1,000 votes more than she got back in august when they won the ames straw poll. a sign of a flailing, struggling campaign. she may not realize her campaign is dead yet, but it functionally is. she s going to get a lot of calls today, at mark preston said, from rick santorum and newt gingrich saying, look, get out of the race. her support would logically come to them. other call she ll get, from mitt romney, please, stay in the race. because he wants that s the best possible thing for him. so, look. ....
Four years later, and he s going to endorse him. i always love seeing that stuff. it s the worst-kept secret. kinda. they ve been talking about it for a while. we re looking forward to that. then we have this new hampshire flash poll we want to share with you as well. take a look at that. i always like this because the flash poll isn t what you re used to with normal polls. it s kind of like a moment in time last night. just a literally as it sounds. it s like a flash moment of caucus watchers in new hampshire. while they were watching all of our coverage, they were asked these questions. what do you think for your poll? and look, i think romney has an interesting number. it just hasn t changed is really what that shows. except for santorum. which is kind of what romney s been doing, riding this middle ground all the time. it will be interesting to see what happens next. he s the tortoise. he s the tortoise who can t seem to push past 25% of the vote which still conti ....
Momentum from iowa. we ll see. and huntsman, 13%. we say flash poll a moment in time. last night the new hampshire voters are watching iowa and for about 45 minutes we re asking the question, what do you think this will mean for you? but this is the best part. while you know, jon huntsman is expected to do very well new hampshire s the cornerstone, make no mistake, of jon huntsman campaign. he has been focusing on that state, and he was the subject of a nasty, nasty little tweet by ron paul last night. you ready for this? ron paul tweets out, hey, jon huntsman, we found your one iowa voter. he s in precinct 5. you might want to call him and say thanks. we thought it was a hack job. we checked it out. cnn had our folks checking out our tweet machine and it really was ron paul s tweet machine. whether that will have any effect on voters, huntsman has the support he thinks he may, ....
Is he done? i think he might be. i think he might be. this is getting dangerously personal for newt gingrich, i think. he s there to destroy mitt romney. and he might well succeed if n. denting him, if he does come fourth again i think that s a real problem for him. he won t have money to go to florida. he needs the money. he didn t have the money to be in iowa. so you know, that s going to be really difficult for him. that s where rick perry has a clear advantage. by the way, ron paul also has an advantage that way, in terms of fund-raising. dana, you were there when michele bachmann bid farewell to the race today. quick flavor? reporter: it was emotional. there s no question. look, we have seen a roller coaster, every single one of these candidates i should say has seen a roller coaster up and down, up and down, up until this time. i think no one was higher and no one was lower than michele bachmann because she was the first person to win, she won the ames straw poll and how to ....
Going to be positioning himself here as the candidate who can beat president obama. that message is going to resonate with voters here. we also see rick santorum coming here, saying that he s going to be the true conservative speaking for true conservatives in the republican party. that s going to resonate as well. but this could be the land of second chances for newt gingrich. he polled very well here about a month ago with a double-digit lead over mitt romney. but that poll was taken at the end of november and early december. so it s been an eternity in political time since that poll came out. but it was clear when the dust was settling in iowa last night that he is preparing to come out of iowa prepared for a fight. well, i have one other great debate. and that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980s with ronald reagan and helped change washington in the ....