mistake by playing so hard in south carolina where romney finished fourth four years ago? last night in an odd moment rom think ended a strong answer, anti-washington answer, by losing his train of thought. now you asked me an entirely different question. beats me. i don t know. where are we at, john? well, he lost track there of the debate question but as the campaign losing track of where they should be heading? nathan gonzalez is the founder of politics stereo.com and contributor for roll call. jen sake is a former communications direct or and susan page, washington bureau chief for the first newspaper i read this morning, usa today, because it s right in front of my hotel door. nathan, i want to start with you. you have done a lot of
all right. we will exit poll you then. congressman tim scott, thank you for coming on daily rundown. thank you, chuck. up next, a check on what s moving the markets. it s a friday and weird things always happen on fridays on wall street. first today s trivia question. what was south carolina s nickname before being known as the palmetto state? the answer @dailyrounddown. the answer and more coming up on the daily rundown. on my jour,
and right now romney has got a strong organization but for the long 0 run which makes it very difficult the last 24 hours of a campaign to pull it off. one of the issues that s tied him in knots is his tax return. speaker gingrich cleverly last night release it had during the debate to almost force the issue on the debate stage. do you think he should release all of it now like his father? my strongest advice to governor romney on the tax return issue is to be clear. when you say it, mean it, and then stop talking. the answer is according to him was, yes, i will release my tax returns. yes, it will be more than one year, and then stop talking. all right. congressman tim scott, we will check back in with you apparently tomorrow. what time are you going to vote? i ll be voting early to get it over with. that way i can spend some time talking about why i made the decision i did, yes.
life. well, the campaign apparently felt so good about gingrich s response which got a standing ovation from the audience, that his daughters canceled their scheduled appearances on all the morning shows this morning. look, the bottom line is newt has channelled he s been the alpha dog this week and as joe scarborough pointed out well this morning he has a way of channelling that conservative resentment that sits there in conservative voters particularly here in the south in a way that mitt romney has never been able to figure out how to connect on that front. that s why he has the momentum. but it s also why there s a big gender gap when it comes to gingrich and that s another big question mark going into tomorrow s voting. now last night had a last stanfield for rick santorum. he s trailing in south carolina. and he unleashed a series of attacks. he fileted romney, frankly, on health care. it is an abject answer. he s standing by it and he s
take on big projects. romney s biggest fumble of the night came when he was asked if he would follow his father, george romney, who released 12 years of tax returns as a candidate and several years of his own. when you release yours, will you follow your father s exam snm. maybe. you know, i don t know how many years i ll release. i ll take a look at what our documents are and i ll release multiple years. i don t know how many years. that, of course, another new answer. another new pledge. romney s been doing contortions on his taxes the last 30 days. since i first asked him the simple question in december if he was going to release his tax returns. i doubt it. no? i will provide all the financial information which is an extraordinary pile of documents that show investments and so forth but i don t intend