candidates? the top two candidates for the republican nomination, herman cain and mitt romney are essentially even with the president. cain up by a couple of points. romney down a bit. romme in the last nine poll has been a ahead a few times, but essentially even. rick perry is trailing by 8 points. that s a little bit of an improvement for him after this last debate. the real story is that whoever leads the republican nomination is going to be pretty even with the president in the polls. patti: of course, that is the big question, who is president obama going to be taking on? let s look at your latest poll of gop voters in iowa. tell us about that. herman cain, like he is everywhere, is surging in iowa. he s got a 7 point lead over mitt romney and nobody else is even close to those two front runners. i think governor romney would be happy with a second place finish in iowa, but for herman cain, the danger, he s raising expectations, he doesn t have much of an organization in iow
the bill rape will continue to rise. all crimes will continue to rise. you think it s appropriate for the vice president to use language in such we ve got to go. you hear the vice president there make a reference to flint, as in flint michigan. last week the vice president raised the spectrum of rising crime republicans keep blocking the president s plan to keech teachers and first responders on the payrolls. in 2008, when flint had 265 sworn officers on the police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in the city. in 2010, when flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, rapes, to pick two categories, climbed to 229. in 2011, you now only have 125 shields. god only know what the numbers will be this year for flint if we don t rectify it. the vice president going through the statistics in flint. that was a week ago. republicans began complaining within minutes of that event. but yesterday in philadelphia, the vice president escalated t