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Jon: right now republican presidential candidate herman cain is riding a tidal wave of popularity, leap frogging over other republican candidates in the polls, putting pressure on both rick perry and mitt romney. but are the mainstream media taking this guy seriously? fox news digital politics editor cries stierwalt joins us with a look at that. he has improved tremendously, especially sthaeupbs debate in florida. it was a crucial turning point for herman cain. he had gotten attention in a another debate, people liked him, the republican base responds to cain as a businessman and nontraditional politician at a time when republicans are looking for people out of the box. jon: but he has had shaky moments as well, especially when asked questions about foreign policy and that sort of thing. does it suggest that this is going to be primarily an election about domestic issues? well, everybody, ....
You re inside, you have to take stands on these issues and doing things, palin is having a ball and romney is sweating it out in iowa. things are more comfortable on her bus. jon skwraopbd things have coalesced now that donald trump is out, you ve got mitch daniels out, you ve got mike huckabee out. which of these candidates is enjoying the groundswell of support that comes with some of these other candidates out of the race? is it possible to break that down? the one person who we know is the winner is tim pawlenty. he s been in the race, he s been steady eddy, and he s been out there. he had a very successful role out this week, basically, on a truth telling tour, taking on sacred cows like ethanol, social security, and other things, and he got a second look from the conservative activists who were basically going to decide this election for the republicans. and i would say the tea party is having a good week in getting a second look that he needs very much to create momentum for h ....
You re supposed to elect legislators to represent you, but i guess if the legislators won t represent you, and run off to illinois and hide, maybe this is the result again, huh? well, democrats probably need this unrest to quiet down pretty fast, because if this keeps up, people in wisconsin are going to get very uncomfortable with the level of discord, broken windows at the state capitol, mobs pushing people around. they probably need this to quiet down pretty fast or there could be a political consequence for them to pay. jon: cries stierwalt, chris, thank you very much. you can read his column today and get powered up every day with chris power play. just go to foxnews.com, click on the politics tab there up at the top of our home page. jenna: tough weather today out there. the flood-ravaged northeast seeing more heavy rain today, tornadoes tearing through dixie, when some folks expect relief. we re going to have your forecast coming up. plus diamonds, how a girl s best friend ....
Acrimony has come in because people are just frustrated and they re just tired and ready to get out of washington. jenna: are you speaking for yourself, too, chris? no, ma am! i m looking forward to it, i live here. i m looking forward to christmas. i think they re too pooped to pop, i don t think they re going to make it until friday, i think they ll finish up this week and we ll all be having our goose and not lame duck. jenna: thank you very much, cries stierwalt. he doesn t get break because every day he has the political power play on our politics blog, up to the minute news, no matter in it s a holiday or anything else, also, analysis as this lame duck session races to a finish. sort of races to a finish, right, gregg? it s muddling along. waddle is the word. gregg: they re encompassing accomplishing more in six days than six months. jenna: maybe they should have a commercial break. gregg: how about christmas once a month? i d vote for that. so would my daughters. a series ....