fault for this debate structure? sure. the democratic dewaits are primarily moderated by liberals and the republican debates are moderated by liberals. bill: i don t know how he knows who s voting for whom. rick santilly has been at the mercantile for six years screaming in favor of the tea party. any idea that you can rig a debate favorable, unfavorable, you can have this or have that is a bad idea. you have got to play it down the middle. you have got to be trait and journalistically sound. you have to have journalistic soundness. i dare anybody to stay you were
women care about immigration. they were brimming with solutions and ideas. that s what we re going to see in the cnn debate, i think. more solutions coming out from the 17 candidates. and i think that will resonate, undoubtedly, positively, with the women of america. i know it did with me and it did with the female millenials. and that debate is on the 16th of september. oh, i can t wait. cnn, i can say this, aauthoritatively, as a candidate in the debates, cnn s dewaits were excellent. they were abstlutly faabsolutel. i can tell you, if i was on the stage, and i m very content not guilty to be. i think they were done very, very well.
congressman paul, thank you for your time. let s start with the state of the race. governor romney wins narrowly in iowa, well ahead here in new hampshire and we have a poll out here tonight, shows him with a double-digit lead in south carolina f he goes 3-0 out of the gate, almost impossible to stop, no? it s going to be difficult but not impossible. i mean, it s still only two primaries after the two. but history snows you do that you are in a pretty strong position, but we haven t had the first primary yet, we had a caucus and have to wait and see what happens on tuesday. you have two dewaits in weekend? right. you view them as maybe the last opportunity to convince republicans romney s not your guy? why would you in new hampshire and maybe beyond? why would you say wrong guy, mitt romney? i don t think he is very republican when you talk about being a conservative. you know, we say he is a flip floerp and people called him that all along, he s been on both sides of mo
13 sailors being held captive by somali pirates in the straigts f hormuz and draws the fury of the iranian military. up first tonight, the enormous stakes of new hampshire s presidential primary. remember, it was in this state, the hillary clinton come back four years ago, sent the democratic race into the historic obama/clinton marathon. tonight, starkly new numbers suggests former massachusetts governor mitt romney could all but lock up this cycle s republican race this month with a one, two, three punch. his iowa victory was by a mere eight points, but consider this, a new wmur poll just out tonight in new hampshire has romney leading with 44%, ron paul a distant second at 20%, rick santorum, gingrich, tied third at 8%, governor huntsman one point behind them at 7%. the race moves next to south carolina and this is eye-popping. new cnn/ time /orc polling shows governor romney leading 37%, a two to one lead over the second place rick santorum. governor romney is in the dr