same guy. reporter: rick santorum s interest in politics was evidence even while he was a student here at penn state. he majored in political science. he organized a group of college republicans. and he was so successful at doing that, he was named coordinate over president reagan s youth effort here in the state. when santorum was a sore more, went to work for state senator doyle coreman, who says even back then, santorum was nope for expressing his opinions. if he disagreed with me, he told me. and we would debate t. this is a picture of senator santorum and my parents. reporter: coreman s son, jake, worked for santorum and now that jake coreman is himself a state senator, his unique perspective on santorum i was set up, right up his alley. why is that? because, first of all, he s hard worker. you know, he will never outwork rick santorum. reporter: he has been outworked, in 2006, santorum lost his re-election bid by 18 points, the largest margin of defeat for any
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