And what romney has to do from here on out is get 50% of the delegates, which is going which with proportional voting this time is harder than it would have been in the past. i do believe, governor, if romney can see this through, just standing you know as an observer, that he would be by far the strongest candidate against obama. when you look down the road in this scenario, when you look at is it perry, he s going to camp out and wait in south carolina. who of them or is it governor huntsman. who of the other candidates do you view as the potential long-term threat? i m very partial to governors. i think governors in a campaign like this even though they might get beaten down occasionally can project executive strength and so i think perry or huntsman as a bigger threat? huntsman is running in the wrong primary. governor perry still has a chance to come back. and we take nobody for granted. i think the romney campaign has done one thing right and they
to south america. tonight mitt romney s feeling so confident about his chances here in new hampshire, he isn t even here. romney started a quick trip to south carolina this afternoon leaving his rivals to snipe at each other. newt gingrich belittled rick santorum s record going all the way back to when they served together in the house, back in the 1990s. gingrich then was speaker. if you think of us as partners, he would clearly in the historical experience would have been the junior partner. he s not a bad person, i want to be clear about this. well, senator santorum took offense at being labeled a junior partner. i was no junior partner in that. newt was not involved in that revolution when it came to the corruption and scandal. he sat on the sidelines. cnn s jim acosta keeping up with the increasingly pointed back and forth. romney s in the lead here. i assume if gingrich and santorum are going after each other, they think they ve got to fight for second or thir