murderer they believe to be someone who is on the run and won t be showing up today. they haven t gotten any cooperation from his family. that judge will decide if, that judge will decide what to do with those pardoned, so there is that likelihood that they could be taken back into custody if these pardoned are somehow overruled. you mentioned the attorney general. explain to me the argument here on behalf of the a.g. to overturn the governor the pardons why he would want to overturn them. forgive me. no problem. what the a.g. is going to argue, he says according to mississippi state constitution, these people who apply for these pardons have to announce these, that they re applying for these, for 30 days, in newspapers, wherever these crimes might have occurred, and the a.g. is saying that insufficient notice is given in some of these cases, the murder suspects only published these announcements for 28 days inn stead of the required 30 days, and the a.g. is going to
numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. that s a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below that in order to associate that with actual job creation. today s report is good news. we need to see it continue in the long term. all right. felecia, thanks so much. let s get to politics now. we begin in iowa. yes, iowa. just when you thought it was a done deal. well, the des moines register is reporting the iowa caucuses were a virtual tie, that rick santorum actually ended up with a 34 vote advantage and that romney did not win. so now we re being told that in about 15 minutes we re goin
down a peg or two. his job rating is surprisingly strong in these two states and this is not what the conventional wisdom would have said. 44% in a very a supposedly red state in south carolina. the president leading both gingrich and romney, both in florida and both in south carolina. i assume you were as surprised by some of these numbers as i was. he s getting pretty much what he was getting nationally and that s surprising in terms of the president s support, but when you match him up against the likely rivals, either romney or gingrich, what obama is getting in these two things is he s getting what he got four years ago. he narrowly carried florida. he s ahead in florida, but his numbers is pretty much what he got. he s still in the mid-40s and that s where he ended up last time in south carolina. you have a tough republican
important moment of the debate, when he says i m not going to be a bomb thrower and speaker gingrich says sometimes you ll tell the truth even if it makes people, confuses the timid. you re digging the gingrich line here. it s a common sense libertarian line and going back to the appeal with young people, by the way. that doesn t surprise me. i see this strong libertarian bent with young people. they ll come to the polls, by the way, and it will be an interesting question. there are only two on the ballot. bob was out of that tradition where romney will be a stronger candidate. yes. i have to leave it there. class of 94. very nice. you guys will become hot commodities. bob ehrlich, thank you all. pleasure. are you fed up with the ways of washington? there is a former big city mayor who is forming his own political party and one of the perks when
conservatives, 70% of electorate in both of these states pretty much, 50% saying they re tea party supporters, so that s where the energy is and that s where the votes are and that s where gingrich s support is, so romney s problem is seen as a moderate and seen as being out of step with where the electorate is going. so there is a feeling. that s why in these earlier polls he was never really breaking into the 20s nationally. now what we re seeing in all of these states and the four that we ve done in nbc and marist, we see not only a surge for gingrich, but a decline for romney and that s really the problem, and i might make one other point on this. it s not just the gap. it s the intensity of support. gingrich s following is far more intensely committed to him than romney supporters are to romney. so there s a double problem going for romney right now. there was a similar one that we emphasized in our conversation last week, but i want to emphasize it earlier in