demographi demographics, of gender, of politics. people are feeling this from the urban to the suburban, congressman. absolutely. and no one could look at this incredible tragedy and believe that the answer is to either have every child carry a gun in their lunchbox or to arm principals or teachers. this is not the answer. congress has a responsibility here. legislatures across the country have responsibleties. city councils have responsibleties. but they will move very decisively if they know people are behind them. and there s no question that people are behind decisive action now. congressman courtney, you sat in that room last night and i know what it is to be among people that have lost something for no reason. but i couldn t imagine 20 caskets with 4-year-olds to 10 years old. i went through that one time this year with a 4-year-old. i mean, when americans are seeing children being buried,
but just in right now, new poll numbers painting a very telling picture of the race for the republican presidential nomination. we can now report that mitt romney is the candidate to beat in at least two of the crucial first four voting contests of the 2012 election with herman cain a sometimes close, sometimes distant second. our new cnn time orc poll of republican voters just released shows romney on top in iowa s january 3rd caucuses, leading herman cain by three points, but that s well within the sampling error of plus or mines. in new hampshire, romney has a lead over cain. in south carolina, a two-point edge for romney, again, within the margin of error. in florida, it s romney 30% to cain s 18%. before the polls came out, romney made it clear he s setting his sights very high. i think the greatest threat to my success would be president obama and i m planning on beating him soon. let s talk about these new poll numbers with our chief political correspondent, the