Rick perry, michelle bachmann fading, herman cain out of the picture entirely. rick santorum is picking up support from key conservatives and evangelical voters. we are going to do better than everyone thought we would do a week ago, much better. that is all i can say. i m grateful to the people of iowa, we ve had great crowds here and a lot of great response waoefpl feel like we r we feel like we ll get that spark, how big i don t know. we keep working hard. we don t have the resources all of the other candidates have, that is changing too. heather: right now the undecided vote in iowa, a key par ge target for all candidates supporting mitt romney, but rick santorum gaining ground. we have the secretary for the national republican congressional committee and doug schoen a former pollster, and a
Is a big change. joining me now is msnbc analyst steve schmidt. steve is the former senior adviser to the mccain/palin 08 presidential campaign and senior strategist in the bush/cheney 04 presidential campaign and managed governor arnold schwarzenegger s 2006 re-election campaign. steve, with herman cain out of the race, how long do you think it will take for polls to stabilize in the migration of voters from cain s support to wherever they re going? they seem to be heading possibly to gingrich more so than romney. i suspect what you re going to see, lawrence, is a consolidation of support to newt gingrich. he will continue to rise in the polls, but he ll level off at a point. one of the things in some of the surveys out of iowa, today, is that there s no awareness, for example, that he took millions of dollars from fannie mae and freddie mac. it s a story that just hasn t
Is a big change. joining me now is msnbc analyst steve schmidt. steve is the former senior adviser to the mccain/palin 08 presidential campaign and senior strategist in the bush/cheney 04 presidential campaign and managed governor arnold schwarzenegger s 2006 re-election campaign. steve, with herman cain out of the race, how long do you think it will take for polls to stabilize in the migration of voters from cain s support to wherever they re going? they seem to be heading possibly to gingrich more so than romney. i suspect what you re going to see, lawrence, is a consolidation of support to newt gingrich. he will continue to rise in the polls, but he ll level off at a point. one of the things in some of the surveys out of iowa, today, is that there s no awareness, for example, that he took millions of dollars from fannie mae and freddie mac. it s a story that just hasn t penetrated into the electorate yet.
afghanistan. they won t say whether it s the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that there s a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor what is going on but only if the arab league agrees to drop sanctions against syria. the u.n. says more than 4,000 people have died in sirrian protests this year. once again, southern california is bracing for powerful, dangerous santa ana winds. we re talking gusts hitting 60 miles an hour in the mountains. that s happening today. 50 miles an hour in los angeles, ventura counties. what has it been like to deal with santa ana over the past week? cold, number one. scary and going to bed re
university marching band under investigation for the death of a student. we ll hear from mothers of two band members. and the blame game and herman cain. it s always someone else s fault, and he s not alone. it s our no talking points segment. these false and unproved allegations continue to be spined in the media. it s all right here right now on cnn. good evening. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. winter is coming. occupy protesters have been getting ready. this plastic bubble recently went up in buffalo, new york. it was donated by supporters so demonstrators can stay warm and dry. in portland, oregon, police moved in when people set up camping tents. but the real drama today has been in washington. police and protesters have been in a standoff over a wooden building that went up overnight. let s get to cnn s athena jones. athena? hi, don. you know, this ended just a little while ago with the police finally being able to take down the last protester who wa