just days ago, south carolina looked like it could be the third punch of a one, two three, mitt romney primary knockout. but this morning, ohio s republicans took away romney s first win, announcing rick santorum won the caucuses by 34 votes. then governor rick perry of texas pulled out of the race and immediately endorsed newt gingrich who s been surging in several new south carolina polls. a conservative visionary who can transform our country. we ve had our differences, which campaigns will inevitably have. and newt is not perfect. but who among us is? the fact is, there is forgiveness for those who seek god. and i believe in the power of redemption. for it is a central tenet of my christian faith. that redemption remark from governor perry an apparent reference to new allegations from the former speaker s second ex-wife, in interviews with the washington post and abc news, marianne gingrich accuses her husband of once coming to her and asking for a open marriage.
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
romney s economic plan, timid. parts of it virtually identical to obama s failed policy. timid won t create jobs and timid certainly won t defeat barack obama. but the ad is just that, a contrast, not a bash ad, and when should have been a big endorsement from new hampshire s favorite son, john mccain, fell a little bit flat yesterday. the two were jocular about iowa s romney showing. we forgot to congratulate him on his landslide victory last night. you would think we could get more than an eight-vote here in margin. landslide romney who comes to you tonight within an hour and a half sleep. fresh that have huge landslide victory in iowa, talk about a squeaker. talk about a squeaker. well, the martin and lewis routine was interesting, but they got surprisingly tempered applause in the first ral we mccain came out suggesting the campaign hadn t really managed to bring in the right group of
the first time this campaign season. in fact, this morning the ad gingrich promised arrived. romney s economic plan, timid. parts of it virtually identical to obama s failed policy. timid won t create jobs and timid certainly won t defeat barack obama. but the ad is just that, a contrast, not a bash ad, and when should have been a big endorsement from new hampshire s favorite son, john mccain, fell a little bit flat yesterday. the two were jocular about iowa s romney showing. we forgot to congratulate him on his landslide victory last night. you would think we could get more than an eight-vote here in margin. landslide romney who comes to you tonight within an hour and a half sleep. fresh that have huge landslide victory in iowa, talk about a squeaker. talk about a squeaker. well, the martin and lewis routine was interesting, but they got surprisingly tempered applause in the first ral we mccain came out suggesting the