imagine we are going see through these february contests newt gingrich not going anywhere in terms of leaving the race. you willing to make a prediction for tuesday? i don t know. as you said, we re 72 hours away and we have seen unbelievable volatility here. i think it would be tough to predict but i would much rather be mitt romney today than newt gingrich today heading into this final stretch but there s a lot to see between now and tuesday. that is a soft prediction! anyway, david, thank you so much from yahoo! news. take care. the gop debates do they help republicans or president obama? talk to me on twitter. i m going to get to some of your tweets throughout the morning. we will talk to florida s republican party chairman and what is the best message on immigration on the gop? then office politics, harold ford jr. on where he thinks the
how much of that mud is going to stick? first of all, i would note that s a different line than the romney campaign took in october when they were saying the more debates the better because they saw it as an opportunity to crush rick perry. republicans down here and democrats nationally, they feel that romney has taken some blows in the last couple of weeks that aren t going to wear off easily in the general election. all the stuff about tax returns. bain capital, the attacks that have helped define him as a rich guy more than a business man, that is an avenue of attack we re going to hear more of. dana, your article a couple of days ago, very interesting one. headlines gingrich is obama s best surrogate. a new poll shows the damage done. two weeks ago, romney was viewed favorably by 39% of americans. unfavorably by 34%. now, by 31% and unfavorably by
how about you, alex? what do you think? well, i think dana has a great point there and after tuesday, if romney does win in florida, which it looks like where we re headed in the polls, i think you re going to start hearing romney survrogates sayig we got to stop this food fight before it compromises us for the general election if it hasn t already. i think you could call stephen colbert or jon stewart. very good. only for early morning. maybe so. appreciate you as well. thank you so much, guys. we invite you to watch meet the press tomorrow. among the guests, rick santorum, senator john mccain and gingrich supporter, fred thompson. david s also going to have an exclusive interview with david axelrod on the president eets s re-election campaign. some of the other stories making headlines, the dutch
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mitt romney speaking to tin cap canaveral. mitt romney said clearly to the audience there i know you want me to tell you that i m going to give you the moon but i can t promise you those things if we are going to try to balance our budget. that was an interesting exchange right there. peter, we will check in with you again because things are happening. thanks so much. a new poll shows mitt romney has a lead among hispanic republicans there in florida. a new poll shows 35% of them would vote for romney. 21% say gingrich is their choice. rick santorum got 7% and ron paul received 6%. voters who describe thelmselves as likely to vote in tuesday primary. rick santorum taking the day off and returning to pennsylvania. before leaving florida he spoke friday at the latin builders