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Better test of general election, electability than, for example, the iowa caucuses, but where all the attention will be the next week. it s all about independent voters. right. trying to figure out who s headed to new hampshire? right? is rick perry headed to new hampshire? i don t think so. listen in on what he had to say and then we re going to talk to mark preston about that. with the voters decision tonight in iowa, i ve decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. well, is there a path forward for him? is there a path forward for michele bachmann? mark preston joining us to talk a little bit about that. well, rick perry was supposed to be on his way this morning to south carolina where david mat mattingly is set up, waiting. ....
When we heard from michele bachmann last night, it wasn t a concession. it was confusing. right? what is she going to do? what is that final decision she ll make? kind of made it seem like she s going to stay in, but how is she going to stay in? michele bachmann was predicting a miracle going into the caucus. what we ve seen, really, a time for prayer. it didn t work out for her. her vote total was actually only around 1,000 votes more than she got back in august when they won the ames straw poll. a sign of a flailing, struggling campaign. she may not realize her campaign is dead yet, but it functionally is. she s going to get a lot of calls today, at mark preston said, from rick santorum and newt gingrich saying, look, get out of the race. her support would logically come to them. other call she ll get, from mitt romney, please, stay in the race. because he wants that s the best possible thing for him. so, look. ....
Case you re just seeing it for the first time. so mitt romney eked ahead 30,015. to rick santorum s 30,007. only eight-vote difference. historic. never happened before. and there is the rest of the pack, a good story that comes out of rick perry, probably michele bachmann as well and jon huntsman, too. we ll tell you about that shortly. meantime, if mr. romney needed more momentum with an eight-vote win, he s going to need it. john mccain, the senator to who he lost that state in an ugly, ugly fight that man on the screen is about to go to new hampshire and put all of his weight and energy behind the leader mitt romney tonight. so what is going to happen in new hampshire? we re trying to figure out we re looking ahead. right? christine romans is joining us. she s got that magic wall. show us the magic and let s make ....
Get over 5 percen25%. we ve seen it consistently. calls that his glass ceiling. john is correct when he says that. having said that, though, the whole field is splintered and john mentioned it a short time ago. michele bachmann, stay in, stay in. i want you to stay in. it will help dilute the street may go to rick santorum. bottom line is, mitt romney was successful and has been successful because the conservative vote has been so fractured. when he becomes the nominee? where will republicans go? of course they have to support romney. we talked a lot about mitt romney in trouble with republicans. certainly not going to vote for barack obama. ron paul seems to think he s not going to be out of the race soon. i m sure mitt romney loves that. split it up. everybody should stay in the race, according to mitt romney. but ron paul was talking about staying focused, raising money, ....
put you on the line. who do you think she would lend her support to? you know, the story is tell me. there s a story she s actually talked about doing that, apparently chatter. her old campaign manager said that, in fact, she was trying to line herself up to be romney s v.p. two different scenarios. her politics align better with rick santorum. conservative politics. assume she has a lot of debt, who do you want to align yourself with? money men. money men. and hasn t taken any pot shots at mitt romney. has she? carefully guarded in how she s attacked him. out there live in san diego, weigh in on this. the michele bachmann factor. you come in with a number. grab them in front of me. 5% of the vote last night. i don t think we all expecting massive numbers with the polls going into, you know, iowa caucuses. the 5% is paltry and right down there among the 1% of huntsman. ....