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presidentialness of romney, you would have the perfect candidate. if only it worked that way, huh? much more on the iowa stakes and the states in play. first the news you need to know. we ll shift to new hampshire. newt gingrich just wrapped up a debate with jon huntsman. it seem the real sparring was between speaker gingrich and mitt romney. romney threw the first punch saying gingrich should return the nearly $2 million in fees paid to him by freddie mac. one of the things that i think people recognize in washington is that people go there to serve the people and then they stay there to serve themselves. do you believe he should give that money back? i sure do. from the form he speaker, this counter punch. if governor romney would like to give back all the money he s earned from bankrupting company and laying off employees, over his years, i would be glad to then listen to him and i ll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won t take the offer. and respondin ....
Working on that state and so you know, if all that translates into a victory or doing better than expected this iowa and then he does as well as everybody expects in new hampshire, you know, newt will have an uphill battle. jon: mitt romney has an awful lot of things as you point out. he has got organization. he s got a lot of money backing his candidacy. he has can charisma and everything else but he might not have the lead in terms of voter enthusiasm. when asked if they would enthusiastically support their candidate, here are the results. newt gingrich got 43%. ron paul actually came in with 31%, 31%. and there is mitt romney as 34%, just ahead of ron paul. enthusiasm counts for a lot this time of year, doesn t it? oh absolutely, especially in a place like iowa where you have caucuses. it is not simply a matter of a voter walking in, flipping ....
it s just baffling. you have the ultimate insider. you have probably the one guy in the entire republican field who has spent more time than anybody else in the bowels of the beast of washington, who s a part of the system. has been part of the system for a long time and yet he s the one that emerges at the last minute. i would actually argue that it has more to do with a discomfort with romney than it does an infatuation with newt. republican voters have literally gone through every single one of these candidates as a frontrunner. they have embraced him. that person has shot to the top and in most cases they flamed out, the latest being herman cain. and i think all of that is owing to the fact that republican voters really do feel like we are picking the next president here. so we want to pick somebody we really, really love. we don t want to just settle for mitt romney because he looks good, he looks presidential. he has the most money and he ....
Ed gillespie y hed senator kerry sathe markets may look at the inability for the super committee to get a dealone and we may be downgraded again. the politics on both sides, for republicans and for the president, had to take ahit after another failure. no? >i think prbably. i think, you know, approval rating for congress will go down. the approval rating for the president will go down. this will reinforce an era of a lack of leadership on the president s part. he litally phoned in a call to the chairs of th committee, was not engaged at l, and i think they both take a hit on this. pushes the debate into the prsidential election where it probably belongs. let s look at our trend tracker here. gingrich brushes off baggage. he s got thatew website that we talked about already. the iowa religious forum. and it gets to the point abo whether mke murphy, mi romney, is going to make a play in iowa. governor brand says he better. governor brand needs him to. we got to keep te franchise of ....
Out in front in the cbs new york times news pom. he has 31% of likely caucus voters that have been surveyed according to poll, a double-digit lead over his clest challengers. mitt romney and ron paul showing support in the teens, jon, but still trailing gingrich. jon: on the national scene there is more good news for newt who is ahead in the real clear politics poll average with more than 31%. mitt romney with a distant second at 20 1%. jenna: herman cain still own the screen. it will be interesting to see once he is taken away what happens next. the former fronlt runner is thinking about his strategy, when we re talking about the former fropt runner we re talking about mitt romney. romney planninging a aggressively to campaign in the early primary states and with more tv ads. jon: charlie hurt fm the washington times. he watches politics very closely. explain the newt gingrich surge. oh, boy, i wish i could ....