picture this, you re walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandw
matter, penn state university. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but first, a stunning new shift in the republican race for the presidency. our new polls shows gingrich gained 14 points since october. that puts him in a virtual tie for the lead with mitt romney. herm yan can dropped 11 points. that puts him in a battle for third place right now with rick perry. ron paul and michele bachmann follow with jon huntsman and rick santorum rounding out the field. herman cain s plunge comes as he struggled with allegations of sexual harassment going back pour than a decade. now herman cain s wife is speaking out, but she isn t the only one. cnn s joe john says tracking the latest developments for us. and there have been many joe, what s the late snef. with herman cain losing status in the polls, the latest person to talk about the sexual harassment controversy happens to be a man. it is a case in the court of public opinion where proof, illusive. herman cain says
reduction ever be accomplished. tom writes by getting rid of the bush tax cuts they could also close the loopholes that allow corporations to pay no taxes. we have much more of a revenue problem than a spending problem. the uber rich are not paying their fair share. it s past time that they share the pain. dawn writes, it won t. the amount of cuts required to balance the budget are simply too overwhelming to comprehend. even more depressing no politician will dare to risk political suicide by proposing unpopular cuts. ray in georgia. it took 75 years to get into this mess, so it could take 75 years to get out of it. but to be sure we ll need grown-ups to do it. it is disgusting to hear some of the elected representatives say the sky is falling if we cut anything. z. writes if we get out of iraq like promised and send all the illegal aliens back home, we