correspondent john roberts is live in coral gables for us now. john? reporter: good morning to you. good afternoon to you, actually, jon. the governor fully out in the campaign trail here in florida where the real clear politics average shows there is a single point between the two of them with romney on top. he is renewing his closing argument four real change, starts on day one. new cbs news new york times poll shows him leading the president on questions of leadership and the economy. that is where the governor is focusing today in a rally that just wrapped up in tampa, telling people what it will take to get past his five-point plan to help grow the economy. for those things to happen it will require something that washington talks about but has not done in a long, long time. that is truly reaching across the aisle and finding good democrats and good republicans that will come together and find common ground and work in the interests of the american people, not just in the
you are making a lot of enemies today. just as carl robe has never looked beautiful. that s what w was there for. it is his job to be nervous. we could come up with a million theories why he might be nervous or upset. beat very two theories i want to say, one is about money. i honestly believe that we just had nick confessore. we miss the importance of money in a presidential race. it really isn t about altering the outcome. that is the story at senate and house level where people don t know the candidates, where polarization is the presidential race i just don t think that s the case. i don t think money is the issue. in the electoral college, i don t buy into the idea there s an extra challenge for romney on top of winning the marp vote. romney s down about three or four points in the popular vote right now. move that one or two or three points to romney s advantage,
the largest haul yet. the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear-cut front-runner. so if the polls are right, mitt romney could be coasting to an easy win. cnn s john zarella is at a polling place in tampa. john s, how s the turnout been? reporter: real good. this is actually the largest republican precinct in hillsboro county, the tampa area. about 3800 registered republicans here, and turnout has been very good this morning. a lot of people going before work. a lot of families coming before dropping off their kids at school. so quite a good turnout. there s 232,000 registered republicans in hillsboro county. i talked to the election supervisor a little while ago. he was telling me that they expected a very good turnout counting all of the early voting and the people that are likely to vote today could be 40 to 50%, he said, of that 232,000. so he expects quite a few people to vote today. here, kyra, is an example of the ballot we were talking about earl
hour for the state s primary. you are looking at the cnn express bus. gingrich is creeping up. romney is still the front-runner. today, the two battle it out at breakfast. they will both be at the same diner at the same time. we ll begin talking to tommy or tommy s ham house live this morning. imagine being stuck in a greyhound station for more than 17 hours. that s what happened to these people after a winter storm moved in. heavy snowfall is expected today in parts of the u.s. reynolds wolf will have the latest forecast. but, we start in south carolina where the curtain comes up on the republican presidential primary in a little while from now. where do we stand? paul steinhauser has a quick look. reporter: good morning, gary. polls open in an hour from now. so much at stake in this primary. listen, we saw the battle between romney and gingrich two nights ago. romney s lead shrinking in the polls here. gingrich moving up. don t count out rick santorum. he had a strong
is santorum surging at just the right time? i think so. remember when we said newt gingrich was surging at the right time about a month ago? i guess not. but that poll you just showed, let s just show the last two days, thursday and friday. it really illustrates that the former senator from pennsylvania is surging. there s romney, still on the top at 24%. but there s santorum at 21% ahead of ron paul, and basically in a dead heat with romney for the top spot. it kind of illustrates how santorum has been moving up. he used to be an afterthought. no longer. another number as well. this is interesting. again from the des moines register poll, people likely to take part in that caucus, electability. which guy and ladies can beat president obama in november? romney on top. romney has been there with the electability numbers for a while. gingrich has fallen, though, 13%. those negative ads that have been playing here have been digging into gingrich. another sign of why his numbers have bee