plans to handle the santorum insurgency. this is clear choice. i m only person in this race, republican or democrat, who never served a day of time in washington. in the world i come from, leadership is about starting a business, not trying to get a bill out of committee. reporter: minnesota by the way was the first state where governor romney did not place first or second in this primary season. jon and jenna. 197 delegates assigned but nearly 2100 total. reporter: about 8%. jenna: along with the rocky analogy bringing it together. james rosen kicking us off today. jon? jon: for more on rick santorum s victories and what it means for the gop race, talk to paul west national political correspondent with washington bureau. paul, mitt romney said he would not win all the states all the time but it is a triple set back for him, isn t it? and it wasn t what they
tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. let s begin with dana there. romney s two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasn t a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. it s the size of his win that s really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the party to finally rally behind him? reporter: well, fred, that s probably not going to happen immediately because as you mentioned, all of these other candidates are still in the race. effectively, look, this was no question a huge win for mitt romney. you said certainly he was expected to win here because he was governor of a neighboring state, but the size of his win in terms of the overall number, but also the kind of voter that he got, namely the conservative voters in this state. there
time will tell. and mississippi s governor is under fire. 200 pardons in his final days. new information on who was set free and what these convicted killers are now allowed to do. we also understand that these are unconditional pardons, which means that their constitutional rights are restored. we re going to find out a little bit more about that. apparently, they re going to be able to vote and own guns. 2011 was so last year because 2012 got some stocks on a tear. the dow climbing to the highest level since july. what the what? we re going to figure all this out with christine romans in just a few moments. and the death of actress natalie wood, who died back in 19 1981. was she killed? new this morning, what police found since they reopened this investigation two months ago. that woo hoo you heard at the top of the news cast, could be sounding like the power train for mitt romney as he heads to the next stop. i wonder if this is going to be a sweep. is south caro
those community it is a strong showing when people had initially wrote him off. there is a strong support in the pro-life community especially the high catholic population to go for sanatorium. for 16,000 plus, that is a big win. we would be hoping over 10,000 and have a turn out that blew the doors off what we did in 2007 . had eight candidates . i am optmistic and i know when barack obama get to iowa on tuesday. it is not 2008 anymore. republicans are ready to go. thank you very much. we ll send it back to you. karl, thank you and michelle bachmann winning in the straw pole and ron paul
bachmann got. john hunts man got 69. that thaduous 35. we are doing a play by play . the head of the iowa republican party max strong came out and announced the winner and the rest of the places essentially came up on the screenn and they didn t announce those. michelle bachmann the winner and congressman ron paul second and governor tim pawlenty came in third. now, the question is. the cheering is happening. here for ron paul who is in the stadium. chris wallace, this is exciting. it is exciting. i have to say two things. michelle bachmann got 4823 votes. that is interesting .