for mitt romney the expectations couldn t be higher. he s declared new hampshire front-runner and nationally as well. his business record has been turned into a target. there s intense pressure on the former massachusetts governor to post a big win. if we re able to win tonight, it ll be historic. it ll be the first time anyone who is not an incumbent in our party whose won iowa and new hampshire. i have my fingers crossed. it could be a big night for us. candy crowley is at the romney headquarters tonight. how are they handling the expectations game and how big of a windows governor romney need? reporter: listen, you heard him. it s just a win would be great, historic, we ll be the first people to do this. you ve seen these polls. they had one at one point, it was a couple weeks back showing him in the 40% range. they don t expect that. they do expect something in the 30s. but as we like to say all the time. a win is a win is a win. and he looks and feels as though he
the speed of light. iranian people have taken to the streets repeatedly, still do, trying to overlow throw their government, a president of the united states who stood silently by as thousands were killed on the streets. worried about the iranians in iraq, develop a strategy to replace the iranian dictatorship and iraq will be fine. we have been at the war on terror ten years now, strengthened civil society, helped the military, helped the police, i believe it is time to come home. straight to manchester new hampshire now, cn this deputy director paul stein hours. did the debates change the playing field there? i don t think so the doubleheader saturday night/sunday morning. smith front runner, expected him to come under attack, he did especially the sunday morning debate, he gave almost as good as he got, the dynamics here are not changing, two brand new polls out in the last 12 hours, some taken partially before and after these debates, guess what
party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] you got that big applause line. huntsman is trending up in the polls. santorum trending up in the polls. what do you think? do you think that they can make enough of a dent in his lead to make people think twice or do you agree that there s this inevitability now? as much as i hate to agree with a conservative columnist, think that s more or less the case. there were a few flashes of attacks on the sunday morning debate. if you look at what newt did on the newt richter scale of one to ten, his blasts were about maybe a 2.5, a 3. they were all about process issues. you didn t run for re-election. nothing about real issues to motivate new hampshire voters. even south carolina voters.
candidates looked to score of course some last-minute points. they took part in two debates in less than 12 hours. the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for the conservative principles, not bail out and not run, and not run to the left of ted kennedy. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? you have been running consistently for years and years and years. so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind. just level with the american people. you have been running at least since the 1990s. well, mitt romney is trying to seal the deal. he is out rallying supporters in new hampshire, trying to win over last-minute converts. cnn s j
none of us here on the ground can see how he can pull that off. glen, what s going to happen in new hampshire these day? we have the saturday night abc debate, sunday morning debate with david gregory on meet the press what will happen leading up to those debates? and how much impact will those have? actually it s going to go strangely quiet tomorrow for the mitt romney and that s going to create a huge vacuum where you have rick santorum, newt gingrich. here you have jon huntsman running all over the place. it s a real chance for some guys to get some attention right now before romney returns. he came back today with a pretty flat event with john mccain. he was a hero in 2000, and again in 2008. today at a couple points you could hear crickets, just very flat event. mccain didn t come off well.