but just in right now, new poll numbers painting a very telling picture of the race for the republican presidential nomination. we can now report that mitt romney is the candidate to beat in at least two of the crucial first four voting contests of the 2012 election with herman cain a sometimes close, sometimes distant second. our new cnn time orc poll of republican voters just released shows romney on top in iowa s january 3rd caucuses, leading herman cain by three points, but that s well within the sampling error of plus or mines. in new hampshire, romney has a lead over cain. in south carolina, a two-point edge for romney, again, within the margin of error. in florida, it s romney 30% to cain s 18%. before the polls came out, romney made it clear he s setting his sights very high. i think the greatest threat to my success would be president obama and i m planning on beating him soon. let s talk about these new poll numbers with our chief political correspondent, the
states adversely economically. when it comes to doing something about it, they re aaid to take on the president. the power of the president and where he plays and where he doesn t will be key. i would look to those stes where he did well and those states t didn t do so wellwhere we head into the mid-term elections. neil: thanks, chad. oe should democrats be worried about this? the president has gotten at least nine candidates who he deemed worth supporting elected or nominated. let s go to ashley pratt, democrat strategist richard goodstein and crtv host, allie stuckey. what do you think, well, i th interesting case, especially as the one that we re seeing in south carolina. we have someone that voted with trump the majority of the time, but like the monologue said, he was very defensive. his criticism of donald trump and maybe not voting with trump