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Among republicans, 10 percent are saying if it s a choice between governor romney and president obama, we re going to look for a third option. jon: so that leaves the window open for, say, a ron paul. i mean, he s discussed as somebody who might want to run a third party challenge. well, he is discussed in that way. i would be surprised, given that his son is a senate republican, that he would make that jump, but certainly it suggests that governor romney certainly has some work to do to win over a lot of conservatives. the question before us, as he heads to south carolina and other places, is not can mitt romney do okay in these primaries. it s will republicans and republican primary voters fall in love with him along the way. jon that surprises me a little bit. because i ve thought of republican as tending to fall in line behind their standard bearer, no matter who that might. alexis: and it s very likely that that would happen. four years ago we saw hillary clinton supporters, lar ....
Going to respond very favorably. i imagine the polls have just gone up in the last 24 hours. reporter: they all move south today. south carolina. rick perry has already been there of course. it will be very interesting. we re expecting a lot of heat on this race in the upcoming week and a half before voters go to the polls there. jenna. jenna: speaking of polls we have a little bit of time to digest the exit polls in new hampshire. what are they telling us was the key to victory there? victory depending who you re looking at and maybe give us some insight about what they tell us about the race ahead? reporter: look what happened with mitt romney of course the winner here in new hampshire and exit polling, folks that voted in the gop primary this year, political ideology, 39% said they were moderates, 48% were somewhat conservative and 33% said they were very conservative. it is interesting and enlightening. it still provides a little bit of mister because we don t know if they re t ....
Fuel up. a special forces braving cruel conditions as training. they re spend nine days in snow and freezing water and experiencing temperatures around minus 22 degrees. jon: but out west it is a warm, dry, winter in many places and that is costing people their jobs. there just isn t a whole lot of snow. that means no sking, no snowboarding and ultimately no work at some of the resorts. hundreds of people have been laid off and some resorts haven t even opened at all. alicia acuna live in denver with more on that. alicia? reporter: jon, you wouldn t know it looking where i m standing in downtown denver. this is just a snowstorm that people have been waiting for and despite all appearances here, colorado is among the states that has been actually suffering from a lack of snow, except for today. when you re talking about places like oregon and vermont and california, the ski resorts there, have either had to delay opening some of their runs or they ....
Don t plan to open them at all. it is all because of a lack of snow. along the chicago lakefront it might as well be spring. crazy. there should be snow on the ground. there should be like 12 feet of snow. it is very weird. it is january. reporter: in minnesota the snowplows are ready but there is nothing to plow. and in utah, instead of snowmobiles it is bicycles. but the mild winter is not good news for everyone. ski resorts nationwide are taking a hit and much of the snow is man made. you ve got to watch where you re going, definitely. reporter: states like colorado depend on the tourism dollars but this year we ve seen a lot of brown. seen a lot of rocks. reporter: colorado snow surveyors say the snow pack is down 30% and even lower in some ski areas. what we re measuring is similar to what they re getting. reporter: in colorado s farm country snow pack is crucial. less snow in the mountains means less water flows ....
It and why does that matter? i m not sure who did it. there are any number of people. the iranians say it was either the united states or israel but there are a lot of people in the middle east, in that part of the world don t want to see iran become a nuclear weapons state. there are also people i think internally iran don t want to see this regime develop nuclear weapons. could be any number of candidates. there are so many people out there who don t want iran to become, you know, get a nuclear weapon. what that might mean for the region and for the world. so there are a lot of possible candidates who was behind this. jenna: a lot of possible ones including those internal ones that you mentioned which is interesting for us to think about. i got breaking news into fox news that i want to share with you. i m reading this straight off the wire in effect. we have two senators, senator graham and lieberman will introduce a resolution ruling out containment of a nuclear armed iran. i m r ....