deal with the south carolina electorate sooner rather than later. >> he is, i don't think it will play particularly well in south carolina and he has to deal with that electorate. he's not going to win iowa, he's going to perhaps win new hampshire, then you get to south carolina which has a record of choosing the eventual nominee, he does well there, and the heavily republican sort of rock-ribbed parts of the state, they don't have even 3,000 square foot seaside mansions. they are just not that common, and so i don't know if that's going to play well at all. >> eugene robinson, "the washington post" columnist and msnbc analyst. seen we've been on the air, the gingrich campaign called us demanding he be the professor. we're going to have to consider how we reply. >> okay, we can reconsider. >> amid all today's literally earth shaking events, michele bachmann thinks she has a magic solution to make gas prices drop below $2 a gallon. and here, if you liked no pants