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For you in 2008? >> well, its a big deal, because when you go and vote in the typical primary, you quietly sneak into the voting precinct and you walk into a booth and you close the curtain and mark the ballot. nobody knows who you stood for. when you go to a caucus, youre going to have to stand up and be counted. standing up with people i can making speeches, might be your childs teacher, your best friend from high school or your church pastor makes a passionate plea for a candidate. its very, ...

When he came in second in iowa four years ago. so hes pretty much starting the 2012 cycle right where he wrapped up in second place in the 08 cycle. and truthfully, for months, regardless of who the front runner has been, whether bachman, then perry or cain, then newt and perhaps now paul, we have known and history has always shown that at the end in iowa, it comes down to a very close race as the vast number of undecides make up their mind, the polls tighten. were looking at a statistical tie. ...

Virginia ballot fiasco. republicans found out today? only two campaigns has what it takes to compete in organizationally. and you only need 270 to win and alabama took the state back in 08. >> what a big mess to sort out. thank you very much. >> so many. gop candidates are at the top and fallen in the polls many times because of big gaffes or flubbings. what do you at home think. what is the most memorable gaffe of the season. tweet your answers and tweet to us anh qdc . hurricaneuma and i will ...

>> we need to up our game. i would respectfully suggest that this president has ever opportunity to up his game for three years and he has been on the bench, on the bench. >>. >> reporter: governor christie who endorsed romney ahead of the presidential primary spoke half an hour before the republican jewish coalition here in washington yesterday and he hit the president hard for something critics used to harp on during the 08 election, his job experience. >> we have in the white house a presiden...

Following here in iowa. this is his second time around the track as a candidate, he ran here in 08 as a libertarian back in the 70s, but he has an existing organization for last time that hes aggressively cultivated right on through. mitt romney is also a repeat candidate and came up just barely short. he was in second place last final. he has kept a lot of his organization, he has not worked as hard in iowa or spent as much money as last time, but he is considered in many minds something of a f...

Home. but senator john mccain says president obama dropped the ball in the end and he will explain that. having run against president obama back in 08 who does he think can beat the president now? bill: looking forward to that. also a standoff on the hill over a payroll tax cut deal that could affect every american. will it pass? are we looking at another government shut down? what does that mean for you? >> our proposal, a surtax on the wealthiest americans, not on the first million dollars in ...

So i dont know if were focused too much on organization. but if organization does matter like it has with the exception of 08 in the past, i think gingrich winds up coming up a little short organizationally. >> now, there are also some signs that mitt romney is finally beginning to shift gears and take newt grin grich on. new ad, hes actually beginning to look more and take newt gingrich more seriously as he needs to. chris in what about that? >> im sorry, i was -- here i was waiting for the ad ...

Obama has done to this country. >> and jay carney, by the way, says the white house is not very focused on the republican race. do you buy that? >> no. you know, a lot of republicans live in jay carneys and barack obamas minds free of charge. its interesting to live there rent free and kind of put some pressure on them as we go forward in talking about the changes that need to be made in this country. you know, remember too, sean, we have a distinct advantage going into the 2012 race that we did...

That i have laid out, whether it was my energy plan, whether it was my 20% flat tax, whether it was the balancing the budget by 2020, as i have by calling for a part-time united states congress and cincinnati the -- and senate, the way our founding fathers called for and looked at. >> you talk about the lone that was done to big banks by the federal reserve. that was done in december of 08. in that gray area, after president obama was voted president, president elect and before he became preside...

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