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Welcome back to "hardball." with romney showing -- look at this crowd! wow. well, with romney showing a lot of strength out here, he may win next tuesday night here in iowa. who will emerge as his chief conservative alternative? can santorums momentum carry him through tuesday night and all the way to south carolina? is he the new newt gingrich? chuck todd is nbcs chief white house correspondent and our political director, of course. jeff zeleny covers politics for "the new york times." chuck, y...

>> he really started this game out here of being the way outsider back in 76.ç you were there too. >> thats right. but carter was more of a centrist democrat. go to -- >> yeah, four liberals he ran against. >> thats right. in both parties, the more centrist candidate in the bunch will tend to do well. >> here is romney trying to stomp finally on the neck of newt gingrich. trying to put him out of the race. one of those sidewalk fights where the kid, usually the irish kid, gets the other kid on...

Welcome back to "hardball." with romney showing -- look at this crowd! wow. well, with romney showing a lot of strength out here, he may win next tuesday night here in çio. who will emerge as his chief conservative alternative? can santorums momentum carry him through tuesday night and all the way to south carolina? is he the new newt gingrich? chuck todd is nbcs chief white house correspondent and our political director, of course. jeff zeleny covers politics for "the new york times." chuck, ...

>> its back when you could hop in the backseat of a car. >> he really started this game out here of being the way outsider back in 76. you were there too. >> thats right. but carter was more of a centrist democrat. go to -- >> yeah, four liberals he ran against. >> thats right. in both parties, the more centrist candidate in the bunch will tend to do well. >> here is romney trying to stomp finely on the neck of newt gingrich. trying to put him out of the race. one of those sidewalk fights where ...

Necessary to nominate, which will be way deep into the spring for the simple reason that everybody thinks that any second and any moment on any given day newt gingrich could reach for the self-deinstruct button. >> sort of hovering over it. >> the boat doesnt necessarily sink the moment it gets a hole in it. it stays to stay on water. and once it takes on enough water it will tip over and go under. i think when you give consideration to gingrich, in an economy where theres almost 9% unemployment...

Covered hat. >> it feels sort of mild and kind of fun as opposed to like dangerous. i think at some point you have to have mitt romney has got to attack him for being dangerous. >> thats ironic that that his attack word, zany. >> its like a leave it to beaver moment. mitt romney is stuck in the 60s, were past the 60s -- >> i think thats very 2000 -- >> if youre going to call your main opponent something, dont call him zany, call him nuts. >> same thing he didnt do in the debate. had all of these...

Away gingrichs votes. and all seem to be rising a little bit, they hurt gingrich and elevate paul and create a muddle in iowa that could ultimately work to the benefit of mitt romney. if newt gingrich does not win a commanding victory, that will be seen as a loss for gingrich and that will be a good thing for romney no matter where he finishes in iowa. >> i wonder the establishment republicans have thus far sort of danced a strange tango, john boehner in an interview -- an he vent the other day,...

The american president. the president, most dont hang up in that space but they reach it. they are able to touch it. and i think gingrich has a hard time being able to reach for that. >> the greatness and goodness. >> yeah. >> from the greatness and goodness part because of what he says dwen what he says and how he lived his life. i do think character matters and i do think when you give consideration to marriages and spouses talking about the most powerful person in the world, you want a stable...

Infidelity came up and rick perry and ron pauls response. >> ive always been of the opinion that if you cheat on your wife, youll cheat on your business partner. >> what about our oath of office? that gets to me, where youre really on the line as a public figure. thats where people come up real shoert. >> do you think the american public is making the leap, that someones fidelity to their spouse, you can draw a direct line to the oath of office or that are we even paying attention to that? >> i ...

Meanwhile, the president may have benefited. even though he barely weighed in on the subject, in ohio, a key battleground state, a reg poll. than he was just three months ago. at that time he was up by just two points again mitt romney. but now hes up by six on romney, seven onç huckabee, blowing away gingrich and palin. while ohios internal union battles may not be wholly responsible, it seems like the illusion of republicans being the answer to our nations problems is over. and this is the p...