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President bush said he did not disclose he was driving under the influence in maine and it came out six days before the election. they estimate 2 million evangelical voters stayed home that next tuesday because they questioned his integrity and wanted someone different in the white house. >> bob: its amazing how the stories seem to come out shortly before we get to election? there is absolutely no doubt in my mind this was not leaked by the national restaurant association, whatever they call the...

Track with romneycare. perry, when is the last time you talk to god? they flip them like a double cheeseburger, and more questions asking about other women he might have offended with herman. bachmann, they would have a field day with her. >> bob: what would you ask ron paul? hes a libertarian. >> greg: can i bring up the quinnipiac poll that came out. strong numbers for herman cain. well talk about that in a minute. i want to talk about the election matchup against obama. we have them right her...

Regrets you dropped out of the race mid-august? seems like the republicans keep looking around, and they havent settled on mitt romney certainly, and theres, you know, a surge for gingrich, cain goes up. bachmann is down. did you drop out too soon? >> andrea, we took it as far as my campaign could. flatly, we ran out of money, but im pleased and proud to support mitt romney. i think hes strongest candidate in the field by far. keep in mind, hard for any one candidate to break out when theres sev...

Candidate. newt gingrich is a debate candidate are they not? >> reporter: thats right and rick perry is not a debate candidate, thats why he has sung so low. he says hes in the a great debater. he better improve or hes not going to do real well in iowa. hes at 7% in the latest poll hes got to step it up in the next several weeks or his campaign is probably going to implode. hes going to do well in iowa. megyn: i want to leave the viewers with that, iowa is known of being the state that will weed...

An anti-romney candidate that emerges and the vote is going to be in iowa in about 50 days. and the social conservatives and a lot of folks out there who are not enchanted with romney are going to shift to either cain or perry, potentially santorum or bachmann and rick perry is sitting on $14, $15 million and theres physics to this, just as much the press likes to write the meltdown of the rick perry campaign, they like to write about the resurgence of the rick perry campaign, too. >> theyre bus...

Lets talk about the des moines register poll. >> kimberly: its clear that herman cain has the attention of everyone. they didnt expect him to resonate in the past. long-standing run in the polls. see if he is chipped away on the new allegation, unnamed sources. whether he is able to weather the storm. next 48 hours are critical. we have a polling out that makes the point. he is in it to win it. lets see. "des moines register" poll, cain leads romney. who would you vote for in the 2012 caucus? ca...

He has to get it back off the track here. or he will be distracted. look, 60 days left till iowa. >> eric: its horrible, the way it came out. five digits, five digit settlement with two women. it could be -- this is not a huge settlement. the point is cain says he doesnt know about it. ed collins a long time worked for michele bachmann and left her group. i said who do you think it would be? is it obama? he said they dont care about it. romney? maybe not romney. i pointed out rick perrys group. ...

From hitting the top of the polls in many states. with perry, bachmann and others polling in single digits. unless there is dramatic shakeups, november may start to claim candidates. thinning the field. traditional conservatives are worried about that. abcs george will said that romney may be damaging the party. >> when you are a serial reviser of your opinions, youre going to have trouble in the general election whether you know it or not. just ask john kerry who was for something before he was...

Again, the des moines, iowa registers poll, it puts cain at 23%. he is in a statistical dead heat with mitt romney. matt strong is chairman of the iowa gop. matt, first of all, lets talk about these new numbers. lets compare these new numbers to numbers from june, if we can. lets take a look here. this is october and june. june herman cain -- i think we have that graphic here. there it is, right there. june herman cain 10%, now 23%. mitt romney 23% then, 22% now. all the candidates for the most ...

The american people, specifically the republican primary audience, a conservative audience says we like him and we trust trust. these is authentic conservative and that is the message. and not a professional politician which is a big strength. when you look at the field, do you see any real opportunity for anybody else to emerge as the conservative alternative to romney or to cain if there are some misgivings about gain when they go into the ballot box, gingrich, bachmann, anybody else have a ...