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Is that theyre the sane ones, right? if iowa republicans are sort of the out of the mainstream republicans, a little bit kooky, at least the ones who turn out for the caucuses, theyre a little on the fringe, new hampshire republicans are supposed to be the reasonable ones. theyre the ones who should actually be seen as a real barometer of where republicans stand across the country. that is the reputation. if it was ever true, it is not true anymore. when republicans won up and down the ballot al...

>> hes not going to do us that favor, is he? hes so flaky. >> where do we send him the notes begging him to do that? >> its interesting to me that "the wall street journal" is as good of a barometer, their editorial page thought as anything, practically begging him to announce that hes not going to run third party. they are obviously worried. >> yep. >> and ron paul, hes so quick-sotic, who the heck knows. >> what happens if they get romney? if after south carolina they have romney, dont you ant...

>> where do we send him the notes begging him to do that? >> its interesting to me that "the wall street journal" is as good of a barometer, their editorial page thought as anything, practically begging him to announce that hes not going to run third party. they are obviously worried. >> yep. >> and ron paul, hes so quick-sotic, who the heck knows. >> what happens if they get romney? if after south carolina they have romney, dont you anticipate -- i anticipate a massive buyers remorse, like a gi...

Taled newt and an eye beer yuan ribed newt. >> i think he would like to be emperor newt. >> perhaps. all right. bernard, i looked it up, and technically you can say peed, but you cant say it while doing an s and m bit. it is context on television. thats how it works. sandra mentioned something about the housing stinks. but if you only visit bills house, thats not a fair barometer on what everyone elses house is. chris, you mentioned that you dated cain. >> yes. >> chris, let me just say that you...

>> really? >> yes. just to name a few, emperor newt, alpine newt, a paddle taled newt and an eye beer yuan ribed newt. >> i think he would like to be emperor newt. >> perhaps. all right. bernard, i looked it up, and technically you can say peed, but you cant say it while doing an s and m bit. it is context on television. thats how it works. sandra mentioned something about the housing stinks. but if you only visit bills house, thats not a fair barometer on what everyone elses house is. chris, yo...

>> well, look, no one is going to change their vote for mitt romney just because john mccain has told them to, but it is important in that mitt romney is desperately trying to convince the republican party that he can be their prom king. hes got the looks, the hair, but clearly, they dont think hes got the moral character. independents dont like him. youth doesnt like him. he didnt win the middle class last night, so anything that can help him convince gop voters that he will be their standard b...

by our election team and around the country and the world. stand by to learn more about edith and carolyn, who solved the case of the missing votes. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." so long, iowa, hello, new hampshire. the republican presidential candidates are zeroing in on the next battlefield and a big primary coming up on tuesday. the front-runner, mitt romney, is following up his squeaker win in iowa with a new endorsement from senator john mccain who beat him in ...

Caucuses are seen as one of the major tests in the presidential nomination process, but should they be? critics say the iowa results are not a very good national barometer. brian todd is taking a closer look into this aspect of tonights contest. brian, what are you findinging? >> the wrap on iowa is that its not representative of the rest of the country. too white, too evangelical among other criticisms. is that fair? we wanted to look at whos voting in iowa and one figure that jumped out was wh...

this is decision day in iowa. just four hours from now, republicans will gather in caucuses across the state and cast the first votes in the 2012 campaign. the candidates have spent months of the trial paving the way with millions in campaign cash. much of that money has gone towards a barrage of negative advertising. now, in a final flurry of appearances, the rhetoric has reached a new peak or maybe a new low. >> you said mitt romney, somebody who will lie to you to get to be presiden...

Going to do is look at historical trends. and one of those is called the january barometer. and since 1950, how the s&p 500 did in january has been used to predict how it will fair for the full year, and its been correct more than 85% of the time. but lately the barometer seems to be broken, because in 2009 and 2010, we saw big gains for the year despite january losses. and in 2011, the s&p gained 2.3% in january but finished flat for the year. now one thing that could put the barometer kind of ...