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Nominee is but theyre not energized. is it a political strategy by some to do things like voter i.d. that would cut off some of the voters that president obama was able to get to come out in huge numbers in 2008? i clearly think that whether it was president obama or anybody else running, wed be out here fighting these i.d. laws. but from a political strategy, is that not part of the calculus or possibly part of theic calcus here? >> that might be, but let me add something to what steve was sayi...

>> i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only suspend his campaign, he wouldnt end it. santorum can hang in there, live off the land. he has got a shot in missouri which has no delegates but its in six days. >> bill: psychological, yeah. >> because gingrich isnt in the contest in missouri. >> bill: right. >> its a one-on-one. is he now up by -- santorum ...

>> i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only suspend his campaign, he wouldnt end it. santorum can hang in there, live off the land. he has got a shot in missouri which has no delegates but its in six days. >> bill: psychological, yeah. >> because gingrich isnt in the contest in missouri. >> bill: right. >> its a one-on-one. is he now up by -- santorum ...

>> i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only suspend his campaign, he wouldnt end it. santorum can hang in there, live off the land. he has got a shot in missouri which has no delegates but its in six days. >> bill: psychological, yeah. >> because gingrich isnt in the contest in missouri. >> bill: right. >> its a one-on-one. is he now up by -- santorum ...

Connection to the american experience of the voter. >> but see, i think the real problem is that if he was just attacking gingrich, he could play that lets win it now and i will clean up later. the problem is he said things thats going to be hard to clean up later. he has come out against the dream act. he said let detroit die. he is not going to be able to flip back what he said so type, you can beat gingrich, but im with the ryan plan. im saying i will let detroit die i will kill the dream act...

is filling out, some members arriving as early as possible to get seats at the aisle to get on camera with the president. tonight, expect to hear both his governoring agenda and many of the themes hes going to be hitting on the stump in months ahead, largely focusing on taxes and the economy. ron paul took today off, the other three were campaigning in florida, about tonights speech and taking issue on the man giving it. appears to be from a different planet. and flowery rhetoric. >> h...

Momentum before, i think he leaves with more momentum. and mitt romney has to decide whether in the last day here hell really try to stop him or whether hes comfortable seeing where the votes end up and even if he loses here, comfortable going forward trying to beat gingrich. santorum fought his way in and did really well. he didnt change the die nam uk enou -- dynamic to make it a three-person race. >> mitt romney fumbled on the issue of tax return. lets listen. >> back in 1967, your father set...

Pick their states and that strategy almost always fails. youve got to run everywhere. >> its a good point, john mccain is the first guy not to be able to pull it off. but even he didnt fully skip iowa, he at least showed up in the campaign rather than he did in 2000. but let me ask you this, between gingrich and santorum, i mean santorum has to beat gingrich here, doesnt he? >> if santorum had come from having a tie in iowa to a second place showing in new hampshire i think he would have a stron...

And he said, you know, look, theres a long history of people who think they can go around and pick their states and that strategy almost always fails. youve got to run everywhere. >> its a good point, john mccain is the first guy not to be able to pull it off. but even he didnt fully skip iowa, he at least showed up in the campaign rather than he did in 2000. but let me ask you this, between gingrich and santorum, i mean santorum has to beat gingrich here, doesnt he? >> if santorum had come from...

For staying in in south carolina and dividing that part of the electorate, the anti-mitt romney electorate? >> how are you going to do this? you have to moderate this. hes going to fight a two-front war. >> he is, but newt gingrich is saying that rick santorum is the junior partner. so hes supposed to be the senior partner, right? someones got to slow romney down. if romney is the real front-runner, hes got to demonstrate that he can win big, but he can do it in this state, potentially. thats th...