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>> tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. >> dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. lets begin with dana there. romneys two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasnt a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. its the size of his win thats really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the ...

pretty steady. were at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you havent seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerks office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they wont have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of stat...

That bill obriens name was someone that they knew of from the beginning, and slowly they just became enamored with him. they really fell in love with him, and it had nothing to do with being a penn state guy, but finding someone who had penn state heart is what they said. and they said thats how they landed on their guy. you know, it seemed like he said all the right things on saturday when he was introduced, and he did get a loud applause from some penn state fans. about 100 fans showed up for ...

candidates looked to score of course some last-minute points. they took part in two debates in less than 12 hours. >> the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. >> this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] >> we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for...

♪ hello, there. its not quite 2012 yet. we still have some news to get to before the new year. im hala garani in washington. kyra phillips has the day off and we begin with the latest out of the united states in terms of politics this morning. lets get you straight to iowa and expecting any minute now, by the way, the new jersey governor chris christie will join mitt romney in iowa. christie is a rising star and many republicans wanted in this presidential race. he endorsed romney ...

more on the race straight ahead live. newt gingrich is starting his day in iowa meeting with moms at a coffee shop. newt gingrich has seen his support among likely caucus goers plunge. part of the reason is negative ads targeting him. analysis finds almost half of all the political ads in iowa have been attack ads against gingrich. crowds defy danger and took to the streets in syria today. opposition groups call the rallies the crawl to freedom square. they urge demonstrators to de...

support him. hes followed by ron paul at 22%. rick santorum is now third with 16%. newt gingrich is at 14%. michele bachmann is on the campaign trail in des moines right now, a day after one of her high profile advisers defected. bachmann is likely to face questions about the decision by state senator ken sorenson to jump ship and throw his support behind ron paul. were keying an eye on bachmanns media event and well take you there live for some of the q and a session. he may be th...

shot rick santorum leap frogs into fourth. his support has tripled since the beginning of the month and closing in on mitt romney and ron paul who are locked in the statistical ties within the margin of error. joe johns is in des moines to break it down. of course, the question is, did the gingrich camp see this coming? >> yeah, i think to some degree they saw this coming. hammering ron paul, for example. also, mitt romney. its pretty clear that gingrich saw he had some problems becaus...

with you and that question. candidates are going to be crisscrossing the state today. talk to us about this day a week before the caucuses, joe. >> oh, yeah, you can call this crunchtime for sure, hala. a time when the candidates really bear down and iowa truly gets focuses on the caucuses. mitt romney starts out his day in inp. the. however, he like many of the other candidates will end up here in iowa. hes going out on a bus tour and so is newt gingrich, in fact. he is another guy we...

kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expe...