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The next battlefield and you go there and you find the conservative alternative to mitt. then it is solved in florida. whats wrong with that scenario? >> its going to be a long slog. it is going to go well past florida. >> im not certain it is going to go a good ways past florida, because i think that there is an opportunity in both south carolina and florida to have fairly close races in both of those places. which carries the campaign forward for some time. >> isnt it really a representation o...

plus, house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the presidents re-election campaign. >> i think he should run against this do-nothing congress. and off the trail to give us a primary preview -- phil rucker of the "washington post" and neil king of the "wall street journal." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." ignoring the iowa caucuses, jon huntsman planted himself here in the granite state, holding events, answering questions, signing autographs, shaking thousands ...

plus, house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the presidents re-election campaign. >> i think he should run against this do-nothing congress. and off the trail to give us a primary preview -- phil rucker of the "washington post" and neil king of the "wall street journal." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." ignoring the iowa caucuses, jon huntsman planted himself here in the granite state holding events, answering questions, signing autographs, shaking thousands o...

Solid. mitt romneys poled at disport above and everybody else is in the teens. ron paul has been running a consistent second. santorum has moved past gingrich. but debating is newt gingrichs strong suit, he could do really well. santorum has to explain why he has this momentum. to simply say that i worked hard and i go to everybodys county and i show up at every lunch counter isnt going to hack t. those arent qualifications for being the president. he has to explain how he differs from mitt romn...

Flexible. until now, new hampshires been solid. mitt romneys poled at disport above and everybody else is in the teens. ron paul has been running a consistent second. santorum has moved past gingrich. but debating is newt gingrichs strong suit, he could do really well. santorum has to explain why he has this momentum. to simply say that i worked hard and i go to everybodys county and i show up at every lunch counter isnt going to hack t. those arent qualifications for being the president. he has...

Flexible. until now, new hampshires been solid. mitt romneys poled at disport above and everybody else is in the teens. ron paul has been running a consistent second. santorum has moved past gingrich. but debating is newt gingrichs strong suit, he could do really well. santorum has to explain why he has this momentum. to simply say that i worked hard and i go to everybodys county and i show up at every lunch counter isnt going to hack t. those arent qualifications for being the president. he has...

Happened in iowa, can he do it for a national campaign because mitt romney has been building this campaign for a while as you know. >> how happy are you that rick perry is at least through south carolina and possibly florida staying in the race and dividing the conservative opposition. >> i think its great hes going to stay in because its good to have him in the discussion. it will make the debates more important in terms of when you think about saturday night the debate coming up. >> and sunday...

This campaign for a while as you know. >> how happy are you that rick perry is at least through south carolina and possibly florida staying in the race and dividing the conservative opposition. >> i think its great hes going to stay in because its good to have him in the discussion. it will make the debates more important in terms of when you think about saturday night the debate coming up. >> and sunday morning. >> it makes it more vigorous, the more candidates are debating. >> and divides the ...

And even mitt romney, people were even going until the last minute and saying, all right, fine. im going to cast my vote for romney. so really interesting to see how the last few weeks have meant a surge for santorum. people voting for romney but saying im voting for romney with some reservations and paul really having the bulk of his support the latter part of last year. those people were already decided. >> christine, i love the fact that we talk about how well rick santorum did and what the v...

>> and we are a little punch drunk, as you can tell. >> its been quite an exciting night. mitt romney declared the winner here. 30,015 votes. and rick santorum, 30,007. if you do the math, it is eight votes that separated them. and as ashleighs been saying, you should always exercise your right to vote. that last precinct, we had to wait until they reported in order to get to these numbers. it was back and forth and back and forth. >> like 2 1/2 hours ago. the whole cnn team has been h...