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Votes coalesce. thats the chance that a lot of conservative who is want to stop mitt romney have to make that happen. >> greta: youre in new hampshire. and you are on the ground. being outside of new hampshire, give me a sense who, is the momentum on the ground there? >> reporter: remarkably, mitt romney has kept the momentum. he is closer than expected in iowa. he won by the narrowest of margins, but hes the man of the moment here, the polls have him in a very strong position. rick santorum is ...

Carolina on the un-romney. it is not important to win for romney. if he does, its good, three wins going into florida and the inevitability argument takes over. but if he doesnt win south carolina, its an evangelical state, his religion works against him. does he have a single opponent or mase face three candidates? you know, ron paul has his own independent base. he may never drop out. hes the kind of guy who would just keep losing. but santorrum and gingrich, only one of them is going to make ...

He wants to win south carolina but if he doesnt win, does he end up taking this candidate? most people believe that the bulk of this had thompson dropped out, it would have gone to mike huckabee. im going to turn this off. huckabee wins them all. if you go deep into these counties, this is where fred thompson did his best. 12% here, 20% here. and then he did very well out oh here. 20% again. 21%. 17%. 14%. taking votes in the christian bible belt from mike huckabee cost mike huckabee. if mike hu...

Jon: sometimes it is said that iowa is less about who wins than about who doesnt win and one of those who did not win, congresswoman michele bachmann from minnesota, she is originally from iowa. had sort of staked her campaign on a strong finish in the iowa caucuses. she did not get that strong finish and now fox news has confirmed she will suspend her campaign as soon as she steps up to the microphone there in des moines well bring you back there to hear her words. one of the questions going fo...

>> hell light it up. >> the other two candidates, santorum, whoever comes in short tonight, will try to get back in the lead. if romney comes in short tonight hell try to get back in the lien. ron paul may not be big in new hampshire but im thinking about where this is heading for, perhaps, is an incredible fight with newt gingrich trying to get back in the lead again. >> yep. >> romney perhaps sitting on victory tonight. perhaps santorum on a victory tonight. this is going to be one incredible ...

The president that we need. jon: one of the images that many of the candidates used against him was something that he did himself, it was the sitting down on the couch next to nancy pelosi, he says its probably the single dumbest thing hes done in his political career. i mean, did you talk to him before he shot that commercial? did you question the wisdom of that public service announcement? >> you know, what do you do when you try to say we need to work on things together. hes admitted that tha...

The president that we need. jon: one of the images that many of the candidates used against him was something that he did himself, it was the sitting down on the couch next to nancy pelosi, he says its probably the single dumbest thing hes done in his political career. i mean, did you talk to him before he shot that commercial? did you question the wisdom of that public service announcement? >> you know, what do you do when you try to say we need to work on things together. hes admitted that tha...

Happen? we have new hampshire next and they are predicting that he will win that. he has money behind it and the other candidates may struggle because they dont have the finances to stay in it. >> dana: i saw one of the governor romneys campaign advisors, but off the record. said in an article today they feel like they are in good shape. even if they come in second. they feel like they are all right. second in iowa, but they feel good about new hampshire and south carolina. what is curious about...

On the third day, 21%. movement, you have to look at who will go with the supporters. ron paul will be there. the other is rick santorum. i think the eval gel calls -- evangelicals collapse around each other. >> dana: what happened to newt? >> eric: the negative attack, and we talked about this. newt went to the top. we said here they come. then the negative attack ads hit. negative newt ads. he started to fall. it looks like rick santorum getting a lot. >> kimberly: been the beneficiary. what a...

Lately, but he seems to be pretty well positioned there. is this sort of a happy surprise for him? >> reporter: well, its a happy surprise, but its also the manifestation of a long-range strategy for the romney campaign, and that is this: you can win with a plurality if the conservatives are divided amongst themselves, and thats exactly what hes gotten. the gift to him in iowa and across the country really is this: the conservatives havent coalesced yet around one standard bearer. they tried it ...