then she has tumbled, tumbled in a pretty intense way in the polls. it s really unclear why because she has at least at the beginning she had done pretty well in debates. she had been here campaigning very hard. she, like rick santorum at the end of this campaign, was around the state. she did all 99 counties. guess what, she was even born here. she was born in water loo, iowa. she is a native daughter of the state. she did not do very well. very disappointing. at the end of the day, suzanne, you know this. you ve covered many campaigns. you need money to go on. if you re not doing well, the money dries up and that is a critical problem for her. it s a mystery. she actually won that straw poll back over the summer here. do we have any sense of why her campaign just didn t gain the traction that was necessary? you know, she was competing with other candidates here who were pretty strong when it came to being socially conservative, which is really where she was appealing. t
cafe. and official, a few hours ago, mitt romney, 30,015 votes. santorum om eight votes behind, and both candidates coming out to speak before the final votes came in last night. romney moved on. his eyes on the big prize. take a listen. you are working, i am working and we re all working together because of our passion for this country and a concern led by a president who may be a nice guy but just is over his head, and i look at his campaign you know, four years ago tonight he was giving a victory celebration speech here in des moines, and he d been going across the state making all sorts of promises. the gap between his promises four years ago and his performance is as great as anything i ve ever seen in my life. mitt romney, he was talking there about president barack obama, but, really, it s rick santorum who he s talking to, we ll speak to, a big endorsement from john mccain and he beat mitt romney back in 2008. and coming up just short built on that traditional
do you have the tape? yep. let s listen. guess what, joining us now on the phone, edith and carolyn. let s give them a big round of applause. yeah! by then it was almost 3:00 in the morning and all of us were giddy to begin with. we were having a little fun covering this election. wolf, this is the back story, he never left the computer, never goes to the restroom. anderson was sitting on the floor. erin took her shoes off. what was john king doing? he was looking at the map, looking at the percentage of this and that. everybody was working but we were having some fun, too. erin burnett had lovely shoes but she took them off. she was standing. gloria borr glor gloria borrow borrowi gloria borger was sitting but erin was standing. i felt bad for her. the situation room, 4:00. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. the president makes his own choice for 2012. the battlefield shifts to primaries in new hampshire and south carolina and count mich
presidential race moved into new hampshire today and became a ground war. newt gingrich arrived this morning, a fourth-place finnish iowa, opened fire on the iowa winner, mitt romney. i find it amazing the news media continues to say he s the most electable republican when he can t even break out in his own party. i don t think he ll do fairly well here. this one of his three best states. but the fact is that governor romney, in the end, has a limited appeal in a conservative party. instead of striking back at gingrich, romney arrived in new hampshire celebrated the endorsement of senator john mccain and together they concentrated fire on president obama. my friends, our message, our message to president barack obama is, you can run but you can t hide from your record. he said if i can t turn this economy around in three years i ll be looking at a one-term proposition. i m here to collect. we re going to take back the white house. romney may sound like he s lookin
christine romans will show you why iowa voters may not be asking the same questions as you. let s go ahead and begin with jim in west des moines. you ve been with rick santorum almost 24/7. you do let the guy sleep. what s that been like? reporter: it has been amazing to watch, kyra. who would have thought when all of this got start that had we would be chasing rick santorum around in the final 24 hours before the iowa caucuses that the international press, he had the japanese, the german and the french, the british press all tailing him yesterday and testifies drawing some very big crowds partly because he is sort of the last alternative to mitt romney to emerge in this process because a lot of evangelical voters in the state have finally said, you know what, let s go with rick santorum inside this high school gymnasium later on this morning along with michele bachmann and ron paul to make some final arguments as a rock the caucus forum here in west des moines. so we re go