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Fire, the last thing you should say -- even if you slip it you correct t where is his instanbts, where is he going to be on a debate platform with barack obama if he cant think on his feet when he is the only one talking? imagine if he is fatesing somebody? >> it was a very clumsy statement. this is an unforgiving business, you dont get to turn the ball over like that too many times in a presidential campaign until you lose. if in the category of i voted for it before i voted against it, it is i...

Issues. you dont hear that flip-flop phrase. >> because mitt romney fits in well with the issues important to new hampshire republicans. hes a moderate northeastern republican. new hampshire republicans tend to be moderate northeastern republican voters. he fits in well with this state. the electability issue is something nobody really wants to admit right now. they want to tell pollsters, frankly, theyre thinking about who theyre going to vote for but electability is what this comes down to. re...

Issues. you dont hear that flip-flop phrase. >> because mitt romney fits in well with the issues important to new hampshire republicans. hes a moderate northeastern republican. new hampshire republicans tend to be moderate northeastern republican voters. he fits in well with this state. the electability issue is something nobody really wants to admit right now. they want to tell pollsters, frankly, theyre thinking about who theyre going to vote for but electability is what this comes down to. re...

Conservatives. intlit among four candidates, 237, 24, 16, 14. is there something like the electability issue where romney gets a big bump or another issue where another candidate gets a big bump compared to everybody else. if they split it all up, then it ends up being to the advantage whoever gets the big advantage on the one other issue. >> chris: im a little surprised, joe, because when i look at the very conservative, people who identified themselves as very conservative. santorum 27%. paul ...

Conservatives. intlit among four candidates, 237, 24, 16, 14. is there something like the electability issue where romney gets a big bump or another issue where another candidate gets a big bump compared to everybody else. if they split it all up, then it ends up being to the advantage whoever gets the big advantage on the one other issue. >> chris: im a little surprised, joe, because when i look at the very conservative, people who identified themselves as very conservative. santorum 27%. paul ...

the united states supreme court. i will have the type of individuals working, the philosophy that we share, to go into those agencies that are overregulating us, that are killing jobs, that will pull back all those regulations since the 08 and have them audited. if theyre killing jobs, theyre out of here. we need a president of the united states that not only respects that constitution but looks down at the bill of rights and gets down to number ten where we talk about the powers deleg...

Right now that consists of six candidates. at some point that will narrow. people will have to choose. when they start thinking about the electability issue, what i heard iowa voters, people going to caucus here this evening, have been saying in the last few days, thats really starting to influence and shape their opinions about this race. they want somebody that can win in november and when voters start focusing on that, defeating barack obama is the ultimate goal here. theyre starting to gravi...

Right now that consists of six candidates. at some point that will narrow. people will have to choose. when they start thinking about the electability issue, what i heard iowa voters, people going to caucus here this evening, have been saying in the last few days, thats really starting to influence and shape their opinions about this race. they want somebody that can win in november and when voters start focusing on that, defeating barack obama is the ultimate goal here. theyre starting to gravi...

Earlier theres this precipitous decline as santorum was surging. you could just see ron paul going down. is that partly because of iran, foreign policy concerns that hes not material to be commander in chief? >> i think that is probably not as big a deal for a lot of iowans as it is for people in washington and in politics and certainly for the candidates, michele bachmann has been more outspoken on that as have some of the other candidates. i think its more an electability issue, less offe e of...

Why? weve never seen anything like this. >> well, you know, the lead has changed hands just about as many times as you can imagine. in fact, rick santorums the only one whos not been in the lead and now theres some people who think he might be the one who will actually win. i think iowa voters are looking for the best candidate, nobodys perfect but theyre looking for a strong candidate because they know the countrys in trouble. when you increase the national debt more than a trillion dollars eve...