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Lets bring back the panel, michael saer, john harwood and susan page. the rick perry decision to stay in the race. i was at the mccain/romney rally talking to romney folks and they were giddy. >> well, it is fantastic news for mitt romney. he wants that vote fractured. some texas republicans i talked to yesterday said they thought it was anita perry, his wife and other family members who talked him into not giving up yet. you know, who knows what went through his mind. he gave all the signs that...

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Look, as long as he can -- can go forward, can do better and take that momentum into south carolina, thats probably -- >> ive got to fess up, chuck. i called an endless santorum drought, okay. >> drought. >> you did? okay. yeah. >> im going to -- >> what level, a tropical depression now, tropical storm? >> i think he has got some precipitation. >> thats all right. all right. stick around. i want to talk more about sort of the santorum pitch here in new hampshire versus what we will see in south ...

Up -- we know who is going to win the new hampshire primary, but were curious to see can santorum actually become a relevant player in this, into second place? not hey lot of polling coming out of here the way, like had a normal new hampshire week, but here is a cnn poll. ten days in december, romney at 47 and paul 17 and huntsman 13 and santorum 5. gingrich was at 12, by the way. january 3rd, first one -- they claim they did it right after the caucus results were starting to come out, same 47 f...

State assembly is taking a look at that, and well see what happens. if it becomes a protracted battle all the way delegate by delegate, youre right, mitt romney has an advantage because of the resources he has. santorum is catching up, but no way hes going to win a resource-intensive campaign. you think about it. theres 75% or 80% of the republican base will be voting in the primaries. they are true blue conservatives, and mitt romney is not -- does not fit their definition of conservatives, so ...

>> this is newt gingrich holding a town hall in plymouth, new hampshire. town halls, of course, the way have you to campaign here in new hampshire. keeping an eye on all the campaign events throughout this state all day long. by the way though, mitt romney event this morning here in new hampshire and then heads down to south carolina with mccain and nikki haley. well get a check ahead of the day on wall street. the rundown coming up. president obama set town leash hundreds of millions of cuts in...

Coming and having his moment at the last second, literally right on top of the iowa caucuses. it is entirely possible that he could pull off a huge upset win because hes had enough evangelical pastors getting behind him. so as we told you sometime around labor day when we were at the iowa state fair, this is going to be a photo finish. now it is. martha: yeah. indeed it is. carl, fascinating stuff. and when the earmuffs come out, we know carls in iowa, right, carl? >> reporter: and its cold. i a...

Rick santorum had the benefit of coming and having his moment at the last second, literally right on top of the iowa caucuses. it is entirely possible that he could pull off a huge upset win because hes had enough evangelical pastors getting behind him. so as we told you sometime around labor day when we were at the iowa state fair, this is going to be a photo finish. now it is. martha: yeah. indeed it is. carl, fascinating stuff. and when the earmuffs come out, we know carls in iowa, right, car...

Obama 17%. fascinating. in his second scenario, the opponent is romney but the economy in america is improving. the probability of winning in these circumstances, romney, 40%, obamas probability of winning, 60%. in the third scenario, obamas opponent is rick perry, and the economy is improving. in this case, the probability of winning the popular vote is perry, 17%, obama, 83%. in the fourth scenario, fascinating, the most fascinating, the opponent is perry and the economy is stagnant. perry, pr...

Economy is stagnant. in nates calculation, the probability of winning the popular vote under these circumstances is romney 83%, obama 17%. fascinating. in his second scenario, the opponent is romney but the economy in america is improving. the probability of winning in these circumstances, romney, 40%, obamas probability of winning, 60%. in the third scenario, obamas opponent is rick perry, and the economy is improving. in this case, the probability of winning the popular vote is perry, 17%, oba...