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Play basketball for awhile. i dont watch espn. i dont know what his rhythms are, but this is a guy who is a brilliant performer who may well get reelected at the present date. and who frankly happens to be a partial part-time president. he really is like e the substitute referees in the sense that hes not a real president. he doesnt do things presidents do. he doesnt worry about things presidents do. but he has the white house. he has enormous power. hell go down in history as president. and i s...

the largest haul yet. the winner takes all of them and seizes momentum as the clear-cut front-runner. so if the polls are right, mitt romney could be coasting to an easy win. cnns john zarella is at a polling place in tampa. johns, hows the turnout been? >> reporter: real good. this is actually the largest republican precinct in hillsboro county, the tampa area. about 3800 registered republicans here, and turnout has been very good this morning. a lot of people going before work. a lot...

How important is that? the eyes of the primary voters? >> being a good debaters is important and probably most republican agree that newt gingrich is the strongest debater although i have to say that rick santorum had a very good night on thursday night. there are many other factors involved. theres vision, theres record and as i mentioned before. temperament and judgment and its the temperament and judgment criteria where newt has to persuade a lot of people hes up to the job. this is why the r...

Millions much dollars in super pac money went right after him and he plummeted. how do you recover from that? >> well, gingrich was fourth with 14% of the vote, but the ever inventive gingrich seems to have a new and unusual strategy, a plan to join forces in some way with rick santorum who came within eight votes of beating mitt romney. last night gingrich heaped praise on santorum for running what he called a great, positive campaign. so when asked by radio anchor laura ingraham today if he co...

And he plummeted. how do you recover from that? >> well, gingrich was fourth with 14% of the vote, but the ever inventive gingrich seems to have a new and unusual strategy, a plan to join forces in some way with rick santorum who came within eight votes of beating mitt romney. last night gingrich heaped praise on santorum for running what he called a great, positive campaign. so when asked by radio anchor laura ingraham today if he could see a scenario under which he would align with santorum to...

How do they begin to bounce back from such disappointment in iowa? jim angle is live in washington for us tonight. jim, what are newt gingrich and rick perry going to do? have they said? >> well, rick perry, who came in fifth at first canceled his appearances in south carolina today and went back to texas to consider what to do next. thats what usually happens just before someone withdraws. but by mid-morning, the perry campaign made clear he will soldier on and nighses say he can. >> hes got th...

Manchester, new hampshire. carl, youre there with newt gingrich, who came in a very disappointing fourth place. i thought there were only three tickets out of iowa? >> yeah. hes a professor of history and hes trying rewrite it. were at the new hampshire institute of politics here which has been a proving ground for candidates in the present for years and an archive of campaigns that goes back over 75 in the first of the nation primary state. in the past, if you havent gotten the first three tick...

Tonight. steve brown live in des moines, iowa tonight. first campaign carl cameron in manchester, new hampshire. carl, youre there with newt gingrich, who came in a very disappointing fourth place. i thought there were only three tickets out of iowa? >> yeah. hes a professor of history and hes trying rewrite it. were at the new hampshire institute of politics here which has been a proving ground for candidates in the present for years and an archive of campaigns that goes back over 75 in the fir...

Former house speaker newt gingrich and the texas governor, rick perry. how do they begin to bounce back from such disappointment in iowa? jim angle is live in washington for us tonight. jim, what are newt gingrich and rick perry going to do? have they said? >> well, rick perry, who came in fifth at first canceled his appearances in south carolina today and went back to texas to consider what to do next. thats what usually happens just before someone withdraws. but by mid-morning, the perry campa...

He pretends he has nothing to do with the pac. its bologna. hes not telling the american people the truth. i dont think hes being candid, and that will be a major issue from here on out, for the rest of his campaign. the country has to decide. do you really want a massachusetts moderate who wont level with you to run against barack obama, who frankly will just tear him apart. i mean, he will not survive against the obama machine. >> now, this has been compared, guys, to what bob dole said, georg...