between the two, between santorum and newt gingrich is a different approach to where the race goes from here. newt gingrich has said several times that south carolina is it. he has to win south carolina. he needs to win. the bret: although he said today he may go on, if he doesn t win. he is clearly he spent the better part of the last two days saying that south carolina is huge. santorum has been rather consistently saying this is a long process. i mean, the clip we played, this is a long process. just because romney wants it to be over soon doesn t mean it will be over. just because the media has decided that the two or three contests are determinative, doesn t mean they in fact will be. he is clearly planning for a longer run here. it s just hard to see how one sustains that. if romney goes on and wins south carolina, decisively as the polls suggest he might, and i think he will win very decisively in florida. he has a campaign team down there. he has absentee ballots he is
kevin madden, very quickly, mitt romney, if he doesn t win south carolina how big a set back. this is a campaign that s been built for the long haul. in south carolina, we re going to compete very strongly there, but it s on to florida and the other states. i got to leave it there. thank you all three for coming in on this holiday. thank you, chuck. mitt romney is bringing in the big bucks, a daily rundown look at just where those tens of millions of dollars are coming from. plus comedy or campaign? stephen colbert hits the super pac with a trivia question. what do william blithe and leslie king have in common.
force. the point is it s never been about him but about his libertarian agenda. the long term question is where do the ron paul s votes go? the libertarian national convention and it will be in all 50 states is in may and the republican convention is in august. so presumably, ron paul is precluded from a third party candidacy if he goes all the way to the convention with his delegates and then where will the paul votes go? will they go to romney? will they go to governor gary johnson as the libertarian nominee, will a few go to president obama? that s the question. i agree with this column, let me tell you why, the people that are supporting mitt romney are supporting him because think think he s electable, the people who are supporting everybody else is supporting him because he s not mitt romney and the people that are supporting ron paul are true believers. they believe in his candidacy. they believe in the fact that they think he stands for what he says. and so that s why it s re
campaign. right now i would rate president obama a slight underdog but he has a chance to win in november partly because the public really hasn t warmed tremendously to any of the republican candidates so far. because you ve been to so many new hampshire primaries and on the ground so many times, we ve seen in the past that new hampshire has produced surprises. last weekend can definitely move the numbers. what are you feeling there, dan? well, new hampshire is among the hardest places in the country to read before a primary partly because people in new hampshire love to surprise. they don t like to sort of validate the person who came out of iowa. secondly, they tend to decide very late in the campaign. i agree right now that in new hampshire it s mitt romney s to lose. he s basically running against himself. if he doesn t win by say ten points or more, it may be cast even though he finishes first that he didn t do as well as expected. i have a hunch, you never report
president obama in the short-term but always like to remind that it s early in the campaign. right now i would rate president obama a slight underdog but he has a chance to win in november partly because the public really hasn t warmed tremendously to any of the republican candidates so far. because you ve been to so many new hampshire primaries and on the ground so many times, we ve seen in the past that new hampshire has produced surprises. last weekend can definitely move the numbers. what are you feeling there, dan? well, new hampshire is among the hardest places in the country to read before a primary partly because people in new hampshire love to surprise. they don t like to sort of validate the person who came out of iowa. secondly, they tend to decide very late in the campaign. i agree right now that in new hampshire it s mitt romney s to lose. he s basically running against himself. if he doesn t win by say ten points or more, it may be cast even though he finishes first