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elections center. it is on to south carolina for the republicans who would be president with mitt romney looking to run his win streak to three and to use his dramatic momentum to raise millions more this month. the texas governor rick perry is among those vowing to stop romney in south carolina. hes right here to answer republicans who say attacks on the frontrunners business record are over the line. just wait until you see governor perrys backdrop. a plot worthy of a spy model. a bo...

High turnout, we have a big intensity gap this time? many democrats will say no, many republicans will say, its an improvement. one other point i want talk about. if we have a close race, i want to look at candidate visits. lets close this down, take away the graphics. this is rick santorum, he visited all 99 counties. look at him out in the western part of the state that mitt romney carried four years ago. lets look at mitt romney, he visited this area the least. of the candidates who visited i...

Reporting. if youre a ron paul supporter, its beginning to look a little difficult to win, but lets count the votes. well see how that happens here. as i said earlier, in a close race, you look where the votes are. remember, early on, ron paul was leading. polk county, where des moines is, look at that now. dark red. mitt romney, a couple thousand votes, a little short, a thousand votes plus a little bit lead there. that could prove decisive. romney came back in des moines in the suburbs from ea...

118,000 range. but jessica does make an important point. have been even republicans say the intensity gap early on, they want to see that the tea party enthusiasm of 2010 carries over to 2012. so we want to see that number at the the end. that isnt it. but wolf, when you watch this, you see a slight santorum lead. theres a couple things you look for the dynamics. four years ago, we had a two-man race. look at now, you have a three-man race. newt gingrich is winning run county. one of the big sto...

>> that was a lifetime ago. >> that was a lifetime ago. but, you know, she made a big point, if she was born in iowa, this was going to be her state. this was going to be -- >> so you think she might drop out or, given her money situation? >> soul searching is what you -- i think, yes. >> and if youre rick perry, what justification do you have for going forward? just because youve got money in the bank? >> the justification of going forward, i talked to rick perry today. he said hes th...

Process of narrowing the republican field. and thats important. but truth is, in the long run, what we learn over the next fur hours about gop intensity or lack therefore could well be the nights most important lesson. james carville, dana loesch, ari fleischer to set the stage for the big vote. youre a product of the tea party movement. is the tea party movement as excited, as energized this year as it was in 2010? >> youre shaking youre head already. already people in camp obama say good. >> i...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com under two hours from the start of iowas presidential caucuses. a vote to shrink the field and perhaps give us a front-runner. mitt romney predicting, quote, were going win this but his opponents are promising the governor will have a much harder time after tonight. this afternoon the former house speaker newt gingrich told reporters his ads will start drawing, quote, a sharper, clearer contrast with governor romney and on cbs this morning, the fo...

presidentialness of romney, you would have the perfect candidate. >> if only it worked that way, huh? much more on the iowa stakes and the states in play. first the news you need to know. well shift to new hampshire. newt gingrich just wrapped up a debate with jon huntsman. it seem the real sparring was between speaker gingrich and mitt romney. romney threw the first punch saying gingrich should return the nearly $2 million in fees paid to him by freddie mac. >> one of the things that ...

one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? >> with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. ...

Colorado. that helped bring romanoff become to the table much more quickly than some folks may have thought. this is right sleuthly right. this will be a tough race for democrats. colorado, classic rocky mountain west state we have talked so much about in 06 and 08, trending toward democrats, every indication now seems to be it is coming back toward the gop. >> you looked at the vote between buck and his opponent, they added up to a lot more votes than michael bennett got. >> exactly right. you ...