santorum said president obama s leadership style is dividing the country and insisted he would do better. this president has done more divide than any other president i ve witnessed. i gives speech after speech to divide america between class and income group and racial groups much this is the great divider in chief. this is about trust. you don t build trust going up and running around the country beating up on your opponent. he s the president of everybody in this country. i would be somebody who would meet regularly and talk and try to build relationships of trustment. you can see the full interview of santorum on meet the press when it reairs on msnbc at 2:00 eastern. rick santorum held more than 300 events in iowa in the past six months. why is he gaining momentum now? washington pure owe chief for yahoo news joining me from java
joining me now, correspondent, john harwood at java joe s and anne kornblut of the washington post. anne, i want to start with you. do you believe that many people are at this late date truly up for grabs as we tick down the clock here? it is kind of amazing. but i do think it s believable. you know, iowans take this role very seriously of being the first to vote as it were. they ve been obviously examining them all very closely the whole time as we ve seen with the various ups an downs. i do think a certain number of people are reluctant to tell the pollsters who they re going to vote for and may sound more undecided than they are. iowa and new hampshire voters like to throw people for a loop and hate being second-guessed. there may be of that going on. it s not uncommon in years past, we ve talked to people on their way into the caucuses on caucus night and they ve said, i m not really sure and they ve been
role of politics and human tears. we start with mitt romney going for the kill. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and the huffington post media group editorial director. and susan page is the washington bureau chief for usa today. well, here we are at java joe s, ground central, on a quiet little street in des moines, that just happens to come alive like brigadoon every four years, and we re all here. i think we re part of the brigadoon characters. let s take a look at the latest nbc news/marist poll. mitt romney leads the pack, but still at that ceiling of 23. that weird number keeps popping up like on a roulette wheel, like in casablanca, it keeps coming up to 23. four points up from earlier this month, however. ron paul s a close second, he s up a couple points. rick santorum is on the rise more dramatically, jumping nine points into third place. and he s apparently still rising. and newt gingrich has continued
new orleans. six degrees above your average now. once we head into tomorrow. we really usher this that colder air. all the way into part of the south atlanta should be in the low 50s. instead in the lower 40s and into macon, chilly come tuesday. the northeast as well quite cold. all this cold air is going to be funneling over those great lake waters. setting the stage here for lake effect snow. some of the areas that have been lacking in the snow department as of late, getting a chance to pile up the snow. erie, 12-18 inches of snow possible. syracuse could pick up a foot of snow. beginning 2012 on a bit of a wintry note. alex, thank you. some predictions for the economy in 2012, including how iran could affect your wallet. also, the top movie picks of 201 including one is a truly big disappointment. plus, what could be the big films of 2012? then we take you back to iowa where the coffee is flowing at java joe s. we ll look at numbers that show
splitting their vote between perry, bachmann, gingrich and the rest of them, they re not going to have any clout out here. we re teaching evangelicals tonight how to have more political clout. we ll be back from java joe s in des moines. first my quote from voters at that romney rally today, let s watch. tell me about your vote and how you see your vote next day in the caucuses. i feel like i don t need my president to be my moral compass or my religious compass, i need him to take care of my paycheck and that s why i m out here supporting romney. when you have tough pain, do you want fast relief? try bayer advanced aspirin. it s not the bayer aspirin you know. it s different. first.it s been re-engineered with micro-particles. second, it enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. the best part? it s proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before. bayer advanced aspirin. see how fast it works for you.