is getting ready to fly it texas to reassess whether he should bother, whether he should continue in new hampshire and south carolina. michele bachmann coming in sixth. she says she will continue but we will see if she does. jon huntsman in new hampshire. we are waiting it speak with the chair of the republican committee right now that is going to announce that one final precinct. we are going to speak to that precinct captain shortly. we will try to find out what is going on. has there been a snag, a snafu, a hanging chad. we don t know what is going on. but one precinct would colorado make the difference between who is number one, number two and how much of a gap there is. let s go over and talk to all of our contributors and friends. anderson, i think we will get that precinct captain pretty soon, on the phone, and we will hear what the problem is, if there is a problem. because we want to know. who is the winner. i was going to say, what do you want to say to that preci
and that is fascinating. can mitt romney divide and conquer the entire campaign? a twist you brought up in your comments, michael steele about newt gingrich. i m going to read about heilemann s piece in new york magazine about that point. there you have it, gingrich who trails romney badly in the state plans to use the week between the caucuses here and primary there to rip romney a new one. where gingrich for the moment is polling strongly and ahead of the pack. there s an opening for almost anybody in this race. we were out yesterday, mark and i trailing newt around and an amazing thing happened up in marshalltown where he was not scheduled to take questions from reporters but got goaded into a media availability where our colleague chris matthews more or less dominated the proceedings. and essentially got newt engaged enough that he started talking about his intention to finally
and then, the republican fight turns south into newt s backyard and you go in south carolina, which is one state to the north of him and then you go to florida, which is one state to the south of him. and if i had to put money on anyone right now if newt doesn t do too badly over the next week or two, i say i all of a sudden got very tired. this one, for people that are going to declare the morning after iowa if romney wins this is over, they don t know the republican party and don t know the conservative movement. well, newt gingrich, of course, his support is plummeting after his pretty big surge and he s putting the blame of all of that on mitt romney. take a listen. you believe he is trying to buy this one? i don t know, $3.5 million in negative ads, you tell me. i was just struck by the politico analysis that the sheer volume of anti-gingrich ads run by romney s pac.
because you ve got one, two, three, four, five six conservatives splitting up the vote. what happens? i think you see a little hell break out, a great deal of frustration bubble up from the bottom. i think you may see in that moment folks beginning to coalesce, and this is the opportunity that newt may be talking about having in new hampshire and beyond where he s able to coalesce or at least one somebody, conservative is able to coalesce that vote in a way that allows them to take on romney. right now watching conservatives divide themselves and not really have any one person with an army behind them come after them. and he s really gotten through unscathed. and i think the wall street journal hit it out of the park in that way. it s amazing that everybody s attacking everybody else. except him. except for the guy who is the
and then, the republican fight turns south into newt s backyard and you go in south carolina, which is one state to the north of him and then you go to florida, which is one state to the south of him. and if i had to put money on anyone right now if newt doesn t do too badly over the next week or two, i say i all of a sudden got very tired. this one, for people that are going to declare the morning after iowa if romney wins this is over, they don t know the republican party and don t know the conservative movement. well, newt gingrich, of course, his support is plummeting after his pretty big surge and he s putting the blame of all of that on mitt romney. take a listen. you believe he is trying to buy this one? i don t know, $3.5 million in negative ads, you tell me. i was just struck by the politico analysis that the sheer volume of anti-gingrich ads run by romney s pac.