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Race than some might have expected. wont be wrapping it up as quickly as we thought. thats all to the white houses advantage. >> well, this is a post christmas christmas gift. the best thing they could have hoped for is a continual republican nomination process. which does two things. the first is it weakens mitt romney who everybody still is presuming is going to be the eventual nominee. hell have to go through some more fights, more slings and arrows. newt gingrich is loaded for bear. hes got ...

Expected. wont be wrapping it up as quickly as we thought. thats all to the white houses advantage. >> well, this is a post christmas christmas gift. the best thing they could have hoped for is a continual republican nomination process. which does two things. the first is it weakens mitt romney who everybody still is presuming is going to be the eventual nominee. hell have to go through some more fights, more slings and arrows. newt gingrich is loaded for bear. hes got mitt romney in his sights....

Its the first contest in the republican partys nomination process for the u.s. presidential candidacy and because its first, it attracts a lot of attention from the candidates and of course the media ahead of the 2008 election, republican candidates made 283 visits to that state. totaling 550 days. a good showing in the iowa caucus can boost a candidacy or prove to be the end of ones campaign. of course, front and center of every candidates campaign is the state of the u.s. economy. current fron...

Political panelists, joe trippi, pat caddell and mat strawn. matt, here is a question of sort of history. gail wants to know which candidates in iowa have gone on to win the presidency? it is about a 50%, 50% won-loss rate, right? >> sure. i think theres a couple things to remember relative to iowa starting the process. were the first step, were the first inning in a nine inning game as part the nomination process. were not designed to be the predictor what ultimately happens. as my fellow panel...

He wanted to know if anything can be done to ban robo calls or to limit them because he is getting about a dozen a day. matt do you have any response to charles? >> trust me my office bears the brunt of that. everybody thinks they come from my office and they dont. one of the unfortunately things weve seen in iowa, i think were the first frontier in this post-citizens united super pac word. i have bad news for folks in new hampshire and south carolina and other states, i think it is coming your ...

I think which us has student to the left, which of us have been in washington fighting tax increases, im happy to compare shoulders with governor romney. i think my record of being a solid conservative versus his record of being a massachusetts moderate will start out just fine. megyn: can you maybe the argument that they are actually good because they get all the baggage out in the nomination process, then the gop voters know what they are getting and what the likely attacks will be from whoeve...

>> i think thats what people are waiting for. that breakout moment to convince them this is the guy or gal who will take us all the way to washington, d.c. in 2012. they havent seen that yet. rick perry stumbled coming out of the gate. but every time he seems to regain row men actual he stumbles again. you have speaker gingrich who is still acting too much like the professor without the passion. you have mitt romne who is looking to do well but he never gets over that 25 mark and i think its bec...

The left, which of us have been in washington fighting tax increases, im happy to compare shoulders with governor romney. i think my record of being a solid conservative versus his record of being a massachusetts moderate will start out just fine. megyn: can you maybe the argument that they are actually good because they get all the baggage out in the nomination process, then the gop voters know what they are getting and what the likely attacks will be from whoever the nominee is from barack oba...

Political panelists, joe trippi, pat caddell and mat strawn. matt, here is a question of sort of history. gail wants to know which candidates in iowa have gone on to win the presidency? it is about a 50%, 50% won-loss rate, right? >> sure. i think theres a couple things to remember relative to iowa starting the process. were the first step, were the first inning in a nine inning game as part the nomination process. were not designed to be the predictor what ultimately happens. as my fellow panel...

Nomination process. rick santorum is making a great comeback. but will it last? the big fight for the republicans or conservatives will be in south carolina. thats the first winner take all primary. all the delegates, then on to florida which is also a winner take all. the conservatives will meet in south carolina. whoever comes out of there the winner will go on to fight mitt romney the rest of the way. megyn: people said bill clinton had that gift your dad had, making you feel like you are the...