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Director for aol, "huffington post" and msnbc analyst howard fineman. thanks for joining me tonight. >> hey, lawrence. >> howard, you at "the huffington post" have done this fascinating poll of what you call the 160 republican power outsiders. youve gotten their attitudes about these potential nominees. tell us about that. >> well, in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the big three, first three primary caucus states, we are having our patch.com local editors and reporters go out and talk t...

Dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials. party leaders. businesspeople and so on. so we have close to 200 of them we talk to every week. and to try to get a real ground-level feel, nobody else is trying to do something this extensive because we have 26 of these local patch sites in these three states. and this week we asked them about rick perry and mitt romney. what we found was rick perry plummeting like a stone among the grassroots peop...

>> hey, lawrence. >> howard, you at "the huffington post" have done this fascinaing poll of what you call the 160 republican power outsiders. youve gotten their attitudes about these potential nominees. tell us about that. >> well, in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the big three, first three primary caucus states, we are having our patch.com local editors and reporters go out and talk to dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials. pa...