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Wait until president obama gets ahold of you. but another person we havent talked about is rick perry. he came in fourth -- fifth. fifth. he decided to go home in texas, take time r assess, have a conference call. going to have a few days time-out. half hour later, announce on twitter he is making a run for it in south carolina. also come out against -- perry could come out against any of them, right? try to have a second or third place position in south carolina. >> bob: all of this assumes tha...

Carolina. >> who is happy is mitt romney. there is the potential for the field to shrink, if bachmann and perry had gotten out, you can see a consolidation, there will be an alternate testify mitt romney. we dont know who that person is. mitt romney want its to go as long as possible. >> greta: who does he want? >> i think -- he would be happy with either of the folk who is challenged him last night -- ron paul, i dont think they think is a serious threat and rick santorum because he doesnt have...

Happy -- nor speaker gingrich is that he is playing in south carolina. >> who is happy is mitt romney. there is the potential for the field to shrink, if bachmann and perry had gotten out, you can see a consolidation, there will be an alternate testify mitt romney. we dont know who that person is. mitt romney want its to go as long as possible. >> greta: who does he want? >> i think -- he would be happy with either of the folk who is challenged him last night -- ron paul, i dont think they think...

If when you look at the field. they are the men that are on the ground here individually talking with voters, having all of these events. as you mentioned rick perry and ron paul not here on the ground today. but lets start with mitt romney, he was at the boys and girls club in town taking some tough questions. later on today hell be flying to south carolina where hes also holding a town hall with john mccain present, john mccain finishing here in new hampshire first as well as south carolina. t...

Iowa. there is a feeling he is doing a better job connecting with folks on the ground. there is ground for him to pull in new hampshire doing that as well. what do you think about your guy, mitt romney, and his ability to sort of connect with the folks out there? >> well, i think that, rick santorum, to his credit worked very hard in iowa. he spent somewhere over 200 days there in iowa next door to south dakota. it is very retail political state and i would have expected that rick would have don...

His problems will be most acute and obvious in the general election. there is a move to consider we reported on a meeting coming up in texas with movement conservatives who are going to talk about is this guy. the right person to get behind the right not mitt romney candidate or should we unite behind gingrich or perry. there was a lot of thought that the statements make him unelectable. >> absolutely. gingrich just now made an effort to be terribly pat ronnizing and friendly. obviously he liked...

Happy -- nor speaker gingrich is that he is playing in south carolina. >> who is happy is mitt romney. there is the potential for the field to shrink, if bachmann and perry had gotten out, you can see a consolidation, there will be an alternate testify mitt romney. we dont know who that person is. mitt romney want its to go as long as possible. >> greta: who does he want? >> i think -- he would be happy with either of the folk who is challenged him last night -- ron paul, i dont think they think...

Thursday, right. bill: i believe its thursday. martha: it is. we are losing track. im martha maccallum. bill: im bill hemmer. good morning, its been one of those weeks. martha: it has. bill: here is where the four of the remaining six will be today. missing from the map the two contenders out of texas will not be in new hampshire today, that being ron paul and rick perry. everybody else is there, though. martha: the rivals are using valuable time to cover lots of ground as they move around in th...

1,000 signatures required. rick santorum was only major candidate not to submit signatures. friday, he has got to submit 3 to 5,000 signatures to get on the illinois ballot. that is just to get on the ballot. if he wants to have dell goots he has to turn in 600 qualified signatures in each one of the states 18 congressional districts otherwise he gets votes but no delegates. monday he has to get 1,000 signatures in vermont in order to get on the ballot. by friday, next week has to turn in 500 si...

Good morning, its been one of those weeks. martha: it has. bill: here is where the four of the remaining six will be today. missing from the map the two contenders out of texas will not be in new hampshire today, that being ron paul and rick perry. everybody else is there, though. martha: the rivals are using valuable time to cover lots of ground as they move around in the state. who else is moving around there, molly line. joining us now from new hampshire where we saw john mccain a little bit ...