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>> shannon: he had been there living with his family and children. made it a point to get to all 99 counties. but there is a pressure that say some in the evangelical community that he and bachmann and perry are splitting the vote. pressure on one or more of them to drop out, endorse another to coalesce the power. none of them seem willing to do that. >> its almost as if they run through every possible alternative to romney until they got to santorum at the end. benefited from the last one to ge...

The federal courts give a lot of leeway to the states because they have the right under the constitution to determine the qualifications for getting on the ballot. and it would be up to a court to decide that this particular burden just goes to far. like i said, the law in this is unclear, and perry is going to have to convince a court that what hes saying is correct. and its an uphill battle for him. gregg: how about just sort of the common-sense approachment youve got a bunch of candidates her...

Know, because that -- newt gingrich and rick perry, thats bad news if ron paul whips iowa. can that -- can it still keep going that long? >> sure, i think so look at south carolina, if, say, rick perry and newt gingrich is able to take south carolina that could then throw things off. once you get into super tuesday, you know, ron paul is going to stay there no matter what. i dont think he is going to stop. >> and south carolinaens always like to point out, since they moved to the front of the pr...

Had sort of last stands. there was the last stand in wisconsin, with wesley clark on super tuesday and there was that week after super southern tuesday of virginia and tennessee and wesley clark needed to sweep those. i think were going to have some last-stand moments. realistically if romney somehow sneaks out a win here in iowa, and dont forget, hes got two shots at winning. he either winning it or hes second to ron paul and beats everybody else. thats also a victory for mitt romney. because t...

If youre in iowa today, would you have a hard time not running into a candidate. between the six of them, they are making over 30 stops, with minnesota congresswoman michelle bachmann leading the way with 11. pretty much one every hour. rick perry and mitt romneys days have begun while ron paul gets back on the iowa trail this afternoon. from iowa to virginia, all but two of the major candidates in virginia have failed to get on that ballot. newt gingrich has talked about a write-in campaign tha...

Quickly as possible. in iowa where you have a fluid situation, you have this polling that is does not get all of the people that attend the caucus, you dont know who is going to show up. you could get a surprise. third or good fourth place for perry would put him in the running for number two. gingrich has been severely wounded by those ads. ron paul, that is a separate universe, romney and who else. rick perry, we have very exciting race especially when you come to south carolina. >> you have b...

Including newt gingrich who didnt meet this requirement as well and those requirements are too stringent and should be changed. >> as a side point, thank you, carrie, restrictions that 10,000 signatured required, the candidates knew about it a very high bar but not new. let ask you -- virginia is not until march 6th, focus on january 3rd, iowa caucuses, rick perry. you have been spending and he has been spending a lot of time traveling around iowa, i think it is a 44-city tour these in the midst...

Standing offen that same with them. >> eric fern strom, like a good northeasterner, channeling the baseball metaphor for politics. much appreciated. >> thanks. on the road again, the candidates are literally revving up their engines, chris cross the state in the final days before the iowa caucus and we are right there with them. plus, desperate measures in rick perry sues to get on the virginia primary ballot. and the death of a dictator. tens of thousands of north koreans turn out for an ...

Resoundingly in new hampshire its going to be very hard, i think, to head him off in south carolina and florida, even though right now, according to the last round of polls, gingrich was strong there. >> final question, suppose the way it goes the way mark is lining it up. suppose romney pulls the win up in iowa. it will be cold and hell win that thing. if he does its a big deal goes to new hampshire and wins there and won twice. goes to south carolina, which is evangelical and newt comes out as...

With rick perry at a campaign event this morning. here is my question. if you are rick perry and you have a history of not saying the most intelligent things on the campaign trail, do you or do you not bring someone who you know is going to be a solid speaker? >> if only that were the worst thing about joe arpaio. >> yes. >> i think the problem for perry was the one thing he had going for him going into a general lex was he actually could harness the power of the hispanic vote, could potentially...