tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. let s begin with dana there. romney s two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasn t a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. it s the size of his win that s really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the party to finally rally behind him? reporter: well, fred, that s probably not going to happen immediately because as you mentioned, all of these other candidates are still in the race. effectively, look, this was no question a huge win for mitt romney. you said certainly he was expected to win here because he was governor of a neighboring state, but the size of his win in terms of the overall number, but also the kind of voter that he got, namely the conservative voters in this state. there
what was going on in the country has devolved because of this tide of supreme court decisions against campaign finance reform so we ve got this huge loophole which the candidates themselves are use. it s not just i think chris is right, it s not some freelance group out there that s deciding to trash newt gingrich. it s for the benefit of a candidate. chris is absolutely right because if you remember when ginsberg and i went through the exchange with lawrence, he said to me that they cannot come out against their pac, that gingrich can can go because he didn t have a pac, he all but admitted to me it was their pac which is chris point. that s what ginsberg literally said on this show doesn t. we can t do it because we re affiliated with a pac which is exactly what they are not supposed to be. let s take a look at what we are talking about. we ve got a quick montage of anti-gingrich ads run by the restore our future super pac, and then i ll go to howard.
and a fair debate about what is what was going on in the country has devolved because of this tide of supreme court decisions against campaign finance reform so we ve got this huge loophole which the candidates themselves are use. it s not just i think chris is right, it s not some freelance group out there that s deciding to trash newt gingrich. it s for the benefit of a candidate. chris is absolutely right because if you remember when ginsberg and i went through the exchange with lawrence, he said to me that they cannot come out against their pac, that gingrich can can go because he didn t have a pac, he all but admitted to me it was their pac which is chris point. that s what ginsberg literally said on this show doesn t. we can t do it because we re affiliated with a pac which is exactly what they are not supposed to be. let s take a look at what we are talking about. we ve got a quick montage of anti-gingrich ads run by the restore our future super pac, and then i ll go to
you re going to have this broken system. the only reform that will work is if you do what chris is saying, and that is to have unlimited contributions to the candidates. that s all the responsibility, all the transparency on the candidates. or decide that the money isn t speech. decide that money isn t speech and have publicly financed elections. let me have chris jump in here. that couldn t have been said better. thanks for the business we have chosen. nobody chose this political process. it was the courts that did it. anyway, on sunday, gingrich had some he had been romney boated, a reference to the swift boat attacks on john kerry back in 2004 so i asked the former speak fer this is the future of politics. the lofty rhetoric on the trail and then the nasty super pac ads from some front group. here s our exchange. no, no more than it has been in the past. but you won all these debates and you come in here and all i watch on television is these restore our future ads that are
newt has a ton of baggage. he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations and took 1.6 million from freddie mac before it helped cause the economic meltdown. newt supports amnesty for illegal immigrants and teamed with nancy pelosi and al gore on global warming. ever notice how some people make a lot of mistakes? probably a mistake. i made a mistake. i ve made mistakes at time. oops. you know what makes barack obama happy, newt gingrich s baggage. newt has more baggage than the airlines. as conservative national review says his weakness for half-baked and not especially conservative ideas made him a poor speaker of the house. he appears unable to transform or even govern himself. newt gingrich too much baggage. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. those ads being run not technically by mitt romney but by a group that might possibly have a feeling that maybe mitt romney would be a good president. howard fineman, before the break you were trying