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that its krun f time? and were digging deeper into ron pauls writings and finding -- sexual harassment victims. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were here in the new cnn election center counting down to the final few days and hours before the first contest of 2012. the new iowa poll out today reenforcing mitt romneys place at the top of the pack, running neck and neck with ron paul. it drives home the bombshell findings of our poll this week, sh showing rick santorum has...

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Gingrich has 38%, romney is down at 17%, hes no longer the frontrunner according to that poll, and youre at, you know, in the single -- low single digits in that poll. how do you turn around, and do you believe that newt gingrich is the frontrunner now in the republican race? >> there wa is a poll every week. theres been four front run tphers this campaign. here is what i do know, is that the american people are absolutely incensed with the idea that washington d.c. is still the status quo place...

Megyn, is that barack obama has tried very hard. theres some things hes done very well, theres some other things, like the mortgage crisis, that he needs to do a better job at in the next year, but i think hes been a good president. i dont think hes been the best president in history, hes certainly not a failure. and i think next year this debate is going to be increasingly about what were going to do now, not about what happened, and on those grounds the president is standing very strong and is...

The trend. two months ago gingrich was at ten points and then 14 a month ago and now all the way to 38%. romneys numbers heading from the opposite direction, from 29% in november, to 23% and now down to 17. whats really amazing about this is those two have become the only candidates people are looking at right now. megyn: this is emerging, according to your polling, as a two-man race. and these are polls of likely wh includes independents who might vote in a primary, many states do allow that, a...

Their business on television. [laughter] megyn: scott, you asked republican voters who are you likely to switch to if cain drops out of the race. who did you find? >> in that case newt gingrich rose a little bit. mitt romney gets two, so 42% for gingrich, 19% for romney. nobody else picks up more than a point, and nobody reaches double digits. so, again, in this moment if herman cain were to drop out, it helps newt gingrich a little more than anybody else, but it doesnt dramatically alter the ra...

What do you think carol? >> i dont have a pick. >> she is wearing jets green. >> sean: true and a great american flag k >> the jets and packers will win. the editor from the "wall street journal" is green bay thats obvious. but they are going to win. >> sean: now we pick -- a couple of interesting polls this week. karl rove had a poll in his piece where huckabee won in iowa, romney won in new hampshire and newt gingrich won in south carolina. theres another new poll out, top three, huckabee 21%,...

What do you think carol? >> i dont have a pick. >> she is wearing jets green. >> sean: true and a great american flag k >> the jets and packers will win. the editor from the "wall street journal" is green bay thats obvious. but they are going to win. >> sean: now we pick -- a couple of interesting polls this week. karl rove had a poll in his piece where huckabee won in iowa, romney won in new hampshire and newt gingrich won in south carolina. theres another new poll out, top three, huckabee 21%,...

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