romney 22. but that doesn t include hawaii. let s go now to the total delegate count. wrer the magic number to lock up the delegation is 1144. mitt romney is leading with 476 delegates. rick santorum 246 gingrich 131 and ron paul stays with 47. take a look at who is talking besides us bright and early. newt gingrich and rick santorum switching their energy over to president obama. almost put this town under with moratoriums and delays in permitting that is getting worse and worse and worse. as a result the ability for the men and women to go out and drill these wells and service these wells to go out and earn an income and more importantly for them to get that oil and gas
rhetoric certainly is getting sharper. and there are seven major candidates now but after seven more days, will some of those candidates start falling by the wayside on the campaign trail? that s coming up in our strategy session this hour. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re here in dubuque. a bit chilly but no snow. it s getting ready, a week from today, the iowa caucuses. you re looking at live pictures from dubuque. this will be the first state to have an impact on the 2012 presidential campaign, and it s all happening here in iowa. the republican caucuses candidate are out on the campaign trail today. they re scrambling to cover as much ground as they possibly can. newt gingrich slipping a bit, but still among the leaders. he s ready to roll across the state by bus. he ll join me live here in dubuque later this hour for an in-depth interview, but let s begin with cnn s jim acosta, he s in des moines, the state capital. iowa certainly very much up fo
we re picking up new information and he s also getting a nut ew endorse. . i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s not just the new republican presidential front-runner, newt gingrich is leading the republican pack by double digits in several brand-new polls. a gallop national survey of registered republicans shows him 15 points ahead of mitt romney. 37% to 22%. less than a month away from the iowa caucuses. a new cbs new york times poll has gingrich 14 points ahead of romney. as former front-runners know, top status meepz extra scrutiny and he was grilled about some of his past positions by conservatives. this is happening as we re meeting right now. jim acosta is watching all of this for us. what s the very latest? he s getting tough questions. his poll numbers have been good but it has been said his own worst enemy is newt gingrich. the two may have come face to face. glenn beck turns up the tea party heat on newt gingrich rubbing his nose in his past su
comments he made that those who were against educating illegal immigrants don t have a heart. newt gingrich is taking the lead in several key presidential polls this week in battleground state. here to break it down with us, adam geller and bernard whitman, former democratic pollster for the clinton administration. adam, i will start with you. look at an overall poll that we have that does a look at the gop presidential nomination. gingrich at 26%. romney 22 and cain at 14. gingrich wasn t there a few weeks ago. can he stay there? well, he wasn t there a couple of weeks ago. you got to give him credit because he really hung tight and obviously a lot of it has to do with his terrific debate performances. can he stay there is the big question. it is going to take a lot of money and a lot of organization. he has gotten there on the strength of his intelligence and his grasp on the issues. now, the challenge is going to be turning that into dollars
with the obama over the debt limit, and the tea party fights and misk cat returns break out w. allergies. bachmann will be their hero. the removal of huckabee and trurep bachmann? tremendously. because huckabee was the evangelical candidate. the polling has shown the evangelicals and the tea party people overlap. 75% or both evangelical and tea party types. with how come beis out most of those votes are going to romney. bill: you see it romney, gingrich and bachmann. but bachmann has to to keep nirp. i think you are going to have a three way fight on the right and one on the center.