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The guy who endorsed mitt romney at a time he hasnt put out a plan to tackle entitlements, any plan to really overhaul americas education system in a way with jeb bush or other conservatives would? >> well, thats the choice theyre left with. lets take a look at the latest polls. new polls out this week. >> are you going to give that baby back? >> i will. but he wanted to hear the polls. he was very excited about this news. the polls show mitt romney pulling away from newt gingrich and the rest o...

and you just watch it and shake your head. its been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isnt doing so well is because of those last two debates. dont you think? >> for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. >> we cant beat the money power romney himself. we cant beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prep...

the second debate he said he didnt do well because the crowd was so loud. >> gingrich is expected to speak at a rally within the hour. he says that the gap is closing. ill show you where the race goes after florida with cnns wolf blitzer at the bottom of the hour. want to hang out with president obama? the president who held town halls on cyberspace and twitter and facebook? participants can comment in realtime. a few will be asked to participate in live conversation. it starts at 5:...

Polls after last night. we have rick santorum coming up quickly. we dont have snap polls after last night but the most recent rasmussen poll shows romney up by eight in florida. romney up by five in the real clear politics average. but newt gingrich nationally still up by 3.7%. >> all right. 11 minutes after the hour. coming up, cash used for bonuses. why are millions of dollars in tarp money going to these guys bank accounts. >> then the true story comes out. pat sajak and vanna white drunk beh...

Once. reagan criticized gingrich saying, "newts idea would cripple our defense program." reagan rejected newts ideas on leadership and character. gingrich is no ronald reagan. >> barry goldwater, handed the tomorrow to ronnie. and in turn, ronnie turned the torch over to newt. the republican members of congress to keep that dream alive. >> bret: that was the talk on the campaign trail today. here is the latest polls. rasmussen, romney with a lead of eight points over newt gingrich. there you see...

The quinnipiac poll that came out today shows romney up by two but key here is neck and neck, every pollster agrees, 38 percent of florida voters, republican, still say they could change their mind. jon. jon: so other than going to the versailles restaurant and so forth what are the candidates doing to set themselves apart to try to appeal to cuban americans in florida? >> reporter: weve got four republican candidates still in the race, three with one position, the other, ron paul, with a comple...

For second place and thats going to decide which candidate can go into south carolina with the momentum as the romney alternative and really make it a fight there. >> but really, suppose huntsman, who spent all this time time he didnt play in iowa, suppose he comes in second. doesnt that just mean more people moved to south carolina? he cant just emerge as, hey, im number two and everybody else drops. >> everybodys going to go to south carolina. south carolinas the big leveler, where theyre all ...

plus, house democratic leader nancy pelosi on the presidents re-election campaign. >> i think he should run against this do-nothing congress. and off the trail to give us a primary preview -- phil rucker of the "washington post" and neil king of the "wall street journal." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." ignoring the iowa caucuses, jon huntsman planted himself here in the granite state holding events, answering questions, signing autographs, shaking thousands o...

United states. >> rick perry is making another clarification to his position on abortion, saying she against it in cases of rape and incest, but okay with an exception if the mothers life is at risk. watching a dvd led him to a transformation on his view. >>ç touring the chocolate seas after romney compared him to lucy in the chocolate factory. >> governor romney had a cute line about my team resembling the chocolate factory. here i am in the chocolate factory. >> john huntsman is not worried ...

Candidate? >> thats not going to happen. its a fantasy for those of us in the media, but you are seeing a lot of republican types, like bob dole and george hw bush and throwing support behind mitt romney. more of the establishment types you can get, the less of a third party. folks like those who want a third party. >> thank you. >> todays tweet of the day comes from josh marshall. the talking points memo. romney name dropped i love louis skpetg it with the 60 plus crowd. [ sponge ] the prognosi...