Ron Paul Overperforms News Today

View as a moderate and not a conservative win a primary? mitt romney is testing that theory. finally, in one demonstration of ron pauls surprising strength, he leads by 15 points among young voters in iowa, with 28% of that vote. paul has been an interesting character in this campaign and dont think hes going to like somehow get out early if hes not winning some of these early stage. now, newt gingrich has become the fields frontrunner without spending a penny on tv ads. a 60-second spot which...

Finally today gingrich becomes the latest american hopeful to me with donald trump. trump will moderate a debate in des moines. so far gingrich is the only candidate to commit. in our new nbc news/marist polling less likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by trump. some conservatives arent happy about his involvement and even the rnc chairman appears to be distancing himself. >> surely it is time for these candidates to do something presidential, stand up and say were not going to be hijacked. ...

It is going to be educating our kids, its going to be research and development and innovation. there are a lot of things that go into it, but that is the goal and that is the north star that will drive him, that drives him today and drive him tomorrow and drive him until the end of his presidency. >> iowa and new hampshire both swing states. always interesting when we do general election matchups. florida coming next week. interesting to see those results. interesting matchups with the republica...

Candidates to come. so far the obama campaign has focused its efforts on mitt romney. will gingrichs surge change its tune? david axelrod joins us live this morning on set. its monday, december 5th, 2011. this is "daily rundown." crunchtime, folks. im chuck todd. my first read of the morning, with just four weeks until the first votes are cast and one last candidate in the republican race, were unveiling new polls in iowa and new hampshire. the three headlines. newt surge. mitt romneys decline...

Its hard to talk about this and a lot of people dont want to bring it up. i did an online column in 2007, the first time romney ran, in which i said there should be no religious test for a public office in this country. it is a travesty to attack romney on the basis of his religion. i got an enormous amount of hate mail off of that. from evangelicals that dont like the mormon church. i think that is still out there. >> this is a southern issue and the primary calendar is weighted towards the sou...

Revolution are starting to attack. >> hes as establishment as you get. his address is located on the rodeo drive of washington, which is k street. >> i think character is definitely an issue. >> theres all types of leaders. leaders that instill confidence and leaders that are somewhat abrupt and brisk. they have standard for the people they are leading and a different standard for themselves. i found as leadership lacking. >> good to see the beard back, by the way. ron paul is also up with an ...