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Advantage for him? but, you know, you could argue two things. first of all good news for gingrich and other is it may be good news for romney. because romney would love to see if theyre not all getting out of the race he he doesnt want to see either one, gingrich or two, santorum get out of race. he likes to have a split field in the anti-romney vote. >> shepard: biggest surprises thus far, are you surprised we havent been able to call virginia yet? we are down to two candidates. >> i am astonis...

Spoiler if nothing else there. >> so can rick santorum. thats the problem in the month of february for newt gingrich is that youre looking at a bunch of caucus contests that rick santorum and ron paul prepared well for. obviously the romney campaign is also organized on the ground way in advance of these contests. they prepared well for them, too. it moves the narrative away from this two-man race that gingrich wants it to be to once again a split field where romney iraqis it out with a pluralit...

Thompson. i know several people wrote books about the campaign, and i would love to hear your thoughts. maggie, did you write a book? >> you were a writer and all. >> thats right. >> when you look at this race versus 2008 and compare and contrast to our viewers at home. >> gosh. i think alexs comments are opposite and theres no question that that the split field had an effect in this race. if mitt romney had won this race or was set up to win this race, of course, the normal qualifier, anything ...

Eisenhower institute of gettysburg college. she has worked forecnn, news week, anybody else? i wanted to get a feel from you about the atmosphere and what you are seeing and feeling on the ground to perhaps or contrasting other elections? >> four years ago it was like tension-city. you were having 5,000 people turn out to see barack obama, thousands turn out to see hillary clinton. the final weekend was the game changer with hillary clinton had the final debate, eked her way past obama, won the ...

Eisenhower institute of gettysburg college. she has worked forecnn, news week, anybody else? i wanted to get a feel from you about the atmosphere and what you are seeing and feeling on the ground to perhaps or contrasting other elections? >> four years ago it was like tension-city. you were having 5,000 people turn out to see barack obama, thousands turn out to see hillary clinton. the final weekend was the game changer with hillary clinton had the final debate, eked her way past obama, won the ...