this drawn-out process. there's been a lot of fake surprising weeks in which it was donald trump is pulling ahead of everyone. that was never a real thing. there was no one voting or nothing on the line. at the beginning of this week, romney had a 23-point lead in the national gallop poll. that lead is down to 10 percentage points, nationally. athree other polls, two which are national and one from south carolina have newt gingrich ahead, both gingrich and rick santorum have said they will re-assess their candidacies if they don't win south carolina. the romney people are basically saying we're expecting to lose, they're trying to play the expectation game. there's news about them buying ad time in nevada. which is one past florida. they're up in the air on florida. basically this all happened in the last week. newt gingrich came back from the dead. and our segment producer, we were e-mailing about it, i literally got up in an editorial