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In their minds is whether or not barack obama deserves to be reelected and whether he met the standards that he set for himself when he became president. if the answer to that question is no, then barack obama loses. whether it's mitt romney, newt gingrich, rick or ron paul. martha: they also have to be convinced by the other guy that was put up by republicans can do basically a better job, that is going to be the real question. >> right, right but the president's numbers, it's not like the president's numbers are kind of good and on the edge. these things are off the cliff, and so my point is...

Thanks. fox coverage of the south carolina primary all day long. our special coverage with bret baier, megyn kelly kicks off at 6:00pm eastern. jon: my daughter was in college in charleston too. i'll have to check in with john on that. the battle over online piracy is heating up, the f.b.i. shutting down the internet's most popular website, mega up load. they say they stole copyright holders money, more than a half of million dollars of product. they are striking back with a string of cyber attacks including one that cracked the justice department's website. catherine herridge is live. >> repo...

Geraldo. >> thank you, jenna. jenna: there are stories breaking moment by moment when it comes to this. this bigger story about what happened here off the coast of italy. geraldo will take and in depth look. hosting a fox news reporting special, "tragedy at sea". 10:00 p.m. eastern time. right after the coverage of the south carolina primaries. you don't want to miss it. jon: remembering a fallen hero. lieutenant colonel luke weather passed away last october. he was a member of the legendary tuskegee airmen from world war ii. the first african-american pilots in the u.s. military and they did ...

This community, hilton head that i represent, aiken, lexington that a vast majority of the people that i represent and who will be voting on saturday are largely transplants largely from the midwest and northeast. south carolina is a composite of america. we truly with half a million people voting this will be a very significant primary, a great indicator of who can appeal to the public. martha: that is very interesting. it takes on a florida-almost quality in that regard in some of those areas in south carolina. thank you representative. good to see you today. >> hey, thank you so much. marth...

Well happen. jon: right, because democrats can vote in the republican primary in new hampshire. >> on primary day an independent voter, undeclared voter as we call them can walk in and pick up a republican ticket and vote for huntsman and say you know what, i don't like the rest of the pack i'm going to put my vote towards huntsman, and that can play games with frontrunners, people like ron paul whose support was solid until a few days ago but i think has really lacked energy on the trail. i think we've seen him secede. you could see someone like a huntsman really emerge out of that. jon: it w...