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Welcome back to "hardball." with romney showing -- look at this crowd! wow. well, with romney showing a lot of strength out here, he may win next tuesday night here in iowa. who will emerge as his chief conservative alternative? can santorum's momentum carry him through tuesday night and all the way to south carolina? is he the new newt gingrich? chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent and our political director, of course. jeff zeleny covers politics for "the new york times." chuck, you were with newt gingrich today. does he have a sense of fading? or how would you be reporting on...

>> he really started this game out here of being the way outsider back in '76.ç you were there too. >> that's right. but carter was more of a centrist democrat. go to -- >> yeah, four liberals he ran against. >> that's right. in both parties, the more centrist candidate in the bunch will tend to do well. >> here is romney trying to stomp finally on the neck of newt gingrich. trying to put him out of the race. one of those sidewalk fights where the kid, usually the irish kid, gets the other kid on the cement, and puts his head in the cement. matt damon played him in "goodwill hunting." you ca...

Welcome back to "hardball." with romney showing -- look at this crowd! wow. well, with romney showing a lot of strength out here, he may win next tuesday night here in çio. who will emerge as his chief conservative alternative? can santorum's momentum carry him through tuesday night and all the way to south carolina? is he the new newt gingrich? chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent and our political director, of course. jeff zeleny covers politics for "the new york times." chuck, you were with newt gingrich today. does he have a sense of fading? or how would you be reporting o...

>> it's back when you could hop in the backseat of a car. >> he really started this game out here of being the way outsider back in '76. you were there too. >> that's right. but carter was more of a centrist democrat. go to -- >> yeah, four liberals he ran against. >> that's right. in both parties, the more centrist candidate in the bunch will tend to do well. >> here is romney trying to stomp finely on the neck of newt gingrich. trying to put him out of the race. one of those sidewalk fights where the kid, usually the irish kid, gets the other kid on the cement, and puts his head in the cemen...

Necessary to nominate, which will be way deep into the spring for the simple reason that everybody thinks that any second and any moment on any given day newt gingrich could reach for the self-deinstruct button. >> sort of hovering over it. >> the boat doesn't necessarily sink the moment it gets a hole in it. it stays to stay on water. and once it takes on enough water it will tip over and go under. i think when you give consideration to gingrich, in an economy where there's almost 9% unemployment and 80% think the country is heading in the right track. he stands up there straight faced and sa...