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Pet petersburg. last time i was here, was during the campaign. i had my bus pull over so i could get a cheese burger at long s street deli. you guys have eaten there. some of you may think this violates michelle s let s move program, but she gives me a pass when it comes to a good burger. classic retail politics. you name check the local diner. good job, president obama. that was the president during a recent visit to virginia to petersburg, home of virginia state university. although he was there on official business, he was gearing up for the campaign in 2008, then-candidate obama worked hard for the 13 electoral votes, opening up offices with campaign staffers and hundreds of volunteers to get the vote ....
Not helping consumer confidence either, europe. europe s debt issues, those are still simmering in the background and we re likely going to see that sort of way over the mark. it s going to limit any rally that you re likely to see. alison, thanks so much. let s talk presidential politics, shall we? rick santorum delivered a winning message in iowa rallying the support of conservatives and evangelicals and coming within eight votes of withining the caucuses. now as he comes to south carolina he has more skepticism. david mattingly explains. game on. reporter: rick santorum may have surged on a wave of evangelical support in iowa, but now he has to show south carolina conservatives he s not just a one-state sensation. they re looking for someone who can beat president obama. that s what they re saying, that s right. reporter: they re looking for a winner. that s exactly right. reporter: across the crowded republican field, conservative ....
Out, he points this out and he is right about this. earmarks were less than 1% of the federal budget. it wasn t a lot when it comes to spending, but it was really just, it has become a symbol of politics gone awry in washington and that is his problem. the earmarks were about bringing money home for pennsylvania, but then he got defeated in 2006 and started just bringing home the money for himself. chaching. it happens with members of congress when they leave on their own or get defeated. they go and make money. rick santorum according to his financial disclosure, he made $1.3 million in 2010 into the first half of 2011. that s so much more than he made when he was a united states senator, that was $160,000. you know a lot of the money he made was doing consulting for lobbying interest and other adv advocacies. another area where his opponents are hitting him. dana bash, thanks. a long time coming but today a american teen mistakenly ....
i m close to the rock i really had in mind. reporter: that high up, who wouldn t need a diaper. jeanne moos, cnn. somebody left the gate open somebody left the gate open reporter: new york. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it s the top of the hour. thanks for joining us. we begin with presidential politics. gop front-runner mitt romney is so confident of his lead that he goes to south carolina. joe johns is there in conway, south carolina for us. you were at a romney event this morning. what kind of reception did he get? reporter: i have to tell you, a lot of energy for him. he also came sort of with all his big guns in south carolina. he had john mccane, the senator from arizona who ran last time, actually won the primary here in ....
To the republican party at the last minute. the other thing, too, is that they really demand an up close and personal encounter. they want to experience and feel the candidate. it s classic retail politics. but as you pointed out, some of these independent voters feel that this time around they re being ignored. for the republican presidential hopefuls, new hampshire is the second stop on the road to the white house. but unlike the first stop in iowa, independent voters who make up about 40% of the electorate are in the driver s seat. and most come to the table with strong partisan views, according to the university of new hampshire s andrew smith. some of them are democrats. some of them are true independents but most of them are really republicans. reporter: but elizabeth from new hampshire s institute of politics say don t call them renegades. i wouldn t call them renegades as much as i would call them fiercely independent in the sense that they re going to make up their own m ....