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matter, penn state university. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. but first, a stunning new shift in the republican race for the presidency. our new polls shows gingrich gained 14 points since october. that puts him in a virtual tie for the lead with mitt romney. herm yan can dropped 11 points. that puts him in a battle for third place right now with rick perry. ron paul and michele bachmann follow with jon huntsman and rick santorum rounding out the field. herman cain's plunge comes as he struggled with allegations of sexual harassment going back pour than a decade. n...

>> bret: and now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the virginia republican party was spooked by an e-mail sent out by the louden county g.o.p. that depicted president obama as a zombie with a hole in his head. the image is contained in a mailer obtained by the louden insider inviting republicans to a halloween party to "vanquish the zombies with clear-thinking conservative principles and truckload of republican candy." virginia democrats pounced immediately calling it disgusting violence. the state g.o.p. quickly condemned image and asked for an apology. occupy wall street protester...

>> bret: and now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the virginia republican party was spooked by an e-mail sent out by the louden county g.o.p. that depicted president obama as a zombie with a hole in his head. the image is contained in a mailer obtained by the louden insider inviting republicans to a halloween party to "vanquish the zombies with clear-thinking conservative principles and truckload of republican candy." virginia democrats pounced immediately calling it disgusting violence. the state g.o.p. quickly condemned image and asked for an apology. occupy wall street protester...

Because here is what what happens. if a third party forms because the republicans don't react to the will of the people. all that's going to do is keep obama, and pelosi and reid in power for a long time. we've got to bring our party back to the core values and principles that the people stand for. let me give you a straight example. you criticized michael steele and thank you for doing that. michael steele should be done. when you spend-- forget the dollars at the sex club, that's bad enough, they fired the staffer for doing t he spent $19,000 in private jets. 17,000 on limos, 20,000, five-st...

And people first. >> mike: so you're saying, we've got some core principles, principles that tea party people are essentially going to agree with. we're not trying to ask the tea party from a third party, not breaking away, but if the tea party people want it know we stand for the things that matter to them so it's the first time that i'm aware of, dan, that there's been any official group of elected officials who have acknowledged with this kind of embrace the movement of the tea party. >> well, and i thought texas was a perfect place to start it. we don't get everything right, but as republi...