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That pattern has happened several times already in this race, and romney's quite content to keep fueling it, because he'll be the last person standing. could do well with a plurality. i think howard's right. the ron paul factor is very real. he certainly could win. you can't look at that polling and say he's out of the picture. he's doing what a lot of candidates have traditionally done, tried to do well in iowa and use that media attention to break out of the pack and try to generate some support later down the race. he's got a lot of young people who are showing up at his events, and that's ...

Local sites. they're saying that newt is announcing this afternoon that he's going to go on a 44-city and town bus tour for the last several days of the campaign. and i'm sure dave yepsen can affirm that when you head on a bus tour for 44 towns, that's not necessarily a strong sign. newt gingrich has been pummeled, absolutely pummeled by at least $3 million or $4 million worth of negative advertising, from independent pacs, from ron paul and so forth. and what went up in iowa seems to be really rather dramatically going down big-time, in a hurry. >> david, let's look at the numbers that howard...

Class of '94 not done likewise? >> well, for whatever reason. i don't need anybody to, you know, hold my hand and tell me who i should support. you know, i think what we're seeing is is that the establishment and the republican party i think is trying to lead everybody to mitt romney. republicans, you know, we don't fall in love, we fall in line. and i -- you know, i think newt gingrich, i know newt. i don't think he's a saint, and neither do i think mitt romney or michele bachmann or rick santorum or rick perry or any candidate that we have out there, that they're a saint. but i think we need...

Could do well with a plurality. i think howard's right. the ron paul factor is very real. he certainly could win. you can't look at that polling and say he's out of the picture. he's doing what a lot of candidates have traditionally done, tried to do well in iowa and use that media attention to break out of the pack and try to generate some support later down the race. he's got a lot of young people who are showing up at his events, and that's a wild card. we haven't seen a lot of those people. >> howard, real quick, final comment. go ahead. >> i was just going to say, i doubt the ron paul cou...

Political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david yepsen is a political columnist and the director of the paul simon public policy institute at southern illinois university. howard, is this the continuation of what we've discussed previously about how this wave of support moved from bachmann to perry to cain to newt and it just seems like continual discontent, or is this different? >> i think it's different because it's more intense. i think newt gingrich being the famous guy that he is, the controversial guy that he is, excited great acclaim when he managed to ...