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This isn't the, you know, the national press talking. these are local main street influential republicans in these three states. that's terrible news for rick perry. you know, they had a more favorable view of mitt romney, but, again, it's just compared with rick perry. what these numbers show to me, lawrence, is that the republicans are still out there yearning for somebody who's really going to satisfy them on all fronts. mitt romney now does well by comparison to rick perry, but only because rick perry screwed up so royally over the last couple weeks. >> and you asked them the electability ...

Comparison to rick perry, but only because rick perry screwed up so roy>>alnd you asked them electability question, howard. 63% saying romney has the best chance to defeat obama. 24% says perry has the best chance to defeat the president. that could turn out to be the decisive issue as the campaign ripens. >> keep in mind, that's given the choice between perry and romney. so what romney has done as sort of unpopular as he is natively, if you will, is he keeps beating people back who try to challenge him on that front. it looks like to me for the time being according to the grassroots leaders i...

Will be able to circumvent the law and deny implementation in their states," referring to sanders' bill that would create national universal health care. on a campaign stop in iowa today sanders himself offered an explanation for clinton's criticism. >> secretary clinton and her campaign now know that she is in serious trouble. so obviously, in that scenario what people do is start attacking. suddenly bernie sanders is no longer a nice guy and he's wrong on this and he's wrong on that and he's wrong on that. that is not surprising when you have a clinton campaign that is now in trouble and now...

>> secretary clinton and her campaign now know that she is in serious trouble. so obviously, in that scenario what people do is start attacking. suddenly bernie sanders is no longer a nice guy and he's wrong on this and he's wrong on that and he's wrong on that. that is not surprising when you have a clinton campaign that is now in trouble and now understands that they can lose. >> hillary clinton is expanding her efforts to challenge bernie sanders on his signature issue. that would be economic inequality. rolling in a brand new plan to impose what she's calling a fair share surcharge. a 4% t...

But look at this poll, joe. i don't know if you've seen this yet this morning. >> yeah. >> which candidate has the best shot at beating president obama? mitt romney, 65%. this is among likely primary voters in the state of new hampshire, 65% say he has the best shot. number two on that list, joe, newt gingrich at 9%. the number two guy is at 9%. so a 56-point split between on the electability question in new hampshire. >> yeah, you know right now, willie, everything looks like it's going mitt romney's way. but as mike barnicle has been talking about over the, you know, over the last week, the ...