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Conservatives to counter what we know is a solid 20% to 25% establishment figures who are with romney. >> chris setting the table today. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> now to the romney campaign and this critical first in the nation test. with me now republican senator john thune of south dakota. he's been out campaigning with mitt romney. he's his wingman. he's been introducing him. you've been all over the state. great to be here. >> great to be with you. >> the momentum is with rick santorum. mitt romney and his campaign tried to lower expectations. then he said he's going to win. now he ...

2008 race was that it didn't really matter if you were the establishment candidate, you could be beaten. and then came 2010, which was another genuinely unpredictable year. at the beginning of 2010 you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who predicted a christine o'donnell victory in the republican primary over the beloved and highly electable republican congressman mike castle. or who predicted that sharron angle would be the republican nominee in nevada. or that joe miller would defeat sitting senator lisa murkowski in the alaska gop primary. or that mike lee would defeat sitting sen...

Republican party that has a long history of giving great deference to its establishment figures. in fact, if you look just at presidential nominating battles, the history of the republican party over the last two decades is the history of establishment candidates coming out on top. in 1988 was george h.w. bush, the sitting vice president. in 1992 it was bush 41 again running as the incumbent president. in 1996 it was bob dole, who no one had much enthusiasm for but he was certainly the establishment guy. he was the next in line. in 2000 it was george w. bush, probably the most establishment gu...

History of giving great deference to its establishment figures. in fact, if you look just at presidential nominating battles, the history of the republican party over the last two decades is the history of establishment candidates coming out on top. in 1988 was george h.w. bush, the sitting vice president. in 1992 it was bush 41 again running as the incumbent president. in 1996 it was bob dole, who no one had much enthusiasm for but he was certainly the establishment guy. he was the next in line. in 2000 it was george w. bush, probably the most establishment guy possible. after all, this was t...

Do you see fear? >> we never need an excuse for a good party. christmas comes early. we begin just 25 days until the iowa caucuses and the presumptive republican naum anyway grinning like the gingrich that stole christmas. the jingle bells keep ringing for newt gingrich in iowa. just today a new "des moines register" poll show iowa republicans super jazzed about the rise of newt. 44% say they're very enthusiastic about voting for gingrich. 13 points up on ron paul, 16 points up on romney. now, if caucus-goers' hearts are swelling with red-blooded love nor newt, some establishment figures a...