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Eric cantor in a primary that people aren't used to being a part of in his district. primaries aren't very common in his district. i know it sounds like we're getting to the weeds here, but the weeds matter in grassroots politics. technically on this huge story. and i described a little bit, perhaps, how over confident the cantor people were. that clearly translated into what you have to do on election day, which is get your voters out, and they didn't, clearly didn't do that enough. and that is absolutely critical of another just anecdote i will tell you is that i'm told that the chamber of c...

>> i think maybe they overestimated the power of the kind of republican that would go out and vote for eric cantor. in a primary that people aren't used to being a part of in his district. primaries aren't common in his district. i know it sounds like we are getting into the weeds here but weeds matter in grass roots politics. particularly on this story. i described a little bit perhaps how overconfident the cantor people were. that clearly translated into what you got to do on election day. which is get your voters out. and they clearly didn't do that enough. and that is absolutely critical. ...

You've written a tough column on the team. that's part of the job. wolf walked through the lion's den last night. >> he did. one other thing working in mitt romney's favor is some of the audience was with him. one thing that's given newt gingrich a lot of energy, especially in the big south carolina debate, a week ago monday that helped him so much, was that the crowd was with him and that boosted newt gingrich and made it -- changed the dynamic of that debate. in the debate last night, the crowd wasn't entirely with mitt romney, but some of it was. and that helped. >> to the point -- go ahead...

It's not unlike vietnam. there were a lot of people who came home from vietnam who were really angry about the way it was executed. and a fair number of those people are among -- are military people saying, bring them home. you know, this isn't working, let's come home. it's interesting. we have this monolithic view of the military, as you know, they're very different when you actually talk to them. >> anderson, we were talking too about whether rick santorum or ron paul had the same power in the establishment. i was talking about our strike team, how they seemed to believe that both of them w...

>> that was a lifetime ago. >> that was a lifetime ago. but, you know, she made a big point, if she was born in iowa, this was going to be her state. this was going to be -- >> so you think she might drop out or, given her money situation? >> soul searching is what you -- i think, yes. >> and if you're rick perry, what justification do you have for going forward? just because you've got money in the bank? >> the justification of going forward, i talked to rick perry today. he said he's the only conservative who can mount a national effort, fund-raising effort, against mitt romney. ca...