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stand by to learn more about edith and carolyn, who solved the case of the missing votes. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the "situation room." tuesday's new hampshire primary is just around the corner. get this, the dramatic anticipation is building for the republican presidential candidates. the first southern showdown will take place on january 21st, our new cnn poll is the first snapshot of support in south carolina, taken after the squeaker in iowa this past week. look at this, mitt romney now has an 18 point ...

A fourth place and fifth place ticket, and you're hearing that from rick perry and newt gingrich and michele bachmann. they are saying they're going to look to south carolina as their firewall state and really try to beat up mitt romney in new hampshire where he is likely to win. but they will use that playing field as an echo chamber to voice their criticism of him mostly for the south carolina audience which isn't until the 21st of this month. suffice it to say that every sickle cycle people deny there are only three tickets out of iowa, but the folks who don't make those three tickets are s...

Place that say, no, no, there's a fourth place and fifth place ticket, and you're hearing that from rick perry and newt gingrich and michele bachmann. they are saying they're going to look to south carolina as their firewall state and really try to beat up mitt romney in new hampshire where he is likely to win. but they will use that playing field as an echo chamber to voice their criticism of him mostly for the south carolina audience which isn't until the 21st of this month. suffice it to say that every sickle cycle people deny there are only three tickets out of iowa, but the folks who don'...

Outside anonymous groups. when we got out of the debate facility last night there were flyers on the windshields bashing candidates with language and issues questionable in terms their facts as well as their taste. jenna: wow, we'll continue to look for those flyers on anyone's windshields. next place we should look for them, maybe not, i'm curious what you have to say about this, carl, south carolina. mitt romney is not jumping to new hampshire he will head to south carolina a little bit later today. why is he going to do and what is the latest out of south carolina we should know about? >> r...

Rolls on? >> if romney can't win new hampshire by 10 points, it will look like he lost it. he doesn't have a firewall state other than new hampshire. that was his firewall. voters have gotten to know him very well in new hampshire and they're lukewarm. they're not affected by the mass mailings and all his money and organization. so there's a real opening for newt gingrich to come in and pick up, especially the more conservative activist voters who turn out in primaries. >> just to remind everything this is romney's backyard. he has a home in new hampshire. it seemed to be the only early voting...