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National campaign manager alice stewart to try to put this hastily together. still setting up this particular venue. this is the venue where the caucus reception was for the bachmann campaign last night. as noted at the top of the hour the national campaign manager for the the bachmann campaign suggested getting out of the race may be a course she may want to consider. sarah palin said something similar on the air last night, while she was complimentary of congresswoman s bachmann s effort and her role in her campaign that her best role may be back in the house as a u.s. congressman from minnesota. if you read voices and body language it does look like the decision is made to discontinue the campaign, but that is just a sense i get, not something official i get from the campaign. jamie: we could know in less than an hour, thanks so much, steve brown, live in des moines. bill: as we await bachmann s big ....
The nomination and win? the more and more people get to know mitt romney his family and his wife ann and these great wonderful kids but his message of success and how we ll turn the economy around. he spent a considerable amount of time campaigning in lots of different states. iowa was one of them. but as he met i was on the bus with him. we met from stop to stop to stop. he stalked about a need for strong national defense but spent most of the time talking about how to get the country back on its financial footing. right now it is totally unsustainable and everybody knows that. a lot of candidates were comparing and contrasting themselves to other republicans you see mitt romney trying to take on the president. people look at debates that have happened they have been consensus that mitt romney has won those. people will see that mitt romney is in the best position to beat barack obama. jamie: congressman, i have to leave it there. very good to see you this morning. thank you. jami ....
Doing as well with private insurance. with all the regulations coming in doctors are in trouble. tphofrpb thnone of the candidates look directly at the over use syndrome, it s too use he to use insurance. rick santorum says insurance should be for illness only. he s interested in expanding health savings accounts. awful the candidates would expand health savings accounts, the president has shr u.n. k health savings accounts. you get a tax deduction for paying out-of-pocket. i am very interested in patients paying out-of-pocket because when they do they are more aware of what they are paying for, otherwise it s an mri, a ct, eyes thousands of dollars, you never get to see it. jamie: let me jump in for a second, dr. siegel, because they are more apt to go and get those tests or go see their doctor if they know that the money they ll have to pay initially is tax-free. president obama didn t just cut the healthcare spending account he cut it in half. that s right. ....
Holiday on the monday after christmas helped out. it boosted sales for all of december up to 4.5%. jamie: thank you so much. newt gingrich taking his fight to new hampshire, one of the candidates moving on. recent rasmussen would also has the speaker trailing president obama. scott rasmussen here in person, president of rasmussen reports.com. let s take a look at that poll. do you think it would change today? probably not. speaker gingrich has been trailing by ten points now for three or four weeks. he s showing a little bit of hurt. he looks personally wounded by the negative attacks on him and so he s lashing out a bit, don t think he s going to help that imagery going forward. jamie: he and mitt romney really going head-to-head in iowa. they sure are. jamie: any surprises for you from iowa as compared to the polls done and the outcome? you know, rick santorum was ....
Expect his numbers will come down. there is jon huntsman, jon has been trying to figure out a which to get in the race and he s been around 10%. jamie: here is the poll we just put up. another question is whether or not the country is going in a right direction. the folks in iowa have certain concerns, the folks in new hampshire may have different concerns. the south may be mostly concerned about something like national security. let s take a look at this poll about the right direction and whether or not wow, 71% of the folks you polled, total americans, wrong direction. 7 out of 10 people say we are going in the wrong people.e. 22% say we are actually okay. that is up a bit over the past month. a lot of this ties back to the economy. people are not feeling good about their personal finances. there are regional differences and emphasis but the economy is the issue. the number that i would watch the most carefully of all in this political season is the way people rate their own pers ....