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Jim, senator forsythe thank you for your support, along with andy and your co-sponsorship and ray, i appreciate that. and that's great. i want to mention three names of the individuals who did so much organization up here, jared shacoin as well. and jared, i don't know if he's here. probably still making phone calls or something. [laughter] >> and bob goodman, a tremendous amount of work here and george braun, he was fantastic. but there was, there was one other acknowledgment i wanted to make. i wanted to thank the union leader for not -- for not endorsing me. (cheer (cheers) >> now, i called...

Are collected by one person hoping to be at the top of the g.o.p. ticket. chief political correspondent carl cameron looks at that man and the rest of the still developing republican field. >> reporter: the money race is on. resurrecting a 2008 campaign tactic, mitt romney held a day long dialing for dollars blitz aimed at showing friends and faux alike he'll be a front runner, 10.2 million dollar, biggest bun day haul of the 2012 race so far. and romney, behind mike huhs, a former baptist minister. with huckabee out. he heads to iowa for the evangelical christians who make up part of the cauc...

In the state of the union, because you know, he feels that the country's falling behind and he's correct, that we're falling behind in a lot of areas, so, i just think that there's this tension where he's going to try to find areas, where he can cut at the same time and wants to stay competitive. >> spending is a tough balance, obviously, and let's move on to the conservative conference and that's happening this weekend. mike, i want to ask you, ron paul, won the straw poll for the second year in a row and notable names of sarah palin and mike huckabee and jim demints skipped cpac altogether a...

You've got kentucky. that's a lot. what that means is there is this alienation that fueled the tea party movement, fueled the big rally in washington this past week. but we're also soon going to be talking about how is president obama going to govern, can he get along with congress. he'll have at least three, four, five new jim demints in the senate. those -- jim demint has been notably a strong conservative who will resist a lot of what the president stands for who is not interested in compromising on some of these fundamentals. i don't know where we go on the deficit, for example, if we get ...

Hoping to be at the top of the g.o.p. ticket. chief political correspondent carl cameron looks at that man and the rest of the still developing republican field. >> reporter: the money race is on. resurrecting a 2008 campaign tactic, mitt romney held a day long dialing for dollars blitz aimed at showing friends and faux alike he'll be a front runner, 10.2 million dollar, biggest bun day haul of the 2012 race so far. and romney, behind mike huhs, a former baptist minister. with huckabee out. he heads to iowa for the evangelical christians who make up part of the caucus vote. john thune, mike pe...