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Liz sid oat sidoti, you re both. i talked with this woman in perry, iowa yesterday, david. and here she was, wasn t even asking her about romney. she had just come from bachmann, just doing the standard things we all do. at these events about a third of the folks are political çtouris but there are some iowans. and she was and it was just like, well, there s your i guess i m for romney supporter. does that win the caucuses? it can. this is because caucus goers are activists. they re not typical voters. these are people who are surrogates for the republican party or the democratic party. they know their task is to help pick a winner and so they vote strategically. who do they trust? who do they like? also who do they think can win? i think the race in the end game is very much coming down to who can beat obama. you know, liz, it s fascinating. you do get the sense that all of these folks attributed at the ....
four months ago she won the iowa straw poll and now it s looking like she may come in dead last come tuesday. it s friday, december 20th, 2011. i m chuck todd. this is a special edition of the daily rundown coming to you live from java joes very early here in des moines. you guys can clap. it s okay. let s get right to my first reads of the morning which is four days left until the iowa caucus, our new nbc news/maris poll showed newt gingrich s cratering, rick santorum is surging and conservatives are splitting and mitt romney is the one benefiting. romney gets the support, 23% of likely caucus goers identified based on interest, chance of voting, and past participation. ron paul within the margin of error sitting at 21%. rick santorum technically in third at 15 but look at this bunched up number there. it s 15, 14, 13 between santorum, perry, and gingrich. santorum of course, perry sitting at 14%. now why is mitt romney leading? the conservative vote no longer coales ....
and what happened to michele bachmann? four months ago she won the iowa straw poll and now it s looking like she may come in dead last come tuesday. it s friday, december 20th, 2011. i m chuck todd. this is a special edition of the daily rundown coming to you live from java joes very early here in des moines. you guys can clap. it s okay. let s get right to my first reads of the morning which is four days left until the iowa caucus, our new nbc news/maris poll showed newt gingrich s cratering, rick santorum is surging and conservatives are splitting and mitt romney is the one benefiting. romney gets the support, 23% of likely caucus goers identified based on interest, chance of voting, and past participation. ron paul within the margin of error sitting at 21%. rick santorum technically in third at 15 but look at this bunched up number there. it s 15, 14, 13 between santorum, perry, and gingrich. santorum of course, perry sitting at 14%. now why is mitt romney leading? ....
within the gop, pitting the old guard hawks against party front runner mitt romney. and he is not running yet but he is shaking up the race. texas governor rick perry delivers a weekend stem winder that is the latest hint yet he is very close to jumping in. it is monday, june 20th, 2011, i m chuck todd. we have debt talks heating this up week with the biden group. we have a bunch of talk about the jobless recovery worries, libya politics and that bring also me to my first reads of this morning. the president will decide within days how quickly to withdraw surge troops from afghanistan. as he weighs that decision the narrowing objectives has solidified into one central measurement of progress, whether al qaeda is capable of an attack on the united states. and whether afghanistan cab safe haven for that the white house is determined not to make a stepped up withdrawal look like some sort of change in policy, but a fulfillment of the president s promise to make decisions ....
Establishment candidate if he wanted to the had thing is you can straddle the thing about the tee party lane to use liz s term and the social religious conservatives, you can kind of occupy both those lanes simultaneously, not mutually exclusive. the establishment lane that s pretty exclusive lane, you can t really do that and one of the others as well. charlie, stu, liz, stay here after break. our trivia we asked what city in the mainland united states has a large area unofficial known as little san juan, a lot of answers to this, this is the i was looking for, orlando. the azalea park area got the nickname little san juan. a lot of you gave me massachusetts, new jersey, a big neighborhood in miami known as little san juan. i m just telling you, i was looking for orlando, none of you got t panel sticking with us after the break. you are watching the daily rundown, only on msnbc, stu is about ready to yell at me at the ....