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With about 17%. newt gingrich and rick santorum went back and forth all night for fourth and fifth place. welcome back, everybody, to "morning joe." we're at j.d.'s tavern in manchester. we have mark haleprin, and national affairs editor for "new york" magazine john heilemann, and many more to come today. but first of all, take us off, joe, this morning in terms of what happened last night. you saw it coming. >> well, new hampshire is the land of romney. you come into j.d.'s tavern, you talk to everyone, they go, i am mitt romney. you can just sense it on the streets -- >> you can shake that n...

Much more blue collar base of the republican party than we have in a couple of the states we've been in so far. the tone of it and vulture capitalism is an extreme version. we had newt gingrich on the show yesterday making a more careful version of that argument, which i think you acknowledged yesterday was more -- was still criticizing the bain element of romney's background but was a little bit more -- not quite as occupy wall street. and there may -- he may find a more fertile ground in south carolina amongst voters down there who do feel some that there's a lot of it. >> there's a tactical...

And a lot of those votes were votes of rebellion against big spending republicans over the past decade. >> usually these primaries weed out the candidates. so far, though, they're holding on. despite his third-place finish, jon huntsman appeared optimistic vowing to compete in south carolina where he's currently trailing in the polls. >> ladies and gentlemen, i think we're in the hunt. i'd say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen. we proved the point that this state wants its candidates to earn it the old-fashioned way. that's on the ground, handshake by handshake, conversatio...

But the other thing is the country has changed. this is -- traveling around and talking to people, they are frightened about the economy. in spite of the fact there's still a lot of wealth in this country, they realize it's based on debt. and they know it's very, very unsteady. and also, they're just tired of these deficits, tired of the wars going on. they're tired of the president going starting new wars and sending more troops around. we're adding country. today he announced that he was going into another country in africa and sending more troops. so this is what the people are sick and tir...

Years are a detour not a destiny, then i'm asking for your vote, this election let's go on to fight for the america we love because we believe in america. thank you so much. god bless america. thank you, guys. you're the best! >> mark haleprin, we were talking about this earlier, that sounded like a nomination speech. on the one hand talking a lot about president obama, but on the other hand flicking away newt gingrich and saying, really? you want to attack me on the bain capital thing? you're making obama's case against me. let's stop that. and as we said before, rush limbaugh made that case,...