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>> turntable. welcome back to j.d.'s tavern in manchester, the morning after mitt romney's big win. mike allen, he's the best in the business. >> oh, yes. >> he gets every scoop there is. >> always puts it right at the top. >> yes. >> the lead story. you have some breaking news, and i'll let you deliver it this morning, mike. >> siren. >> sources close to "morning joe," a birthday boy, mark haleprin. happy birthday, young man. >> thank you so much. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday dear, mark ♪ happy birthday to you >> and many more. >> thank you. thank y...

Hampshire is scarborough country, but today it's tebow country. and also there's one freak over here that thinks it's lsu country. >> hello. >> i'm deeply disturbed, mika. >> live at j.d.'s tavern in manchester, new hampshire, where besides the fact that tim tebow is the hero of the day, the primaries. we have msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst mark haleprin and national affairs editor john heilemann. >> this is exciting. >> we were at an event. >> we celebrate democracy every time we come up to new hampshire. i do want to make a reference this morning. and you know, there are th...

Newt gingrich who are all in a statistical tie for third place. >> and, you know, there are other polls that came out yesterday that showed, mark, showed mitt romney going down in the daily tracking poll, and i think it was american research poll that showed an even bigger surge from jon huntsman. so you are seeing two things happen. a little more subtle on mitt romney's part. you're seeing romney lose a point or two a day. and as we said in iowa, it is all about trend lines. and you're seeing jon huntsman going up. they are meeting in the middle. i don't think there's enough time for jon hunt...

Joe mcquad. conventional main street republican wisdom holds that mitt romney has the best chance to defeat president obama. on the contrary, romney may be the worst candidate for one thing his claimed record of a fiscally conservative governor is as much of a sham as his flip-flops. and that's always bad when that happens. lights go out in the tavern and we can't read the must reads. but here we go. i can read it up on the monitor. let's see -- >> let's go ahead and go right now, though over to mark -- >> calls him a nice, rich man. >> mark, how powerful is joe mcquaid and the union leader? b...

Carolina, i'll say it, game over. south carolina would've done again what they do every four years, they pick the winner. >> and we hear from people in the national press that while his faith is going to be a problem in south carolina, if you look at those numbers where he's up 18 points doesn't look like it's a problem at the moment anyway for a lot of these voters. i guess the problem is, the press has been talking about this coales this. it seems to me, though, mark, it's too late. >> it is too late. over the weekend you saw stories about his effort to coalesce after new hampshire. too late...