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That they've looked apart from romney, none of them have looked plausible. you don't want to write that check until you think there's a guy who you think could be the nominee. romney who has looked like the plausible nominee for much of the year, and yet they look at him, he doesn't have that much money. romney's done fine, but not barack obama/hillary clinton level money and they've looked at him and worries he has a glass jaw. you've had a lot of donors saying, you know, i'm going to wait and see until some of these contests happen. let's see how this shakes out a little bit. the more that c...

Commercials in south carolina and he has been for some time. you know, mark, when we were talking this weekend on the phone, you had a fascinating conversation with a japanese journalist. >> where is this going? >> no, i'm -- >> how conservative -- well, i think the japanese like to say -- they haven't expressed -- no, but -- >> what? >> in conservative parties in other countries would take care of this. >> oh. >> you would not have five conservatives running against one moderate and allowing the moderate to walk away with the nomination. >> this was a japanese politician who said in our count...

I'll let you describe how you would describe it. for a state this size, to spend that number of dollars in negative ads aimed at one candidate is amazing. >> do you feel -- >> no, i feel romney voted. >> i think speaker gingrich announced he raised $10 million this quarter, he ought to be proud of that. we're working hard to raise funds, as well. this is an election that's not being driven by money raised, it's been driven by connection with the voters, debates, experience, and i think those are the features that are driving the campaign so far. i think they probably will be through the -- thr...

Where we're below 6%, the agriculture industry is going strong, we still have the same apprehensions that all americans do relative to the debt, relative to a private sector economy. those are the messages resinating with republican voters. >> mark haleprin, 1994, santorum got elected in pennsylvania, and everybody a year later dismissed it because it was 1994, you could elect somebody like me in 1994. i remember being in congress in '99, seeing santorum at an event, and everybody was whispering dead man walking. he was up in 2000, nobody expected santorum to win in pennsylvania in 2000, he di...

Convention. you've got about another month. >> really? >> you couldn't win a mathematical majority, but if romney is cut and turns out to be a bleeder, there'll be another round of discussion of can someone get in amass as many delegates as they can? perhaps get delegates from people in the race, it's unlikely, but possible. >> all the filing deadlines have not passed? >> no, you have up until the beginning of february when the last of the deadlines comes into play. to mark's point, you have an organizational problem not to mention the general perception problem with the larger public that the...