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Them, fantastic. if santorum slips by them, that's fine. he does not have the resources, organization to go forward. and if ron paul gets past them, it's great. as long as they finish in the top two, feeling good about the road ahead. almost impossible to see how they're not the nominee. and what's interesting, i know you're hearing this too, the other campaigns don't even dispute that. if you push other campaigns on -- if mitt romney's first or second, how is he not the nominee? they're not going to give you a clear answer. >> the e-mail that went into politico, i'll read it for you. from a t...

Well done, mark haleprin. >> tried and true methods. >> there's no doubt as it goes in tokyo, so goes it in iowa. >> so goes -- so goes ames. >> something like that. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> it was great to see you. >> you've got great reviews at the museum last night. growing up brzezinski. everybody loved it. >> okay. >> coming up tomorrow, mitt romney will join us live from java joes here in des moines. >> and we've got michele bachmann this morning. >> this morning. up next here, we're going to break for a little football. huge game last night. giants and cowboys, nfc rival...

Either praise or condemn romney. on one hand, he is winning. on the other hand, the -- if you look at it as sort of romney versus the anti-romneys, there are a lot more anti-romneys, and that's why this race is so hard to predict. let's say if a couple of people were ready to drop out afterç iowa, if it could be a mano e mano race, you can imagine they could coalesce around one of those guys. but mark haleprin's right, this is a turf battle. and michele bachmann hates rick perry more than mitt romney right now. so of you got this struggle to be the conservative. the other thing i would point...

After romney. i think they all assume if they can emerge as the alternative to romney, that gives them a chance. they may -- >> i think we lost haleprin there. we'll go back to him in a second there, jonathan. >> i was going to ask mark haleprin whether he thought mitt romney was perhaps being overconfident. he's changed his whole schedule. remember, he wasn't going to spend a whole lot of time in iowa. now he's on a bus tour, going to spend new year's eve in iowa. he's going to be there in the state on caucus night. he's going to be the next day doing media interviews. this is -- it could be ...

Would please conservatives. someone else on the list, senator john cornyn of texas also would be sort of governing pick. someone with no negative information out there about it. >> mark haleprin, do you have any thoughts who he might pick? we've also heard the name of the governor suzansanna martinez. >> mitt romney is going to make a governing pick. he knows from history the first, second, and third obligation politically and substantively pick somebody ready for president, i think rob portman is head and shoulders among most other people. the press and public would look at him and say, yeah,...