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with jon huntsman. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. the first primary beghaj at midnight in new hampshire. most polls close three hours from now. we ll have complete coverage. here is what we re watching for. first, mitt romney s margin of victory. final polls show him with a nearly 20-point lead. if romney wins big he may see almost invincible heading into south carolina. if he doesn t win big, he may seem beatable, at least some experts predict. second, who comes in second, jon huntsman gambled on a good showing in new hampshire. he has the chance to show he s a viable candidate. they play very well among many in new hampshire, and could help him emerge as the anti-romney candidate. finally, independenting can stroh in this open primary, so how will they vote? they may decide the winner, who will that signal for next november? we re watching all of this unfold. new hampshire state officials are expecting a record turnout of a quarter million ....
Starting to slip. that s what we re looking for, don. and, really, we ll have to see what happens because this is going to be what s going to happen. it will kick ahead to south carolina. and that will be the next fight, don. yep, and if mitt romney does all three, it s a sweep and that will make it very interesting. by all accounts it will be over then. so, jim, you spent time with the romney campaign today. what was the mood? are they confident? well, you know, don, to be quite honest, today you were doing a lot of damage control. i mean, mitt romney had a pretty difficult debate earlier this morning. the nbc debate. he had all of the other contenders on that stage going after him. newt gingrich especially was trying to go after mitt romney, trying to draw blood with the i pious baloney statement. wait a minute, this is not true. we re going to go after this and newt gingrich finally did with that line about pious baloney. ....
And nodoz with expiration dates between now and december of 2014. bufferin and gas-x are also being recalled with an expiration date of 2013 or earlier. and the winner is the hyundai elantrelantra, the nort american car of the year. the range rover evoke the truck of the year. in case you haven t noticed, things are getting nasty in new hampshire. mitt romney isn t just the guy to beat. he is the guy taking a beating. listen to this. mitt, i realize the red light doesn t mean anything to you because you re the front-runner. [ laughter ] but can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] ....
Against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for the conservative principles, not bail out and not run, and not run to the left of ted kennedy. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? you have been running consistently for years and years and years. so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind. just level with the american people. you have been running at least since the 1990s. well, mitt romney is trying to seal the deal. he is out rallying supporters in new hampshire, trying to win over last-minute converts. cnn s jim accosta is at the romney event and will join us in just a few minutes. also, joe johns with rick santorum. we will talk to him coming up in just a few minutes. ok. let s ....
Position is more precarious this morning. he may be moving toward a weak finish. reporter: romney of course is still way up and this is always his race to lose and gingrich is concerned about a weak finish as well. some of the candidates like gingrich and santorum and others are focused on south carolina, the next race because romney is so far ahead here this is certainly his race to lose. ron allen in new hampshire this morning. thank you, sir. i appreciate it. after surviving several verbal messages unscathed, mitt romney for the first time took a few shots to the chin. take a look. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney. the fact is you ran in 94 and lost. if his record was so great as governor of massachusetts, why didn t he run for re-election? if you didn t want to stand before the people in massachusetts and run on your record, if it was that great, ....