Power Outsiders News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The child of poor immigrants who will build a fence to keep them out of this country. someone who's strong enough for a man but ph balanced for a woman. now you want chris christie. sure you do. >> the folks who criticized my policy are ignorant, absolutely ignorant of that and criticize him because he's a muslim-american. this sharia law business is crap. it's just crazy. and i'm tired of dealing with the crazies. >> he's talking about you. >> joining me now, editorial director for aol, "huffington post" and msnbc analyst howard fineman. howard, thanks for joining me tonight. >> hey, lawrence...

Director for aol, "huffington post" and msnbc analyst howard fineman. thanks for joining me tonight. >> hey, lawrence. >> howard, you at "the huffington post" have done this fascinating poll of what you call the 160 republican power outsiders. you've gotten their attitudes about these potential nominees. tell us about that. >> well, in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the big three, first three primary caucus states, we are having our patch.com local editors and reporters go out and talk to dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials....

Dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials. party leaders. businesspeople and so on. so we have close to 200 of them we talk to every week. and to try to get a real ground-level feel, nobody else is trying to do something this extensive because we have 26 of these local patch sites in these three states. and this week we asked them about rick perry and mitt romney. what we found was rick perry plummeting like a stone among the grassroots people, the sort of local influentials in those three states. they ended up having a much less favorable...

Plummeting like a stone among the grassroots people, the sort of local influentials in those three states. they ended up having a much less favorable view of rick perry than they did. look at this. we did the poll from last friday to today. 57% of our local influentials, the people we call the power outsiders, in those three states said they had a less favorable view of rick perry after that debate. now, this isn't the pundits talking. this isn't the, you know, the national press talking. these are local main street influential republicans in these three states. that's terrible news for rick p...

>> hey, lawrence. >> howard, you at "the huffington post" have done this fascinaing poll of what you call the 160 republican power outsiders. you've gotten their attitudes about these potential nominees. tell us about that. >> well, in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the big three, first three primary caucus states, we are having our patch.com local editors and reporters go out and talk to dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials. party leaders. businesspeople and so on. so we have close to 200 of them we talk to every week. and t...