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Transcripts For CNNW The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20120118



cruise liner is suspended. rescue diver face new difficulties while the captain may face years of prison. i m wolf blitzern charleston, south carolina. you re in the situation room. just releasing right now, a latest poll showing a tightening race. newt gingrich is charging ahead, trying to keep the fight for the republican nomination going, and the new cnn/time/orc poll shows him closing the gap here in south carolina. mitt romney remains the front-runner with 33%. gingrich up now, though, to 23%. rick santorum third at, and rick perry 6%. joining us now our chief political analyst gloria borger and time columnist joe klein. gloria, let me say, the gap seems to be narrowing in these recent days. what evidence do we see? take a look at this, wolf. in the poll we did january 4th to 5th there was a 19-point difference. now, in our current poll there s a ten-point gap. i think we can explain that by the fact that quite honestly mitt romney hasn t had a good week. a ....

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