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Have him, because he's perceived as someone who can't win the nomination, that will lure rick perry and newt gingrich down to south carolina. for romney, they want to try to replicate in south carolina what they had in iowa, a split conservative vote, which would allow mitt romney to conceivably win south carolina, like iowa, with 26% or 27% of vote. that's ideal for mitt romney. >> in john mccain getting 32%, that was his margin in south carolina, he beat huckabee by three points, the assist was fred thompson stayed in the race. flipside, two things about south carolina and mitt romney. in 20...

Or three person here, but also have him, because he's perceived as someone who can't win the nomination, that will lure rick perry and newt gingrich down to south carolina. for romney, they want to try to replicate in south carolina what they had in iowa, a split conservative vote, which would allow mitt romney to conceivably win south carolina, like iowa, with 26% or 27% of vote. that's ideal for mitt romney. >> in john mccain getting 32%, that was his margin in south carolina, he beat huckabee by three points, the assist was fred thompson stayed in the race. flipside, two things about south ...

For him. >> a clean shot. he's clearing the field. what cain did was grab most of the right field and throw it away because of apparently personal problems here. and that throwing it away has gone to the benefit of newt gingrich, right? >> yeah, i think that that's right. susan is 100% right. the romney nightmare scenario is a consolidated social conservative tea party vote behind a single candidate. newt gingrich, rick perry, michele bachmann, whoever else. mitt romney has to be hoping herman cain stays in the race. don't get out of the race. stay in the race. he hopes that michele bachmann g...

The iowa caucuses, chris. he probably can get 30% of the vote. he needs a split conservative vote to win there. >> you guys go to bed with this stuff like i do. cillizza and i definitely go to bed thinking about this. somewhere in the middle of the night, we're going to wake up and say, my god, there's one other possibility. a real republican convention this summer. is it possible at the the end of this summer -- susan, your laughing. they actually have a convention to say, wait a minute, this stinks what we've been doing. why don't we have a big convention and open up the vote and pick the be...

Can split the vote. look, mitt romney is not going to get 45 or 50% of the vote in the iowa caucuses, chris. he probably can get 30% of the vote. he needs a split conservative vote to win there. >> you guys go to bed with this stuff like i do. cillizza and i definitely go to bed thinking about this. somewhere in the middle of the night, we're going to wake up and say, my god, there's one other possibility. a real republican convention this summer. is it possible at the the end of this summer -- susan, your laughing. they actually have a convention to say, wait a minute, this stinks what we've ...