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Advantage for him? but, you know, you could argue two things. first of all good news for gingrich and other is it may be good news for romney. because romney would love to see if they're not all getting out of the race he he doesn't want to see either one, gingrich or two, santorum get out of race. he likes to have a split field in the anti-romney vote. >> shepard: biggest surprises thus far, are you surprised we haven't been able to call virginia yet? we are down to two candidates. >> i am astonished we are not able to call virginia and not able to call vermont. i think everyone assumed those...

Spoiler if nothing else there. >> so can rick santorum. that's the problem in the month of february for newt gingrich is that you're looking at a bunch of caucus contests that rick santorum and ron paul prepared well for. obviously the romney campaign is also organized on the ground way in advance of these contests. they prepared well for them, too. it moves the narrative away from this two-man race that gingrich wants it to be to once again a split field where romney iraqis it out with a plurality every time. a month of that with only one debate diminishes opportunities for gingrich to get th...

Thompson. i know several people wrote books about the campaign, and i would love to hear your thoughts. maggie, did you write a book? >> you were a writer and all. >> that's right. >> when you look at this race versus 2008 and compare and contrast to our viewers at home. >> gosh. i think alex's comments are opposite and there's no question that that the split field had an effect in this race. if mitt romney had won this race or was set up to win this race, of course, the normal qualifier, anything can happen today. >> thank you. >> but that's, you know, the fred thompson, mike huckabee splitti...

Eisenhower institute of gettysburg college. she has worked forecnn, news week, anybody else? i wanted to get a feel from you about the atmosphere and what you are seeing and feeling on the ground to perhaps or contrasting other elections? >> four years ago it was like tension-city. you were having 5,000 people turn out to see barack obama, thousands turn out to see hillary clinton. the final weekend was the game changer with hillary clinton had the final debate, eked her way past obama, won the primary by two points. you had mccain strong solidifying gains from a split field out of iowa watch ...

Eisenhower institute of gettysburg college. she has worked forecnn, news week, anybody else? i wanted to get a feel from you about the atmosphere and what you are seeing and feeling on the ground to perhaps or contrasting other elections? >> four years ago it was like tension-city. you were having 5,000 people turn out to see barack obama, thousands turn out to see hillary clinton. the final weekend was the game changer with hillary clinton had the final debate, eked her way past obama, won the primary by two points. you had mccain strong solidifying gains from a split field out of iowa watch ...