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>> no, i don't think it's entirely unexpected. he thought he got some very strong support today from ron paul, saying this is the nature of a free market economy and capitalism, and it's unclear just how much damage bain capital did to really productive companies. in many instances, as you know, they say that they had to go in and change those companies, because they were going broke on their own. that's something that will play out in the course of the next several days. in south carolina, by the way, it's a very conservative state. it's a state, the punitive leader of the state right now is ...

Mitt romney had won another silver after having placed second in iowa and new hampshire, he won both this time around. let's go back to chris matthews in manchester. >> thank you. of course the chair of the democratic national committee, we have a fairly expected set of results although there was questions early on even today about who would come in second. it's clear that ron paul took the excitement away from the campaign by crabbing second place and making no other credible democrat have that opportunity to say i'm second to mitt. now it looks like going into your part of the country two el...

State tonight. tomorrow when all the republican candidates pack up, we will be kickoff the most significant grass roots campaign and on to winning the state again for president obama in november of this year. >> it does carry the questions and we came through two states both of which are death le in play, that is correct? neither is safely in the president's column. >> both iowa and new hampshire are usually battle ground state requests and this won't be any exception. it won't be important to make a couple of observations about the outcome tonight. mitt romney got about 36% of the vote. four ...

Carolina has never been more important. what is going on in terms of spending in south carolina? and power brokers in south carolina who can make all the difference in that state. new news on that coming up next.

Years ago, after campaigning for five years, that's really not anything to write home about. you could really declare it a loss, because he should have blown the doors off in this state. in addition to that, the republican turnout was off about 40% from the turnout in 2008, showing that this is not a field that their side is very enthusiastic about. >> so you're saying that he's going to be the nominee, but he won't be a strong nominee. >> i would say that there are supporters in the republican party, aren't quite fired up and ready to go. >> and nothing's going to change in florida? >> well, ...