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There are many reasons why mitt romney should not be elected president, but i hope religious discrimination is not one of them. >> ron? >> there were polls out in the 2008 campaign on president obama and on electing an african-american president. we saw that that was not a problem at all. i think that with mitt romney s he's going to have to overcome that. he has to make sure people know who he is, that he's a competent leader. once people identify with the actual candidate, those other problems usually go away as long as you can overcome the issue based upon personality. >> dean? >> i think h...

He got two big risks. one is that it really concerns our allies who may be wondering if they're still going to be supported in the same way that they're used to. on the flip side, there's also a concern that it could em bolden some of our adversaries to try to take advantage to what they see as a pullback by the united states. of course, you have to look at everything in the context of money. the pentagon in the middle of cutting half a trillion dollars from its budget. you can't do everything, you know, with limited resources. so what you're seeing is a smaller military in terms of manpower i...

surging along with his poll numbers, i understand. tell me more about that. >> that's right, they raised a million dollars in 24 hours after those iowa caucuses and he is fighting hard for votes here in new hampshire. you know, the conventional wisdom was, kyra, that he would spend more time in south carolina because that's where a lot of social conservatives are, not so much up here in new hampshire. but keep in mind, rick santorum has a rust belt republican approach to how he wants to go after votes here in this new hampshire primary. he's talking about giving tax breaks to the man...

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