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And what romney has to do from here on out is get 50% of the delegates, which is going -- which with proportional voting this time is harder than it would have been in the past. i do believe, governor, if romney can see this through, just standing you know as an observer, that he would be by far the strongest candidate against obama. >> when you look down the road in this scenario, when you look at is it perry, he's going to camp out and wait in south carolina. who of them or is it governor huntsman. who of the other candidates do you view as the potential long-term threat? >> i'm very partial...

Chris. and also my office roommate. >> happy new year, roomie. how are you doing. >> it as little rowdy here. the ap history and politics class from taylor high school down in cincinnati. a rowdy crew, i got to tell you. very rough down here, kelly. very rowdy. here is the vibe and here is what is consequential in iowa. as you say, for romney a win here could be the decisive moment for him because if you have a low turnout affair, republicans can't -- the conservative republicans can't unit behind one choice, be it perry, gingrich, be it bachmann, be it santorum. if they can't get behind one c...

For "roll call," and melissa harris perry, msnbc contributor and professor of political science at tulane university. melissa, this secret meeting, which is no longer secret, and was really kind of obvious, that christian conservatives really want to find an anybody but romney candidate, aren't they just kind of getting in a room and doing together in a relatively small group what all the rest of the larger republican electorate has been trying to do? >> well, yeah. that's certainly what it feels like, watching this gop primary season thus far. is that there has been a pretty solid romney vote...

Season thus far. is that there has been a pretty solid romney vote. those supporters. and then there is the very powerful, and in fact, vast majority of gop voters at this point, who in expressing their press conferences in polls, they haven't actually voted or caucused yet, but they're basically say iing, not romney. and they've been moving around, trying to figure out, who is the right not-romney candidate. is it bachmann, is it perry, is it gingrich? so we have to ask, how powerful is that? is that powerful enough to sustain a kind of not-romneyism all the way through, so if he became the n...

All those will be a big focus of perny -- perry's address in georgia, then we'll bring it to new hampshire, where mitt romney's fire wall is. romney has a big, big lead in this state and intends to keep it that way. to that end romney has hit perry with a new web attack going after mr. perry for giving illegal immigrants in state tuition. he points you out that that position isupported by barack obama, harry reid, nancy pelosi, democratic house -- former democratic house speaker and the former president of mexico. listen to this clip: >> it will be decided to give access to mexican migrants, u...