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>> tonight, round two for republicans. in the fight to be president. >> game on. >> survivors of the closest iowa caucus in history. face off in the front-runner's backyard. >> can we do better in new hampshire? >> who comes in second may be as important as who comes in first. >> you have a chance to change the world. >> it's new hampshire's choice. mitt romney is aiming for another win by hammering the president. >> this president is a crony capitalist. >> but romney's opponents want to tear him down. >> this would be a weakest front-runner in history. >> don't settle for someone who can win, but then can't do. >> it's a brutal battle to beat mitt romney. ron paul came close in iowa. rick santorum came even closer. >> the campaigns say they need your help. i need your help. >> will they go the distance or will these three catch up by going on the attack? >> people out of work down there

because of what mitt romney and bain capital did. >> who will be left standing when the road to the white house veers south? >> say enough, mr. president. you are not the emperer. >> i'm prepared to take obama on. >> we're not being led. people are coming together. >> this election is about the soul of america, folks. >> it's another decision day in america and the people have the power. i'm wolf blitzer at the cnn election center. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. there's only one hour left of voting in new hampshire and six republican candidates are anxiously waiting for the results. mitt romney is certainly favored to win, but second place is up for grabs and there's an intense fight to be romney's main challenger. tonight, our ballot cameras will

show you democracy in action. we're going to speak to voters, track the ballots and watch a small town count its votes by hand. in our campaigns will take you behind the scenes with the romney and huntsman teams working to get out the votes before the last polls close. we have the most cameras in the most locations. our correspondents certainly out in force including candy crowley and soledad o'brien. soledad, first to you. >> all right, we're at amherst street elementary school. they opened the polling here at 6:00 in the morning, but will stay later than anybody else. until 8:00. part lly because of a provision. they expect 35% turnout. that is consistent with what we're seeing, but we have an hour to go until the polls close. 8:00, they will close the doors and tally the results and tell us who's won. >> candy crowley is at mitt

romney's headquarters. what's going on, candy? >> they certainly are expecting a win here tonight in romneyland, woclf, but equally s important, who will place and who will show. is there anyone who can stand in mitt romney's way? that's why new hampshire voters right now are setting the table, wolf. >> candy, stand by for that. as always, anderson cooper will be with us every step of the way. >> that's right, wolf. less than an hour from now, the last open polls places are going to close. we already have results from two small towns. in dixville, mitt romney and jon huntsman tied with two votes each. in heart's location, romney won is five votes. erin burnett's going to break them down for us at the polling center. >> you mentioned dixville, hart's location. four years ago, the map showed

the big surprise with hillary clinton. will that happen tonight? here are some key places to look in new hampshire. down to the southern part, mitt romney's the former massachusetts governor. a lot of massachusetts transplants down here. a lot of the undeclared voters. the so-called independents. romney needs to do well down here. oaf here, the most democratic part of the state. if ron paul is going to reproduce some of the iowa magic, the dartmouth campus will be one place he gets votes. watchm manchester. if the attacks on romney are taking a toll, we will see it there. >> erin burnett has early exit poll information. >> a stark contrast to iowa. i saw this in manchester yesterday talking to folks. you see very conservative here, 67% of voters very or somewhat conservative on fiscal issues. stark contrast to aiiowa. we're going to break this down, let you know where the votes are

going. social issues such as abortion, 60% in new hampshire moderate or liberal. >> we have been seeing reaction, rick santorum on the campaign trail, very different than in iowa in terms of social issue. our analysts are going to help put this in perspective. gloria borger, david gergen, including top strategists from past presidential campaigns. >> let's check in with various reporters. dana bash is at ron paul headquarters. jim acosta is a jon huntsman's candy crowley, romney headquarters. is it going to be a big crowd there? you got a big room, ali l root? set the scene for us. >> let me see if i can sort of step out of the way and try to give you an idea of how small this room is. there is in fact, i know david if you can do it, the podium is right behind me and there are going to be more people to the

side and behind mitt romney than in front of him. it's one of these smaller rooms. i've seen for what clearly is expected to be a victory celebration. it was even smaller than des moines and we thought the des moines room couldn't get smaller. they expect a win. the picture will look great. we all know that the message coming out of new hampshire is for the rest of the country, for south carolina, for florida. the picture will look great, but it is a very tight and small room, wolf, and but -- it will none the less be a victory celebration. >> assuming he wins and we assume that will be a case. let's go to jim acosta right now. he's at jon huntsman's headquarters. they would love to come in second tonight. there's going to be a fight, we assume between huntsman and ron paul. >> that's right, wolf. it is new hampshire or bust for jon huntsman, he has bet big on

this state. they actually moved their national campaign headquarters to this room in manchester. i'm joined by campaign spokesman jake. you were telling me this nerve center which is sort of like the little engine that could. it's picked up activity in the last couple of days. >> absolutely. just a few days ago, we were at 7%. the governor did his 160th event here and all of a sudden, people are really responding. to his country first moment in the debate with mitt romney and his message about restoring trust and dealing with our economic deficit. >> thanks very much. earlier today, i had a chance to talk to jon huntsman and i asked him about the expeck tases. he was very honest. he said if we don't do well here, things might change for his campaign. >> dana bash at ron paul's headquarters. what's the scene like there? >> we, the scene is we're in candy talked about it being a small room for mitt romney.

it's also small here with ron paul supporters are going to be coming and standing and watching the stage. we talk about the fact that ron paul says that he has a consistent message. this is also consistent. same podium, same plaque. even the same balloon and the idea is that he is hoping he does better than what he did in iowa. he did third, very good, but they're really hoping inside the paul campaign that he gets a strong second because what that means for ron paul is the ability to raise more money and to keep the campaign going for the long haul. this is not something who wants to give up by any means. i'm hearing from inside the war room, that they are feeling very good with the numbers they are seeing and they feel their message is really playing in in terms of their libertarian sensibility. before i go back to you, i just want to give you a behind the scenes look for our viewers as well. you saw it back there, what we

always see, the candidate on the stage. but this is what the candidate sees. the sea of cameras. this is the view they get when they give their speech. whether it's a happy speech or a disappointment. this is what they see. pretty good showing of cameras here and this is pretty much what i think you would see at all the candidate's headquarters across the state today. >> thanks very much. let's bring in dan lothian. he's at trichester, new hampshire. you're at a polling station. walk us through what's going on because i see they're already counting ballots. >> they are, wolf, but let's spin around if we can. this is the box where all the ballots were in. they just opened up that box a while ago. they set up these tables here with 12 volunteers. now, there are a lot of small towns around the state of new hampshire that have decided not to do the electronic way of counting, so instead, they bring in volunteers like you see here. they set up these tables. put a dozen volunteers an the

first thing they're doing is separating all of the different pieces of paper and then they'll be counting the paper. they're not looking at the color or whose name is on there. they're just making sure they have an accurate count of the paper. then they will be separating them as you've seen the volunteers separating the pink ones and blue ones. pink being republican, blue being democrat. this is a long process that will take about an hour and a half. where they'll be tabulating all of the different ballots they have. first of all, they'll accesepar them, then by the candidates. the major candidates and then the minor candidates and then out loud, we will be able to witness them giving the count. there are two people here, so you have someone backing you up. they want to make sure everything they do is very accurate and after they're done,

they'll announce the number, take it downstairs and a police officer will take the ballots from here to concord. >> this transparency is great. thanks very, very much. vote results are in fact coming in and you can see the latest numbers at the bottom of your screen. stand by for more live ballot cams as the votes are counted. we'll also check in with john king at the magic wall. he's tracking the votes county by county. our coverage only just beginning. if there was a pill

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he's in manchester at a polling station. are they reading results already? >> that's exactly what they're doing. diane is the ward moderator and she is reading the unofficial tabulated results from the vote count here. just over 2,900 votes were cast. that's less than the 5,800 registered voters and right now, she's reading how many votes each of the candidates got. let's listen to what she's saying. >> stewart j. greenleaf, one. christopher hill, zero. jon huntsman, 403. gary johnson. 4. fred carver, 3. jeff lawman, 1. benjamin lynn, zero. andy martin, zero. >> so wolf, so far, we've heard one major candidate so far.

ron paul. 341. rick perry, 10. a few moments ago, we heard that jon huntsman got -- 927 for mitt romney. rick santorum, 162. and we heard a moment ago, 403 for jon huntsman. i'm going to check with my producer and make sure these numbers are completely accurate. let's take a look at what she has here. mitt romney, 927. again, these are unofficial tabulated. mitt romney, 927. ron paul, 341. rick santorum, 162. jon huntsman, 403. rick perry, only 10 votes cast here. michele bachmann, 4.

even herman cain got one vote cast for him here. these are very raw. they still have to go through write-in ballots. if there was damage or what have you, so these numbers will change, however, this is significant because these are the very first election returns comiing in from this ward. >> you said how many people are voted? because if mitt romney got almost 1,000, that sounds like 40 to 50%, is that right? >> that sounds about right. i have here, 2,904 ballots cast here. about 5,800 registered voters here, so yeah, 744 for democrats. 2140 and 92 write-ins. 927 for mitt romney. that's a significant amount. >> looks like jon huntsman came in second. ron paul third at least

according to the numbers we've heard. what do they do with all of those ballots? >> there's a lot of work still to be done. they have the count actually all of those ballots, hand count those, as well as of course the write-ins as well as other ballots that might have damages, but from there is where it really turns interesting, where you'll see something only on cnn. we're going to follow the bat lols from that point as they make their way down to their holding place. we're going to travel along in a car behind the car that's carrying the ballots off to city haul and we have a really, really interesting and exclusive shot of where those ballots are deposits. our viewers won't want to miss it. that's coming up. >> polls are closed in manchester in the polling station where you are. soledad, the polls are still open there. they're not going to close until the top of the hour, right? >> absolutely right. about 40 minutes left until the polls close here.

we're at the amherst street elementary school in the gym, ward three and what happens is people come in here and they do as they always do. they come and register. you can register here. if you're not a registered voter, you have to check in there. they have about 100 people who have signed up because they're not registered voters. once you get registered here, you get a ballot. this is a republican ballot. there are 30 people on this ballot. they send you over to one of these little booths, which is closed by a curtain. go inside there, for about 30 seconds and pick one. pick one candidate who you're supporting and then head over to that little black machine that looks like a photo copier side. they're going to feed your bat lot into the tabulator is what it's called and that will tabulate who your vote is for. they calculate over the next 40 minutes all of those ballots. they box them up as they go

along and eventually, they'll print out the slip. they'll add in of course the absentee ballots of any of the ballots that have any kinds of damage and then they'll give us a figure. they're going to expect that to happen probably just a few minutes after 8:00. by 8:05, 8:10, they expect to post those results. >> we'll check back with you. thanks very much. anderson, so, the first votes apparently have been counted. those are unofficial, but we're getting the results. we'll find out what's going on. >> mitt romney has been the front-runner, obviously in new hampshire since day one, but it has been a volatile fight to be his main challenger. let's look at the polling strends over the past six months. romney took the lead, stayed there, everyone else was behind until gingrich surged and came closer. now paul, huntsman, gingrich and

santorum are jockeying for runner up position. our panel is here. all political contributors. erick erickson, energy for red state, james carville, democratic strategist, roland martin, cnn contributor. what are you guys expecting? >> expecting mitt romney to win. just want to see what the margin of victory is. does he get where john mccain got in 2008 or close to where he got and what does jon huntsman do? come in second place, ahead of ron paul or is he in third? >> for you, 40% for mitt romney. what's needed. >> if he can surpass john mccain who's at 37.7, get into the 40% range, then it's going to be hard for anyone to make any kind of case. >> newt gingrich was trying to say 50%. to raise expectations. >> i'm curious to see what the intensity is like just like with an iowa. in iowa, the voter intensity was

similar to 2008, which doesn't bode well for republicans, which should be a giant red flag. if this continues to be a trend, we're going to have the same scenario as 2008 and if mitt romney's the nominee, eric and i were discussing, doesn't quite have lengthy coat tails. what does that mean for house and senate? >> it is a small state. 300,000 people. >> it is. i've had some experience, you can get around and it's a classic thing when asked if you're going to vote for someone, well, haven't met him yet. they like the subtle politics. just one little tidbit. when we watch these people accumulating votes, people should really come to appreciate how many people in this country work in election. one of my favorite moments on television was after iowa and those two remarkable women. just people like that all over this country. >> heroes of these elections.

>> the biggest thing for me, what will the speeches me like after the results are? that's going to be an indication of what next week is going to really look and feel like. if newt gingrich comes out like chucky from the horror film, if he continues that whole deal. if santorum tries to pivot back to a hard social conservative message and then if rick perry has any kind of clue, that's going to be the key. >> we're already getting early exit poll rumts coming in. we're going to get the initial read on the issues making a difference tonight. be right back. [ monica ] i'm away on a movie shoot

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32 minutes before all the polls close in new hampshire. at that point, we'll see if we can make a projection. official votes are are ready in very, very early in the process, only 1% of the precincts have reported in much of the state. the polls close at 7:00 p.m. eastern. right now, mitt romney ahead with 38%. ron paul second, 23%.

jon huntsman, 16%. newt gingrich, 12. rick santorum, 10. rick perry 0%. he got five votes. only 1% have reported. we're going to get a bunch more. that's coming in very quickly, but we got exit poll data coming in as well. erin and gloria are here for that. >> we're learning a lot. a lot of categories we're going to break down, but one thing we wanted to highlight is independents. we talked about how important this is for the election and in particular for a state like new hampshire. vote by party i.d. it's on open primary. 4% democrat. 49% republican. we're going to talk about where those votes are going in a moment, but 47% of the people voting today classify themselves as independents. let's show you how they're going. first flick of the night. first flick of the night. all right. and here we go. this is pretty amazing. dead here here in terms of how independents are going between paul and romney and huntsman

nibbling at their heels. >> this is good for huntsman. this is the real audience he was aiming at and good news for ron paul. in 2008, mitt romney got 27% of independents. john mccain got 40% of independents. but this shows you that it could be a very, very good night for paul and huntsman in addition to romney, if you assume romney's going to win the primary. zbh it's going to be interesting, too, wolf, that we're going to look at as the night goes on, when we find out how people cast their vote, but they be disfied with other candidates. >> these exit polls are great and we're going to get a lot more information. thanks very much. joe johns is at newt gingrich headquarters. gary tuckman is at rick santorum headquarters. joe, music behind you. are they getting ready for a

little rock 'n' roll? bhas going on? >> that's for sure. this is a ballroom of the raddison hotel in manchester. we wanted to give you a look at some of the retail politicking that's going on here. we have a table i want to show you as people start to trickle in. even before he gets here, a whole group of people, just wanted to go around the table and talk to you about who you voted for. what's your name? >> fred. >> what did you vote for? >> jon huntsman. >> mitt romney. >> what's your name? >> natalie. >> who did you vote for? >> newt. >> you voted for newt gingrich. okay -- >> yes. >> so, you're the person who's here -- >> i'm here, yes. >> and what's your name? >> i'm john and i voted for barack obama. >> oh, so -- you're married to her. she voted for newt gingrich. you voted for barack obama.

>> that's right. >> so, how's that working out at home? >> 48 years. >> what's your name? >> jack from massachusetts and if i could have voted, i would have voted for obama. i came here, anybody but romney. >> i've met a number of folks like you. everybody's kind of independent. >> i don't know what romney did in massachusetts and so, we know who he is. >> so, are you all going to stick around to see newt gingrich this evening? >> oh, yeah. >> as you can see, wide ranging number of opinions of the polls today, newt. newt. i'm sorry, wolf. interesting to see how this turns out. >> we're ready for a little rock 'n' roll here at the cnn election center. gary tuckman -- i don't see any rock 'n' roll bands there. >> we have lots of music playing. a few minutes ago on the speaker system, we heard get up stand up

by peter tosh. a liberal anthem. so far, he's not here. he's expected at this country club in about 15 minutes. he'll be speaking up here. what we're noticing over the last several years and i've touched on this before, is the downsizing of ballrooms. this is a very tight room. basically the size of three tennis courts. this is the press who's here. television press, radio, the newspaper. people are just starting to trickle in and we expect the candidate to be arriving in about 15 minutes. >> we're going to anxiously get the votes and hear from all the candidates. all right, guys, thanks very much. we're getting more votes coming in. 2%, 3%, just went up to 3%. here's what we know right now. these are official votes. 37% for mitt romney. almost 3,000 votes. 24% for ron paul.

almost 2,000, 15%, for jon huntsman. 11% for newt gingrich. rick santorum, also 11%, just behind newt gingrich. rick perry, not doing so well. only 1%. this is as i say, very early. only 3% and you can see what's going on. anderson, the results, they're going to be coming in a lot more quickly within the coming minutes. i would say over the next half hour, 45 minutes, we'll get a lot more of the official votes and we're waiting for the top of the hour to see when all of the polls are closed in new hampshire if, if we'll be able to make any projections over there. anderson? >> thanks very much. candy, very important to watch the percentage of independents coming out to vote in 2008. some 37% of the voters were independent. from the exit polls we're seeing, it looks like the number may be higher. that could be significant

tonight. >> it can. i brought my own little brain trust here. it does look like there's a heavy indy vote. mary matalin, let's start with you. off the top of my head, i'm thinking, oh, ron paul. but there's other factors here. >> such thing or there's only 7% independents. really independents. you've got to push the lead, so here, you've got different kind of i independents. they lean libertarian or lean to fiscal conservative and social liberal, that kind of different kind of every state is unique. what i think is interesting about this state, mitt romney is the first republican to win both these states. the only candidates who had previously won both had been campaigns that donna brazile ran twice and he's not going to get if these numbers hold, he'll be doing fine, but this is not dispositive, nor was iowa. i know we're all talking about south carolina, might be a little premature.

i'm just saying for the first republican who's ever won both these states, it's not adding up to enough to -- push the coronation. you're a seven percenter. >> it's a 40 percenter. gallup, 40% of americans independent. we're seeing independents now if the exit polls are correct, almost 50% of the turnout. you're see ago split. there are fault lines inside the independent movement. libertarian conservatives, naturally trend towards ron paul and centrist independents who are frustrated with the hyper partisanship in washington, their candidate might be jon huntsm huntsman. then some folks, huntsman and romney. >> first of all, i think the independents tonight are voting their conscious. they're voting for a candidate they hope can carry not only their campaign slogans, but carry out their agenda this

year. they supported president obama in 2008. tonight, they're going to probably split their vote among several candidates. i want to pick up on what mary said. you will receive, if mitt romney wins tonight, and he's expected to win, he will receive a lot of momentum going into the next few contests. >> donna, john, mary, stick with me. from the brain trust here in new hampshire, back to you, wolf. >> actually, i'll take you, candy. the last polling places close at the top of the hour. who's going to come in first, second, third, fourth. we're constantly updating results and we're tracking the ballots after their cast. could there be another iowa-like mix up? we'll find out. [ todd ] hello? hello todd. just calling to let you know

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that's when all the polls in new hampshire will be closed. we'll see what's going on at that point. whether or not we can make a projection. we do have a lot of the polls in new hampshire already closed. in fact, most of them. the number rs beginning to come in. 4% have now officially reported mitt romney maintaining his lead with 37%. almost 5,000 votes. ron paul coming in second with 24%. 3,100 votes. jon huntsman, third, 14%. 1,890 votes. rick santorum, 10%. 1,300 votes. rick perry, 1%, 87 votes. dan lothian is in trichester polling station. what's going on right now? counting votes? what are they doing? >> so what they have done is they've separated all of the ballots here by candidates. they haven't actually started

counting each one of the ballots to say here's how many you have for mitt romney or newt gingrich. they're pretty much putting them in stacks, separating them so they can count them. you see all the pink ones here again. these are the republicans that we're talking about and then over here, the smallest stack that you see, these are the democrats over here to the right, another stack. republicans, the short while, just a few minutes, they will start putting them together for all the different candidates and then -- you might be wondering why it is that we have this modern technology machines and they are counting by hand here as other small towns are doing. the reason is because first of all, no one's perfect. they like doing it that way. and secondly, because they see this as a chance for the community to get together. it's kind of a social event. so they plan to continue counting by hand for quite a number years to come. >> i love the old fashioned way. no glitches.

let's hope it stays that way. thank you. we're getting these official numbers coming in. only 5% of the presingtss have reported. >> some of what we're seeing is important. i want to point out, dixville, hart's location, they voted at midnight. huntsman, 2, romney, 2. not many people live up here. but what is significant, look down here. manchester county is the largest in the state. almost 9% of the population. about 75% of the precincts in, they count fast and look at the lead. paul running second at 24%. huntsman, third at 15%. this is the state's largest population center. if mitt romney could run up a big lead here, it's harder for candidates to catch up later. now, let's compare this. mitt romney leading with 37%.

four years ago, john mccain carried manchester. romney not only is outperfo outperforming, he's also surpassing john mccain. let's go back to what's coming in. here's another county that's coming in. makes the point. manchester area, they have a lot of these small counties. chester, .3% of the population. romney winning with 40%. 100% of the vote. you see what i mean. small counties. 503 votes. if you go back in time four years ago, romney carried with it just 36%. one of their goals was build a little bit. as you can see as we speak, some of the areas of the state coming in. this lighter orange color, that's ron paul winning. this part tends to be more democratic.

concord, toward hanover. this is where you'll have a tug of war for second place between paul and huntsman. this is 20%. if ron paul can hold a place like this, that would spell bad news for jon huntsman. these are the places huntsman needs to win with 20%. it's ron paul, mitt romney, huntsman running third and you come out to the map and look close to the seacoast, a very small county here. ron paul again with 17% in and dover, about 2.2% of the population. you see romney winning in the biggest county so far. ron paul performing well so hfa. below here, below here is the battle line in this state and we're going to watch this one play out all night long, but the map's beginning to fill in. >> we'll see whether it's really all night long like the last time or not too late. we are still getting exit poll information. new information.

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very close to the top of the hour. all the polls in the state will be closed. here are the official numbers we have so far. most of the polls in new hampshire have closed with 6% reporting. take a rook at this. mitt romney remains ahead with 36%. almost 6,000 votes. ron paul coming in second with 25%. 4,200 votes. jon huntsman, third, 15%. 2, 400 votes. newt gingrich, 1800. rick santorum, 6,a -- basically showed up then got out there and went to south carolina. anderson, it's still early, obviously. but in a few minutes, the polls will be closed in the entire state and let's see if we can make a projection. >> i'm joined here by senior political analyst, david gergen, also, gloria borger. james carville during the break

was saying he's watching the turnout of independents. 37% in 2008. is that -- something you're watching as well? >> because the independent -- it's long been assumed that barack obama was losinging and hemorrha independent voters. got a lot last time in the general election and that they would be up for grabs from mitt romney. if he's basically tied with paul and huntsman among independent voters in new hampshire, that means he's having trouble bringing them over. now, he may be able to do it later in the campaign. over all, this is a good night for mitt romney. i think we're going to call it early and there's nobody as emerging, has punched through, can really challenge him. >> if huntsman comes in third, can he survive?

>> i think it's difficult because you head on into south carolina and the question is, is jon huntsman a moderate or conservative? they're all going to be really conservative in south carolina and then will we have the money to go on to florida, which is a very big ticket, very diverse. >> he's really depending on tonight. >> yes. and if these numbers hold, it's not a good enough night for fo. if he changes, gets really close to ron paul or edges out ron paul, right now, he has a 7 or 8% lead, ron paul. >> we expected the independent turnout would be larger this time. in 2008, you had a democratic primary. we have to see just how large that independent turnout is so f far. we say 44%. if it gets very large, barack obama may have a problem because he will see more and more independents voting in a republican primary. >> depends what percentage of the voters actually make up their mind in the final few days of this. we saw a lot of them making up their minds last time.

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only six minutes or so until the top of the hour. we'll see if we can make a projection. we never make a projection until all the polls in the state are closed in new hampshire in six minutes. let's see what the official vote is right now. 10% of the precincts have now reported, mitt romney continuing to maintain his lead with 36%, 7800 votes. ron paul, a nice second. 5400 votes. jon huntsman, third place, 16%, 3500 votes. newt gingrich, 11%, 2400 votes and rick santorum just behind, 10% and rick perry only 1% of the votes, 144 votes. let's see what happens at the top of the hour. 10% of the precincts already in and you're getting more details where the vote is coming in and what clues we're getting about

what will happen today. >> the quick overview, mitt romney is the headish maroon, as the map fills in, more and more filling in. i was pilloried by those calling them counties, we count votes by counties, and small towns. i should have had that right. my apologies. we're up to 70% of the vote in concorde, not a huge population center but one of the larger ones in the state of new hampshire. mitt romney with 31% of the vote and joe paterno, 25%. and hanover is where jon huntsman needs to perform well to win the state. running third has to be a bit disappointing but close to ron paul there. 70% in, mitt romney winning in concorde. the city of manchester, almost 9% of the state's population. we're getting 91% of precincts

in. mitt romney winning by over 2,000 votes over ron paul. that tells you mitt romney is performing better there. we're waiting for the southern part of the state, a lot of massachusetts transplants down here, a lot of undeclared or independent voters. you want to look how these votes come in here and clear the color and bring back the map here and show you as you see it's starting to fill in, another key test, jon huntsman winning one county, a tiny county, 11 votes, won't carry over too much strength. ron paul winning a small county and the population here and you see the dark, anderson, right now, it looks like the map is beginning to filling in for romney. the question, if it goes that way, is it a big enough win is part of the conversation. >> and ari fleischer, spokesman for george w. bush, what are you

looking at now? >> john mccain had 37.8% last time and hillary clinton had 36.6 last time. and romney puts himself on par four years ago. the real big story step back is mitt romney won iowa, looks like he will win new hampshire. pretty good night for mitt romney, you have to say when you're 2 for 2 in a series so far, you're doing very well. >> it seems like south carolina will be the final stand for a number of these candidates now assuming romney wins in new hampshire. >> i think for jon huntsman, new hampshire is likely to be his final stand whether he knows it or not. it's kind of hard when you invest everything into new hampshire and you don't do so well, to stick around. what's your reason to stay around, especially when jon huntsman goes south, that's not very fertile territory for jon huntsman. >> you were talking about independent voters not just in this race, it does signify what may happen in the general

election. >> it does. david made the point. an interesting number, 240,000 was the turnout in 2008, just to see how much further north it goes. obviously, ron paul, based on early things, brought a lot of people into iowa, probably bringing a lot of people into new hampshire. if we look at other numbers, we should probably look at this overall turnout number. for iowan, i call it slightly disappointing. >> did you expect rick santorum to have a bigger iowa bounce in new hampshire? >> no. he was running as a social issues candidate in iowa. if you break down the entrance polling and exit polling for everyone in iowa, abortion was the biggest issue. they prioritized that over the economy and doesn't play well in new hampshire. >> then he goes to new hampshire and gets into an argument with a

college student over the whole issue of gay marriage. when you have a compressed schedule, only had seven days to make an impression, you need to be focused on the economy. i'm sitting there going, why is he even having this conversation? as if he didn't understand the economy is the fundamental issue. a lot of evangelicals have been talking about social conservative issues in south carolina, remember, it's one of the poorer states in the union as well. the economy will be a driving issue, even in that state. >> huntsman earlier today basically said if i don't do well, i'm out of here, on television basically. >> you heard john king saying they do have a network in south carolina, have good people there, will continue on, you think that -- >> no. i heard him earlier on our network saying make no mistake about it, i have a lot at stake tonight. >> new hampshire is not iowa. iowa self-identified conservative, 83%. new hampshire, 55%. it's a moderate place.

>> we're almost at the top of the hour. back to you, wolf. >> thanks very much. at the top of the hour, we'll see what we can do. we're getting new information coming in. official results beginning to come in much more quickly. all the polls in the state of new hampshire will be closed at the top of the hour. all of the ballots will be counted, they'll start counting them in those precincts they just are closing at 8:00. in most of the state, the polls closed an hour ago. cnn projects that mitt romney is the winner in new hampshire. mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor, wins the new hampshire primary. we make that projection on actual votes that have been tallied as well as exit poll results we're assessing right now. as of all of the information we have gathered with all the polls in the state of new hampshire now closed, we project mitt romney is this winner. let's go to romney headquarters right now.

i suspect they're celebrating behind you, candy crowley. >> reporter: yeah. i don't think i need to say too much here. the minute they heard the projection, and even before that, they're streaming into the room now. they clearly were waiting downstairs for the time to come. the romney folks have been quite confident going in. they actually think they'll have a very healthy lead. this is a happy crew tonight. remember, you will hear again and again the first republican candidate to sweep iowa and new hampshire. it gives him such steam going into new hampshire and the fact of the matter is -- going into south carolina after this, you have to pardon me because i'm hearing myself. when you have mitt romney going into south carolina and his toughest competition is ron paul, they will take that. they will take ron paul coming in second looking like perhaps

jon huntsman a distant third. i know the seconds and third numbers we haven't really called yet, wolf. they are very, very happy here tonight. >> they should be, after winning iowa barely but now new hampshire, 2 for 2 for mitt romney. candy, stand by for a moment. we based our projection that mitt romney is the winner in new hampshire. on the official votes already tallied, we looked at various precincts, 11% of official votes are now in. you see the checkmark next to mitt romney, we project he's the winner with 11% of precincts officially counted up near 9,000 votes with 36%. ron paul, 25%, 6,000 votes. jon huntsman, 49%, 4,000 votes. newt gingrich, 11%, 2600 votes. and rick santorum, 10%. 2400 votes and rick perry, 167 votes, 1%. those are the official votes that have already been tallied

and put into the system. want to share the exit poll results we received. based on the exit poll results, these are the new hampshire exit poll results. it looks like 36% or so, based on the exit polls, for mitt romney, 23% for ron paul, 18% for jon huntsman. those are the top three. the bottom three. gingrich and santorum, both 10% and rick perry, only 1%. those are the exit results coming in we already tabulated. we will be doing a little more assessment on that. there is going to be a battle for number two between jon huntsman and ron paul although it looks like ron paul is doing better right now and a battle for number 4. will it be santorum, newt gingrich, what if anything does that mean for south carolina? we know rick perry barely spent any time in new hampshire and

not doing well at all. obviously, a lot to dissect right now. once again, cnn projects the winner of the new hampshire primary, mitt romney, the former governor of massachusetts. erin, let me walk over to erin burnett because she's getting more information on the exits poll results. how did mitt romney do? >> you can see it clearly here. let me explain what we're looking at here. when people came out voting, we asked them their party id. 48% republican, 47% independent. that independent vote you heard david gergen talking about, you're seeing a split there, not going overwhelmingly for mitt romney. most important candidate quality, can defeat obama. mitt romney, 59% of people think that's the most important thing are going for mitt romney. in terms of true conservative, strong moral character, right experience, romney is winning some of those but moral character going to ron paul and true conservative going to ron

paul. the reason for mitt romney's victory at least at this point seems to be when i click on the republicans, let me flick it over here. mitt romney, 45% of people identify themselves as republicans so far in the new hampshire primary, ron paul a distant second with 15%. you can see it was kating down from there. you're seeing the same trend on this as iowa, you're seeing people who believe beating barack obama is the most important thing. that's where you're seeing the overwhelming romney vote. fits in with him being the establi establishment candidate. there was just tweeting from romney headquarters and meg whitman marching with him and others fitting with that narrative. >> electability, very important ingredient. certainly propelled mitt romney to win in new hampshire. soledad o'brien is in national rig in nashua. they closed it there. what's going on? >> reporter: it's very quiet in

this gym. at 8:00, as soon as it passed over to 8:01. it was quiet, people started packing things up, ripping curtains off the voting booths and printing out the final printout they will post in a few minutes that will tell us exactly how the race went right here. i want to introduce you to bill brady. a registered republican. what's interesting to me, when you were telling me what the big issue for you in this race was. >> the really key issue was starting with a mature dialogue with the republican party about recapturing its soul and leadership in the 21st century. the question is who didn't vote tonight that were republican? who didn't vote tonight independents, taking a step back and saying, i'm unexcited about this. congratulations to governor romney, ran a wlel orchestrated campaign and well mapped out. he deserves to win based on his organization in new hampshire. has he captured the soul of the republican party and the

american people? >> reporter: that's the $64,000 question as we anltz the projected win tonight. thank you very much and send it back to you, wolf. >> we're counting votes in nashua and now to john king, looking at the vote coming in. 13% of the official vote is in. once again, we've projected mitt romney the winner in new hampshire. what are you seeing over there? >> a couple things. we will see who comes in second place with 13% of the vote and ron paul at the moment. it gets increasingly hard for newt gingrich and rick santorum to argue they're stronger candidates than mitt romney if they're coming in behind mitt romney and ron paul. a couple things are significant in the capital concorde, mitt romney with 100% of the vote and he wins. the major population center, wins with 32% of the vote. gets harder for any other candidates. and one of the reasons we project him winning, man cheche in, we project him winning, the

places with the most votes, he is winning. romney people know they have something to prove here. he was stunned here four years ago. his his home turf. you see governor romney winning in the central part of the state. four years ago, the lighter red, mccain. smaller cains mccain country four years ago, turning to romney this year. this year's map look down here, four years ago, along the massachusetts border. nashua and some border towns, salem, come back, we haven't received any of the vote. this is the part of the state romney did perform very very well last time around. i was just in couch with his campaign and maybe they shouldn't be talking like this, when the votes come in bedford, just to the west of man cheches they believe their margin will go higher. romney projected to become a winner. is he strong?

he won iowa by eight votes and the margin and size of that victory will factor how strong he is going into south carolina. the other big debating point, who gets this spot here? does governor huntsman get his turn as conservative to romney hard to say when he ran as moderate in a state like this. ron paul does he prove maybe he doesn't have the strength to be the ultimate nominee but with the new delegate progreportiona rules, ron paul is making a statement to have impact on the debate and block others from getting to mitt romney and ultimately if he can keep raising money have an impact player at the delegation. >> if jon huntsman comes in number two, that will presumably propel him and encourage him to continue. if he comes in number three and distant number three, maybe not. we will wait and see. we're getting ready to hear from mitt romney, not wasting any

time. he will be speaking to his supporters in manchester. before we go to him, i want to go to tom foreman, from this next location in this map, in charleston, south carolina, he has a group of voters he's talking to. you have voters behind you. tell us what you're doing because we're coming back to you throughout the night looking for important information looking to south carolina. >> reporter: you hit the nail on the head. this is the next battleground, where it goes right now, to south carolina, where those in trouble will reassert they're not in trouble, get back in the race where mitt romney, if he won here, it looks like, will try to pull further away if he can. we want to see what voters do tonight as they watch the speeches of the candidates. the gentleman holds up what he has in his hand, this box is this same person every person here has, by turning this dial

back and forth, they can indicate if they like or dislike what is happening in that speech. as mr. romney speaks tonight and other candidates come out with something to say, that information will come in, processed by computers, you will see it on their screen, blue line for men and pink for women, showing whether they like or dislike what they're seeing. that will really matter here, wolf. >> it's a perception analyzer, that box. we will get a sense what they like. mitt romney is getting ready to speak first. he's the winner, we projected, in new hampshire. just to recap, tom, the folks there will be hearing what mitt romney says and will be able to turn that dial when they like something he says, it goes up and don't like it, it goes down. we will do this for all the speeches we hear tonight. is that right? >> reporter: exactly. it will be in realtime and you can see how they're landing with this group of voters. keep in mind, everybody here will vote republican but they

all said before hand, they are undecid undecided. these are the voters every candidate wants to win. tonight, we'll see if they can. wolf. >> they will have their chance on january 21st, about 10 or 11 days and have a chance to vote. tom foreman over there. let's go back to soledad right now in nashua at the polling station. i take it the results are now in? >> reporter: not only are the results in, wolf, they have now officially posted, where they put them if anybody wants to come by to see how the results read. there were 30 people running for president on the republican side. we have mitt romney, mitt romney is our winner at the top with 585 votes. after that is ron paul with 321, after that, we have jon huntsman at 221 votes, newt gingrich got 100 votes. he is right over here. and then we have after that, santorum coming in with 118 votes. a total of 1788 votes they have

now counted and posted officially. this is the tape that comes out of the tabulator machine we showed you earlier. now, for the next couple of hours -- >> hold on. jim acosta has jon huntsman with him right now. i want to go to jim. go ahead, jim. >> reporter: wolf, we are showing you exclusively behind the scenes what is going on behind the huntsman war room. it looks like he may be preparing some remarks for later tonight. he's watching returns come in. keep in mind, i talked to a huntsman source a little while ago that said they're waiting for returns to come in from other parts of the state from the north and west and feel like that's where their strongholds are located. when those returns come in, that could be the defensive that puts them over the top, into second place, a strong second place or even a strong third place showing, according to this campaign, they believe will give them a slingshot into south carolina. earlier this evening on a local radio show, jon huntsman was

talking to an interview and basically saying, you have to watch the markets move. look what happened with rick santorum and what he did in iowa. when rick did well in iowa, that moved the markets in new hampshire and south carolina. jon huntsman wants those markets to move here in new hampshire. he wants those markets to move in south carolina, depending what he does in new hampshire. he has to sell here in new hampshire tonight and that means a strong second place or strong third place showing according to the huntsman campaign. >> it looks like he's watching cnn as well. we hope he is. >> reporter: watching it right now. >> and we will see what he has to say. i saw his daughter behind him and staff and family. i'm glad we have that kind of access. do you have any idea at what point he will wait for results before he goes out and speaks to his reporters? >> reporter: i think he will wait for more results to come in. they feel very confident they can catch ron paul in this

state. it's not over in the minds of huntsman yet. they have been watching the returns and feel like the returns so far have been heavily favored towards mitt romney and the results that will come in later on tonight, a better favor of his campaign and why they're in a wait and see mode right now. obviously, a second place showing would do a lot for this campaign and also saying a strong third place showing. i just talked to john weaver the campaign manager, said, look, any talk of him jumping out of this race tonight if he's in third place, i can't use the word rhymes with bull spit. he said they're moving to south carolina, feel like they have strong resources down there. keep in mind, florida comes after south carolina, where mrs. huntsman, mary kay huntsman is from, she is from florida and feel like they might have a slight home-field advantage down there. obviously, this is a pretty exciting night for governor huntsman. he's bet it all on this day. this is new hampshire or bust. >> that's his wife, mary kay

behind him and daughter lydia as well. stand by, we'll await mitt romney, about to speak to his reporters, we're told, we will take that speech live, you will hear it live here from mitt romney headquarters. let me speak to candy crowley, live there. you have a special guest with you? >> reporter: a familiar face, former new hampshire governor, john sununu. when you looked at the numbers and seen the in terms, what encourages you most? >> first, it's a good win for the governor. >> reporter: what's the percentage going to be. i don't know. the numbers we have seen are 36, 37. we have to see what they are. you can't change them at this stage. even i can't change them, crowley, candy crowley. the fact is, it's a good win. a large turnout among

independents, a lot voted for mitt romney. i think governor romney is going to south carolina strong from there and the message to independents mean he'd go into the general election quite strong against obama. >> the wrap here is when you talk about mitt romney, he doesn't engender the passion others have in this race. what does he need to do? >> i don't think he needs to do anything. i don't think excite is the right word. ignite is the right word. this is a man who will unite the party after he wins the nomination. >> and your predictions for number two, who on the romney campaign would they most like to go in with number two here? >> i want candy to hold on a second. we have jim acosta with governor huntsman with us live. jim. >> reporter: that's right. i'm joined by governor jon huntsman. i want to ask you about expectations. a lot of talk about expectation, what happens next after what

happens here tonight. let me ask you, is second place basically your threshold tonight? >> i think you have to conclude there are a few tickets out of new hampshire. we're in solid third and who knows beyond that. i think there are at least three tickets out of new hampshire. you look at the numbers now, we're in a strong confident position and all eyes are on south carolina from here. >> i know you feel in the last 24 hours, governor romney, there were some weaknesses that emerged in his campaign with some comments he made and you seized on some of those comments and basically described him as unelectable because of those comments. do you hope you can make the same case in south carolina the same case you made here, hold on, folks, this thing's not over yet? >> the people are going to carry us to victory ultimately. the trust deficit and economic

deficit and not talk about firing people or pink slips in a way they will get tripped up by the dny and chicago machine that has a billion dollars behind it. >> if he says i was taken out of context and didn't mean to talk about firing people, just insurance companies. >> we understand and his campaign took something out of context recently. that happens in politics. >> you're talking about the first campaign that took president obama out of context? >> you have a laser like campaign that will focus on the nominee and we have to have a messenger that can take it all the way to the end that does build trust among the american people. >> you said three tickets out of new hampshire. you get third place and we wake up tomorrow morning, we don't get an e-mail in the in box that says jon huntsman is out of this race, you're in this race? >> what you're seeing is a solid confident position and we go south from here. good to see you, sir and good

luck tomorrow. >> thanks to wolf. >> reporter: governor huntsman said thanks to wolf. >> thanks to the governor. he made news. even if he comes in a solid third, looks like it will be a solid third, he will be going to south carolina and not dropping out of the race. we got news here. jim acosta reporting from governor huntsman's headquarters. candy crowley is at mitt romney's headquarters. i interrupted you speaking to john sununu. the former cnn crossfire co-host, i could go on and on and on. we're waiting to hear from mitt romney, he's getting ready to speak. tell john sununu, forever he didn't hear, john mccan huntsma just told cnn he's in this race, going to south carolina, even if he comes in third. >> reporter: he did in fact hear, wolf, jon huntsman will go

to south carolina. that's his intention tonight. it seems to me that is a different kind of a threat to mitt romney because he does kind of fish in the same pond of voters that romney does. how big of a threat is jon huntsman? >> jon huntsman spent six months in new hampshire. if you put a campaign strategy based on that, it will take him 25 years to do all 50 states. i don't think jon huntsman is any kind of threat to mitt romney. >> reporter: none at all. who do you most worry about then? anybody? >> all collectively. the fact is that the governor has to start his next campaign in south carolina, as soon as he's ready, which i think will be tomorrow, and he has to be prepared to do it one step at a time, the way he did it here. he's running against the field constantly, not against one candidate. >> reporter: sure. the field is divided. he takes his portion and they're all kind of, you know, going around to the other. >> he's not targeting one or the

other with a message. he's putting the romney message out and responding to the attacks he gets from them individually. >> from here on, does it become damaging if people stay in, even if it seems as though the train is out of the station? >> reporter: look, we've had one election. this is the only primary. the other was a caucus. it's not unusual for people to stay in through two or three. what is going to make this hard is all the debates, because, frankly, you can stay in this race as long as you keep enough money to buy a ticket to the next debate and show up. actually, the media is going to have to start showing discipline and putting a tougher criteria who's allowed to be in or out of the debate or you will have these guys ride the train all the way to june. >> reporter: you wouldn't object to that if your guy is strong. everybody says, it makes it stronger if we go to june. >> it just makes things more complicated. >> reporter: i think we're hearing perhaps a count.

i will throw it back to you, wolf. thanks, governor sununu. appreciate it. >> thanks. we will hear mitt romney speak in a moment. right now, we're ready to make another projection. >> cnn projects that ron paul will come in second place in new hampshi hampshire, cnn projecting the texas congressman will come in second behind mitt romney and cnn also ready to project jon huntsman will come in third in new hampshire. jon huntsman, the former utah governor, former u.s. ambassador to china will come in third. you see what's going on in mitt romney's headquarters. that's ann romney, the wife of mitt romney, i guess she's getting ready to introduce her husband. you see the son, the romney sons standing right behind her. >> there are so many friends here. >> at the bottom of the screen,

you will see our focus group in south carolina from charleston, tom foreman's group of undecided republicans in south carolina. they're going to be using their meters to tell us what they like and don't like, as mitt romney speaks. you will see that little squiggly line go up and down. in the meantime, let's listen in to ann romney. >> senator judd gregg. congressman charlie bass. they have spoken for us and they have fought for us across the state. thank you also, mayor ted gatsis. senate president, and the many people who endorsed our campaign and been tireless workers on our behalf. one state senator deserves special mention, jeb bradley. he's out there somewhere.

he has fired up audiences for us everywhere we go. thanks to ray burton. doug and stella stamon. scott hilliard there for us from the very beginning. we're grateful to the people who lead our campaign in new hampshire. jim merrill. jason mcbride and tom wrath. and a special thanks out to the thousands of volunteers who have devoted countless hours to our cause. finally, we want to thank the people of new hampshire. they are the active part of this democratic process. the ones we met by knocking on door, visiting towns throughout this great state and who turned out to meet mitt and me at one

of our many events. now, guess what i want to do? i want to introduce the man who we all believe should be the next president of the united states. mitt romney. [ applause ] >> tonight, we made history!

this state has always been a very special place for our fami family. ann and i made a home here and filled it with memories of our children and grand children and it is one i will always remember. i have our five sons behind me and daughters in law and kids. they're behind us. great to have family here. tonight, we celebrate, tomorrow, we go back to work. we do remember when barack obama came to new hampshire four years ago, he promised to bring people together, promised to change the broken system in washington, promised to improve our nation. those were the days of lofty promises made by a hopeful candidate. today, we're faced with a disappointing records of a failed president. the last three years have had a

lot of change but haven't offered much hope. nearly 24 million of our fellow americans have failed to find work or stopped looking. the median income in america has dropped 10% in the last four years and soldiers returning to unemployment lines. this president wakes up every morning, looks across america and is proud to announce, it could be worse. it could be worse? that is not what it means to be an american, it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwaverering conviction that we know it must be better and it will be better. [ applause ]

>> mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt. >> that conviction-that conviction guides our campaign. it's rallied millions of americans in every corner of this country to our cause. over the last six months, i have listened to anxious voice is in town halls and town meetings, visited with students and soldiers, in break rooms and living room, i've heard stories of families getting by on less, carefully planned retirements now replaced with jobs at minimum wage. even now, amidst the worst recovery since the "great depression," i've rarely heard any speech of hopelessness. americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times. we still believe. we still believe in the hope,

the promise and the dream of america. we still believe in that shining city on the hill. we know that the future of this country is better than 8 or 9% unemployment. it's better than $15 trillion in debt. better than the misguided policies and broken promises of the last three years and failed leadership of one man. the president has run out of ideas. now, he's running out of excuses. >> mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt. >> and tonight, tonight, we're asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time!

president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. in the last few days, we've seen some desperate republicans join forces with him. this is such a mistake for our party and for our nation. the country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. we have to offer an alternative vision. i stand ready to lead united states down a different path, where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

>> mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt. >> in difficult times we can't abandon the core values that define us as a unique nation. we are one nation under god. make no mistake in this campaign i will offer the american ideals of economic freedom, clear and unapologetic defense, and we are going to win with that message. but you know that our campaign is about more than replacing the president. it's about saving the soul of america. this election is a choice between two very different desti destinies. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. he wants to turn america into a european style social welfare

state. we want to insure we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. this president takes his inspiration from the capitals of europe. we look to the cities and towns across america for our inspiration. this president puts his faith in government. we put our faith in the american people. this president is making the federal government bigger, burdensome and bloated. i will make the federal government simpler, smaller and smarter. he raised the national debt. i will cut, cap and balance the federal budget.

he has enacted -- >> mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt. >> this president has enacted job killing regulations. i'll eliminate them. he lost our aaa credit rating, i'll restore that. he enacted obama-care, i'll repeal it. and when it comes to the economy, my highest priority as president will be worrying about your job, not about saving my own. internationally, internationally, president obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. he believes america's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past.

i believe a strong america must and will lead the future. he doesn't see the need for overwhelm i overwhelming american military superiority. i will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it. he criticizes our friends like israel. i will always stand with our friends. he apologizes for america. and i will never apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the earth. our plans-our plans to protect freedom and opportunity and our

blueprint is the cushion onstitf the united states. now, the path i lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurances government will always be the solution. if this election is a bidding war for those who can promise the most benefits, then i'm not your president. you already have that president. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, then i hope you'll join us. if you believe that the disappointments of the last three years are a detour, not a destiny, then i'm asking for your vote. i'm asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an american. i want you to remember what it was like to be hopeful and excited about the future, not to dread each new headline. i want you to remember when you spent more time dreaming about where to send your kids to college than wondering how to make it to the next paycheck. i want you to remember when you

weren't afraid to look at your retirement saves or the price at the pump. i want you to remember when our white house reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what europe has become. that america is still out there. we still believe in that america. we still brielieve -- we believ. we believe. >> mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt mitt. >> we still believe in the america that is the land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. we believe in the america that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves. this election, let's go on to

fight for the america we love because we believe in america. thank you so much. god bless america, thanks, guy, you're the best! >> mitt romney with his wife, ann, and his sons, we see four of them up there. five were there just a little while ago. he is obviously very very happy, delivering his speech. we're getting ready to hear from ron paul. he has come in second in new hampshire. we project that. we have a lot coming up. we will continue with the focus group, what they like and didn't like. the focus group from charleston, south carolina. the next big test coming up january 21st. you'll hear ron paul and the other candidates when we come back.

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you just heard from mitt romney, the winner of the new hampshire primary. you're about to hear from the man who came in second, ron paul. dana bash is over there. i know he's getting ready to speak, the crowd will be enthusiastic there. i take it you just had a chance to speak to ron paul? >> reporter: yes. just as we learned ron paul came in second in new hampshire, which is a big win for him, we had a chance to speak exclusively to the candidate a few minutes ago. what do you think has changed? >> the people. the people's attitudes have changed and my message got out. the country is in worse shape. i've talked about financial problems in this country for 30 years. they realized some of the things i said came about and also warning people about the foreign policy and endless wars and how that affects our economy and people have come around to being concerned about the spending. i think they look closely at the

need to cut spending. i was the only one that offered cutting spending. i think it is a very popular message and the interest will continue to grow. >> reporter: are you now the buffer between mitt romney and the rest of the republican candidates? >> i don't know what you want to call it. we're next in line to him. i would say we're the only ones really in the race with him. it will remain to be seen what turns up. >> reporter: you have said all along here in new hampshire, you will see how well you do here and that will determine how much money you think you can raise and how much further you can go and what your strategy will be. what does this kind of finish tell you about what that strategy could be? >> come to the rally and i bet you will see a lot of enthusiasm which will give me encouragement and when the supporters get encouragement, they start another money raising. our main thoughts are going into south carolina tomorrow. >> reporter: one quick question, i know you said repeatedly, you

had no interest in running as a third party candidate. some of your supporters do have an interest in that. if we get down the road and it turns out someone else is behind another nominee, will you encourage the other supporters to get behind that nominee. >> i believe you asked it before and it's the same old answer. >> reporter: this is a little bit different question. >> i have no plans to do that. we're running a tight race and we will see what happens. >> reporter: thank you for talking to us. i appreciate it. i can tell you something else about his supporters, we're here with a roomful of them. as you can imagine, they're extremely excited. people working for a long time to bring him up from that 8% he got four years ago to this point where he got right now. he made very clear he believes this is now a two man race but a long way to go. >> correct me if i am wrong, mostly young people behind you, right? >> reporter: it is a lot of young people. they make up a big portion of

ron paul supporters, have since iowa and probably will in the future. there actually is a pretty good mix in the crowd here. people we talked to who have been democrats recently but switched over to vote for ron paul in the republican primary. >> youngest people supporting the oldest person running for the presidential nomination, 76-year-old ron paul, congratulations to him finishing number two. jon huntsman finishing number three. there's a battle for four and five, rick santorum and newt gingrich. those were the two biggest concerns mitt romney had. we will hear from ron paul and all the candidates. stay with us. our coverage continues.

we're looking at ron paul headquarters, anticipating the candidate who we projected to come in second in the new hampshire primaries, going to be speaking any moment. we will bring that to you live. first, john king is in the wall. what are you looking at now? >> why is he coming in second. you see the orange. he's winning in a lot of smaller communities and dartmouth college. a disappointment for jon huntsman, the lighter purple here. why is mitt romney winning and anderson, i make a projection now i think mitt romney's margin will actually go up. this is what they call the golden triangle. about 70% of the population lives down here. we're waiting for the vote on the massachusetts border, the boston tv market and where you expect romney to do best and a lot of the vote is out. his percentage could go up if he keeps the margin from other places. where do we go from here?

i want to bring up demographics. the election when we move to south carolina is a very different electorate than the state of new hampshire. evangelical voters, the darker the area, the higher percentage of evangelical voters, in new hampshire, we have hardly any. remember how light that is. tea party support, relatively light. the darker the color, the higher percentage of tea party support. in this country, the mountains, smaller towns a bit. let's go forward to the state of south carolina. you can tell by looking, darker areas. this is the tea party strength. a lot of tea party strength, decent tea party strength, a different electorate for mitt romney. he won iowa and new hampshire. if he can win three in a row, he becomes almost unstoppable. look here, evangelicals, a high evangelical population. let me draw a line. this area of the state. let's watch what mitt romney can do. if you turn this off, mike

huckabee country. you expect mitt romney -- this is john mccain. mitt romney is exercising some ghosts, won iowa and new hampshire, two big disappointments four years ago, can he exercise the vote of south carolina, only 15% here. mccain won along the coast of moderate republicans. this has to be romney's base in south carolina. this is the biggest test, the conservatives saying he can't ignite the party, the turnout we would need to beat barack obama. and from there we move to the state of florida. this is the state of florida from four years ago, this ended the deal here. john mccain came out of south carolina as the presumptive nominee, this was the exclamation point when he won the state of florida. i want to show you one more thing, tv ad count, the romney campaign has known this all along. the pro romney pack has been spending down here, see the big

red circles, the pro romney pack saying that's our firewall, in case there's a south carolina disappointment, let's move it to florida. >> the gingrich super pac have done a big ad buy in south carolina but, really, romney and his super pac own the ad market in florida. >> in florida, they do. the other campaigns have to go state by state. romney has the resources and jump ahead a few states and built a protective firewall. as soon as gingrich shot up, the romney super pac kicked in, in florida to knock gingrich down. you see a lot of rick perry here. this is without a doubt rick perry's last stance in the state of south carolina. romney will have done what no president has done. if he racks it three in a row, delegate, delegates, hard to stop momentum. >> and invisible night for rick

perry in new hampshire. >> and ron paul, although he's not necessarily a conventional candidate, he may stay in, even if others drop out. he's done very well. these are official votes, 28% of precincts have now reported. mitt romney the winner, we projected the winner with 36%, 18,800 votes. ron paul, 24%. 12,700. jon huntsman we project will come in third, 17%. 8698. there is a battle between fourth place between newt gingrich and rick santorum. both with 10%. newt gingrich slightly ahead. fiv 5,371 to 5,284. they're battling for fourth and fifth place. rick perry only 399 votes. 1%. erin and gloria are taking us inside these numbers. what else are we seeing? >> interesting to look at the

polls. we want to try to give a sense why you're seeing one, two and three coming out the way they are. we can look at the winner by category by face. i picked an area that can give you a chance to look at number two, ron paul. ron paul did well with unmarried voters, well with lower income voters and well with new voters, ever voted in a gop primary, yes went for mitt romney and no went for ron paul. even where you see ron paul's face as the leader, it was often very tight between him and mitt romney. look at this of the people that made between 30 and $50,000. and i would call this a dead heat. >> it is a dead heat. you would assume ron paul would do very well with these votes as well as younger voters because they're college students. college students don't make a lot of money and single. what's interesting mitt romney had such a romp tonight, everybody normally sees him as

the candidate of the wealthy, right? well, in the state of new hampshire, maybe not. yes, he was beaten by ron paul, that's not a good thing. look what he did compared to huntsman and santorum, who is the closest thing to a populist in the republican race. >> come over here, gloria, i want to show you this. when you look at income, i want everyone to see here, as i scroll across, to see the wealthier, not only did mitt romney win but his margin was even greater. the point is, everybody, your head should spin a little bit, what i want to show you is this winners tonight. when i scroll down no matter what category. it's not important. what's important is mitt romney's face. this is a sweep in almost every category. >> let me point out, even in categories like very conservative on follow issuisca

very conservative on social issues, very even evangelicals, even tea party voters, mitt romney beat rick santorum, who's arguably presenting himself as the most conservative on social issues, someone who can appeal to the tea party, and at least, in the state of new hampshire, we should say, unlike any other state, mitt romney won with the most conservative folks who were voting. >> that's right. as we get ready for ron paul to speak, i want to note -- we'll talk later about jon huntsman you saw in pink. you im -- him do well with people who approved of the obama administration and opposed the tea party. >> thanks. ron paul is getting ready to speak, came in second in new hampshire, you will hear his remarks live at the bottom of the screen. you see that squiggly line, undecided republicans in charleston, south carolina, the next test.

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we're waiting to hear from ron paul, the texas congressman. he's come in second in new hampshire. we heard from mitt romney, he gave his victory speech in new hampshire. ron paul coming in a strong second, getting ready to move on. at some point, we'll hear from jon huntsman and the other republican candidates. while we await ron paul, shannon is joining us from manchester. what's going on over there? i take it there may be a tiny little snafu? >> reporter: there is. underscore the word, tiny snaf fe few. the number of ballots delivered here is not up to the number counted. a few minutes ago there was a

discrepancy of five ballots. right now, we're told it's down to two. you will observe, they're basically recounting all of the ballots, hand counting just to show you how precise and painstaking this process has to be, the numbers have to equal up. it may be a discrepancy on the city clerk's end that the number of ballots they thought they sent isn't actually the number they sent to this ward. basically, these workers here, they've been here since 6:00 a.m. this morning and you know the polls close at 7:00. i'm being told they've been here since 5:00 a.m. polls open at 6:00 a.m. and the workers are tired but this is a process, democracy in action and it has to be precise, wolf. >> you have to do it the right way. i applaud these people to do it the right way. i almost expect them to hold them up and look for a hanging chad. this is a tiny vote and just one or two votes, certainly not

going to make any defensive, unlike in iowa, eight votes, four votes going the other way could have made a huge defensive in iowa in new hampshire. it's not happening right now. we'll stay in touch with you. thanks for taking us behind the scenes. we're getting ready to hear from ron paul. to our focus group in south carolina. we'll assess what they're hearing. let me check in with you. >> we were listening very closely to mitt romney's speech. you made the point he wanted to come out early no matter what the numbers end up being just to get his message out there as quickly as possible. >> this is a campaign that doesn't leave much to chance. even from the three guys, the three sons having white on the same shirt to the wife having white and signs being white. this was nothing -- you can do it by design. the speech was much different than iowa. he can't do ex temp rainious stuff. he cannot call an audible. it was well crafted. >> a very different speech we

heard from iowa. we will talk about that. ron paul is at the podium now. let's listen in. >> president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul. >> thank you. thank you very much. i really don't have to introduce my wife. i think you know my wife, carol. and we have a few other members of the family here. we have a daughter in law, peggy. we have lisa, linda and mark. we have another member of the family, but he's also on the

staff. i think technically in the family, he's a grandson in law. that's jesse batten. it is a delight, and, jim, senat senator, thank you for your support and andy, co-sponsorship and ray. i appreciate that. it's just great. i want to mention three names of the individuals who did so much organization up here. gerard chicoin. i don't know if he's here. probably still making phone calls or something. and bob goodman, he's -- a tremendous amount of work here. and george braun, he was fantastic. there was one other acknowledgement i wanted to make. i wanted to thank the union leader for not endorsing me.

i called governor romney a short while ago, before he gave his talk and congratulated him because he certainly had a clear cut victory. but we're nibbling at his heels! but there was another victory tonight. he had a victory, but we have had a victory for the cause of liberty tonight. there is no doubt, there is no doubt this whole effort that we are involved in will not go unnoticed, let me tell you. i think the intellectual revolution that's going on now to restore liberty in this country is well on its way and there's no way they're going to

stop the momentum that we have started. that is the victory that you have brought about because you have been the ones that have done the works. there's a lot of people here, but the ones across the country, the donors and excitement on the campus, it's just unbelievable. we don't always get the coverage or interest shown on what is going on, because if they did, they wouldn't be ignoring so much of what we're doing. you know, i find it sort of fascinating when they finally get around -- this is different people, could be in the media, could be our opponents or whatever. i sort of have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous! that's one thing they are telling the truth because we are

dangerous to the status quo of this country. >> president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul president paul. >> and we will remain a danger to the federal reserve system as well. yeah! >> you know, in studying monetary history from the beginning of our country and even throughout all our history, monetary policy on periodic occasions will become the dominant issue. we have emphasized that and it has become an important issue.

just think, this is the first presidential campaign that the subject ever came up since the federal reserve was started. so we are now -- because what is happening, it will remain a dominant issue. there's no way they're going to put it to bed because they have destroyed our money. it's worldwide. there's a financial crisis going on and it's only sound money and personal liberty that can solve the crisis that we have today. one reason i talk about the monetary system so much, it was a sneaky deceitful way to pay the bills. an honest government wants to be a big spending government, would tax the people and then the people would know what they were doing. if we had to pay taxes for everything that they do, you know, the people would rise up and stop it. so then they started borrowing money a lot and people didn't

notice that quite as much because they didn't pass that on. then they resorted to printing of the money. that is why the federal reserve was established, to take care of the powerful interests, military industrial complex, the banking system and deficit financing. there is a couple of reasons they have deficit financing. sometimes there are conservatives that want deficit financing and sometimes there are liberals that want deficit financing. and they have resorted to this and, of course, this is why we are facing this crisis today. but it also serves those interests who like to think that we have this responsibility. they claim it's a moral responsibility to take our young people, put them into the military and send them hither and yon around the world, policing the world and using up the money.

just as we have been able to bring to the forefron that most important issue of funny money, fiat money, the paper money system, federal reserve, we have brought to the forefront, others have token lie talked about it, get in office and do nothing about it. right now, it is this liberty movement, which is seen as patriotic movement, individual liberty movement that is saying to the country and the world, we've had enough of sending our kids and money around the world to be the policemen of the world. it's the time to bring them home! >> preside >> bring them home, bring them home, bring them home! >> one thing is we do know they will come home. my goal and our goal has always been to bring them home in a

deliberate fashion, to avoid major economic cries by destroying our economy by spending so much overseas. in the last ten years, the wars that have gone on have added $4 trillion of debt. i don't think we have been one bit safer for it. i think we have been less safe because of all the money we have spent overseas. so this is the issue now, it is an issue that i think is crucial. jim mentioned in the introduction that, you know, so often, they say if we tell people that we think we should spend less in the military, they say, oh, that means you want to cut defense? no. if you cut the military industrial complex, you cut war profiteering but you don't take one penny out of national defense. besides, besides, we're flat out broke.

fortunately, we did not have to fight the soviets. the soviets brought themselves down for economic reasons. do you know they were so foolish and thought themselves so bold that they could pursue their world empire that they invaded afghanist afghanistan? but we will come home, but if we do it now, calmly and deliberately, we can save our economy here at home because there are a lot of people who are suffering here at home. you have to stop the inflation. that's what destroys the middle class and transfers the wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy and why the wealthy got the bailouts and middle class sluhrunk and lost their jobs and lost their houses. we have to cut the spending. this is why i have made a token suggestion in the first year in office, we would cut at least $1 trillion from the budget.

now, the one thing that -- the talk you hear in washington is pure talk because there is nobody suggesting -- the other candidates are not talking about real cuts, they're talking about cutting proposed increases out in 10 years. they say, we'll cut a trillion. a trillion over a 10 year period $100 billion every year. our national debt is going up in real terms $100 billion every month and they claim that's cutting and they're yelling and screaming, we can't cut, we can't cut. we do have to cut. we have to live within our means if we want to be able to at least take care of the people who have been made to be so dependent on the government. i mean, we have to work our way out. i would say if we did this and cut this overseas spending, at least we might be able to allow the social security beneficiaries get their checks and medicare be provided. if we continue to do what we're doing, the results are the dollar is destroyed and the

whole thing comes apart and it will be a worldwide phenomena. already social security security beneficiaries are suffering a lot. their income is shrinking because the value of the dollar is going down, so they're getting their checks cut. that is why you have to think about the cutting and stopping the inflation. but overall, you have to ask, once again, as our founders did, what should the role of government be in a free society? the role should be very simple. the protection of liberty! >> ron paul revolution bring us back our constitution. ron paul revolution bring us back our constitution. ron paul revolution -- >> wonderful wonderful. you know, the constitution was written for a very precise manner. it was not designed to restrain the individual, not to restrain

you, it was to protect your liberties and to restrain the federal government. but liberty has to be reemphasized because we have been careless over the last 100 years. we have taken liberty and chopped it up into pieces. some people think liberty has to do with personal habits, i agree, other people think liberty is how to spend your money and they defend that part and fight about when to do what. i think what we need to do is make this emphasis liberty means you have a right to your right and privacy and the way you want to live your life as long as you don't hurt people and you have the right to keep and spend your money as you want to. freedom, freedom is a wonderful idea and that's why i get so excited. i get excited when i see young people saying it. it is a wonderful idea.

freedom is popular, don't you know that? freedom brings people together. i think it's magnificent the crowds that have come out over the weeks and months have been very diverse because it should be, because some people want their freedom to practice their religion one way, maybe another way, some might not want to practice it at all. but freedom, if you understand it, you should all fight for freedom because you want to exert your freedom the way you want. same way with economic freedom. it should bring people together. i think this is one reason people worry about how will you ever put the coalition or -- they don't want -- how will you compromise and give up some of your beliefs in order to get some things passed? you don't have to compromise. what you have to do is emphasize the coalitions that people want their freedoms for different reason and bring them together. it's been -- america has been

the greatest country ever, the most prosperous country ever, the largest middle class ever. it's not that way today. our middle class is shrinking, the country is getting poorer. the wealth is based on dad, the few who really hold the wealth, it's maldistribution due to regulations and control of government. we have had too many people too long in the last 100 years thinking it was beneficial more to have high paid lobbyists to get and to find out what they can get from the government rather than us petitioning our government in a proper manner to -- petitioning our government and demanding our freedoms back again. a lot of times, they give us trouble and they say, freedom, you people are too selfish, all you want to do is have your freedom. they argue that that is the

case. but the thing of it is, the people, the bleeding hearts, and i understand them and recognize them and i believe most of them are well intended. but it doesn't work, is the problem. all that good intentions of saying, we're going to give everybody a free house and no loans and then they can borrow against the equity. look what happened. it was the bubble that burst and they lost their houses. the humanitarian instincts are there across the board. what we have to convince them, if you are a true humanitarian, you have to fight and argue the case for free market, sound money, property rights, contract rights, no use of force, and a sensib sensible foreign policy so we don't waste our resources. we're well on our way. we're well on our way. people have asked me what did i expect five, 10 years ago?

i had no idea. i always assumed the best i could do is set a record. i didn't know you were out there. it's no longer that irate tireless minority that is stirring up the troops, now, the irate minority and so tireless as you have been, it's growing by leaps and bounds. it's going to continue to grow by leaps and bounds, and we will restore freedom to this country. thank you very much. >> ron paul coming in second delivering his speech. the crowd obviously loved every word what the texas congressman said. he has an impressive second place finish in new hampshire. mitt romney the winner in new hampshire. jon huntsman the former utah governor coming in third. we're standing by to hear from jon huntsman. at the bottom of your screen,

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great job spreading lib libertarianism. that's what his followers want. he can't possibly win, neither can jon huntsman. when you look at their numbers, their base is the liberal wing coming out and voting. here's ron paul among somewhat lib program, 33%, moderate, 24, somewhat, 20, very conservative, 18%. he's going the wrong way in a party increasingly conservative. jon huntsman. he does well among those who oppose the tea party, won them, satisfied with barack obama, won them and democrats, 4% of the electorate in new hampshire. he won them, too. both bases outside the republican party. >> they would make the argument in general election they can reach out to those not. >> they won't get to the fenn ral election. -- general elections. >> this will come down to mitt romney and rick perry will hurt him. rick perry is the only one left

to slow down ron paul. >> a libertarian message sounds liberal when it comes to foreign policy but when it comes to fiscal issues extremely conservative. >> that's not how they're voting. >> because when you look at the deba debate, 3 tax by rick santorum and others, newt gingrich and romney on paul, they did not go after him on fiscal issues, they went after him on foreign policy issues, whether it was israel, iran, afghanistan and iraq. >> paul, he just sort of goes out and says these things, said we're all usastryi austrians in said i'm glad i didn't get the union support. i wondered what the voters in south carolina thought. >> and they were way up about the troops. >> and particularly the women shot way up. paul, everything with romney was scripted down to the clothes

people wore. but paul, he sort of takes off on the union leader. takes off -- i did thi think -- interested some of the panel address this. i found him a little more energized and a little testier tonight than he usually is. >> paul? >> paul. a little bit more. he's usually a little more affable than he came across tonight. very energized. >> he said he's nipping at mitt romney's heels. >> paul gets a sizable number of independents. but one of the things that kind of shocked me, i realize new hampshire conservatives are vastly different than midwestern conservatives or southern conservatives, you had a good portion of tea partiers voted for mitt romney. looking at huntsman, 31% surveyed in exit polling strongly opposed the tea party. huntsman trying to be a non-romney. >> he is getting beat as badly tonight as lsu got beat last night. >> that bad! >> he's getting beat by 20

points. how does he claim victory? >> we didn't claim we won. we said we got beat. >> on cnn, he called his third place position solid, comforting and confident. or comfortable and confident. >> he's 20 points behind. >> the morning after is very different. >> although he said, in the morning after, there won't be a note that says jon huntsman dropped out. >> james found the actual issue with that. as we showed the camera shot of huntsman writing his speech, there were bottles of beer on the stand behind him. he had to be drunk making that ridiculous statement. third is a slingshot? seriously? >> i almost fell over when i saw this. 39% of those surveyed with satisfied, voted for huntsman were satisfied with the obama administration. i look at that and look how he's polled in some other areas, he

doesn't have a hope. >> in south carolina, his poll numbers are -- >> if you get beat by 20 points, you didn't win. >> lower than stephen cobert in south carolina. >> we are we talking so much about him? >> south carolina is mainstream republican conservativism. you don't get a lot of new voters that propelled paul or huntsman. it will come down to whether perry can catch fire and whether newt's anti-romney ads make a defensive taking romney down. that's what south carolina is about. david gergen, you watched closely mitt romney's speech tonight and you think that's the speech he's prepping for the general election? >> absolutely. i think this is a preview of his speech he intends to make at the convention when he accepts the nomination. i thought it was the most important speech he's made in his campaign. >> most important? in i think so. as james pointed out, he intentionally came out early in primetime, when he would have the maximum audience. he did not wait a round, wanted

to get that audience. he was using a teleprompter, clearly scripted. >> in iowa, they put away after rick santorum. >> it was a forgettable speech in iowa. >> he recorded the song, so spacious skies. >> i can remember the song but not the speech. >> i remember the am or waves o grey and made a joke about it. >> this was the heart and soul of what he's going to be doing in this campaign. two things, he tried to inoculate himself against attacks coming. ari fleischer is right. one of the big questions, whether gingrich dumping $3.5 of n negative advertising will hurt him trying to inoculate him. >> the super pac doing that. >> the other thing on bain and all the rest. the other thing i found really interesting, he is now drawing much more heavily upon ann romney his wife and she coming

out with the sons. she does so much more to warm people up toward him than he can do himself. >> she gave the opening speech. >> yeah. she makes him seem more authentic and so does his family. the problem mitt romney has had the last couple of days when he's told voters in new hampshire, i know what it feels like to be worried about getting a pink slip and all the rest, he hasn't seemed really authentic. she helps him there. i want to point out something in his speech. he really took a direct shot at newt gingrich, a total direct shot, where he said that some republicans were joining with barack obama and he said, quote, in the last few days, we have some desperate rangepublicans j forces with him. that was clearly newt gingrich and on to south carolina. newt gingrich has nothing to show for tonight, by the way. >> at this point, does romney have to go all in on south carolina? >> sure. yeah. >> he is all in, of course. he has every reason to go all

in. one, he's leading in the polls. he has the governor support, some question whether she lost a little bit of her popularity. better to have her than not have her. south carolina is very proud of its history deciding. iowa win nos the field, new hampshire win nos the field. south carolina picks republican presidential nominees. if he wins the state and opens 3-0, a lot of people will be saying, no, it's about delegates. if newt gingrich keeps coming in at 10%, it's hard to make the argument i'm a stronger nominee than mitt romney never mind he beat me three states in a row. he won't be able to get the money. no one will write him a check for him and his super pac. he's at 37%. my bet is that margin goes up a little bit because of what's out. and jon huntsman bet everything that iowa would weaken romney and he will win new hampshire. he will spin third place tonight. he wanted to win new hampshire. he borrowed the john mccain staff and message and borrowed

country first and slog gan, one thing he couldn't borrow, mccain's voters. >> we're getting ready to hear from jon huntsman, who came in third. we will hear his remarks. we have this focus group in charleston, south carolina. they will be assessing as he goes along, some members of his family already there. we will take a quick break. when we come back, jon huntsman in new hampshire, right after this. >> we're not going to take a break because there is jon huntsman and his wife, mary kay and his daughters. he has two sons serving in the united states navy. right now, they seem happy. certainly don't look like a candidate that is even thinking of dropping out of this race. they have their arms raised over there, jon huntsman getting ready to speak. we'll listen. >> ladies and gentlemen, i think we're in the hunt!

>> on the hunt on the hunt on the hunt. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i'd say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen! hello, south carolina becom! ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight because of you we've got the greatest volunteers, the greatest organizers this state has ever seen. give yourself a hand! and we proved the point that this state wants its candidates to earn it the old-fashioned way, that's on the ground, hand shake by hand shake,

conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we got it done, ladies and gentlemen! you know what else we got done during this great seven months where we've had at least 170 public events in this great state, 170 public events. no one even came close. we had conversations about the perhaps of putting this country first, ladies and gentlemen. because the people -- >> country first, country first, country first country first country first. >> because the people of this great nation, the greatest nation that ever was, they're tired of being divided.

they want leadership that will stand up and tell us all that first and foremost, we need to come together as americans in order to solve our problems. we need a president, ladies and gentlemen, who will stand up and say we have an economic deficit. it's call $15 trillion in debt. this isn't a debt problem, it is a national security problem, and we are not going to leave it to the next generation of americans, ladies and gentlemen. i want to stand up and i want to square with the american people about this. afghanistan is not our nation's future. and iraq is not this nation's future. our nation's future is how prepared we are to rise up as the american people and hit head-on the competitive

challenges of the 21st century. you know what i'm talking about? and this is about economics. this is about education. this is going to play out over the pacific ocean, with countries that i have lived in before. all i can tell you tonight, without any hint of hyperbole, folks, if we don't get our act together at home, we will see the end of the american century by 2050 and we are not going to let that happen, are we? ladies and gentlemen, we have also been able to get our message out to the people of this great state about a second deficit we have, not an economic deficit but it is just as cur rosive as the economic deficit, it's called a trust deficit. because the people of the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america no

longer trust their institutions of power and no longer trust their elected officials. and i say, how did we get to this spot? we are too good as people to be in this hole. we are the most blue sky problem solving, can do, optimistic people on earth, and we're going to get out there and we're going to address the trust deficit. it's going to start -- it's going to start with congress because everybody knows congress needs term limits! everybody knows we have to close that revolving door that allows members of congress to file right on out to become lobbyists trading in on their insider information and relationships and we wonder why there is cynicism as seen by the american people toward congress. no trust! i say, there is no trust in our wars abroad, ladies and gentlemen. and we're going to fix that

part, because i'm going to stand up in front of the american people and i'm going to say, we have something to show for our 10 years in the war on terror. something to show for the american people tathat's mighty important. we have run the taliban from power, up-ended and dismantled al qaeda, now in sanctuaries in waziristan and beyond. osama bin laden is no longer along. we have free elections, strengthened civil society and helped the police. we have done what this nation can do. it is time to bring the troops home from afghanistan, ladies and gentlemen. we need trust infused back into this nation. we need a president who's going to be able to stand up and say it's time we come together as americans first and foremost.

this nation, the greatest nation on earth, has every attribute a nation would ever want for success. you know that? that's why we're going to succeed as we go forward. all we need is a little bit of leadership and a plan. i saw this nation from 10,000 miles away, you hear me? 10,000 miles away. when you see this nation from abroad, you tend to see it in bold colors. you know what i saw from 10,000 miles away, living over in china? i saw a nation with the greatest people on earth, a nation that is down for the moment, down temporarily, but a nation that's about to rise up again, because we have every attribute a nation would ever want to succeed. we have stability. we have rule of law. we have the longest surviving constitution in the world. we even have private property rights right here in new hampshire.

we have the greatest colleges and universities on earth. and people flock here from every corner to attend them. we have the most creative innovative and entrepreneurial people anywhere. and they're sitting on their hands because there is no confidence about the direction or the leadership of this nation. and i say, that's an engine of growth that we are going to re-fire. i say, we have the greatest and most courageous armed forces this nation has ever seen. i'll be darned if we're going to allow the men and women to come from the theaters of combat, the front lines, to the unemployment lines. that's not going to happen. those men and women who have worn the uniform of the united

states of america in the theater of combat are going to come home to dignity and respect and to admiration. and they're going to come home to jobs and opportunity as well. and they're going to do the same thing for this nation that the greatest generation did so many decades ago. they rebuilt this nation. they pulled this nation up by the bootstraps. and there's another greatest generation coming up. you know the people i'm talking about? they're in your families, in your neighborhoods, we love them all. they will do what earlier generations will do. they will help us rebuild this nation. they will help us make it the very best it possibly can be. ladies and gentlemen, i love this state. this state -- this state -- this state, we have worked hard and diligently. we have pounded the pavement. we have shaken hands, we have

had conversations, we have won people over person by person. this is the old way to get politics done in new hampshire. my confidence in the system is reborn because of the people in new hampshire, because they just turn out at these town hall meetings, nobody forces them, nobody tells them they have to do it, it's because they believe in a better tomorrow for the united states of america. thank you very much. they turn out to the town hall meetings and they turn out to the house parties and they hear from the candidates and then they assimilate and they digest it all and then they render a judgment. and here we sit tonight, ladies and gentlemen, with a ticket to ride and to move on. here we go to south carolina. thank you all so very much, thank you, thank you all so very much, thank you!

>> no reassessment on his part at all, jon huntsman coming in third but insisting he's going off to south carolina and then florida, jon huntsman not dropping out of this race, coming in third after ron paul and mitt romney. more candidates getting ready to speak, including newt gingrich. we'll hear what the former speaker of the house has to say when we come back. [ male announcer ] lately, there's been a seismic shift

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we have live pictures at city hall. you see number one and two and three. in the prime minister. mitt romney, ron paul, jon huntsman. we have heard the three speak already and are waiting for newt gingrich. let me show you the votes. we projected the winners, second place and third place. with 53% officially reporting, mitt romney the winner at 38%. ron paul, 24%. jon huntsman, third, 17%.

rick santorum and newt gingrich both vying for fourth, 10% each, look how close it is. 11,688 for rick santorum and 11 11,655 for newt gingrich. and rick perry coming in last with 889 votes. there is a battle going on for fourth place between newt gingrich and rick santorum. i will go to candy crowley over at romney headquarters. i guess the crowd dissipated shortly after he left, is that right, candy? >> reporter: yes, they did in fact. the partying is taking place elsewhere. let me bring in first, we have our trio of smart people. let me talk to you first. you and i had the same sort of impression. this was a different romney and a different crowd and a different feel than a week ago. >> the atmosphere was totally different. there was a lot more energy and a lot more enthusiasm. the volunteers showed up early. they came from working the polls.

clearly, they love what mitt romney had to say, they're eager to go out there and help him on the next leg of the trip. last week, i didn't see so many people. didn't see all his finance people and surrogates. he brought the entire team to new hampshire to make sure the victory tonight was convincing. snow this is a guy you can see going up against the president. whereas last week, not worried so much. >> tonight, i saw the team and energy and enthusiasm. i haven't seen the kind of turnout i expected among republicans. they had a lot of time to make their case to voters up here. what i'm looking at tonight in terms of overall numbers. mitt romney may not meet the expectations of what he did back in 2008 when over 75,000 people voted for him. >> we're looking, i think, 38% is what we saw last for mitt romney on this, which is well ahead of everybody, actually. we thought he might be hurt by the last couple of days, with the whole idea of bain and the

bad capitalist, you think it helped him. >> this is a great night for him. victory was imperative but the internals they've been discussing, he racked it up across the board. ironically, the bain thing was good for him because he was going to have to deal with that, the obama people coming that way. that attack and the way in which it came from the left, vilify ing capitalism, what he had to say tonight has now made mitt romney the champion of capitalism and moral kplism because he started connecting tonight, capitalism and for the goodness of the country, that's something santorum did last week. all around, good night, this bain thing, again, the way in which they came at it, not really -- sacrireligious. >> it was the right coming out. >> the right vilifying capital

lirms lism is a sacrilidge. they're aghast. my point is it helped him in two ways, preparing him for that argument. he can be very righteous in defense of capitalism. >> you're interested in how the independents came in. anything striking you looking at those numbers? >> it is very striking. independent voters made almost 50% of the turnout. what's significant, ron paul won the independent vote fairly decisively, the libertarian messa message. and mitt romney came in second there and jon huntsman a distant third, translating to that third, overall disappointing in the face of his surge in recent days. >> back to wolf blitzer. >> thanks very much. we're standing by to hear from newt gingrich and rick santorum, battling for fourth place. i'm anxious to hear what they're saying and angxious to hear wha

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welcome back. we're still awaiting the speeches from newt gingrich, rick santorum. they're fighting for fourth and fifth place right now. we'll hear their speeches, see who is speaking and go there live. let's check in with john king once again. 59%, almost 60 persh of the precincts have reported that mitt romney has a decisive lead. >> a decisive lead as we wait for speaker gingrich. he has not won one city or town in new hampshire right now. i spoke with the former speaker right now, and he described south carolina as a must-win for him. the dark red is mitt romney. as the red fills in, an impressive showing. concord, nashville, also an impressive showing for ron paul, the orange on the screen. he's in second with 24%.

jon huntsman predicted this is a huge win, this is a disappointment. he said he'll go on. one point i want to make, it's possible, a lot of people are going to say, what does it say about mitt romney's strength. it's possible the number could go up. why? because about 70% of the people in new hampshire liver down here in some of the towns that have yet to record. let's pull the map up and stretch it out. romney with 44%, above what he's getting state wide. if the margins continue, that will boost his state-wide percentage. hudson, ability 2% of the state population, we have nothing right now. if they track what happens in these cities and towns, romney's percentage will go up. a decent amount of the population here, wyndham, the rodn rodney camp believes they will do better there. they believe they will have

percentages better than the state-wide percentage right now. closest to massachusetts, he's the former massachusetts governor. that's worth watching. it could go up a little bit. we see it fluctuating between 37% and 38%. this is the north of conway, ski areas here, mountains and hunting range here. smaller towns not going to affect the margin, but the dark red is mitt romney today. let's go back in time. the light red, that's john mccain four years ago. the dark red was romney. well here, little pockets down here. he's winning in a much broader fashion tonight. 37%, 38%. if you're gingrich, santorum, you're not getting much tonight. for santorum, as we go forward, gingrich said south carolina is a must-win. santorum didn't spend any money in media there.

it's going to be crowded, crowded. santorum, gingrich. huntsman said he would stay. most people think that benefits romney. >> that's still only 20%. romney is getting close to almost 40%. >> in his home field. it's impressive. a win is a win, and this is an impressive win for mitt romney. the question is, can he carry it over? he exercises the iowa ghost by eight points, but tonight, he's exercising the ghost of losing four years ago on his home turf in the state of new hampshire. can he continue, be a 3-0 republican candidate? that will give him a lot of momentum. >> some of the towns that are suburbs of boston, so he's going to do well. that 38% can go up. let's go to erin and gloria right now. they're going to take us inside the numbers deeper. what else are you seeing? >> as we ro are looking ahead, t

do voters in new hampshire think about a negative campaign. who wan the most negative. 26% of voters tonight in our interactive poll thought newt gingrich waged the most unfair campaign. let's reflect this to gloer glo tatalk about this. they ended up voting for mitt romney overwhelmingly. >> first of all, this is gle clearly -- we have rick santorum coming up, speaking, i'm told. >> he's speaking right now. >> rick santorum with his wife. let's listen in. >> we came up here just about ten days ago. the polls were having us about 1% or 2%. after iowa, the most recent poll was 3%. we are ten times, five times or three times where we started,

and that's what we wanted to do. we wanted to respect the process here. we wanted to respect the fact that we were going to campaign in every single state, states that, you know, were good for us and states that may be a bit tougher. when you're uning in a state like new hampshire that had a lot of folks here, a lot of time, a lot of money, we knew it would be tough, but the message we had of going out and believing, believing in the american people, believing mat we needed to have opportunities, not just for some in america, but we needed someone who was going to go out and speak for all americans to be able to have the opportunities to rise in society. and we took that message to new hampshire. we took it to new hampshire. we took it, talking about the manufacturing plant, what we were going to do to grow the economy, and we took it to faith and family as the bedrock of our

society. and by your work and the grassroots effort and the crowds we had, we built this campaign here in new hampshire in just a very short period of time. we didn't spend a lot of money, but we put a lot of effort into this, and we put our message out there. we came where the campaign was and delivered a message not just for new hampshire, but for america, that we have a campaign here. yeah. that we have a campaign that has a message and a messenger that can deliver what we need, which is first and foremost, to defeat barack obama, number one.

the message, as i mentioned in iowa, from the grandson of a coal miner, someone who believed de deeply that the responsibility he had as someone who risked his life for a sovereign, a king, when he served in the austrian army in world war i and fought on the russian front, if it wasn't for the aid of a friend in the middle of the night crawling out from a fox hole and pulling my wounded grandfather back into the fox hol, i wouldn't be here today. he fought for someone who didn't care about him or his freedom or his children's freedom. and so he came to america because he wanted to make sure that his children would be in a

free country, and his grandchildren would be in a free country. ladies and gentlemen, that is our charge and that is what is at stake in america today. >> let me assure you, he was not deferred by temporary setbacks. he believed in the greatness of the country, and he believed in the freedom of opportunity this country presented. we're going to go on to south carolina. for those --

for those who would like to think that somehow or another that this race can be over in one or two states, states that have been, well, let's say the backyard and home of a certain candidate who by the way, i want to absolutely congratulate mitt romney for a great victory tonight. he worked hard in this state. he invested in this state, and the people of new hampshire gave him a very hard-earned victory, and i spoke with governor romney and congratulated him on that win and said that i'm looking forward to engaging on the subject matter of issues, talking ability records, talking about how we're going to best -- put the best foot forward and the best person forward to deliver a message to the american people that can unite us. ladies and gentlemen, we have an opportunity in this race. we have an opportunity to be the

true conservative, the true conservative who can go out and do what's necessary, not just to win this race, and we can win this race. right? but to be the conservative who understands that as a foundation of our country, are institutions that are crucial for us to be a successful nation. families, families that are bonded together as the foundation that instill virtue and faith in our children, to build strong communities and build a great nation from the bottom up. that's the message. along with a government that understands that we have to create a playing field for all americans, of a variety of

different skill sets to be able to be successful in this country. we have a message that can appeal, not just in south carolina, but across the nation and in particular, in the states that are necessary for us to win this election. and the states that are the swing states, like pennsylvania and ohio and indiana and michigan. the states that i have been successful, like in pennsylvania, winning elections. ladies and gentlemen, we're not only going to go out and deliver a message of the basic structure and foundation of our country, being faith and family and opportunities society, but we're going to do so understanding that with faith in the american people, we can not only wipe out this deficit. we can not own lee rebuild this economy, we can not only have a strong america that stands up for the values i just talked

about, but we can do so in a huge victory that will rally the country to take on the grant challenges we have before us. >> on to south carolina! thank you and god bless you. >> okay, there you see rick santorum making it clear there was no doubt he's off to south carolina. like the other candidates, they're all speaking not only,

folks, in new hampshire, to folks in south carolina, florida, the entire nation. we'll be hearing from newt gingrich, the last of the republican candidates to speak. rick perry got out of new hampshire quickly. he's always in south carolina. presumably, he's not going to be making a speech. >> i'm curious to know from the analysts and reporters, what happened to rick santorum and to newt gingrich in new hampshire? they left iowa. there was this narrative for santorum, game on. for gingrich, kind of this renewed anger toward romney. did they lack focus? >> there isn't a strong constituency. not a strong evangelical constituency. people weren't voting on the issues. they were voting on the economy. that's mitt romney's issue set. >> we have newt gingrich right now. i want to play his remarks. he's just spoken to his

supporters. >> each and every one of you. i also want to thank all of the people around the state of new hampshire who were so warm and so generous to calista, to catha, and to jackie and me everywhere we went. it was remarkable how many people were positive and how many people were actively supportive and helpful. and i'm delighted to have had this chance to spend time and to learn more about the key concerns here. and i want to thank everybody here who has been helpful to us, particularly speaker o'brien who just did a great, great job, and laurie, who has been tremendous. and one of the great virtues of running is that everywhere you go, you learn something, and you pick up a better understanding of america. and i have to say that the

leadership that speaker o'brien and the house showed in developing a brand new approach that i hope will become adopted everywhere in america, where they actually had the ways and means committee report first and it indicts how much money they would have. and they then actually adopted a budget to fit their income, which is the opposite of every other state i know of in the country, which writes a budget and tries to find more of your money to fill in what they think they need. and the result was a very courageous and a very serious effort in which they cut 11% out of spending, which is a remarkable achievement, which if accomplished in washington, would begin to move us back on the right track. speaker, i really commend you for the leadership. this is step two of a long

process. and having both been a historian and active a long time, you learn certain things. let me put in context where we are. we have an opportunity, i think, to unify the country around a message of jobs, economic growth, and very dramatic programs. the opportunity is to reach out to everybody of every background who would rather have paychecks than food stamps, to convince them what ronald reagan did in the '80s in creating millions of new jabs, what we did when i was speak fer in the '90s in creati millions of jobs can be done again. this campaign is going to go on to south carolina. and we're going to offer the

american people something very different. we're going to offer them an opportunity to participate in very dramatic, very fundamental change in washington, d.c. and we're going to prove that i both understand the principles and i understand the practice. i learned a lot of those principles from ronald reagan and from margaret thatcher. i got to practice them as a junior congressman working with president reagan. i got to practice them as speaker working with bill clinton. and i want to suggest to you when ronald reagan was president, we had to find a way to get votes through the house despite the fact that tip o'neal was speaker. when i was speaker, we had to find a way to get bills signed despite the fact that bill clinton was president. i believe if we had a republican house, a republican senate, and

a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done and how rappedidly we coul get it done. so we're going to take to south carolina tonight and kick off tomorrow morning a campaign for jobs and economic growth, a campaign for a balanced budget, a campaign for returning power to the states through the tenth amendment. a campaign for a strong national security. a campaign for a stable, solid social security program, both for people now on it and for the young people who are here who deserve a chance in their lifetime to have an even better program with an even greater return because if we're smart, we can do better things for people. the washington alternatives, how do we raise taxes and cut

spending in a way that causes you pain on the spending side and causes you spapain on the t side is exactly packwards. this is part of learning, when we had a debate the other day and asked about the heating assistance program. it was phrased in a perfectly washington way. are you going to run a bigger deficit so you can help more people or are you going to cut people off and hurt them so you can strengthen the deficit? nobody on the panel asking the question seemed to consider an alternative. what if we simply went oun and developed american oil and gas, brought down the cost of heelting oil, and didn't need to help people until the price came down. that idea of doing more and doing it better does not exist in the washington lexicon, and

it makes it very hard for the friends, the news media, to cover, because it's so strange. what if you just were innovative? what if you just had new approaches? what if you just did everything americans have always done? the fact is the aunt entreprene free enterprise system that attracted benjamin franklin to harry ford to bill gates to steve jobs, that model of maximizing the development of new approaches, new energy, new opportunities, new technology has raised the standard of living of people across this planet more than any other system in the history of the wurl. with your help. you have been wonderful to us here. and i'm asking each of you not to slow down. in the next couple of days, make

a list of every person you know in south carolina and every person you know in florida because those are the next two great contests, and i believe as we get to south carolina, as the choice becomes clear, as people understand that there is a bold reagan conservative approach of lower taxes, less regulations, more american energy, a sound dollar, and actually being in favor of creating jobs, the opposite of the obama program of higher taxes, more regulation, less american energy, and attacking the people who create jobs, look at those two models. i believe we can reach out and we can create a majority that will shock the country and a majority that will begin to put us on the right track. it is doable. it is a daunting challenge, but consider the alternative. if we do not go to extra mile and we do not offer a vision powerful enough to unify

americans, and we continue down the road that obama has us on, but more than aboma, the bureaucracy, the judges has us on, the entire pattern of how washington operates, has us on, more years of decay, more years of inadequacy, more years of falling behind, more years of growing weakness. that's the alternative. i believe that it will take someone who is capable of debating barack obama face-to-face rr. delivering the conservative message, winning the argument in order to overcome his billion dollar machine. with your help, as your spokes person, representing your values on behalf of our children, our grandchildren, and our country, i will do everything i can to win the opportunity to represent you this fall in debating and then defeating barack obama.

thank you, good luck, and god bless you. >> we have now heard from all five candidates who stayed in new hampshire. newt gingrich, the last we're going to be going to charleston, south carolina, when we come back. you saw the little squiggly lines at the bottom of the screen. a focus group of undecided republicans in south carolina. that's the next big contest on january 24th. we'll hear what the folks have to say about the five republican candidates. you heard all of their speeches. we'll take a quick break. more coverage when we come back. [ todd ] hello? hello todd. just calling to let you know i'm giving you the silent treatment. so you're calling to tell me you're giving me the silent treatment? ummm, yeah.

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60,648 votes. 23,000 votes ahead of ron paul, with 24%. 37,762. john hutsman, there former utah governor, comes in third, with 17%, 26,798. rick santorum and newt gingrich, 10%. not a big difference, obviously, rick perry, who is already in south carolina, didn't reallycome pain in new hampsh e hampshire, only 1,182 votes. let's go over to john king. he's looking closer at all of the numbers. still have, what, 29% of the precincts outstanding. the numbers could change. >> the numbers could change. precincts not voting, they think it's 71% of the vote, it's 71% of the precincts. these are mostly small towns, i'll tap on one.

0.0%. nothing that happened up here is going to significantly change the outcome because of the margins. there are still a few more populous yare rareas down here,d the border. the romney campaign believes he'll run up good numbers down here. they believe in camp romney that the 38% may tick up and it's not in danger of coming down. tlat%. just in terms of history. mccain carried last time with 37% of the vote. mitt romney on track to match the mccain number. let's come back. he go on to south carolina. ron paul is still in the race, huntsman said he would stay in the race, santorum, gingrich is still in the race. perry didn't contest in new hamp sha hampsure. he's waiting. south carolina is waiting next to fill it in. what happens then? what happens? well, romney goes in as the

front runner. he's john mccain of four years ago, you have one, two, three, four, you have five. you have five other candidates still in the race. the question is, do you have in south carolina this time around what we saw in south carolina last time around? where with a crowded field, john mccain come s down, wins the moe moderate establish in the coast, does well in the conservative states, do you have, anderson, next time, as we move on to south carolina this time, a repeat with so many other candidates in the race, does it benefit romney or does one of these conservatives, one of these conservatives has been the defining question, does one candidate emerge as the conservative alternative. you have several trying. no one has grabbed the trophy. >> one of the most interesting things we have been doing is watching as the candidates are speaking, we have a focus group of undecided republican voters,

we have been collecting their votes, you have been seeing their real time reactions. tom foreman is standing by with the group. really interesting to watch the reactions. we watched it on the mitt romney speech and ron paul. what is their reaction tonight? >> one of the things we learned here tonight is exactly what john was talking ability a minute ago. there is a struggle going on between voters here who may want a more conservative candidate, but most of all want to win, and they're trying to figure out who can do that. they've been watching the speeches patiently at the college of charleston and using these boxes where they have dialed back and foorth to show whether they proved or disapproved. all of that is feeding into the computers run by southern methodist universe where they're analyzing the data and showing us what it adds up to. i want to show you the results

when mitt romney hit the stride in the middle of the speech talking about what this president has done and what he will do. >> this president has enacted job killing regulations, he passed obama care. i'll repeal it. and when -- and when it comes to the economy, my highest priority as president will be worrying about your job, not about saving my own. >> one of the things we heard from this group early on, anderson, is many of the people here want to make sure they win, although interestingly enough, many in the group, all undeseeded, had a favorable view of newt gingrich and some of the conservatives, but winning really counts for this group, yes? >> absolutely, no question about

that. this is probably the only question in my life that i have not been able to decide who that candidate is going to be. >> winning is that important? do you agree with this? >> somebody has got to win. i'm not really sure about the question. >> are you willing to, as the group said, somebody in the group said, even if their first choice isn't selected, they will vote for the republican nominee because they so much want to win. are you one of those people? >> if i don't get ron paul, i'm going obaobama. >> let's talk about ron paul. many of the people who ron paul went negative talking about war, you remember that part where he was saying i am really upset about the war and all this, when he did that, this audience did not like it, maybe you did, but not everybody else. take a look at this part. >> they claim it's a moral responsibility to take our young people, put them into the military, and spend them hither

and yond around the world. it's this liberty movement which is seen as a patriotic movement, a liberty movement, that is saying to the country and world we have had enough of sending our kids and money around the world. it's time to bring them home. >> most of the people in this room, anderson, would say, contrary to our one friend over there, that they are going to back the republican candidate even if it's not their first choice. what about you, are you going to back whoever gets it? >> absolutely. whoever wins the republican nomination has my vote. >> that will make a difference. do you think there is this enthusiasm for that idea? >> absolutely. i think the people are really tired of the last three years, and everybody is ready for a fresh conservative face. >> let me ask you one last question if i can come back to you. when you talk about the idea of a conserve tf voter, that obw

obvio obviously, if you're nult gingrich, rick santorum, you're saying i have to get that conservative vote to say i am conservative over so many else, but the dynamics on mitt romney were, people think he can win. do you feel you want a certain type of candidate or the winning candidate? >> i'm definitely going to go for the winning candidate, but i'm a little skeptical of mitt romney. i think what he's saying is what we want to hear. i just don't know if i believe him yet. >> anderson, listen to that. interesting point, this idea of people saying, i want to believe this guy, i just want to know if he's authentic. >> i wonder, was anybody's mind changed tonight? before we said these were all undeseeded voters. cle clearly, at least one guy has made up his mind already, the ron paul supporter, but moe of them are undundecided. has anyone's mind been changed?

>> a great question. question is, you all came in their undeseeded. one fellow has made up his mind. all of you were undecided to begin with. how many of you feel you're closer, closer to making up your mind right now? really? wow. and how many of you feel you have made up your mind? look at that. a few more in there. we'll try to come back later on and explain a little more, anderson, as to why they made up their mind. this is interesting how many of you said it made a difference to you. if you watch the lines, the dial fest and how they reacted, you could see how the men and women saw it somewhat differently but saw some things they liked in all of this. >> i would be interesting to know if they made up their mind, who they made up their mind for. we'll check in with you later for that. letser go to social media while brooke baldwin is standing by. >> we have been sitting in the

cube and mulling through over major moments in mitt romney's speech. we have been looking for other moments that will be the headline. number one is the fact he won the campaign in new hampshire, but romney off the bat attacked the republicans and the president, listen to the crowd. >> president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial and in the last few days we have seen desperate republicans join forces with him. >> you hear the ooh, and he's referring to the desperate republicans wanting to join in that fight, and who he doesn't specifically mention, newt gingrich. he's the first person getting on the class war fare bandwagon you don't normally here with republicans. here is what i want to show you when it comes to social media. that moment, a precise moment happened at 8:31. take a look at the huge long

green line. this is the positive tweet s coming in from the half hour before he said that, huge positive, a lot of that due to the fact he was the projected winner. let me show you, look at the red. some of the negativity increases, but it's not a huge amount of red. not a lot of people reacted too negatively about o to that, some people liked what he said. i'm going to clear that out and read three tweets that proved the point. these were the moments we could see in the paper. after tonight, i doubt any republican hopeful ever says another word about romney's private sector experience. he's saying, don't mess with mitt romney. perhaps he's his candidate. let me advance this. this is katrina, the editor and publishing of the left leaning magazine. this is the question she's asking as she's writing her article. romney castigates desperate republicans drowned down by a

resentment of success. attacking gop opponents for waging class war fair, possibly. romney, bitter politics of envy, take that, newt. how dare you speak ill of me after my super pacs, you know what happened in iowa. perhaps this is the foreshadowing of what we might see in the state of south carolina paper tomorrow, and mitt romney could be saying, great. don't mess with me. >> we'll check in with you later on. let's go to wolf blitzer. >> we're also getting democratic reaction to mitt romney's win. the republicans have been going after mitt romney for months. they fear mitt romney the most. the greatest challenge, potentially to the re-election of president obama. we're going to hear what they have to say about the mitt romney win in new hampshire when we come back. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story

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mitt romney wins in new hampshi hampshire. ron paul is second, jon huntsman

comes in third. so much of the reaction of the democrats back in washington. let's go to jessica yellin at the white house right now. democrats are reacting. they have been worried about mitt romney for a long time. what are you hearing tonight? >> wellering wolf, frankly, they expect to run against mitt romney in the general election, expect he'll become the nominee. i have been talking to top sources in the obama campaign in the democratic world, and they're looking at two different numbers. one is the overall turnout of republican voters. if there's enormous enthusiasm on the republican side, they believe you should see a greater turn out among republicans in new hampshire than four years ago. the other thing is they're looking to see romney's margin of victory. they argue that will till them, one, how successful the attacks on his record as a jobs creator have been, and how successful his candidacy or how strong his

candidacy will be going forward. as you know, they believe the overall case romney has to make for his candidacy is that he has a record as a jobs creator at bane, and over the last week, republicans have torn away at that case. one obama aide said to me tonight, quote, romney may have won new hampshire, but the premise of his candidacy began to unravel in the last 48 hours. remember, it's only in the last week that republicans started attacking romney, so tonight's results are the first time that we would have any results reflecting these attacks. so they'll be looking at that. now, the big question i'm always asked, i keep getting asked is will this move up the start date, could it move up the start date of the general election? and democratic aides say we can't know until south carolina, and i have been in touch with a very senior republican operative in this town who is officially

neutral but believes romney will be the nominee, and he says he also believed that the gingrich effort in south carolina could really hamper romney's momentum, and so this thing could go on a lot longer, south care ckacarol florida, we'll have to wait and see. >> the president has big doing a lot of fund-raising, campaigning. he's going to chicago. what is that about? >> he has three fund-raising events in chicago tomorrow. the president continues to hit the road to raise money. sh so is the vice president. they're looking to raise money because they're afraid of the amount of money republicans are raising in their super pacs and the events they'll be doing as well. >> jessica yellin at the white house. let's walk over to the team over here. anderson, you and the rest of the viewers will be thrilled to know, guess who is here? >> piers morgan.

>> the evening has come alive. >> you're getting ready at midnight eastern for a very special show. give us a treat. >> i interviewed rick perry. fascinating. he has come fifth tonight, fifth in the polls in carolina. he's defiant. >> where is he tonight? >> in south carolina. interesting interview. i think people made their own minds up, but the guy is not giving up. you have to admire him alone. six candidates, nobody giving up tonight at all. so i don't know what they think is going to happen in outh carolina. it looks to me, we said that last week, a win is a win, two wins are two wins. mitt romney is on the march. it's hard to see who is going to stop him. i don't think ron paul is the guy. >> romney gets his win. he deserves credit for that. but it's an impressive win. the second headline is no one is getting out. we lost one candidate after iowa with nobody getting out. the question from day one, who

emerges as the alternative to mitt romney? we don't answer that question with one name, he's your nominee. >> evangelical leaders are having a meeting over the weekend, and they're going to try to decide, should they endorse somebody who is the anti-mitt romney, and it's unclear what will come out of that meeting. i think that would be very important to head into south carolina. >> you're looking at the numbers in iowa, rick santorum getting the evangelical and tea party vote, in new hampshire, mitt romney got it. now you look at south carolina, it will be interesting to see if that clouds their choice. >> it's easy to paint evangelicals with a broad brush. republicans want to win. so beyond sending a message, beyond, you know, sending a message to the conservative wing of the party, they want to beat

barack obama, and they want a candidate who can do that. >> one candidate who takes on romney now? a party to have an idealogical deba debate. >> it's not better for romney. >> a debate that lasts a few months. if you're benjamin agosto, you want this over so you can get this over? >> no. >> no! >> keep an eye on it. when barack obama was going at it, it wasn't good for the republicans. all of the chatter was about the two democrats. >> that long prolonged battle that time made obama a much better candidate. he learned from his mistakes. the question is do republicans get a better candidate if you fight it out? obama has the advantage of doin. the history of south carolina, it's a lot of evangelicals, they have a reputation of saying

enough already. >> you said whatever happens in new hampshire is going to have an enormous influence in south carolina. romney goes into south carolina as the strong front run sxr there is no single challenger now who has emerged. the wild card, and don't think anybody can judge this, is newt gingrich has $3.5 million to dump out negative advertising on romney in south carolina. >> mary matalin was make aing a bush down there, but we don't know f he dumps the money there, will it make a difference? >> there's a lot of unemployment in south carolina, lots of shuttered mills and these ads about he's a corporate raider and a job killer. >> it's always a very business friendly state. >> it's hard to know how it's going to play. exactly.

>> newt gingrich is going to rip mitt romney's throat out when he goes there? >> tonight, he didn't say one word. >> with the $3.5 million he's got. he's going to do it the way romney has been doing to him. >> the perception was that he ran the most negative campaign in new hampshire. of the voters who perceived that, they overwhelmingly voted for mitt romney. >> newt didn't spent money in new hampshire. it was the free media. he started going after mitt romney, but he spent like $10,000 or so. >> all of the other knew romney had the state wired. the question was his margin. erin made an important point. the super pac is going after romney on the capital. they're rerunning 2008. he's a social liberal. you can't trust him. don't believe him. they're running an abortion ad. south carolina has a history, the voters, the establishment,

republican party have a history of calling it. the campaign, the underbelly of the south carolina campaign, gets ugly. that's where we heard mormon last time. will we hear that in the next ten days? >> will you argue that south carolina is the fire ball? >> we have had a momentum race so far, and he made history tonight. no non-incumbent, no person who is not the president of the united states has won iowa and then new hampshire. they compete with each other. they say, oh, no, that's the history of the process. no one has done what he done. you can say he won by eight points, he won. if he wins south carolina, gingrich may stand up, perry may stand up and say this is about delegates, can they raise money, and he has a good delegation on the ground in florida. his money will not dry up. >> how worried should we be about the turnout. if it turns out to be low, will

it be concerning? >> we know it's not low. it's going to bow close to four years or higher. >> he's now done better than he did last time. he did better than john mccain did last time. you hear people saying he needed to do better. hot is the bar that is acceptable? >> he's won now in new hampshire. off to south carolina. all eyes on south carolina. we're going to go to south carolina in a moment. tom foreman is fthere with a focus grume. they were all undecided going into this evening, but several of them have made up their minds. we're anxious to hear how they decided to vote. whele'll get to tom and the foc group right after this. sno

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78% of the precinct have now reported officially. let's take a look at the votes now. mitt romney is the winner. he's got tlalth%. just changed. 70,191. he's about 27,000 votes ahead of ron paul with 42,529. jon huntsman in third at 31,074. a battle for fourth place, close between newt gingrich and rick santorum. only about 100 votes sepraarati rick santorum and newt gingrich. rick perry not doing well, 1%, 1,300 votes or so. let's go to cand ry crowley. she's at newt gingrich headquarters. he was the first to speak out of the gate, he did well in what is almost his home state of new

hampshire. >> he absolutely did. and you're right, pretty much, you're looking at who is sitting in the ballroom at this particular point. so let's -- look, it's hard to take away that this was a -- this wasn't just a win, this was a solid win for romney. can we look at this going forward and say south carolina ends it one way or another? >> mitt romney will have momeantm in south carolina. he had home court advantage in new hampshire. in south carolina, he'll win likely because the conservatives will split their vote and he'll come out on top. the real test is if the republican candidates can coral the voters, raise money, and compete for delegates. i don't believe they can if mitt romney sewed it up. >> except for ron paul. that's not a movement, that's not a presidential campaign as a movement. >> he's not taking votes away

from romney. the libbertarian vote seems to e younger, and not liberal liberal. >> he can collect votes, that's my point? >> he stayed in until the end last time and didn't slow down mccain. the country heard for the first time a very presidential write-up against obama. no matter that he's not breaking the ceiling tonight, still, even people who are informed continue to say he's the most electable and that's what's important. and every speech he does and every step he does, he sounds like a better, better full spectrum conservative. i'm saying this from somebody who is trying to hear it. he hit the high notes and sweet spots. he keeps doing that and lets these guys throw dirt at him. keep being more conservative. in the end, i want to talk about

south carolina. we talk about the evangelical christians and the conservative vote, and last time around, they had a choice between mike huckabee and john mccain, and they went with mccain. this is not unfriendly territory to romney who is leading in the polls. >> and romney last time kaem in fourth place in south carolina. he was focusing his fire on florida that time. but mccain won and south carolina is a much more complex state than some of the stereotypes. it has a changing demographic, and romney can compete. he's trying to run the table on this jan gauntlet, something that is impressive, hasn't been done before. the real interesting question is, it's clear, ron paul is running to promote idea as much as he's running for president, and he can go on almost indefinitely. but will folks fall behind romney, or will they follow one

of the other candidates? this is a crowd that is fired up and focused on the general election. >> so long as they are debates and debates coming forward. cnn has some, others have some, you don't need a lot of money. you can run on fumes. can't you? it can compel people into florida, if they want. >> cnn has stopped taking the pulse of the republican party and start looking with the delegates are lining up. that's all that is necessary to line up against obama. you have to accumulate over 11,000 delegates. there's still a race ahead, but mitt romney has momentum going into the next round of contests. >> i don't think this hurts him. he's providing a consistent candidacy. the longer he goes, the better he gets. i hold that view. >> second state. >> mary matalin, donna brazile, thanks for being here. >> we have better music, as a

democratic, the republicans finally figured out how to pick a tune i can listen to. >> as a momento, donna got in wearing a mitt romney volunteer pass. bipartisanship lives. >> good to know. thanks everyone over there, i want to go over to anderson cooper right now. he's got some of our analysts standing by. you know what is nice to see, anderson, i'm interested to hear what your experts say, at least in iowa and new hampshire, it doesn't look like there was a lot of religious prejudice against mormons. and all of the fear that a lot of mormons had that this guys were going to do poorly because of their religion, i don't see it happening, at least not yet. >> the question is what happens in south carolina. south carolina, is there any way that if mitt romney wins in

south carolina that this race is not over. >> i don't think it's over because mitt romney has a large block of people who are anti-romney. can it get down to a one-on-one race and is it too late. and you have to look at the calendar. even if there's nobody in the race, nobody will get 50% until late april, so once it dets down to one-on-one, anything can happen. having said that, mitt romney is off to a great start. >> the field has the shrink and it has to shrink in south carolina. if you have the conservatives in the primary divided, it works out very well for the moderate c candidate. depending on how the result are, someone is going to to have drop out. >> as a tea party candidate, where are you right now? >> grass roots are depressed. they're sad because they have been out protesting for several years and getting involved in

the communities, and here it's the health care election, the economy election, and who do we have as the top guys? our top guy, even as hao put it together at the state, the president federalized his blue print. something has to happen in south caroli carolina. >> the tea party is not -- if you look what happened in 2010, they didn't win state-wide elections. congressional elections? >> missouri went red. >> the tea party did well in congressional races. you look at the senate races, didn't do well. no shock that not having a major effect on a presidential c candidate. >> the most sigquent news is tonight for the second time, iowa and new hampshire, no uptick in turnout. the best they can do is match

2012, and 2008, 37% of the people who participated were independents. it's up to 47%. there is zero zien of any republican enthusiasm. >> there's a problem with that. iowa, last time republicans set a record in 2008. they beat it in 2012. >> they barely beat it, and they lost the election. >> one point. an lsu champion. the point is they had a record 2008. if there's one trend in turp out, president obama ran unopposed has 33,000 votes in new hampshire. george bush got 68thone vouts in n newsure. where are the democrats? >> double barack obama. >> we got people who are listening at home, we have to be serious. that's not a serious point. again, that's not a serious point. the republicps have to improve

their '08 enthusiasm if they're going to capture the presidency. they didn't do it in iowa. >> they got more vote in iowa this time than last time. >> we heard all of this talk about the bane ad and how that's a negative for republicans. here is another piece i think is important in terms that newt gingrich hasn't done it. >> you're going to stop that because that was the most exciting -- >> the fact he said three times dismiss his time, i figured now sense having a fourth time. >> that's significant news. not a political cult nlonsultan looks at this, stu stevens and ron kaufman, they're the guys saying this is not good. i'm not making a point as a democrat. >> how do you figure when you beat a record it's not good? republican turnout in 2008, up slightly in 2012. i know the numbers. >> i want to be serious with the viewers. you're supposed to be more

enthused in 2008. it was a bad year for republicans. go check the returns. you lost the presidency, democrats picked up senate seats, house seats. you had a huge turnout in 2010. we're 14 months away and you're back to your '08 levels. that's not good news. period, end of argument. through the first two, there's not a single person that knows a single thing about campaigns who can say this is a good thing about republican enthusiasm. it just isn't. >> maybe it's bad among democrats. >> it didn't exist in the midterms. >> again, it's inarguable that enthusiasm among republicans through two elections shows no increase. that's a significant thing. i'm sorry. democratic -- look, democrats won the election by 8.5 points. they have more room, there's more tolerance there.

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looks and fits like underwear. same great protection. depend®. good morning. great day. an impressive win for mitt romney in new hampshire. i'm wolf blitzer. we want to welcome the viewers in the united states and around the world. let's take a look at the vote valley. 81% of the precincts have reported a winner. mitt romney has 38%.

he has 21,000 more votes than ron paul, with 23%, john hun hun comes in third. 31,886. there's a battle under way for fourth and fifth. newt gingrich slightly ahead of rick santorum, both at 10%. rick perry barely did anything in new hampshire. he's already in south carolina getting ready for that. lett's go to mitt romney headquarters. candy crowley is there. he delivered a pretty powerful victory speech. he's so far, candy, two for two. >> he is. and you know, if the romney people could have scripted this evening, it could not have gone any better for them. he had a good and solid first place, and running a distant second, ron paul, really the

candidate they feared the least, the man they don't think will ever be acceptable to the main stream of the republican party. those that they original thought were a threat, way back when in iowa, newt gingrich, rick perry, gone down in the 10%, perry even far less than that at about 1%. this was a bounce they wanted going into south carolina where they really believe looking at the poll said as we all are, m romney is ahead. they believe he has a very good chance of coming out on top in south carolina. which is why, wolf, when you listen to mitt romney, he's not really talking about his republican opponents, he's talking fall talk. heeldz rr tahe's talking about president obama. >> we know that the future of the country is better than 8% or 9% unemployment. better than $15 trillion in dent. it's better than the broken

promises of the last three years. the president has run out of ideas, now he's running out of excuses. and tonight -- >> mitt, mitt, mitt! >> -- and tonight, tonight, we're asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time. >> and you're right, wolf. two wins in a row, first iowa, and now of course, new hampshire, but two very different evenings. iowa was a very, very flat, sort of celebration. here, there was energy in the room. you could really feel that in terms of the one thing a lot of people thought mitt romney was

lacking, which was the energy, he was able to get it here in new hampshire, and he it use it in south carolina. >> all eyes will be on south carolina, january 21, the primary there. thanks very much. let's go to john king, taking a closer look at how mitt romney did it, john paul, impressive in second.n huntsman, third. that number could go up? >> could go up a bit. mitt romney is doing well. let's echo candy's point. this was an impressive win for mitt romney. he was polling in the last few days. he's going to get at least 38%. he can claim a victory. why is this important? 70% of the people in new hampshire live here. they call it the gold triangle. 70% of the population here. close to the boston media market. romney is winning them all.

if you check in on some of the places, he's winning most of these more than state-wide. this is his margin of victory, close to masdz mass. as you note, also an impressive note, as he throws in the map for ron paul. orange. all the other candidates say he's not a main stream republican. he continues to prove he's a factor in the race. at the moment, the buffer between mitt romney and everyone else. huntsman began this thinking he would stumble in iowa, falter in new hampshire, but 17% wasn't what they were looking for. we leave new hampshire, romney is 2-0. watch how this fills in on the 21st. along the coast, your more establishment republicans down here and a critical area in this state, right up in here. now, mitt romney goes in with

momentum. huntsman said he's fighting on. there we go, go back to the map. not sure why that happened, but huntsman said he's going to fight on. let me fix it that way. we're having fun with the ball. here we go. gingrich said he'll fight on, huntman, perry, santorum. but do you get a repeat of what happened in 2008? this is mike huckabee, john mccain country down here. what mitt romney is counting on is win the establishment of republican votes. if there is to be a conservative challenge to mitt romney, they're going to have to win big down here, but when you have this crowded field, does one candidate emerge or does the momentum romney had give him enough to win again? >> the fact that newt gingrich is from neighboring georgia and is going to spend millions of doll dollars, presumably, in south carolina, he needs to get on

track, and this could be the place. >> with this split, newt gingrich when he was the candidate swuurgingsurging, was well in south carolina. you'll have a different electric. south carolina, the darker the color, the higher percentage of people classified as evangeli l evangelicals. another key, a constituency we have talked about a lot, will they be counted, the powerful force of two years ago, the tea part party. the darker the area, the number of people who say i identify with the tea party. will they endorse one candidate to go against mitt romney. it may be as important as ever as we move to state three. there's a momentum factor. he can go on into florida with considerable momentum. >> it will be a three for three

sweech, which is going to be very, very impressive. anderson, let's throw it to you. >> romney's momentum tonight, let's see if it's changed yiendz. tom foreminute, when i was with you before, a number of people said their minds had been changed tonight or they were moving in a direction tonight based on tonight. we wanted to know who they're moving toward, what candidate? >> good point, anderson. let me show you that again with this group, all of you have been very patient this evening here at the college of charleston. let me ask you all, you came in here tonight, all saying you were undecided. how many of you moved closer to making up your minds tonight? look at that, anderson. tremendous amount of people here considerably closer, and i want to play a little bit of sound and watch how the group reacted with their dial testing devices being monitored by southern

methodist university. they turned the dial indicating how they felt about things. watch how the group reacted to newt gingrich. >> let me put in context where we are. we have an opportunity, i think, to unify the country around a message of jobs, economic growth, and very dramatic programs. the opportunity is to reach out to everybody of every background who would rather have paychecks than food stamps, to convince them what ronald reagan did in the 1980s in creating millions of new jobs, what we did when i was speaker in the '90s, in creating millions of new jobs, can be done again. >> all right, all of you who now are leaning heavily toward newt gingrich, put your hands up. one, two, three, four, five of

you in the group here. let me ask you something, what did you -- that made ufeel better about him? >> i felt like he had a true conservative values. he has innovative ideas and concrete ways to solve some of the problems that we have. that none of the other candidates mentioned. and i feel like he has the best interest of this country in mind, and he's putting that far ahead of his own personal gain. >> let me ask some of the other candidates, what about rick santorum, how many of you felt you would lean his way after what you heard and saw. one. okay, how about jon huntsman? one. two maybe. you see a little hesitant, three maybe. this is like an auction. three going up there. very slow process up here. ron paul, we talked about here. show me the ron paul support. this is similar to what we saw

tonight. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and you said you're still kind of flirting with some other possibilities, too. this isn't all made up. how about jon huntsman? he's a guy betting a lot on this. who is leaning his way? maybe you back there. maybe one, maybe two. here's the thing, anderson, i want you to think about this, jon huntsman thing, we'll come back to that because i want you to see the reaction, but look at the room here when i say this, how many of you now feel you're going to go with mitt romney? there, i can't -- it's not overwhelming, but it looks like -- you dropped your hands. put them up so i can see all of you. there's a pretty good number. any of you in here rick perry? not a one. so look, there's nothing scientific about this part of it, but you can see even in this room how people are getting closer to making up their mind.

in conversation,many of you still willing to chachs. are you locked down? >> not locked down, but it's between the two, newt or ron paul. they're the most conservative and liberty minded people or candidates. >> a little up in the air, especially when it comes to folks like huntsman and some of the folks who aren't necessacesy out in front. >> what did the dial testing show when huntsman was speaking? >> take a look at one of the things he did which seemed here, almost, like a misstep, in which he said something that was clearly an applause line, got tepid applause where he was, but look at the group when he said that. >> if we don't get our act together at home, we will see the end of the american century by 2050, and we're not going to let that happen, are we?

>> yeah, so you saw that, anderson. i want to ask somebody over here about that. one of the things i saw in the group time and time again, if you watch the numbers closely, by and arg, when the campaigns went negative, when they talked too much about what was wrong with america, what they didn't like, even when they talked too much about what they didn't like about the obama administration, you as a group didn't like it much. why? >> we just don't like negative advertising in the south especially. well, and a lot of it is propaganda. i mean, you can talk an ad and cut clips out of a certain section and say anything you want to. >> all right, anderson, you get a sense of it tonight. a fascinating evening with all of these folks who have been very, very patient, but have shared a lot of interesting views. and as we said earlier, we're are wrap it up this way. they came in saying they haven't made up their minds.

every campaign out there is looking for these people, and tonight, how many of you are pretty much closer to making up your mind? big change, and big change stakes here in south carolina. anderson? >> please let them know how much we appreciate their patience and participatation. it's been faceinating watching their dial testing. thanks for that. ron paul said he's in the best position to top mitt romney. stand by for an exclusive cnn interview with the number two interviewcandidate, ron paul. and we're checking reaction to mitt romney's win. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics...

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for a body in motion. mitt romney has gone up to 39%. take a look at this. 85% of the precincts now reporting. mitt romney has 39% of the vote. 81,843.

some 34,000 votes ahead of ron paul, who has come in second with 23%. john huntsimate with 17%, coming in at third. newt gingrich and rick santorum, they're basically tied for fourth place. 10% for newt gingrich, 19,986. santorum, only one% less. for the texas governor, rick perry, 1%. you still have ron paul supporters with you. we heard from what the texas congressman had to say. you had a chance to speak with him yourself. >> as you can see and hear behind me, they're not letting up. they'll be here for some time. very excited about ron paul's second place win. i did have a chance to speak to the congressman after we knew for sure he was going to come in second place. and asked him what that means

for the rest of the field. are you now the buffer between mitt romney and the rest of the candidates? i don't know what you want to call it, we're next in line to him. i would say we're the only ones really in the race with him. and we'll have to remain to be seen what turns up. >> now, here, when he spoke, he has said explicitly he believes he's nipping at the heels of mitt romney. he also gave a rousing speech, not the kind of speech we generally hear from him, ironically. he sounds kind of profess oriole. here, he sounded like a candidate talking about the fath he people call him dangerous, now he's dangerous to the status quo. he's on his way, probably to sleep right now, but tomorrow, he'll go to south carolina, make a noon rally to make it clear to his supporter sas and everybody else he's just beginning, not letting up, and he plans to

contend very heavily in south carolina. he's hoping to get money and get sort of organic support. and you can see people are still here, and i should tell you that the bar is still open. maybe you can tell. >> the folks are happy, ron paul supporters. a lot of ardent supports. thanks very much. i spoke with ron paul myself earlier in the day. he seems to duj he wasn't going to invest heavily in florida. he was going to look into some of the caucus states in february. this impressive second place finish in new hampshire might force him to reconsider, especially if he could generate a lot of money. >> interesting to hear him talking to dana, not answering his question about what he would tell his supporters to do, who he would support if he's not the nominee, which is most likely.

>> he's been very, very cagey about that. and really refused, dangled out the possibility if i'm not listened to, you don't listen to me, i may well break from you, but i do think it's certainly clear that ron paul and the group that he represents has become a force within the republican party. almost a quasi party. >> and the republican party would like to ignore that. >> and there's no second choice. it's ron paul or nobody else, or maybe barack obama, as a person in the focus group said. >> and i think it's one of the issues republicans are going to have to face. we talked about having a frared field before with all of the fields. but it's increasingly clear that there may be a fractured party, the tea party, now the ron paul movement, whether they can bring all of the people together, that's what i think for republicans, there is some

premium on trying to end this sooner rather than later so romney has a chance to unite the party. there was something john said tonight, and he said our mission with mitt romney is not to excite but to unite. and i did think that, yeah, i can see why he wants to do that. >> it's interesting to me, though, because ron paul could decide he wants to take this to the convention. >> absolutely. >> ron paul can take his delegates to the convection, can be a powerful force, can get a powerful speech, and that's something that has to be considered right now. and it would be very important because he could say, you know what? i want a primetime speech. >> and even though he's older, so many of his supporters are young, which suggests they have a future in the party. you have to recognize that. >> how does it impact the party down the road? a lot to watch for. >> a son who is popular son from

connecticut rkt rand paul, who is looking down the road as well. ron paul came in second. mitt romney came in second, but jon huntsman came in third. let's go to jim. he's over at huntsman headquarters over there. he was happy about a third place finish. and he's saying he's off to south carolina, jim. >> that's right. that's right, wolf. i have never seen so many so happy to finish inside third place. we're inside huntsman primary headquarters. that's the podium where we heard governor huntsman saying we're on the hunt, we have a ticket to ride to south carolina. and desite the third place finish, sources still see a path to the nomination. they might be kidding themselves, wolf, but they're very optimistic after tonight. a wounded romney may not have been stoppable here in new hampshire, but perhaps in south carolina, when they take the fight to him down there, perhaps they can slow him down down in south carolina. that's the thinking inside the

huntsman campaign. i had a chance to talk to the governor exclusively earlier tonight about where his campaign goes from here. that's what he said for the first time, he's going to south carolina. going to continue the campaign, and he's going to continue to take the fight to mitt romney. >> do you hope you can make the case in south carolina, the same case you made up here, hold on, it's not over. >> the people of south carolina will be alonging at exactly what the people of new hampshire have been looking for, electability. they're going to stand for the issues that can carry us to victory. the trust deficit and the economic deficit, not about firing people and pink slips in a way that they'll get tripped up by the dnc and the chicago machine with a billion dollars behind it. >> and the huntman campaign said they have an event set up for columbia, south carolina. 3:00 tomorrow afternoon at the university of south carolina. they're going right after the college students that they were

trying to attract here in new hampshi hampshire. and they say they have the resources to compete. i spoke to several sources here, including the campaign manager, and he said any talk of this campaign dropping out of the race, any talk of the governor droppi dropping out of the race rhymes with bull spit, and i should mention that the bar is also open here tonight, they're still partying in huntsman headquarters. >> i can see they're having a good time there. jim acosta at huntsman headquarters. headed to south carolina. i think all of us will be headed to south carolina soon. an exciting race. can't wait. >> yeah, i mean, can jon huntsman compete in south carolina? he's very low in the early polling there. >> i don't see that he has much of a constitch waenls there. you saw in the focus group, there didn't seem to be a person for huntsman. he can use some money there, but i just see that the fight is

going to be among the other -- the conservatives in the party, the santorums and perriy perrys fight there. >> it's interesting that his dad was there. and he could have a pack that could hunt him, but huntsman play has to be like a carom shot. he has to allow newt to spend all of his many. >> what kind? >> carom. >> a pool shark. all right. >> if newt spends all of his money and brings romney down, then it's possible that huntsman and the chaos in the dust could arriveads the alternative. >> he wasn't able to catch fire in new hampshire where he devoted a significant aplount of time. >> people are so sick of

negative -- i think what happens is there's too much noise and romney benefits from it. >> the best line had to be john sununu saying jon huntsman has been here for six months and he got this number of votes. at this rate, he could catch us in 25 years. >> all of the gop candidates are promising to fight on in south carolina. we'll talk more about the strategy and the battle to stop romney. also the top reasons romney won tonight. the exit polls tell an interesting story. ♪ he was a 21st century global nomad ♪

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>> newt gingrich and rick santorum have been battling for fourth place in new hampshire. they have about 10% or 9%. very close. i want to kngo to their headquarters. joe, first to you, newt gingrich gave a pretty rousing speech today, although i suspect he's probably a little disappointed he didn't do better in new hampshire. >> i think you're right. i mean, when you think about it, here is a guy who performed

pretty poorly in iowa and now in new hampshire, and he's still talking about moving on to south carolina. their still striking the set in the ballroom in the hotel where he had the speech and his headquarters, and the funny thing about it, i got an e-mail just a while ago from the gingrich traveling party and they're already on the plane on the way to south carolina. so moving on south at this point. the thing about his speech, i thought, that was really captivating, is that he made it very clear he's planning to go to south carolina and fight. listen to the sound bite. >> this is step two of a long process. and having both been a historian and been active a long time, you learn certain things. let me put in context where we are. we have an opportunity, i think, to unify the country around a message of jobs, economic

growth, and very dramatic programs. the opportunity is to reach out to everybody of every background who would rather have paychecks than food stamps, to convince them what ronald reagan did in the '80s in creating millions of new jobs, what we did when yuz waspeaker in the '90s, in creating millions of new jobs, can be done again. this campaign is going to go on to south carolina. >> so they're going to get started in rockhill, south carolina, which is on the nort carolina border tomorrow morning, on to spartanburg, which is one of those areas where there are a lot of people, we're told, who are very skeptical about mitt romney. >> newt gingrich will do better next to his home state of georgia. one guy who doesn't like mitt

romney very much walking behind you. gary tuchman is standing by. he came out of iowa with a lot of momentum. it didn't really deliver a huge punch in new hampshire, gary. >> it wasn't a great night for rick santorum tonight. the podium is bare, the stage is empty, the ballroom is empty. it was another nick and tuck night for rick santorum. last wike, nick and tuck for fourth place. today, nip and tuck for fourth place. a lot of rationalization from the santorum forces, but a lot of it is honest and practical. he was saying before new years, the polls here in new hampshire had him at 1% or 2% or 3%, he ended up with 9%. he atrinted that to the victory in iowa. he also said he didn't spen a lot of money here.

that, too, is accurate. he's now on his way to south carolina to campaign tomorrow, and he said and his people say they're putting most of their eggs in the south carolina basket. wolf. >> all right, gary. thanks very much. joe johns, thanks to you. let's go to erin and gloria. they're taking a closer look at the numbers. new hampshire is different from south carolina, but what did we see in new hampshire. >> different from south carolina and different than iowa. we wanted to hone in on two important categories. opinion on the tea party movement. we were talking about whether mitt romney can win over the voters. 51% of the people who voted say they support the tea party. gloria, you can see in new hampshire, people who like the tea party go for mitt romney. >> and the question, of course, number two is ron paul, which is interesting because it's the fiscal conservatism of ron paul that attracts the tea party people. the question, of course, is whether mitt romney will be able

to keep the number as he heads to south carolina. >> on that note, let's look at a born againcretion, there we go, born again christians in new hampshi hampshire. those who identified themselves as such, still went for mitt romney, which is interesting. so different than in iowa where born again and evangelical christians went for santorum. >> he did 23% with the born againcreti christian, so his va message was getting through, but evangelicals, 30% going for mitt romney, a mormon, whether he can keep it going in south carolina, evangelical leaders are meeting this weekend. they're going to talk about whether they should endorse an anti-mitt romney candidate or do something else. that's going to be important to see what they do. i guarantee you romney is going to have a tougher time in south carolina with tea party and

evangelicals. >> 23% of people who voted in new hampshire, evangelicals, about 60% in south carolina. much like iowa. >> i'm getting a lot of tweets. they want to know, can you do a back handed flip. >> oh, my god. >> drum roll. >> we did it. backhanded flip. >> that wads good. >> the pressure was on. >> impressive flip. >> so piers, you talked to rick perry. a pathetic showing for rick perry in new hampshire as it was in iowa. what keeps him going? gloyou have to hand him something for the fortitude, but you're placing fifth at best in the moment. what was interesting i thought in the interview was his point of attack against mitt romney. it may be where they are go at him, where the gingrich pac money goes, an interview, you'll

see what he called mitt romney. >> there is a real difference between a venture capitalist and a vulture capitalist, and venture capitalists are good. nay go in, they inject their capital, they create jobs, bane capital, it appears to me, are vulture capitalists all too often. i don't confuse for a minute that barack obama and his team wouldn't attack mitt romney on that in a general election. we're doing mitt a favor by exposing him early on so he can figure out how to defend that or more importantly and better from my perspective, he's not the nominee to begin with. >> more of the interview with rick perry after midnight. and interesting perspective there, calling him a vulture capitalist. what i haven't seen yet is a full breakdown of mitt romney's time at bane that shows how many

jobs he created and how many he got rid of. if you can prover he was a force for good, and job creation, that was good for romney. if you can prove that a lot of people lost his jobs because of him, he may qualify as a vulsure capitalist. >> wall street journal did a close look at it, it's hard to get numbers on that. peter is standing by in south carolina. it was interesting to hear him tone to go after mitt romney as a vulture capitalist. that attack that wads tried in new hampshire didn't work among voter said s in new hampshire. do you think it will work in south carolina? >> in new hampshire, it didn't come up until the last few days. i think although it's unusual to

attack someone's business credenti credential, it's potent because the inemployment rate has gone up to almost 10%, and it plays into a bigger narrative of romney being out of touch. the questions about mitt romney are not about his mormonism, it's more about his northern ped gree, his squishiness on issues and the fact he can't connect with people. once these tv ads start to hit from newt's super pac, which is going up tomorrow, we could see those resonate. and it's surprising that we still haven't seen a romney care ad dropped on mitt romney, but we'll see if this works in the next few weeks. >> i had jack welsch on my show who was vociferous in his

support of romney, calling him the best candidate he's seen to run for president in his lifetime and began to laud his record, and his wife, she said the same thing. that actually his record there could be a vote winner. rather than a vote loser, and he certainly thought the rhetoric from romney today, beginning to try to turn it around into a positive, saying that acchtuall i did a very good job at bane. i created jobs. that's what i could do for america. could he turn it into an advantage, i think? >> i think so. a lot of caricatures about south carolina, painted as a hive of e evangelicals and good oild boys. it's a cross section of republicans, in greenville and spartanburg, where there are all those evangelicals, there's also a ton of international businesses there, a strong

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>> we're back with the latest numbers. 91% of the precincts have now reported. 39% for mitt romney. 90,429 votes. almost 38,000 votes ahead of number two, ron paul with 23 first, 52,562. huntman in third, 38,650. newt gingrich in fourth, 10%, 21,612 to 21,426 for rick

santorum with 9%. rick perry, only 1%. all night, while we have been on tv and politicians have been talking, poll workers across new hampshire have been busy certifying ballots and making sure that the primary is completely legal. official, our political reporter shannon travis shows us democracy in action at manchester as he followed the ballot from the voting booth to its final resting place. >> we may be hearing candidates speeches and results, but this process is far from over. we're following along with the ballots as they're leaving ward 1 here at the webster elementary school in manchester. we're going to follow along and show you where they're going for the final resting spot. this coverage is special because this basically shows you how democracy works, how the ballot you cast at the ballot booth, how they're processed, where they go, weever been showing you all night how they're being counted, secured, and now we're going to show you how they're

being procured at city hall. they're holoading up the car no putting the ballots inside. a lot of the boxes have seals on them. they have to deliver these ballots to the city clerk's office, the same exact amount they received from the clerk's office previously. >> we're doing about 30 miles an hour. diane and paul are steadily just moving along so that we can get the ballots down to city hall. >> so we're here, watching, as diane and paul unload the ballots. they have arrived at the drop-off point at city hall. it's right in the middle of downtown manchester. it looks like a count, boxes of one, two, three, four, five, six boxes of ballots, and a few boxes of paperwork, some binders, some administrative things they also have to drop off, obviously, for voting

procedures, and they're going to now hand this off, as you can see, an arm eed guard here. maybe not armed but definitely a security guard who is taking possession of the ballots as they go inside city hall here. it's a fascinating look at what actually happens when people cast their ballots. this is a very critical piece of this process because these ballots now have to be certified, checked in, all of that. the numbers that we have been hearing so far are the projections, the unofficial, but these ballots will be very key to certifying, to making it all official that mitt romney in fact came in number one, ron paul in fact came in number two, and jon huntsman in fact came in number three. the ballots are coming off the elevator here, and the next place, the next home for them is the vault in city hall. >> a rare sighting of the inside of the vault at a city. a municipality that houses

ballots and vital records. you're getting a rare glimpse inside of how these ballots are preserved for a while. there's a federal retention law that new hampshire mirrors that saves these ballots for 22 months and basically, because they are paper ballots, they're destroyed. this is where they'll live for 22 months. >> shannon travis reporting for us from manchester, new hampshire. i love the fact they're still doing it the old fashioned way. ladies, new hampshire history now. all eyes very soon if not immediately on south carolina. and mitt romney, erin, tell us what we're seeing looking ahead. >> you can get a few hours of sleep before all eyes firmly on south carolina, but we're talking about the importance of the evangelical vote in south carolina. we have loaded the data from 2008, and obviously, mitt

romney, advantage/disadvantage of having run then, we'll see. religious candidate, great deal or somewhat? i want to blow that up and give them a chance to see how this went. oh, no. >> hold on, come over here. >> let's do it here. >> it's all right. fine, we can fix it. okay, so 2008, great deal or somewhat inthose voters went overwhelmingly for huckabeehuck then mccain. romney, only 11%. >> you're going to see that romney does a little better. and hot the other candidates are hoping for, particularly the rick santorums andperry, what they want is to get that huckabee vote for themselves. >> we were talking as we send it back to you, how the awareness, perhaps, of the mormon faith has increased over the last four

years. mitt romney has been kwoen, you see ads on buses. television about being a mormon, and perhaps that has contributed to more acceptance or understanding of the mormon faith. >> there will still be a lot of skepticism. >> brook, what have you been dpauloing? >> i can't take you inside a vault. >> not since al capone's vault have i been so isexcited. >> we have been looking, tracking twitter, and you see the gingrich social drop. the one candidate who actually did worse when it comes to sort of perception and resonance on twitter is the former speaker of the house. take a look at the numbers. first off, twitter 10:00 eastern time. right around that time, 50/50 positive negative perception of

gingrich. you can see the green and red change, and he's the only candidate, the only candidate we can find. one other fun factoid, i know it's about midnight and you were here until -- >> 3:30 not that i was counting. >> 3:34 is when i left cnn, last week, because it went so long, when we looked at the number of tweets until the end when you projected by the eight votes mitt romney, that was half the amount of tweets from today, and we're still not even in the a.m. >> interesting. let's go to some of our analysts and contributors have been monitoring events. not making late dinner reservations. what have you been looking at in the last hour? >> the vault. >> i was banking on that story. >> numbers. last election, 2008, john mccain got 37.8% of new hampshire. barack obama, 36.6% in his

primary. hillary clinton, 39%. romney looks like he's between 39% and 40%. here is the other thing flashing forward. the month of february for republicans. six contests for delegates who will get selected. mitt romney probably has an inside lead on five of them. maine, new england, michigan, where he grew up. advantage romney in all of the early states. >> do you think it's still possible tomorrow morning when folks wake up that there may be an e-mail, a press release that one of the candidates has dropped out? >> look, if rick perry didn't drop out, they'll try to see it through. i think the race -- i have always thought this race is romney. the only person in the field who has a chance of being nominated. i have thought that for some time and am completely convinced of it now. sometimes the guys, it takes a while to come to the realization

that you're out of this. watching huntsman get beat by 23%, the hardest thing to do is act like you're happy on election night when you're not. we all do it. >> they're estimating turnover at 236,000. that's 6,000 more. >> it's not terribly bad, but i agree with ari and james on the passion and the intensity. you don't want to repeat 2008, and we would see more people out if we didn't have -- mitt romney has been endorsed by jimmy carter and john mccain for crying out loud. it's mccain, 2008, all over. >> carter? >> not carter, carter was saying nice things about romney. carter said he was glad to see him win. so i don't know. >> maybe they go way back. >> republicans have been dismissing the whole bane ad by saying we shouldn't do these

type of things. i think it's a powerful ad in a climate where you have blue collar workers who are not happy at all about companies coming in, using a debt, slashing and burning, firing people, and making off with lots of cash. it's no shock republicans are saying this is the last thing we want to see, but the push back, even bill is writing about this, when you go so far as to say we're so happy to be about capitalism and we're so tied to it, that they're reenforcing it's the party of a lot of rich folks. gingrich has messed up the argument when he could have been more effective making the argument we need to be concerned about the little guys who have been played off. it's still a strong argument that could help obama. >> reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, and the reports of this enhanced republican enthusiasm have been exaggerated. that enthusiasm is probably

matching democrats right now, but that's about it. this is all subject to change, mid-january, we have to go until early november here, but there's not much evidence of this really enhanced republican enthusiasm that you saw in november 2010, which was quite evident. >> i don't disagree with that. what is going to rally republicanicize not love of romney. it's beating barack obama. that's what gets republicans' blood flowing. >> that's what folks in south carolina want more than all. mapping out the new hampshire results and looking for clues about the baltal ahead. stand by for a special piers morgan at the top of the hour. ttd#: 1-800-345-2550

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south carolina, and his is critically important. mitt romney, but a crowded field. gingrich, huntsman, paul, perry, santorum, say they would be a stronger nominee. can governor romney win it here? it's a state that often decides the election. south carolina on the 21st, we clous out in florida. we're going to go into yet another swing state. iowa, new hampshire, here is sahuge swing state. mitt romney advertising here. if the race goes on, where do we go? nevada, romney leading in nevada right now. we'll see how the race goes. the race also would be in arizona, a big primary, a state where mccain carried it four years ago r and also on the map ahead, when we get into february, the state of