. >> former "the new york times" columnist bob herbert is a senior fellow at demos. his is an issue. we do need engineers and accountants who are trained in great american universities, but at the same time we need to be having people attending vocational schools and getting skills like we've discussed as welders. how do we deal with establishing who goes to what school for what and how we get everybody the right education for this market? >> well, i don't think we do it by pointing to the problems that employers are having, finding specific workers. this is a small segment of the overall employment problem. my question would be, you know, if there's a shortage of workers in a given field, then the free market says that you should offer those workers more money. so pay more and presumably you'd get more qualified applicants. >> let's take a quick break and we'll talk about what we do not for the mismatch, not for those people who are able to fill the jobs that are already open but what to do to see if there are more jobs that can be available. all of you stay with us,

bob herbert, longtime "new york times" lump mist.beginning. important note. all right. you just had a really fascinating conversation about the very contested piece of legislation called the stop online piracy act. and -- the reason that i think it is sort of relates interestingly is that it is a piece of legislation in which on each side of the battle there are very large interests. commercial interests. on one side, it is sort of -- oversimplify it, pits northern california versus southern california. silicon valley tech sector versus the l.a. content movie studios. these battles get waged in congress. and where people are lobbying. and one of the tools that they use in their lobbying -- they can raise money. so we have been talking about money and politics with jack abramoff, knows a thing or would about the topic. latest fcc disclosures in the final three months of 2011, president obama raised $42 million. $220 million for 2011. romney supporting superpac called restore our future. crossroads plan to raise hundreds of millions mo

bob. you'll remember that. george herbert walker bush an unknown ambassador a moderate candidate in the race, won that caucus because the conservative vote was all chopped up. one of the things to watch coming out of iowa is can the conservatives coalesce around one candidate? rick perry in south carolina, rick santorum? who will that be? going forward to be the alternative to romney? that's what i would look for coming out of iowa. >> schieffer: in 1980, ronald reagan wins the fom nation. then you shift to 1988. of all people pat robertson finishes ahead of george bush in iowa that year. and then george bush goes on to win. i agree with you. it's important because it's first. we find out, we see them all lay it out. thanks to all of you. we'll see you all out there. i'll be out there this afternoon. back in a moment with some final thoughts. ♪ [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we un

. >> now, this has been compared, guys, to what bob dole said, george herbert walker bush. there's a real difference on two levels. one is, he's not claiming that in this case, romney's lying about his record, gingrich's, he's lying about his own reality. he's claiming to be a conservative, when everybody in massachusetts knows he was pro-abortion in terms of this funding bill we didn't even know about, in terms of putting planned parenthood people on this commission, in terms of health care. everything, he was a moderate. that's why he got elected to massachusetts. >> it's funny, i do think something did change tonight with mitt romney, and that is, because you heard rick santorum's been talking about health care and saying, that's one of the biggest issues i want to discuss. by the way, the massachusetts health care plan was sort of the arc -- was sort of the model for president obama's plan. and he wants to go after that. gingrich wants to go after -- i do think after tonight, for the first time in this campaign cycle, mitt romney will then be a collective target of rick

but bob teeter, the late bob teeter who was george herbert walker bush's pollster and campaign manage never 1992 when president bush lost re-election to president clinton in large part because of the economy told me that, and everything else we learned since has confirmed it, that it takes a full quarter of good news, three months before people start to perceive a change in their economic outlook. and in other words, the economy was improving enough in 1992 but voters didn't feel it that way. if it's going to be good news, this is the time for the obama campaign for it to begin is in early 2012 and to continue through the election. otherwise if the economy is going to be a real political liability for the white house. >> woodruff: david, what b let's tuck about the fallout from iowa. how much of one is there? how much are new hampshire voters paying attention? we heard gwen talk to that group of voters about it. but how much does it matter that romney came in first by 8 votes, santorum right behind? >> well, friday has been a very good day for mitt romney. the poll in new hampshire ha

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i watched pat buchanan in '92 and '96 once taking on george herbert walker bush and i'm getting about 37% and smashing bob dole against the pollsters. what's happened is a lot of the polling up there assumes that new hampshireites are a bunch of granite state yankees when in fact they aren't any more. they're irish and italian people that don't like big government. as tip o'neill used to say in new hampshire ey don't even like parks, they don't like government. what you'll see, watch santorum maybe pick up that buchanan vote up there against the establishment and really put on a challenge, perhaps, with gingrich's help against the yankee, if you will, mitt romney, it could be very fascinating and just a four or five-day race but it will climax saturday night in that abc debate and have the follow-up on sunday morning with david's show "meet the press." you'll see an attack like you've never seen from newt to the benefit of santorum. it's going to be fascinating. this thing is wide open. >> he has a heck of a wing man. no question about it and santorum goes into new hampshire, no pressure. just raise money