buddy romer. buddy romer surging ahead of rick perry in new hampshire. you may remember we had buddy romer on the show friday night. he had a major campaign announcement planned for saturday. his major campaign announcement on saturday is he is staying in the race. and now in the latest suffolk university poll, rick perry has 1%. buddy romer has a whopping 2%. in this ppp poll taken over the weekend, it shows buddy romer with a commanding lead over rick perry, 3% to 1%. mr. roemer's campaign manager making sure that everybody noticed his candidate's rise in fortune. >> what i would be happy is coming ahead of rick perry. >> one, two, 3%, threes not giant numbers. they do not mean that buddy roemer is the next front runner in new hampshire. that makes him feel like he has to answer his critics who are asking why he is still in the race. but if he is polling at 2% or 3% is enough to lap rick perry in new hampshire, forget what buddy roemer has to answer to. when does rick perry have to answering why he's still in the race? we'll be back tomorrow night at

or can you do what buddy romer does and text the word awake followed by a response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this tuesday, january 3rd. closing arguments have been made in iowa. now it's time to do caucusing. we'll be locked in on the caucuses, of course. but there are some other stories we have to share with you like snoop dogg living out a childhood dream and hosting "the price is right." this actually happened and we have the clip to prove it. first, let's get to the news at 4:30 a.m. here at java joe's in des moines, iowa. republican party tonight may have its true front-runner in the race for president. iowa caucuses, one the proudest traditions begins tonight at 7:00 central time and the 2012 presidential election will be on the way. all the polls show a grouping of mitt romney, ron paul and rick santorum at the top and most experts saying that the caucuses are romney's to lose after keeping iowa at arm's length for months, the former massachusetts governor sounding more confident than ev

in fact, spent this past week in south carolina got 1%, smoking buddy romer. >> will you slow down those full screen? >> trying to keep everybody awake and in tune. there they are. let's hear from the frontrunner. >> this president wakes up every morning, looks across america and is proud to announce it could be worse. it could be worse? that's not what it means to be an american. it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwaivering conviction that we know it must be better and it will be better. >> best thing about that when i was watching that is he was going against barack obama. it's as if the other candidates don't exist anymore other than he did point out it was a big mistake that some of his fellow mistakes attacked him on the bain capital and that phrase that he said that was taken out of context about liking to fire people. but otherwise, the entire speech was about taking on barack obama. they probably wrote this speech a long time ago knowing they would win new hampshire. it makes it look like there was nobody else in the field. >> good move and he

buddy romer. >> goldman fricking sachs. >> but he can't get the votes or get into a debate.ple of them. spoiler alert. i'm not going to win iowa. don't tell the 49 people who caucused for me, #the 49 coolest iowans. another one, we're drinking every time buddy gets a delegate. we're stone sober. but the next round is on me. buddy then said breaking news, nobody in iowa knows that i expect and then finally breaking news, somebody who died in 1987 is beating me in iowa. #invisible man let buddy debate. >> i absolutely loved it. >> you know what, he's a serious guy with a serious message. >> when he was on our show i thought he was fantastic. >> he was great. >> i actually do think he has got one of the most compelling messages. just looking at the message for 2012, i think it's custom made for this year in every year. >> should he be on that stage, mark halperin? should he have been on the stage? >> a tough decision. i'd like to see debates that are more inclusive and some that are smaller and have him in some of the more inclusive ones. >> on tomorrow's show, peggy noonan wil

buddy romer, he's no ross perot. you got to have i think the money to raem do a third party. and as previously mentioned, it's hard to get into the debates and -- in the way the system is set up today. but america always produces unusual people at key moments. and i'm sure there will be sometime in the future a serious third party candidate. >> americans seem to have something of a flirtation with business people as presidents. but get so far. for example, ross perot, there was some talk about herman cain being -- earlier this year, also mayor bloomberg was mentioned as a businessman who might solve america's economic issues. we get so far as an electorate with them. and then not all the way to the finish line. can you talk a little bit about the kinds of people americans seem to want as leaders. >> i think that's a wonderful point. we like the idea of somebody who is not part of washington. somebody who is going to do what's right for the country. and not be beholden to the democratic party or the republican party. we elect people from the military or corporate people and so

look at the way they are excluding people like buddy romer and gary johnson. why? because they have not raised half a million dollars. that is the entry fee to the primary, which was unheard of many, many years ago. someone with that kind of elective background to be on the debates. host: kansas city, missouri, a democrat, joanie, hi. caller: hello. i am so excited i can hardly breathe. mr. nader, i hear written your name in for president. every time you ran, i have voted for you, and i have written your name and otherwise, ever since the second term of clinton. i've always been a lifelong democrat, but i could not do it after that. al gore. currently, for many, many reasons. you are kept out of everything but just because of the money. if i and $1 million, you could have had three-fourths of it. somebody has got to get rid of this john ashcroft patriot act. it is killing people. steinfeldt i was an alien in my own country. i never have had a reason to get a photographic id. i did not needed. i did not choose to drive. i do not travel. i do not have a passport. to

all the others had been distributed under buddy romer. and so he was indicted -- he was investigated and indicted for allegedly extorting money out of eddie de-bartel, jr., the san francisco 49ers to get that 15th license. then let's see. there was robert gidry who already owned a river boat and to keep his license he allegedly was stored. and then there was ricky shelter who worked for players casino in lake charles who said that he was extorted for keeping the edwardses, meaning edwards and his son, steven, from i don't know harming them in lake charles. anyway, they never really believed it and their testimony proved that to begin with. so the real charge came down to de-bartelo, he and i had gotten together years ago. his father built malls of america. well, eddie, jr. for his 30th birthday -- his father gave him the san francisco 49ers. so he spent -- lavished all kinds of money on the 49ers. eddie is the reason for the salary cap that we have today in the nfl but the nfl had bylaws and he wants a casino and he begins to use edwin ed