mike huckabee and mitt romney scripting multiple jokes.mney's jokes apparently written by uncle floyd. >> yes we have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. unfortunately we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is arizona. >> uncle floyd is in the house! and there was michele bachmann after fielding criticism from her fellow opponent from minnesota electing to pull her name from the presidential straw poll. her speech however was not polled by anyone or anything. >> unlimited credit cards for our elected leaders have become an in entitlement. like speaker pelosi, who has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying. >> the speaker's office today responding to that, quote, speaker pelosi does not drink alcohol. there is no alcohol service on the domestic flights the air force operates for travel from washington to san francisco for the speaker. back in the rarefied area of the summit jim inhofe the agenda to re peel "don't ask, don't tell" problems

. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor, mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> everybody, thank you so much. what a great audience we had here today. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. once dismissed by nancy pelosi as astroturf, the tea party is a force to be reckoned with. and tonight, the senate candidate sharon angle running against harry reid in one of the most high profile races in the mid term elections is with us. also -- [applause] >> we have super bowl winner and mvp quarterback kurt warner, he was a star on the field, but can he dance with the stars on the dance floor? we'll find out. [applause]. [applause]. >> . >> plus, actress and activist janine turner is back with us and she's got the winner of her constituting america contest. all of that, and much more on tonight's show and we're glad that you're here, (applause) >> the polls are showing that it's looking more and more likely that republicans will take control of the house in the mid term elections. if democrat lose the majority, nancy pel

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now back to "huckabee." like to comment on tonight's show, e-mail us at huckmail@foxnews.com. >> mike: remember the pro-life super bowl commercial with tim tebow and his mother? it caused controversy. the ad was sponsored by the christian grassroot organization focus on the family. a group that has been in the cross hairs of the left for decades. joining me now, the president and chief executive officer of focus on the family and author of a brand new wonderful book called "stronger." jim daily. good to have you with us. [ applause ] >> governor, good to be here. thank you. >> mike: you think the role of focus in the family, there has been evolution over the course of the years. it started out as basically helping parents with discipline issues. it got very involved in trying to encourage christian people to get in the political process. where is focus on the family now in relationship to involvement in some of the civic affairs? >> sure, we will stay true to principles because we believe in them. the christ

president, welcome to the huckabee show.actually i am a bit surprised to. the they told me they i was going the colbert report. >> the staff brought you here instead. we're going to be talking later in the show about why people aren't going to vote -- what do you think people say they're not going to vote? >> let me say this -- one of the things that makes this country so great is that everyone has a right to vote. i wouldn't be what i'm doing today if people didn't get out and vote. >> that is why they aren't going to vote, i don't know. [ laughter ] >> would you able to hang around for a bit and be with us when we do our e-mails from our viewers? >> yes, i can. i look forward to doing. >> it we love to have you. that is very kind to offer your time like that. >> for you, anything. >> you know you are always welcome. we will see you a little while. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> so this week, i think the united nations autoto be sawed off from east side of manhattan and land on wha

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mike huckabee, obviously, i shared his campaign.second in the presidential race last time. obviously, if he wants to run, again, he'll be a viable candidate. he's not given indication he wants to do that. these are very important people that came to the convention. the difference between this con ve investigation and the tea party is things are important to them like gay marriage and abortion issues. they are significant. the tea party is about fiscal conservative and smaller government and not raising taxes. they may share common goals. at this point and time, mike pence is a good guy. he's going to be an important player if we have a majority in the congress. no one has talked about him as a presidential candidate. >> you mentioned the differences between those who might be in support of the value voters summit and that philosophy and that of the tea party. among those that were in attendance, christine o'donnell, the delaware republican pick who was supported by the tea party movement, newt gingrich in attendance, mike huckabee a

former arkansas governor mike huckabee came in second. mitt romney came in third. at fourth was newt gingrich. sarah palin came in fifth. >>> busy local bridges are closed, the chain bridge and the frederick douglass bridge were both closed last night for structural repairs. that means there is no access to them for motorists, cyclists, or pedestrians. both are expected to reopen at 5:00 a.m. monday. the chain bridge will close again each of the next three weekends in october. >>> very nice saturday night. it brought about the rest of the weekend -- what about the rest of the weekend? brian van degraff is in the weather center. >> we are watching a gorgeous weekend developing. it is fitting because this is the last full weekend of summer, as we switchover to fall. the weatherbug network temperatures cooling off nicely, upper 70's, 80 degrees. 62 rockville. leesburg 59, 57 warrenton. 58 la plata. we are cooling off nicely. in the morning, 50's downtown, 40's in the suburbs. we warm to the upper 80's to more. afternoon clouds, but a very nice finished the weekend. >>

huckabee, do you get that? but huckabee only cares about his own pocketbook.ng a patient with pre-existing condition to a house that burned down? this is the republican party, and they are psycho talkers. >>> coming up, the republicans are so hard up for ideas they're recycling the newtster's garbage now. i'll get "rapid-fire" response on that. >>> and the tea party jobs are dead set on repealing president obama's health care bill. they are making me sick. they are running from a great bill, a great start. all of that, plus christine o'donnell's skeletons, boy they're coming out of the closet. lady gaga takes a shot at the maverick, can you believe it? and why michael vick is my pick in the "playbook" tonight. [ male announcer ] at triscuit, we're a fan of simple ingredients. so we seeded that into something much bigger. the home farming movement. ♪ join us at triscuit.com/homefarming. ♪ [ male announcer ] ever have morning pain slow you down? ♪ introducing bayer am, an extra strength pain reliever with alertness aid, specially formulated to fight morning pain

mike huckabee the first runner up from fox. he won in 2009. mitt romney, third, newt gingrich fourth, sarah palin 5th. and what's the important issue to them, they said not government spending, they said abortion number one. social issues were number one. might tell you why mike pence won the straw poll. he may not be the highest from indiana because governor mitch daniels a lot of people would like to see run. >> a lot of people would say don't make a lot of hay out of this material. look at mike pence and mitt romney probably step forward and be the likely republican candidate for president. i'm not sure why they would go that direction. again, like you said, dave, maybe more social issues than economic issues 'cause if it were economics, you'd look at definitely mike huckabee. >> and they also asked about vice-presidential who you'd like to see on the ticket for vice-president. that was sarah palin, senator rick santorum, congressman paul ryan. jim demints, governor mike huckabee and that the organizers obviously of this, the three-day conf

let's ask host of huckabee, governor mike huckabee. good to see you.rch because of your admonition? >> i love to think that then i would make other suggestions like pass the bush tax cut extension, repeal health care. maybe stepping aside and letting republicans have the white house and both houses of congress. >> sean: it might work. >> i'm all over that >> sean: when do you think sean hannity is going to quote the daily beast and gail shehee? >> never thought you would do that. but go ahead. >> sean: i'm not making fun. gail shehee reports the president is in town. big u.n. conference. the president has a fundraiser at the roosevelt hotel. they offer cheap tickets $100, discounted in some cases to $50. the room holds 650 not a big room for a political event especially for the president. they can't sell it out. 450 people in a room for 650. four e-mails two phone calls later to her alone to try and get her through there. >> i think it is one of the reasons why he went to church because therowd feels obligated to stay. this president is having a proble

huckabee, hannity.teresting to watch coons' spokesman come out today, chris is not anyone's pet. >> the worst thing that can happen this year is to be associated with harry reid. only thing worst is to be officered as harry reid's pet. harry reid has a long -- harry reid has a long history of saying ridiculous things and getting an way with them. if you are on the receiving end of you a big wet kiss from harry reid it has to be the worst moment you can in this political year. >> sean: this is u.s.a. today tea party wins, fuel a civil war within the gop and they got christine o'donnell face on the cover this is today's edition of the paper. if there is any civil war going on we were touching on the surface. democrats don't want to be seen with harry reid or barack obama. he comes to town they . sorry. that's the only day i can't make it. they are running away all these ads we were showing last night. >> beam in the democratic party scheduling visits to combat zones so they don't have to be present when o

you have huckabee out there. pagen boub the star, right? >> she is the star already. i was down at the southern republican leadership conference meeting in new orleans, which is the base of the modern christian evangel cal republican party. haley barbour, who's from next door, was a blip on the radar screen. it was all about sarah palin and everything she did there, including handing out souvenir moose meat beach jerky for everyone showed me she's runnorg f president. it looks like she's running. >> that's a sign you're running for president, if you hand out moose meat. >> if you're from alaska. chris: you've seen the spark she creates in the crowd. do you think she's decided yet? >> i don't think so but i think she'll get the bug like others do. she'll notice that there are adoring crowds and she'll think she has the right to be president and that she could win. she might be able to win in iowa, zphilet that she lacks organization. because she is such a celebrity in the republican party. i also think she's the candidate for the aggrieved. she is both a victim and she

>> well, huckabee just spoke and he's expected to be one of the frontrunners, again. her in before she finished in fourth. the one thing with the straw poll, there are 18 candidates on the ballot. anyone who wins will have a small margin. last year huckabee won with 28%. >> whoever wins, it's really a question of where the buzz is and sarah palin has been masterful at sort of keeping the buzz going around her. however, it's been a long time since she's taken questions from the media. she will not do it tonight at the ronald reagan dinner. that is something that will seriously have to change. >> i feel like people ask me this all the time and now, as you know, she runs for president and she's going to have a whole team of press corps on her plane. she will have to have a traditional press set up and answer a lot of questions which, i think, myself and a lot of other people think she will. i don't think you can run a campaign without that. >> thanks so much to both of you. >> thank you. >>> a stretch of mexico's east coast is bracing for a hit from hurricane karl. it's

alongside the likes of mitt romney and mike huckabee. >> the small elite don't get us. they call us whacky. they call us wing nuts. we call us "we the people." (cheers and applause) >> reporter: delaware's new republican senate nominee was at home in this crowd of social conservatives. but even as she preached a return to fiscal conservatism, o'donnell's own unorthodox spending habits were starting to come under heavy scrutiny. staffers on her previous campaign for senate and o'donnell's own financial filings reveal that the unemployed o'donnell used campaign funds to pay for meals, gas, bowling trips, and personal rent, even long after the campaign had ended. >> i've never seen a candidate who just stole all their campaign money and used it for personal use. what it seems like here is christine o'donnell had no other way to support herself so she thought, okay, i'll run for u.s. senate. >> reporter: the nonpartisan watchdog group citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington is urging the u.s. attorney in delaware to open a criminal investigation. >> it's not sl

huckabee and romney there. in somewhat a surprise result, mike pence, the third-ranking republican in the house finished first in the straw poll taken at the end of the summit beating out huckabee who finished with 22%, mitt romney, newt gingrich and sarah palin rounding out the top five. this all comes as the former alaska governor, sarah palin, ignited new speculation about her own political aspirations after taking center stage at a republican fund-raiser in iowa, while they played coy about a possible run for the white house, palin stressed republicans need to come together after what has become a divisive primary season. >> now, unsuccessful gop campaigns and deflated political pundits, remember, attitudes are contagious. so make sure yours are worth catching. this is it, gop, this is our time. we can't blow it, gop, but we won't wait for that political playbook to be handed us from on high, from the elites, to tell us what to do. we won't do that. >> spent a lot of time talking elites, she called them, an

, huckabee finished first in the 2008 iowa republican caucuses. steve cnn tani is live. it's an overarching theme today, what would you say it is? >> reporter: for this group, the main issue is family values, traditional values, moral values, social values. mike huckabee just said in his speech a while ago that a lot of people have said that the republicans, the conservatives, should not be talking about social values this year, but he says look at the economic meltdown, that, he says, was a moral failing. he called it unmitigated greed on the part of some on wall street. so it's a moral issue, we ought to be considering it. and he said look at the recent news on poverty, one in seven americans living in pot. -- in poverty. he said that's a result of the breakdown of family values, of the traditional family. he went after president obama and his economic polices, and you can listen to part of what he said on down. let's listen: >> this is one place that no matter what the economy is doing they never see a recession here, because they can also vote

you mentioned mike huckabee. he won this in 2009. wouldn't be surprising if he does very well again. he's a former preacher, and his type of rhetoric and his type of talk does very well in a conference like the values voters summit here. >> thanks very much, mark. again we're going to go back and bring the christine o'donnell speech to you when that happens. in the meantime, we have breaking news. a nuclear laboratory physicist and his wife, former contractors being accused of trying to develop nuclear weapons or passing classified information. let's get the information from pete williams, our justice correspondent. >> well, this is an fbi sting. this is charges against two people, accusing them of giving information, thinking that they were going to help the government of venezuela develop a nuclear weapon, when in fact they were dealing with an fbi undercover agent. the charges are filed against pedro and his wife marjorie. he worked there from 1979 to 1998. his wived there from 1981 to 2010. a couple years ago they were approached

we think of mike huckabee maybe as somebody who's a strong social conservative, not as much a fiscalrvative. this shows that those people who are values voters are as interested, maybe not more interested, but they're as interested in those fiscal issues. that's a message that republican leader are going to take forward. >> patricia murphy, thank you very much. >> reporter: thanks, alex. >>> now for a quick look at today's number ones. a new ranking of best universities puts harvard at the top. the honor comes from the united kingdom's leading publication on higher education. last week another study put harvard at number two. >>> coca-cola comes out on top in the latest list of the best global brand. rankings based mainly on financial performance. >>> more fame for lady gaga, like she needs it, right? the folks at guinness world records say she's officially become the most searched-for female on the internet. and she edges out sarah palin. she previously held that title. >>> now to the music charts. for a second straight week, you'll find katy perry's "teenage dream" at the top of th

mike huckabee is a favorite. he won it last year.ichelle bachman got flack in minnesota. her opponent said is she running for president. it is a important top. if you are wondering a run you will gauge how the social conservative view you by the straw poll out today. mitt romney came in second last year and he was whipping up the crowd yesterday afternoon. >> we have serious enemies and growing threats around the world and unfortunately we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is arizona. >> that line brought down the house. >> romney spoke on friday. who is speaking today? >> you mentioned the headliners. geng rich and virginia governor speaking in the ball room today. it will be filled with 2,000 conservatives and they will be cheering and yelling and hearing what these guys have to say. the straw poll coming out this afternoon. that will be the big afternoon this afternoon, guys. >> thank you for the preview. >> and the rest of the headlines. we have a fox news alert for you. polls are open in afghanistan in the count

watch what a potential 1212 mike huckabee, watch mike pence. stirs the crowd. unapologetic about social issues and took that home to this audience here good to talk to you. >>> will the gop split? help democrats in november? i'd like to hear your thoughts. weigh in on twitter, facebook or me e-mail address, contessa@msnbc.com. >>> kristine o'donnell thrust into the national spotlight and appeared with her democratic opponent chris coons for the first time. >> became a spotlight for national politics were when a number of statewide candidates were there to kansas questions a typical forum that wasn't so typical. kristine chririhriris tooen o'd coons talking about jobs, immigration, social security but a lot of attention being paid to the race. how they addressed that. >> but i assure you, my faith has matured and when i go to washington, d.c. it will be the constitution on which i base all of my decisions, not my personal beliefs. >> i don't think that particularly interested in statements that either of us made 20 or 30 years ago. >> all of this interest can be

mike huckabee came in second. >>> coming up, an important message for every young woman. what arnold schwarzenegger's daughter is telling young women. >>> a beautiful weather pattern right now. >>> a car hit and injured two children in northeast d.c. one of the victims is in serious condition. the children are six and eight years old. we will bring you more information as it becomes available. >>> a woodbridge man is behind bars and police say a teenage girl accused him of rape. he was arrested following an investigation on saturday. investigators say a 13 year old said he sexually assaulted her in his home. he remains held without bond. >>> biking around the district got a little easier today. d.c. and arlington launched its new bike shared system. 1100 new bikes are available to rent. you pick up the bike and ride it or you need to go and you leave the bike at a station nearby. >> arnold schwarzenegger's daughter comes to the region with an important message. >>> summer officially ends in 48 hours. >>> trent williams had an mri done on his knee today. i will have the re

mike huckabee 49% like him. 25% do not. and newt gingrich clocks in at 35% favorable. 39% unfavorable. turning to the media listen to this. 81% of likely voters now get their information about politic from cable news. 71% say they get it from information from network news. on the cable news front, 42% of respondents say fox is their main source of information about politics. 30% say cnn. just 12% cite msnbc, which is disastrous. the politico george washington survey also polled media people. when asked who has the greatest positive impact on the political debate in america your humble correspondent the o'reilly guy comes out far ahead. 49% of americans cited me as having a positive impact on the political debate in this country. now, i know i'm not a humble man but that's really something. i appreciate it very much. i should note that 32% of the public say that i am a negative influence. of course, they are misguided. glenn beck comes in second. 38% saying he has a positive impact. 32% negative. rush limbaugh third. 36% pos

you know, last year, mike huckabee, romney, page, the big names, a lot of people are going to be paying attention to mike pence thanks to his win yesterday in that straw poll at the major conservative conference. take the straw polls with a grain of salt, fred. >> all right, paul steinhauser, thanks so much joining us from washington much appreciate that. >>> all right. back on american soil now, freed hiker sarah shourd speaks out. we will tell you what she said about herself and her still imprisoned companioned. i want to give my 5 employees health insurance, but i just can't afford it. i have diabetes. i didn't miss a premium payment for 10 years. and i'm worried if i lose my job, i won't be able to afford insurance. when i graduated from college, i lost my health insurance. the minute i got sick, i lost my insurance. not anymore. not anymore. not anymore. america's healthcare reforms change lives for the better. to find out how it can help you, visit us at americasfairhealthcare.org it's not just fair, it's the law. >>> back now on u.s. soil, freed american hiker sarah shourd is cal

runner-up former arkansas governor mike huckabee. mitt romney, newt gingrich and sarah palin rounding out the top five. the straw poll capping off a two-day event that draws a collection of conservative a-listers. huckabee, rich and palin are fox news -- newt gingrich and palin are fox news contributors. >> reporter: the social conservatives here say washington is ripe for a revolution. chairman of the liberty council asked the crowd are you ready for an awakening in your generation? governor mcdonnell told activists a conservative renaissance is sweeping the nation. >> we have to get people who belief in conservative pro family limited government federalism ideas out in november. >> reporter: newt gingrich told the crowd they could take the house and senate back from what he called the political elite. >> we are at a great cross roads. that's part of way i think the insurgency is so helpful the new energy of the tea party movement is helpful and tough and eagerness to come to washington to change washington by the new can't days so

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huckabee and romney, less of a bounce. 53%, 41%.e front-runner? if he is, he's the weakest republican front-runner going into a primary in the modern era. >> and his brand, chuck, right now, does not really fit the "mad as hell" moment. that's not romney. he's a button-downed business guy. and look, a lot can change, obviously, between cycles. we've seen that in the last two or three cycles. so let's in the assume what happened in '10 will be the same as what happens in '12 as far as the dynamics. but romney right now within the republican coalition is not necessarily a great fit. that can change, but i think right now he doesn't capture th party energy in a way that a newt or a palin would. he's also got some tough stances. he was for t.a.r.p. and that, guys, is going to be a big litmus test in 2012 and just real fast the map, chuck, issic looi looking tough for romney, too. iowa and north carolina, what does he do in those states? >> i think you make a good point, which i would like to put to chris, we just can't assume that the m

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and fox news pastor, mike huckabee thinks covering sick kids -- well, it's a bad thing. >> it's such a warm message to say and we're not going to deny anyone from a pre-existing condition. okay, fine. then, let's do that with our property insurance. and you can call your insurance agent and say, i'd like to buy some insurance for my house. he'd say, tell me about your house. well, sir, it burned down yesterday, but i'd like to insure it today. and he'll say, i'm sorry but we can't insure it after it's all right burnt. well, no pre-existing conditions. >> well i guess the republicans just think that we're all a piece of material. a man of the cloth, right there, is comparing kids to property. and he's one of the top republican candidates for president in 2012? now, i took heat last year for some of the things that i said about republicans during the health care debate. not taking them back tonight. sickos like the huckster get away with that kind of garbage every single day, another low-rent 2012 republican candidate, didn't like it when the obama administration kept an insurance comp

he edged out a field of more well-known republicans, including mike huckabee, who received 22%, mitty was third with 13%, news gingrich and sara palin rounded out the top five. palin was the top pick as pence's vice-presidential running mate. >>> now that the tea party candidate christina o'donnell is in the national spotlight after her victory in delware, her past is coming back to bite her. bill ma her -- maher dug up a clip from his show in 1999 in which o'donnell says she dabbled in witchcraft and went on a date with a witch and had a picnic on an altar. o'donnell cancelleds morning talk show appearances, saying she was exhausted. >>> 80,000 people poured into london's hyde park to hear pope benedict xvi. he urged the faithful to focus on the many problems facing their religion. >> no one who looks realistically at our world today could think that christians can afford to go on with business as usual, ignoring the profound crisis of faith which has overtaken our society. >> alan: today, thousands of people protested the sad vatican's response to the priest abuse scandal. the pont

followed by huckabee, then romney and newt gingrich.a governor sarah palin got 7% of the vote. caroline shively has more from the summit in washington. >> reporter: the social conservatives here at the summit say washington is ripe for a revolution. chairman of the liberty council asked the crowd are you ready for an awakening in your generation? bob mcdonnell told activists that a renaissance is sweeping the nation. >> we have to get people who believe in the limited government federalism ideas out in november. >> reporter: newt gingrich told the crowd they can take the house and senate back from what he called a political -- >> we are at a great cross roads part of why i think the insurgency is helpful and the toughness and eagerness to come to washington to change washington is so useful. >> reporter: he pointed to a number of races where establishment candidates were knocked out. grass roots 7, establishment 0. islam was a big topic. bill bennett spoke about terrorist acts made in the name of islam and from islamic lead have not rep

pence in the lead for the 2012 presidential nomination with 24% of the vote, just ahead of mike huckabee with 22%. mitt romney is third with 13%, followed by newt gingrich with 10, and sarah palin with seven. palin was in iowa last night delivering a much-watched speech that has many wondering what she's planning next. dean reynolds is in des moines. >> we don't need t to fundamentally transform america. we need to restore america. >> reporter: sarah palin's appearance in iowa, the state that sometimes sends presidential hopefuls aloft or quickly down to earth, capped a week with her at the center of the political stage in the role of insurgent cheerleader. >> it's time for no more business as usual. it is time to take our country back. >> reporter: true to her word, palin has been pushing republican renegaded to victory over more establishment choices. christine o'donnell's stunning upset in the delaware g.o.p. senate primary... >> thank you, governor pailen. >> reporter: ...would probably not have happened without the former alaska governor's blessing. >> when she decide to get involve

. >> reporter: seasoned candidates like mitt romney, newt gingrich and mike huckabee have already spent time in iowa wooing caucus goers. for palin to win there, veterans of state politics say her celebrity won't be enough. >> i think iowans expect you to make connections in iowa. different than a lot of states where you can breeze in, give a speech and then check out almost like a rock star. >> reporter: experts say palin is polarizing and her political base too narrow. >> she's clearly a force there but she has to broaden that appeal if she's going to run for president. >> reporter: it's a belief shared by many democrats. today, president obama enjoyed his usual saturday game of basketball and while aides insist the president isn't yet thinking about 2012, the spokesman is happy to assert that palin now sits atop the gop. >> i have no doubt that she is a formidable force in the republican party and may well be in all honesty, the most formidable force in the republican party right now. >> reporter: lester, to give you some idea of how crowded the gop for 2012 is already becoming, toda

they prefer people like mike huckabee and, certainly, sarah palin.ney if he can at least get to a point where social conservatives say he's okay with us, that's going to be big for him. so he needed to show well today. jenna: so sarah palin isn't there, why? >> well, she doesn't need to be there, and it's very interesting. she has in her place, if you will, the best example of her power which is christine o'donnell is there today. and she's going to talk to these folks. the republican nominee from delaware, she's going to be there, and she is a sarah palin production, if you will. there one no christine o'donnell from delaware if it weren't for sarah palin, and as these folks look around the country, they've seen palin has the power to get candidates nominations inside the republican primary system. and the social conservatives really feel like she's a champion for them. the folks that we talk to basically say the results are so great to their way of thinking that now if palin wants them to follow her into a nomination fight, that their going to go w

the poll including some big names, including mitt romney, mike huckabee and sarah palin and you can alsong live on foxnews.com. and the polls are officially closed in afghanistan, voters casting their ballots despite taliban rocket strikes and bombings. at least three people have within killed and one governor survived in an attempted car bombing. the vote after last year's fraud-plagued presidential election. i'm jamie colby keep it here on the fox news channel and foxnews.com. foxnews.com. >> americans still aren't buying it, keep selling it and putting the health care law out of the mid term elections and they're trying to change the mind of majority of voters who say they want to repeal it. this is weird, eei mean, buyers remorse. >> it's something akin to that. i wonder who the main fishermen, i hope it's not vice-president biden. it's colorful, sold a lot of snake oil, but not one democrat is running on this. not one of them proud enough to say, hey, i gave you this new health care. >> neil: a couple of running away from it, and their vote. >> and amazing. and me thinks thou protes

mike huckabee may or may not run.political ideological spectrum, you will agree with me when you read it and find it incoherent. it's probably one of the most incoherent things i've seen published in major magazine in the last couple years. it's astonishing. >> mika hung out with him up at dartmouth. you're insulting one of her friends. i bet you didn't know that? she hung out with those dartmouth review guys. she's been hanging out with crazy conservatives for a long time. >> they throw the best parties. >> you saying this piece gives newt's comments some context at least even if it's crazy context? >> it would be easier for people to understand that snippet in the full context. it makes him more crazy. >> we like him, right? he's a good guy. we like everybody. so let's just stop for a second and back up. you are talking about fox and sarah palin, mike huckabee, fox. seriously and i've said it before, i think roger is the most powerful guy in the republican party. there's not a close act. the most powerful man in the

mitt romney, mike huckabee, newt gingrich will be there. o'donnell will meet with national republican senatorial head john cornyn who initially said he would not back her race but later promised to give her the organization's maximum legal donation of $42,000. yesterday republican national committee chair michael steele also called o'donnell to personally express his support and to pledge the backing from the national party. despite polls suggesting o'donnell has a slim chance of beating democratic candidate, they are still pouring money. chris coons had raised over $944,000 compared to o'donnell's 20 grand. 20 grand, leading up to the primary. but in just the 24 hours after her win, look at this. o'donnell racked up $845,000 in donations. that's in one day while coons netted $125,000. not so bad either. but 8:45 on the wednesday, the day after she won the primary is remarkable. >>> on fox yesterday, karl rove, the man who made news for his criticism of o'donnell after her win on tuesday, backed off a bit. even offering o'donnell advice on

. >> we've seen you a fair amount of times and former speaker gingrich and mitt romney, mike huckabee was here a couple of times during the primary. some have joined 2012 jockeying for position, joined by three sitting governors, a senator, former senator and member of the house leadership. social conservatives have loved palin from the moment she hit the national stage. tea party emphasis on fiscal conservativism broadens g.o.p. appeal. >> she can coalesce those two things and meet those people and get them as part of a team. a great step forward. >> and iowans for tax relief. iowans need to know there is real substance there and i think she needs to prove that. >> reporter: palin has proved she can motivate and rally tea party conservatives. but presidential politics are very, very different and already, there are nine hard charging very ambitious republicans betting that palin won't run or that they can beat her. bret e campaign carl, live in des moines. christine o'donnell who rode an endorsement from palin to an upset win in tuesday's primary today made her first big pitch to nat