let's explain what michele bachmann is talking about. there's a tea party group, american majority, that came out a few days ago and urged michele bachmann to drop out of the race. they say she's not representing the tea party too well, she's talking too much about social issues. michele bachmann is not only taking aim at the tea party group, but she's taking aim at the the perry group saying this group are supporters of the perry campaign and that the perry campaign put them behind this. the perry campaign denies this, they say they have nothing to do with it. the group denies this, as well. but michele bachmann, she's intent saying this is a political and dirty trick orchestrated by the perry campaign. alina. >> very interesting. you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that rick perry is ahead in the polls and in some ways, that's probably not a surprise. now, having said that, you're there in da moip. what do we need to know about today's event in iowa inspect. >> this is a big gathering of the republicans and conservatives, t

and in iowa, cain is now in second place with 20% while michele bachmann has dropped to fourth place with 11%. bachmann was born in iowa. she has spent more than 80 days campaigning in iowa. and she won the iowa ames straw poll this summer. herman cain hasn't been to iowa since the straw poll on august 13th. instead, cain has spent most of this month on a personally enriching publicity tour for his book that took him to tennessee, texas and virginia, states that won't vote until march. cain also spoke at a christian university in ohio which holds its primary in march. he visited with anti-immigration sheriff joe arpaio in arizona which has its primary at the end of february and cain met with donald trump here in new york which holds its primary at the end of april. "the new york times" reports today that michele bachmann is trying to take advantage of cain's absence in iowa, to get caucus goers to take a second look at her. polls show that republican voters do not think bachmann, who was against raising the debt ceiling and who believes the founding fathers worked tirelessly to end sl

they want michele bachmann. you saw him throw a softball can question to bachmann at the previous debate. they want bachmann and cain to be viable. the question for them, if they can keep the people propped up, is there an opening for mitt romney to go to iowa, sneak in and win the caucuses because the conservative vote is divided? can he sneak in and win the vote and win new hampshire and shut the whole thing down? that will be the fundamental strategic decision they have to make in the coming weeks. are we going to play in iowa or not? it's going to be tempting for them to do that. >> you get the feeling romney wouldn't mind saying good-bye to rick santorum. from the sidelines, he gets in really hard hitting shots and does not make a fool of himself like some of the other ones do. >> i think, you know, beyond the fisticuffs quite literally and verbally with rick perry, it was rick santorum that gave mitt rommy the hardest time last night. santorum has been consistent throughout all this and can make a relativel

voters summit in washington may favor ron paul as their presidential candidate, but they want michele bachmann in the vp straw poll, followed by marco rubio from florida and rick santorum of pennsylvania. so bachmann isn't doing as well in the presidential poll. cnn's candy crowley asked the minnesota congresswoman if her campaign is in trouble. >> it appears that your campaign is imploding. what has -- why has there been such downfall in the national polls and the state polls for you? >> well, your assessment is completely inaccurate. it is not true at all. we're just starting a kickoff today of four days here in new hampshire. and we have add had a wonderful experience in iowa and we have been in south carolina, florida. we worked very hard and we have very strong numbers in those states and we're looking forward to continuing that. i'll be doing several town halls today in new hampshire and we look forward to it. let me correct you. we did not participate in the florida straw poll. we didn't participate at all. so the ranking is completely inaccurate. >> let's take new hampshire, which they

the worst last month was michelle bachmann. she had negative fans lost.bump there. facebook says that's not good for michelle bachmann, obviously, because in 2010 over 70% who had more fans on facebook won the congressional races. one professor saying here to that point. when candidates appear to be socially active and engaged in democracy, they develop a vast well of good will with the political elites who have the ability to make or break them in the future. here's why social is mentioned. one site ranking items like passion or how likely people are talking about you. by that measure, ron paul is at the top. just last week, that measure of passion. he was at 53%. but romney gains on positive comments. what's being said on the social media sphere. the mentions for him, the sentiment ranking. romney has four positive to one negative comment. it was just two to one last week, which is where perry stands now. organizations see the important tie in politics and becoming key partners. who will cohost the gop debate? twitter barely in the mix in 2008. now part

i don't want michele bachmann to leave. lly support michele bachm n bachmann. my issue is gas prices and she promises she'll get prices down to $2 a gallon and believes women should submit to their husbands. i want my daughters to understand that as well, so i need to get her message out for all of those ridiculous reasons. >> all right. okay. there you have it. sherry, what do you say to this? >> michele bachmann has every right to be in this race. she's a congresswoman. she's been a successful employer. she's a very strong, independent woman. this also shows that the tea party is not this great big organized party. they are centralized around a few key very important fiscal issues, so you have some people that claim to be tea partiers that want her out. others support her. i think it reenforces the movement and i think she should stay in. this is just one guy who is part of the tea party who supports another candidate, so i think she's doing just fine. >> and the buzzer goes off. a new "time" poll shows if hillary clinton

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gwen: i have to ask, where is michele bachmann now. she was a big deal a minute ago. >> she was, and she is now -- in our post abc poll, she is at 7%. she's taken a tumble although she didn't drop much over the last month. she peaked the day she won the iowa straw poll and has gone down since and she's staking everything on iowa. if you talk to her now, she essentially says iowa is the game. gwen: and she's losing staff as she goes along, shedding people, which we assume is a money issue. thank you both very much. it's safe to say, none of the republican presidential candidates are fans of the jobs bill president obama has been pushing these last few weeks, but neither the president's insistence, nor a new round of tepid, but not disastrous, jobs numbers, seem to be breaking the political log jam. one senator thursday week it's precisely the politics causing the jam. >> i remember well one time when i was very little and i was fighting with my brother, every other minute, and my mother put us in a back room and said don't come out unti

and next, wayne newton kisses michele bachmann.o miss it. >>> in my play book tonight, michele bachmann is down in the single digits in the presidential polls but he has at least one very enthusiastic fan. >> wayne newton. tell me, listen, it looks like you are on a date. >> i will support this beautiful lady as long as she wants to go. >> what do you -- >> that's pretty good, don't you think, greta? >> that is pretty hot. >> just how hot was it? bachmann spent the entire interview snuggled under wayne newt newton's armpit and then mr. las vegas went for first base. >> good luck to both of you. >> thank you for allowing me. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> yowza. can we go to the replay the videotape. michele bachmann seemed to flinch before she got her ready for tv smile back on. but she is no stranger to awkward displays of public affection. she has experience here. after the 2007, she kept a death grip on bush's shoulder until he let her plant a wet one on him. joining me is comedian liz wins ston. cocreator of the daily show. >>

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. >>> and a tea party group says michele bachmann is all about one thing -- michele bachmann, and it's time for her to g-o. >>> let me finish tonight with jack kennedy and how he could never figure out texas, even at the end. >>> we start with the latest flip-flop from mitt romney. susan page is the washington bureau chief for "usa today," and steve kornacki, welcome back, steve kornacki! i haven't seen you in a while. he's with salon.com, seriously, i mean it. here's the latest flip-flop from romney. he was asked this summer what his position was on manmade global warming. let's listen to his response. >> i don't speak for the scientific community, of course, but i believe the world's getting warmer. i can't prove that, but i believe, based on what i read, that the world is getting warmer. and number two, i believe that humans contribute to that. i don't know how much our contribution is to that, because i know there's been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past, but i believe that we contribute to that. and so i think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutant

michele bachmann went up and up and up and peaked on the 18th of july. since the peak, it's been a long, deep decline for miss bachmann. the rick perry surge, jumped into the race, shot to the front of the pack, way up there, until roughly september 14th at which point he, too, saw his support absolutely crater. and now we are experiencing the herman cain surge. mr. cain appears to be climbing and climbing and climbing right now. maybe that keeps on going and he goes on to win the nomination. as much fun as it has been to see these different candidates rise up then go away then rise up and go away and then rise up and everybody expects them to go away, what is actually more important and more interesting than that is what has not changed in this race. the one totally nonvolatile element in the republican race this year is the steady basically straight line of mitt romney. during the earliest 2012 polling in the republican nomination, mitt romney was at about 23%. right now, he's at about 23%. he did have that little wiggle in there. sort of. but he's esse

. >>> in the two minutes since she won the iowa straw poll, michele bachmann has fallen from the top tier to the bottom. herman cain has gone from the bottom tier to the top. rick perry plu up hblue up his seat and continued to slide and mitt romney has gone from weak front-runner to, well, weak front-runner. today the race to the white house with republican presidential candidates, businessman herman cain and congresswoman michele bachmann. >>> then, the economy, the jobs bill and 2012 with moody's analytics chief economist mark zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." >>> i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth, but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> reporter: in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. cain just 5%. now in a cbs news poll of republican primary voters she sits between ron pa

>> guess what no one else want was to lunch with michele bachmann. let's be honest., because donald trump is the last person who will say yes to michelle bachmann. >> what is your take on had herman cain's latest rise to the top of the gop field? >> well, i guess you call his followers 999 percenters, i don't know. i don't really understand it, what was fascinating is he made his money with god father pizza and burger king, right? and then i have was looking up his economic guy, rich lowery who came one his plan and that guy he was the senior vice president of like an investment for mcdonald's. does he know anyone who doesn't work in the fast food industry? not to mention, if this guy ever got elected, can you imagine what corporate farm work like with him pushing all of this crapty crap food on us? it would be a disaster. why he doesn't want the epa. he wants to load the water with pop. >> and conservatives are -- are they ever going to like mitt romney? now you got the drugster who is working against him had, saying he is not a conner is the vattive. that doesn't b

gwen: i have to ask, where is michele bachmann now. she was a big deal a minute ago. >> she was, and she is now -- in our post abc poll, she is at 7%. she's taken a tumble although she didn't drop much over the last month. she peaked the day she won the iowa straw poll and has gone down since and she's staking everything on iowa. if you talk to her now, she essentially says iowa is the game. gwen: and she's losing staff as she goes along, shedding people, which we assume is a money issue. thank you both very much. it's safe to say, none of the republican presidential candidates are fans of the jobs bill president obama has been pushing these last few weeks, but neither the president's insistence, nor a new round of tepid, but not disastrous, jobs numbers, seem to be breaking the political log jam. one senator thursday week it's precisely the politics causing the jam. >> i remember well one time when i was very little and i was fighting with my brother, every other minute, and my mother put us in a back room and said don't come out unti

this outcome is different from the earlier iowa straw poll where michele bachmann was victorious. how important in the long run with the straw polls? >> reck president alan cranston? which tells you your answer, not very. in 1984 alan cranston had a strategy to energize his campaign by winning a lot of straw polls. straw polls are really a measure more of the depth and breadth of support. you could have a very passionate minority that turns out for these things that can fill the hall. ron paul can fill a hall. he has people deeply committed to him. it says nothing about the full expanse of a candidate's support and usually you can, you know, the ability to win a straw poll is not necessarily reflective of the ability to win when a larger universe of people have to be convinced. >> interesting. a few different things came out of the straw poll. ron paul may have won the straw poll. the voters apparently there endorsed santorum as, you know, the potential president. so i wonder if all of this kind of underscores the real volat e volatility of the voters, that they're really quick to

. >> michele bachmann's campaign is in trouble. yor i don't know if you heard this. >> hooray for trouble. ♪ >> that thud you are about to hear is the herman cain campaign crashing back to earth. so, writes joe kleine in this week's issue of "time" n. the "new york times," the first cain campaign expose entitled as cain promotes his management skills exaides tell of campaign chaos. interviews with his former staff members volunteers and support members give a glimpse at a campaign that let led to basic campaign management which led to problems in hiring, scheduling and fund-raising and messaging it is a tale of former 9-9-9 idealists sadly discovering who was really behind the curtain. some former aides said they had longed to see the problem solving side of mr. cain or see mr. cain at all over the spring and summer. he did not spend much time with work withers. he did not plan conference calls or staff meetings and was given to changing his mind about appearances, sometimes with little notice, a tendency that angered his field wor

michele bachmann is going through her quarterly purge of staff.ntorum and jon huntsman with not exactly catching fire as candidates. there's frankly only one unanswered question left about the republican party picking its nominee for president this year. and that is the question of whether or not they are over whatever it was that made them hate him so much in 2008. now, mike huckabee seems to have been the candidate who hated him the most. it was his campaign manager who said he wanted to knock romney's teeth out, for example. mr. huckabee bragged this weekend on his fox news tv show on the accomplishment of having forced him to be civil around mitt romney in 2011. >> you know, a lot of people that are watching this interview because they really were wondering, would you and i be able to sit in the same room and be civil to each other? it was exactly four years ago when we were kind of going through it. so i think we've proven that people can be civil. >> mike huckabee not laughing while he said that. mitt romney sort of trying to, ha, yes, my --

just like michele bachmann is not going to win new hampshire.ust like perry is not going to win new hampshire. as this thing roars south and then goes back north to the midwest these candidates always lose. they always lose. because voters at the end of the day as katty said are serious. at the end of the day they believe performance matters. >> they're not excited at all by any of these candidates, right? >> no. >> so at this point in the election in 2007, 1999, 1995, half of people could make at least a front runner on the republican side. only about a quarter can even name -- >> voters weren't excited about bob dole in '96. he lost they weren't excited about john mccain -- >> at least they could name a front runner. >> i don't think the real issue is the extremism of the tea party. let me suggest the real issue is whether the mitt romneys and others ultimately adopted an agenda which says we can't have any new taxes. the real debate in the republican party is not between 90% of the party and the tea party. i actually think the real debate is

michele bachmann, 8%.very latest for the race for the hawkeye state. alex, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, craig, how are you? >> how is cain pulling ahead in iowa with reportedly spending so little time and money in that state? >> actually, both herman cain and mitt romney have spent the least amount of time in the hawkeye state compared to any other candidates. there's two big events coming up this week in iowa where neither romney nor cain will be attending. so this poll is showing this trend that maybe iowans are looking for that business man, a ceo to run the country rather than a politician. whereas some of the other candidates, bachmann, rick santorum, they're spending lots and lots of time in iowa, but not seeing that traction that cain and romney are seeing. >> michele bachmann and rick perry slipped in a big way in that state. has cain's surge been at their expense? >> reporter: well, the last time this poll came out, actually, rick perry, we weren't even sure if he was getting in or not. m