florida is a close primary. some independents could vote in south carolina. gingrich, 45%. governor romney, 28%. rick santorum and ron paul rounding it out. you have to have a republican electorate in florida. more moderate than south carolina. you can't project the numbers flat over. when you win big, you have bigger numbers. that's a problem for mitt romney, something going forward. among voters who identify themselves as moderates, governor romney carried this group here, 31% for romney, 36% for romney, 31% for gingrich. one more thing i want to look at here. this is interesting. voters who are asked in this exit poll, would you support mitt romney as nominee, those who would not support ron paul, our analysts talked that ron paul is not really republican, some are independents, some libertarians. 38% of paul's supporters said they would not support. this is likely novel last, but 30% of gingrich supporters would not support romney as a nominee. the paul supporters san indication his voters we're seeing in the process now may not be reliable. you look at f

south florida is ground zero for that. it's estimated that medicare fraud business here in florida is now bigger than the still booming illegal drug trade. joining us now, former dnc chair howard dean, who right here on this show and we recorded him in the book, has called fee for service the single biggest barrier to controlling health care costs in america. also with us, and we're happy to welcome him back to the show, charlie cole, president of the committee for economic development. they represent a wide variety of major corporations in this country. charlie and the ced called fee for service a recipe for fiscal irresponsibility. and dr. dean, i'd like to start with you. how do we end up with a fee for service model in the first place? >> it goes back to world war ii. employer-based health care became a way of getting around price controls in the end of the war and war period. and doctors have always been entrepreneurs. the problem with that is when you charge by the service, as you pointed out in the opening, you get m

one in ten voters in south florida are hispanic. jojahn, thank you. >>> apparently the social media site ready for a big move. what is it? >> yeah, it's possible. i mean, it's still just being talked about, but facebook could actually file the paperwork to go public as soon as next week. this is coming from the wall street journal and says the exact timing is still being discussed, so we don't really know, but an ip filing filed sometime this year widely expected. this is going to be one of the biggest ipos this year, obviously. facebook looking to raise $10 billion by selling just a fraction of the company to the public. that could benefit the company about $100 billion. when it does file the paperwork, we might learn things like what the ticker symbol might be, whether it's on the nasdaq or the new york stock exchange, and possibly a little bit about what facebook makes. this is just talk, it hasn't been confirmed. it's heating up, and if we see it next week, it will be very exciting. >> there's been a lot of talk about it, but th

thank you. >>> after mitt romney's second place finish in south carolina he arrived in the state of floriday what a difference. it's only been ten days. can you believe that? ten days since south carolina. he is now, mitt romney, that is, leading in the polls. the florida chairman for romney for president and he joins our panel. all good news for you. you must be pretty excited as you head into the results this evening. am i right? >> we're very excited about the possibility. everybody has worked very hard. the organization is in place. the infrastructure is in place. and that's what made the difference coming out of south carolina, to turn that momentum around. florida is a tough state. it's a diverse state. it's a big state. we don't know what we're going to see when the polls close but we certainly have a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the final number. >> newt gingrich has called your candidate a liar, the last rant that we played he said he was against elderly jews and i think against the catholic church. a long list of stuff that he's called him. there is a theory that says he'

then they would jump to south florida and occasionally up to jacksonville. . host: florida, troy. independent line. caller: i've been noticing that dr. ron paul keeps distancing himself from the pack. i'm wondering how his platform of abolishing the federal reserve and the irs is really going to appeal to republican constituents, and how that has to be, and if florida is not a matter, is that a situation he will have to deal with in many other states? guest: dr. ron paul has already said he is not going db -- going to be competitive in florida rather than appealing in the debates -- appearing in the debates. those were widely watched by republicans in florida as well as republicans elsewhere. he does not feel that he will do well here. a lot of it is his views on some things like the federal reserve do not resonate with florida as much as other places. certainly, his stances on security are really out of sync with a lot of republicans here, because we have a lot of military retirees and active duty military. he realizes his message, i yield him a lot of votes

. >> peter hamby in hialeah, say hello to my friends there in south florida. thanks so much. >> absolutely. >> all right, peter. >>> the hospital in joplin, missouri, it took a direct hit by a tornado last year. well, today, it is being demolished. coming up in the next hour, i'll talk to someone who knows firsthand about the town's healing process. more politics after this. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? a little bird told me about a band...

that's a city right in south florida in dade county. it is actually the sixth largest city in the state of florida, mostly made up of cubans and cuban-americans. now he's appealing to that sector of south florida there in hiyalea. we'll have more on mitt romney's campaign. >>> so his lead, mitt romney's lead in florida voter polls is on the rise after last week's cnn debate. and in a winner take all state, that's pretty big. the florida voting population is very diverse and candidates must work hard to appeal to different electorates relative to different parts of the state. john king breaks down the numbers. >> here is where we go next, wolf. you look at florida, an incredibly diverse state, much more conservative up here, more moderate in here, miami population, latinos, you heard gingrich daughters talking about let's go back in time to look what the we're talking about here. come back to '08, john mccain is the lighter red, mike huckabee up here. you see the diversity. much more conservative in the panhandle. mitt romney does have a

i want to show something that is key to the south florida vote now. in 2008 most of south florida's latino establishment went overwhelmingly for john mccain effectively ending mitt romney's first dry for the oval office. how specifically are latinos lining up this time? here is craig. >> reagan definitely would have never offended us as gingrich did saying spanish is a language of the ghetto. now searching for votes gingrich wants to change history but the facts speak for themselves. >> victorious in in south carolina but trailing in in florida newt gingrich faces a big head wind trying to win the hearts and votes of the voting block in the sunshine state. his tough stance against bilingual characterization of spanish still newt attacking mitt romney as the most aggressively anti immigration candidate. >> mitt romney is a government liberal from the state of and similar to dean. he is the most anti immigrant candidate. latinos smack down took center stage on thursday's rough and tumble debate. i am not anti immigrant. my father was born in mexico my w

the deep freeze reaching all the way to south florida.reeze warnings for almost the entire state of florida, forcing people and dogs used to beaches to bundle up. record-setting cold is possible in the nation's citrus growth. although chicago got away with only a dusting with this storm. now they have something new to help residents dig out when snow falls.

north florida, like south georgia, if you will. vote area and then south florida, with a complex latino vote. 4%. that's how many delegates florida has to help a candidate win the nomination overall. worth double that, but bucked rnc rules to vote earlier and get more attention. did it pay off? looks like it may have without any hil la ballou along the way. what about african-americans? only 3% of voters were blacks in 2008's gop primary. come the general, african-americans making up 16% of floridians will weigh heavy there. then finally for you, 11. president obama's re-election campaign has 11 offices across florida. more than any gop candidate, held hundreds of events across the state including target eade vents for latino and jewish communities. one bonus number, chris. 77 -- degrees -- in florida. the sheet on. >> ah. that's not heat. that's perfection, in my opinion. >> and warmth. >> no excuse not to get out and vote. thanks. >>> don't look for herman cain to make another go for the presidency. on "today" ann curry asked if

even south florida gets chilled, but it will be quick and painful.res even back above average before we get to next weekend. tamron? >> thank you. coming up on "news nation," rick perry joins other republicans as he sets his sights on rick santorum. >> he talked about being a physical son servative and voted eight times. >> santorum is surging in the polls. he gets traction and plus, does it mean he watches the show. mitt romney compares the show to the kardashians. we are following developing news into more than 40 arson fires set in l.a. police have a person of interest in custody. we will have an update after a quick brick. "news nation" is back in three. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu. let nothing stand in your way. ♪ more and more folks are trying out snapshot from progressive. a totally different way to save on car insurance. the b

he is running heavily ads, radio ads in the hispanic community in south florida. mitt romney today picked up the endorsement of a large number of hispanic leaders in florida. he also picked up the endorsement of the governor of puerto rico. meantime, i have to mention rick santorum. he spoke before a group of lan builders association, and he received their endorsement. so, yes, all the candidates-- all three of the candidates you heard me mention that ron paul is not in the state today or tomorrow. but-- but the hispanic vote, it doesn't vote as a bloc but these are voters who these republicans want on their side, and they're out-- going out for that. >> >> brown: and one thing we should reiterate because it's so interesting, even as we talk about the toking and froing in the final days, many voters have already voted. do you have new information on the early voting? >> woodruff: i sure do. i'm going to look at the number i was just given. the latest reporting shows 188,000 early ballots have already been sent in, mailed in. and this is out of an expected two milli

spouses and also came together to help work with an organization called the beacon council in south florida to commit to hiring 4,000 veterans just at the local level in the next two years. most recently and just last week we team with the ncaa, great organization, who's committed to doing 600 special things for military fam ilys in 2012 alone. kicked off a nice public service announcement and campaign. and for those of you who own any tweens, the first lady appeared on "i carly" on monday. again, with the important emphasis of raising and elevating the issue of what it means to a child to have a parent who is deployed and while it may sound fundamental and rudimentary to those who have been part of the structure, with more than 190 million saying that ten years of war has no personal impact on them, a lot of the communication needs to be rou rudimentary and fundamental. these are the realis the of mom and dad going off to war. pub bluklic awareness. i think we'll see more and more of those in the months to come. i'll talk about employment attend. but education, we're working down two lanes

florida. romney needs to fix this number. evangelical christians, 64% in southd be a much smaller number in florida. but up in the panhandle, those voters matter. 4 h 44% for gingrich, 22% for romney. romney would like to improve that number in florida. but here are the biggest game changers tonight, reinforced by south carolina votes. you can say this is a more conservative electorate. gingrich won big, discount the numbers. if you listen to the undecided voters with tom foreman, who has the right experience? 49% of south carolina voters said newt gingrich has the right experience. mitt romney is saying you want a governor, somebody with business experience. well, newt gingrich has convinced at least south carolina republicans he has the right experience to be president by a commanding margin over mitt romney. this is a challenge going into florida. and this has been mitt romney's greatest strength the entire race, who is the best candidate to go up against president obama in the fall? a combination of the debates and campaigning -- i'm sorry, i put the wrong o

phil keating is live in our south florida newsroom this evening. onight at $50,000 a head. >> on exclusive palm beach at the home of steven ross who owns the miami dolphins tonight's goal $1 million. airing today on florida's all-important spanish networks this second tv ad put out by the romney campaign, this one entirely in spanish. florida republics say romney's campaign clearly has the organizational lead, every absentee voter gets targeted by mail, which romney emphasized in west palm beach. >> i was in iowa as you know just a few days ago and won in a landslide of 8 votes. so i'm hoping. >> [cheers and applause] >> i'm hoping you guys can do a little better than that. so, make sure and get those absentee ballots in. >> newt gingrich also on the ground in florida tonight. he has a fundraiser in miami. tomorrow he opens his orlando headquarters, shep? >> shepard: got to get through south carolina, first. anybody who waits until after south carolina to start barn storming florida is probably making a biggerrer. >> absolutely. technically south ca

they debate in tampa at the university of south florida and another debate on thursday. >> bret: in the the early verd special, tens of thousands voted in what could be election. >> they tell us what else makes the primary important. >> florida has a number of factors to make it different than earlier primary states. florida is bigger. it's 19 million people, twice the population of iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. >> they have already spent $7 million in the ten media markets. it's the first primary with large hispanic population. citizens who can still be turned off by tough talk on immigration. the latinos have the same issue as everybody else. economy, job, family, education is important. if way the candidate talks about immigration can get in the way of hearing the other things. >> the unemployment rate in florida is 9.8% and higher than the national average for four years. in one week alone, judge dickey processed 300 final judgment on home foreclosures. many homeowners had no legal representation. >> the collapse of the housing market, they are caught with very few options

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steve harrigan is in south florida newsroom.why candidates love cafe but they always go to versailles. we went to a chicken wing place too. few factors involved why the candidates keep hitting the same restaurants over and over again. first, they are usually located in major media markets and second usually successful. they draw a crowd and especially a certain type of crowd. i think they want to choose places that the average viewer on local television stations sees a representative of the average joe or jane once it is shown restaurant works. good photo op. heading back to the same spot. >> shepard: people have been talking politics at the window there for decades. do these things work for the candidates? >> there is a reason why almost every day, every campaign in florida would stop at one of these restaurants that's because political analysts say this kind of campaigning, pressing the flesh in these places is extremely effective. >> and now all of a sudden that person will then go back to the church or the synagogue or the b

see, florida's where this thing may be decided and south carolina's the week before florida. so we know that romney's got a place in florida, he's like a guy in a bye in a divisional playoff. he's in the super bowl. the question is which of those three is his chief opponent? that's really going to be the subtext of this south carolina primary. >> greta: how will he do with his chief opoppet in florida? >> if it's one guy, he will have a tough time. if there are two, he will coast. is it depends on whether there is a decisive verdict in south carolina on the un-romney. it is not important to win for romney. if he does, it's good, three wins going into florida and the inevitability argument takes over. but if he doesn't win south carolina, it's an evangelical state, his religion works against him. does he have a single opponent or mase face three candidates? you know, ron paul has his own independent base. he may never drop out. he's the kind of guy who would just keep losing. but santorrum and gingrich, only one of them is going to make it. i don't think both of them will be s

and john, i'm not going to make any prediction but i thought the battle of south florida would win floridabut romney is surging and it looks like he may win florida. and if he does, it's all over. >> eleanor? >> gingrich was a backbencher during the reagan years and more of a thorn in their side. but there is a video clip of nancy reagan in 1995, after gingrich had led the republicans to power in washington, saying the torch has been passed from ronnie to newt. so he has some claims on that era. but that's not -- that's not his problem, is he reagan enough. he's been promiscuous throughout his career so he can get hit from the left, from the middle, from every side. and republican establishment and conservatives have landed on him, and i must say that period that you've just featured in the he isup, newt wasn't the only conservative who thought reagan wasn't being tough enough, wasn't funding the contras enough. that was not an unusual position for a true conservative to hold at that time. >> meanwhile, reagan was working closely with tip o'neill in the house leadership -- remember that's

florida and follow a lot of elections there. from what you've watched of republicans in south carolina versus republicans in florida. t the republican electorate right now really has pretty much embraced extremism and that's true in south carolina. it's certainly true in florida. they have an extreme right wing tilt which is why all of the republican candidates running for president have not been able to get to the right far enough. i think that's going to be really tough for them when they have to try to send their nominee out and appeal to moderate and independent voters. like i said, our general election in florida, 60% of the voters that show up are senior citizens. seniors in florida and across the country put a high provide ort on making sure that the safety net that is social security and medicare will be there for them and republicans have pledged to yank it out from under them. that's going to be tough whether you're republican or democrat in florida. >> go back and put your other hat on as chairwoman of the dnc, do you want to see a long republican primary or short one? >> well, i think that it really doesn

florida. romney needs to fix this number. evangelical christians, 64% in southh smaller number in florida. but up in the panhandle, those voters matter. 4 h 44% for gingrich, 22% for romney. romney would like to improve that number in florida. but here are the biggest game changers tonight, reinforced by south carolina votes. you can say this is a more conservative electorate. gingrich won big, discount the numbers. if you listen to the undecided voters with tom foreman, who has the right experience? 49% of south carolina voters said newt gingrich has the right experience. mitt romney is saying you want a governor, somebody with business experience. well, newt gingrich has convinced at least south carolina republicans he has the right experience to be president by a commanding margin over mitt romney. this is a challenge going into florida. and this has been mitt romney's greatest strength the entire race, who is the best candidate to go up against president obama in the fall? a combination of the debates and campaigning -- i'm sorry, i put the wrong one up ther

>> not good, very depressing to listen to the radio in south florida. are, you want to take a shower after they say like, you know, are you aware that, you know, newt gingrich when he was speaker of the house robbed a liquor store? you know, and they say, this ad was not proved by proved by anybody and just putting out there and have something about mitt romney. it is depressing. >> schieffer: and what about donald trump saying he might get into this thing? >> what a courageous patriot. i mean, the man is willing to give up his tv show to run for president. america thanks you, just like abraham lincoln gave up his tv show to run. >> schieffer: let's talk a little bit about -- >> thanks for letting me following follow him. >> schieffer: sure. let's talk a little about your poll that came out came out in the miami herald this morning. now it looks like mitt romney has got, you know, double digit lead here. when did you start to see this thing shifting toward romney or did it not shift or was it that way all along? >> no, you sort of see things shift proba