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wmur university of new hampshire poll showed only 37% of likely new hampshire voters have definitely pindell joins us now from manchester, new hampshire, to break down how voters are thinking and feeling. james, you say politics really is the state's sport. if this is the fourth quarter, what are the undecided looking for in these last hours to make up their minds? >> well, look, obviously they're still trying to find a candidate they can find of fall in love with. the adage, democrats fall in love with their kids and republicans fall in line. that seems to be the scenario for mitt romney. he's always had a big lead in this state. the question is who is in second, third, fourth and fifth and with so many people undecided, he's right, you mentioned 63% have not made up their minds of where they're going to vote just a couple days to the primary. one thing that's predictable about new hampshire is that voters are highly unpredictable. >> does that mean that many will be making their decisions come tuesday? did this weekend's debates, two in one weekend, did that, perhaps, nail things d

ch wmur. do download it and pitch in during the debate. we saw 200,000 new jobs created last month. this is the senate. are you with those optimists? >> i certainly hope it turns around. we have millions suffering too long. 25 million out of work. stopped looking for work. and also a lot of people who have got part-time jobs and need full time employment. very good news. i hope we continue to see good news but it's not thanks to president obama. his polls made the recession deeper and recovery more tepid. as a result of everything from obama care to dodd frank to a stimulus plan not effective, he's made it harder for small entrepreneurs and big businesses to invest in america soy the president is going to try to take responsibility for things getting better. like the rooster taking responsible for the sunrise. he made things harder. >> senator santorum, you said we don't need a ceo or a manager as president. what did you peen by that? >> we need a leader. someone to paint a positive decision f

/wmur debate. cnn is going to bring you an encore presentation of that debate tonight, and it starts right now. >>> tonight, all eyes on new hampshire. after just eight votes in new hampshire separated him from him -- >> game on. >> we will win this election. >> the game has changed. >> i have decided to sand aside. >> and now, everything is different. >> what do we need to do as a country to get back on the right track? >> can anyone overtake mitt romney as he tries to close in and seal the nomination. can rick santorum build on his stunning iowa success? is time running out for these candidates to catch the front-runner? save their campaigns? >> we've got some tough decisions to make. >> we are going to take america back. >> believe me, this moment sum going to continue. >> the voting has begun. the stakes couldn't be any higher. n tonight, we put them all to the test. so what's next in this campaign season filled with so many dramatic surprises? this is the abc news republican presidential debat

wmur has romney at 41%, paul at 17% and huntsman at 11%. wmur university of new hampshire. the suffolk poll has romney slipping to 33%, paul 23%, huntsman at 13. the average of all the recent polls, the real clear politics average and there you see the breakdown. that's the table for us. now our panel. joana goldburg. and steve hayes, senior writer for the weekly standard. i call this other goatee panel. not you. >> yeah. >> ab, nongoatee. what about this attack from romney's opponents about bain capital and how he operated that company? >> well, what is so interesting is if he had not mentioned pink slips yesterday and then woken up today -- >> explain that. >> he said i at one point myself worried about a pink slip. and worried about being fired and that -- that caused his rivals to pounce. so did the comments perhaps taken out of context, definitely out of context, about the fact that he believes as a consumer you have the right to fire someone to provides goods or services depending on their performance and he said i like to fire people, meaning i would drop and insuran

our live coverage gets under way at 8:00 eastern, with a simulcast on wmur-tv. facebook and twitter. months of coverage tonight on c- span, here come on line, and on radio. next, republican candidate rick santorum telling us he will pull off a surprise in the new hampshire primary. this was his final rally yesterday evening in manchester. it is just under 10 minutes. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. it is great to be here. thank you so much for the great crowd this year. i want to just say that i made 31 trips to new hampshire. people said new hampshire is a tough state. new hampshire is a place where someone with strong principals and conservative values is going to struggle. i think we are going to show them in new hampshire -- the same new hampshire than voted for ronald reagan in 1980 over a moderate who they said could win -- we are going to vote for the real conservative, because we know the real conservative can win this race and change this country, and that is what we are going to do. [applause] i want to thank -- because this is o

. >> host: joining us now is james political directer of the wmur tv in manchester, new hampshire. >> guest: good morning. >> host: talk to us about the latest poll and what it's showing. as many other polls reveal, it's got mitt romney with the sizable lead. take us from there. >> guest: mitt romney has a sizable lead at 4 # -- 41%. second place in the poll which we stopped calling people on six o'clock sunday night, released the poll 11 p.m. news on sunday night, showed ron paul still strong in second place, and with rick santorum and jon huntsman tied at 11%, and following them is newt gingrich, so you really do see a race that's really shaping up for second, third, and fourth, and even possibly fifth place in this state. what's changed, i think, since sunday, is a lot of momentum and buzz and interest among those classic, undecided voters towards jon huntsman. in fact, the key question this morning is whether or not jon huntsman has overcome ron paul. it's not like ron paul's voters are going away. they are hard core with him. the question is on the poll sunday night, we had 56% o

joining us now is the political director of wmur tv in manchester. good morning.st: welcome to primary day. well -- host: welcome to you as well, to our viewers as -- and listeners. tell us what the polls are revealing to you. mitt romney with a sizable lead. take us from there. guest: mitt romney does have a sizable lead, 41%. second place in the poll, and we stopped calling people at 6:00 on sunday night. ron paul was strong in second place. rick santorum, then after that newt gingrich. you have a race that is shaping up for second, third, fourth, and possibly fifth place. what has changed, i think, since sunday, is a lot of momentum, buzz, and interest amongst those classic undecided voters toward jon huntsman. the key question this morning is whether or not jon huntsman has overcome ron paul. it is not like ron paul's voters will be going away. the question is, on the poll on sunday night, we had 56% of likely republican primary voters still making up their mind. many may be late deciding to vote for john huntsman. host: folks were joking on twitter that there

. >>> and don't forget -- and all abc 2news is on their all the time along with yahoo and wmur tv. they will host a debate, it'll run from 9 until 11 on january the 7th. new hampshire's primary will be held tuesday on january the 10th. >>> and tune into world news with diane sawyer. learn more about rick santorum and how he is shaking up the race. and how romney is dealing the latest challenger in the stark contrast between them. all coming up after us on the news at since. >>> according to a new study many preschoolers aren't spending enough time playing outside. instead they say many are focusing more on classroom learning. that -- they are moving in another direction in howard. >> reporter: the sound of laughter and kid's playing and having fun, according to the study it claims that most children and preschoolers don't get the right amount of exercise. it shows most are glued to computer screens, howard community college has a different approach when it comes to our children. >> you want to have a balanced program. you don't want one area to out way the others. if you give -- im

>> just four days to the wmur new hampshire debate >> stephen: welcome back, everybody.guest tonight is the national affairs editor for "new york" magazine and political analyst for msnpc. he's here to hide from ed schultz. please welcome john heilemann. [cheering and applause] hey, john, good to see you again. please, sit down. all right, sir. welcome back to the show. >> oh, i'm so happy to be here, stephen. >> stephen: last time you were here, you were here the talk about your 2008 tell-all book "game change" which you wrote with mark halperin. it was the behind-the-scenes story of the 2008 campaign. you cobbled together this insider information off the record conversations. you're one of these political insiders. you know what goes on behind the scenes. is there a lot of egg on you guys' face this year because nobody knows anything about what's happening. you guys are trying to figure it out. you think it's colonel mustard with the candlestick in the conservatory. turns out it's rick santorum with a sweater vest in iowa. you guys don't know this year. >> nobody knows

not just wmur.e suffolk, rasmussen, that romney knows he needs conservative support in the general election. so he would be crazy to go after santorum and alienate conservatives on that level. i think he's going to float above like he did in the first few debates. >> absolutely. i'll tell what you romney is going to do, i haven't talked to his people, but i just know it, he is going to go after barak obama. >> bill: it's going to be obama. >> he'll defend himself, but he's basically going to make the case against barak obama and say, i'm the one who should lead this party in november and make the case against barak obama and all the ways in which he's messed up the economy. >> bill: all right. chris wallace, everybody. we watch sunday morning, thank you. pinheads and patriots on deck. ellen and the "jersey shore" crew talking politics. p and p moments away. [ male announcer ] when do you take 5-hour energy? when i'm on the night shift. when they have more energy than i do. when i don't feel like wor

wmur red lobster all you can eat opinionfest. now when i watch any debate obviously i play one of those drinking games. but i knew there were two debates this weekend so to take it easy, i took a shot only when someone said the word contraception. >> con traception, contrasense, contraception, contrasense. >> contraception. >> contraception within contraception. >> by the end i was more wasted than a donation to the huttsman campaign. (applause) needless to say-- needless to say, i was a little hungover. i woke up the next day thanking jesus, whose opinions did i agree with last night. but nothing cures a debate hang over like a little hair of the elephant that bit you. luckily nbc had a debate the next morning at 9 a.m. a great chance to see how mitt romney's positions had changed over the past ten hours. (laughter) and i have to say, folks, in both debates i was really impressed with rick perry. >> i think that you have to-- i would send troops back into iraq. >> yes! about damn time! let's get our troops back into iraq! we've

. >> reporter: in the latest wmur poll taken, the massachusetts governor holds a 41% lead over ron paul. while jon hunterman is locked in a third-place tie with rick santorum but is surging. >> who is to say what happened tuesday night. you know what, we're going to rise tuesday night. >> reporter: over the night, there were two debates here, less than 12 hours apart. the front-runner was a popular target. >> we want someone moo is going to stand up and fight. not bail out and not run to the left of ted kennedy. >> reporter: but with romney still favored to win the contest, the other candidates are putting their hopes on the next primary, south carolina, on january 21st. that's where rick santorum and rick perry campaigned sunday and where newt gingrich is clearly focused. >> i think we have clearly begun to set the stage for south carolina. we've clearly begun to describe the gap are between a massachusetts moderate and a reagan conservative. >> all the candidates are back here in new hampshire for one last day of campaigning, except for rick perry who has pretty much written off new h

his iowa victory was by a mere eight points, but consider this, a new wmur poll just out tonight in new hampshire has romney leading with 44%, ron paul a distant second at 20%, rick santorum, gingrich, tied third at 8%, governor huntsman one point behind them at 7%. the race moves next to south carolina and this is eye-popping. new cnn/"time"/orc polling shows governor romney leading 37%, a two to one lead over the second place rick santorum. governor romney is in the driver's seat and he knows it. >> he not only wasted government money he made it more difficult for prep news and innovators to come one new ideas in the future. this president doesn't understand how this economy works. it's time to get a president who does. [ applause ] this election, this election is about the soul of america, folks. >> let's crunch these dramatic numbers and their big meaning with "time" deputy washington bureau chief, michael crowley. let's start here in new hampshire before the south carolina numbers. the wmur poll out, romney 44, ron paul, 20, santorum and gingrich at 8%, is the goal in these big wee

wmur new hampshire debate. more in a moment but first a check of your headlines. one year ago today, gunfire at a tucson, arizona shopping center left six dead and 13 wounded including gabrielle giffordss. several events took place including a vigil on the university of arizona campus. her and her husband will be there. >>> crowds of people packed public spaces across syria again today demanding the ouster of president bashar al assad. 21 people were killed in attacks throughout the country. officials were the arab league again condemned the violence and said they will increase the size of their monitoring mission in syria. >>> north korea is marking what's believed to be the birthday of newly leader. a documentary that aired shows the son of kim jong-il in his role of military leader driving a tank, inspecting troops and rising horses. most analysts put the new korean leader's aides at either 28 or 29. >>> prom nebts political adviser and d.c. pundit tony blankly died after a battle with stomach cancer. he was on former white house newt gingrich's staff and later

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santorum and newt gingrich are battle for the distant second a new poll from abc new hampshire station wmur shows romney moved from 42 to 44% there. this sets up a pivotal showdown at the abc news yahoo debate in new hampshire. the goal is to stay above the fray and the opponents take the best shot. fresh off the near win in iowa rick santorum will be front and center for the first time in a debate. >> we are 39 points behind governor romney. but i have a feeling that's not going to end up that way. >> reporter: newt gingrich is fighting to stay alive. his saturday night game plan is to try to knock romney off the game. >> governor romney supposedly was conservative and apointed liberal judges. >> reporter: john huntsman skipped iowa and threw the eggs into a new hampshire basket. goal for tuesday..., there's one potential pitful for mitt romney in the south carolina poll, nearly half say they could change their minds. so he may have work before he seals the deal. karen travers, abc news, washington. >> so tomorrow right here on abc2 the remaining gop candidates square off diane sawyer will

wmur up here in manchester. it's got romney moving up to 44%.o 50 up here, at least, in a very favorable state to him. ron paul in second place at 20%. and santorum and gingrich still stuck in single digits at 8 points each. that's not a good picture for the challengers. >> it's not. and i will say it again, what we were talking about a second ago, this has been the one state that's been the exception for romney, for a lot of different reasons, where he was able to break through that 25% ceiling that we always talking about, but today in the south carolina poll, it has romney at 37. 37 in south carolina is a pretty good number for mitt romney. and if he starts building that out from state by state, does well in south carolina, florida. i think the ceiling may disappear, or you'll start to see romney rise above it. >> thank you very much, john heilemann, a real pro. that's "hardball" for now. up next, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. ants in our environment. or zero dependency on foreign oil. ♪ this is why we at nissan built a car inspired by z

anselm college and wmur. all of you at home can watch on abcnews.com and yahoo.com and join the discussion by downloading yahoo!'s into now app on your iphone. >> so let the debate begin. governor romney, we'll begin with you. we just saw 200,000 new jobs created last month. and there are optimists who say this is the signal this economy is finally turning around. are you with those optimists? >> i'm an optimist and i certainly hope it turns around. we have millions of people who have been suffering too long. 25 million people that are out of work or stopped looking for work, and also a lot of people who have got part-time jobs and need full-time employment. so it's very good news. i hope we continue to see good news. but it's not thanks to president obama. his policies have made the recession deeper and his policies have made the recovery more tepid. as a result of everything from obama care to dodd/frank to a stimulus plan not as well directed as it should have been to a whole host of new regulations put on

mitt romney is still the candidate to beat in new hampshire, topping the latest wmur/new hampshire primary poll with a comfortable 41%. >> this president has failed on the budget. he's failed on the economy, getting people back to work. >> according to this new snapshot from the unh survey center, the battle for runner- up is where the action is. >> with a victory in this race r our campaign sends a very powerful message. >> ron paul is second in new hampshire with 17%. john huntsman jumps to a third- place tie with rick santorum at 11%. newt gingrich is just slightly behind at 8% >> we can see a lot of shifting over the next day, and we've seen it before. >> and so the rest of the republicans are working to round up votes -- >> we've got a good operation here. we feel very, very good about how things are going to turn out. >> as the anti-mitt romney alternative. >> i am a reagan conservative and that my primary competitor, governor romney, is not. >> i put my country first. governor romney puts politics first. >> also from this poll, rick perry got just 1%. 56% of voters surveyed said the

we have exclusive first look at a new poll from our new hampshire station, wmur. it shows mitt romney with a boost heading into next week's primary. moving up from 42% to 44%. our john berman starts us off in our coverage this morning from the very place where the saturday debate will happen. that's manchester, of course. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, robin. this is a huge moment with huge scores to settle and some huge questions to answer, including can anyone put a dent into those big numbers for mitt romney. finally, we'll get some answers to these questions right here on this stage tomorrow night. rick santorum is grabbing for the granite state. event after event after event. including his biggest crowd yet. >> lead, don't follow. the national polls or don't follow the pundits. >> reporter: key huge debate question number one, what will he do with his new santorum spotlight? will he answer the tough questions. this exchange with a student over gay marriage. >> how about the ideas that all men are created equal? >> are we saying that everyone s

the new pom from wmur shows mitt romney with a commanding lead.antorum are gaining ground. a group in south carolina supporting newt gingrich is spending $3.4 million on negative ads attacking romney's investment firm. meanwhile, romney is getting news from neighboring florida. a new record there finds him far ahead of ron paul. >>> and congresswoman gabrielle giffords recited the pledge of allegiance as she marked a candle light vigil in a memorial killing and wounding others. >>> police say the remains of remains found on the queen elizabeth estate was that of a 17-year-old. the body was found by a dog walker on new year's day. this morning, police are trying to track down people who may have worked in the area who may have seen something suspicious. >>> is this morning, something is missing from the houston skyline. take a look at the former prudential life building. a fixture in the city for six decades came crashing down this morning. 20 stories gone in 20 seconds. the implosion will make way for a new medical center. >>> and finally, a littl