The Republican Primary--Monkeys Climbing Trees???

[Gene Scarborough]

[Dave Roberts]

Perry may claim to be a strict constitutional constructionist, but I don't think he has yet read the First Amendment.

[Gene Scarborough]

ABC is hosting another debate tonight.

The talk yesterday was of Newt being a target and having his first real test of standing up in the storm. We will see!!!!!

[Sandy]

Iowa is interesting turf for a political campaign, especially because the caucuses there are so early. Essentially, Democrats generally wind up carrying the state by 3 or 4% because the Republicans have to shoot themselves in the foot by moving to the extreme right to try to win the caucus vote. But conservatives are a minority in Iowa, and so they wind up losing the general election. What's been happening over the past few weeks is that, the more the Republicans come to Iowa, buy television ads and have debates, the more President Obama's positive numbers move upward.