? hello jon huntsman. you look at the latest polling out of new hampshire, mitt romney is still way out ahead but his support has been dropping in the last week. support for jon huntsman has begun to tick up. nobody thinks that mitt romney will lose new hampshire, mitt romney barring a political miracle, will win new hampshire and win it by a lot. but jon huntsman appears to be in a position to be like rick santorum, the unexpectedly strong second place finisher there. this is the first time mr. huntsman had momentum like this. he had a buzz worthy launch, as soon as he stepped in the race, he stepped on 1000 different rakes, his own campaign spelled his name wrong on launch day. reporters following the campaign were takenly directed to a plane headed for saudi arabia. weird dirt bike ads, nobody understood. all those things hurt jon huntsman right when the most people were looking at him at the apex of his national aten shun. in the debates, the debate ts widely watched and entertaining, jon huntsman seemed to go out of his way to be these least entertaining guy on stage. if you rememb

tom ridge talks about his support for jon huntsman. and a look at the candidate's economic plans with christian science monitor reporter. clip: thank you, iowa. this is a campaign night where america wins. we will change the white house and get america back on track. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] host: presidential candidate mitt romney declaring victory in last night's iowa caucuses, beating rick santorum by just eight votes. welcome to "washington journal" on this wednesday, january 4, 2012. ronald paul placed third, followed by newt gingrich, rick perry, and michele bachmann. the final numbers were not in until 2:30 a.m. eastern time. rick perry will return to texas to decide whether there is a path forward. we will hear excerpts from the speeches made by candidates throughout the show and we will go to new hampshire to watch the unfolding contest. in that state has its primary next week on tuesday. we will like to hear your take about mitt romney's close call in iowa. here are the numbers

activists, the republican base, are angry right now, and jon huntsman is not an angry candidate. he has a calm temperament, has been calling for civility. he never really caught on. but it is interesting that the biggest newspaper in south carolina endorsed him, and that very night he decides to drop out of the race. >> it's nothing but interesting, for sure. peter, great work for us. thank you so much. >>> and you can enjoy wolf blitzer for live coverage of jon huntsman announcement scheduled for about 11:00 a.m. eastern time. you can see it right here live on cnn >>> with south carolina's primary just five days away, this time it might be working to mitt romney's advantage. polls show him with a solid lead now. time for conservatives to rally behind a single conservative, too. but it's day two of the south carolina tea party convention as well. >> there is a candidate that can beat obama in a debate. and what is his name? >> newt gingrich! >> it's newt gingrich. romney is going to lose to obama. there's no doubt about that in my mind. that's my view. >> all right. well, let's look ahead

message. >> thank you. >> see you. >> bye-bye. >> can i speak to you, please? >> jon huntsman wrapping up two of these, and we have more live coverage coming for you at 7:00 p.m. eastern. rick santorum will be holding a town hall meeting in new hampshire. that will be live here on c- span. despite a fit place finish in last night's iowa caucus, texas governor rick perry has decided to stay in the race. he returned to texas after a speech in iowa, where he said he would determine what to do, but the governor said he was still in the race, and there were a number of reports saying that rick perry will stay in the rays, not dropping out, and it was reported that he will participate in saturday's debate. the texas governor also called the iowa primary a quirky place in an attempt to downplay the results, finishing fifth out of six candidates. >> and a reminder, this month at c-span, it is facebook farce. we have facebook only exclusive, behind-the-scenes exclusives leading up to the primary, plus the video clip of the day. you can vote in our facebook poll question. here is a result of our

jon huntsman at a campaign rally in exit there. the former utah governor and ambassador to china is polling in third place behind mitt romney and ron paul. but you want to catch up on any of the campaign events from today, c-span.org. tomorrow night, real will begin our primary coverage when the polls close at 8:00 p.m. eastern and returns start coming in. we will have the victory and a concession speeches. you can call in during our open phone sessions come on facebook, or on twitter. presidential candidate rick santorum and his wife stopped at a diner in new hampshire earlier today to greet voters. this is the third of five campaign events he held today. he talked to the media outside about his candidacy and tomorrow's primary. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [inaudible conversations] >> everybody out. the manager wants you out. let's go, guys. everyone out. let's go. come on. >> out of respect of the owners, i will not be answering it. as for the cameras. come on, guys. >> he will talk to you all day

already have results from two small towns. in dixville, mitt romney and jon huntsman tied with two votes each. in heart's location, romney won is five votes. erin burnett's going to break them down for us at the polling center. >> you mentioned dixville, hart's location. four years ago, the map showed the big surprise with hillary clinton. will that happen tonight? here are some key places to look in new hampshire. down to the southern part, mitt romney's the former massachusetts governor. a lot of massachusetts transplants down here. a lot of the undeclared voters. the so-called independents. romney needs to do well down here. oaf here, the most democratic part of the state. if ron paul is going to reproduce some of the iowa magic, the dartmouth campus will be one place he gets votes. watchm manchester. if the attacks on romney are taking a toll, we will see it there. >> erin burnett has early exit poll information. >> a stark contrast to iowa. i saw this in manchester yesterday talking to folks. you see very conservative here, 67% of voters very or somewhat conservative on fiscal

good aim when he gets there. he's only polling at 5% in south carolina right now. jon huntsman is at 1%. so the common wisdom was that mitt romney was supposed to be an athama in new hampshire. that's bull pucky. rick santorum is supposed to be surging after his iowa win this week. that's the common wisdom. being up here today, i can tell you mr. santorum is attracting crowds, but the crowds do not necessarily seem to like what they are hearing from mr. santorum. so this is the rick santorum event at the dublin school in dublin, new hampshire, web just drove to. it's packed. everybody is telling us we can't get in. so let's try. i went to this crowded, crowded rick santorum event at the dublin school today in southern new hampshire. it definitely was crowded. i couldn't get past the overflow room though i tried. interestingly, even from the overflow room, his speech did not have a single applause line. i did not talk to anyone who was there to see him speak who supported his candidacy or who liked what they were hearing. the aggressive questioning and criticizing of mr. santorum from t

gets there. he's only polling at 5% in south carolina right now. jon huntsman is at 1%. so the common wisdom was that mitt romney was supposed to be anathema in new hampshire. that's bull pucky. rick santorum is supposed to be surging after his iowa win this week. that's the common wisdom. being up here today, i can tell you mr. santorum is attracting crowds, but the crowds do not necessarily seem to like what they are hearing from mr. santorum. so this is the rick santorum event at the dublin school in dublin, new hampshire, web just drove to. it's packed. everybody is telling us we can't get in. so let's try. i went to this crowded, crowded rick santorum event at the dublin school today in southern new hampshire. it definitely was crowded. i couldn't get past the overflow room, even though i tried. interestingly, even from the overflow room, his speech did not have a single applause line. i did not talk to anyone who was there to see him speak who supported his candidacy or who liked what they were hearing. the aggressive questioning and criticiing of mr. santorum from the students

. and i suspect that jon huntsman decided he wanted to do this today. he saw the handwriting on the wall. he's an intelligent, smart guy. he knew he wasn't going to win in south carolina. he knew he was probably going to come in last in south carolina. and he didn't want -- there's a debate tonight. he didn't want to go into the debate tonight and be critical of mitt romney only to endorse him the next day or a day or two later. that would be awkward and sort of unseemly, so he decided to do it today and get it over with, move on. it also establishes him, if, in fact, president obama's re-elected, 2016, maybe he'll want to try once again. and you know, there is a history in the republican party of sort of establishment-type candidates waiting in line, waiting for their turn, losing once but then going on to get the nomination down the road, like bob dole or john mccain, you know. that's the kind of thing, george h.w. bush. it's happened before. and maybe he's still a relatively young guy, jon huntsman is thinking along those lines. >> one of the things i noticed, wolf, about huntsman is

a beautiful day. host: us story about jon huntsman. he is third behind romney and on paul. he has attended more than 170 events in new hampshire, but has been denied the top of the polls here. you see an image of him out campaigning with his wife in concord, new hampshire. he was a margin of error and it and now they are calling them third. on the independent line, good morning, linda. caller: i like to make a comment about mitt romney. what i took away from his comment about the insurance companies, but i took away from that is that the american people need to realize that insurance companies are comprised of employees as well. employees with families. and so would everyone of us decides to fire an insurance company, our insurance companies, then that in effect would be saying that they would be firing employees as well. and my second comment, about jon huntsman. he has the human touch. i watched a segment last night with he and his wife, and they talked about the adoption of the baby from china and india. if i was the vote for anyone today, it would be jon huntsman, and that seg

>>> right now, out of the hunt. jon huntsman rallies for mitt romney after he decides it's time he steps out of the way. >> i believe it's time frp our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to beat barack obama. >> with five days until it will primary in south carolina, is there any way for these men to stop mitt romney? we'll talk with one writer who says the gop race is the best thing happening in pop culture right now. >>> new accusations pointed at the italian cruise liner still on its side and possibly leaking gasoline into the sea. the search for missing passengers, including two americans continues. >>> people were getting nervous p i was having chest pains. >> paying at the pump in the winter. why gas prices have hit a midwinter record. in some states up an average of 11 cents so far this month. >>> is it hooray for hollywood? big names win big, but it's a fresh new face who steals hearts with her speech. >> dr. king said it best, all labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and i thank you for recognizing that with our film. >> i'm tamron hall. jo

endorsing jon huntsman. what about that? mr. huntsman is coming up later. we'll talk more about that. i hope you're doing great where you are today. martha: i'm doing great in my chair. how are you doing there in your chair? bill: i'm fine. martha: i'm martha maccallum. mitt romney despite "the boston globe" situation he is crushing his competition in the granite state right now. look at rcp average we like to call it. they put a bunch polls together. mitt romney, 40%. ron paul at second place but a distant second at 21%. gingrich and huntsman splitting 9%. bill: they had all the predictions for eye awe and what happened? -- iowa. all the candidates fanning out across the state before the first-in-the-nation primary. molly line is live in new hampshire. good morning, molly. >> reporter: good morning, bill. new hampshire voters can break late. that is something to always watch. they make up their own mind and. mitt romney has been leading consistently in the polls. a pretty commanding lead. he has been focusing on president obama here in the state speaking with people not so much

carolina, where we expect jon huntsman to speak at any time, officially dropping out of the gop race. he will throw his support behind mitt romney. huntsman campaign is saying quote, he did in the want the stand in the way of the candidate best prepared to beat president obama and turn the economy around. we're going to have live coverage this morning. peter alexander is going to be live in myrtle beach for us. where do we stand on how we know when jon huntsman came to this decision? >> it's a good question, thomas, we posed that to senior advisers in the huntsman campaign. they told us he had been having this discussion with his advisers and family members over the last several days, the days following his disappointing finish in new hampshire, but didn't come to a final decision. it wasn't conclusive until late yesterday evening. we were in charleston with his family dining, between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. he put a call out to governor romney, acknowledging he would be endorsing romney at today's event. this would be a little suspect given the statements the two have made. it was

. jon huntsman in, third place is in trouble. he told mike huckabee if he didn't come in first he'd drop out of the race. now, huntsman with not a lot of money and not a lot of organization in south carolina because he's concentrated in new hampshire is going head down to the south palmetto state and try to compete where rick perry has been. and already, he's been hammering romney trying to cast himself as the most ardent conservative to run against him. newt gingrich launching an abortion ad attacking mitt romney for his pro-choice views just five years ago, pointing out he appointed pro-choice judges and passed a budget including funding for planned parenthood. that is five, six years ago he was pro-choice and changed his position. it will be a tough ad. and rick santorum, as well as going after him and ron paul who came in second said it was a good, and clear-cut victory for mitt romney but ron paul said he's nipping at his heels. none of the candidates despite in new hampshire seem to have intention of backing off. greta? >> thank you. >> and early in this political contest cong

in myrtle beach for us. where do we stand on how we know when jon huntsman came to this decision? >> it's a good question, thomas, we posed that to senior advisers in the huntsman campaign. they told us he had been having this discussion with his advisers and family members over the last several days, the days following his disappointing finish in new hampshire, but didn't come to a final decision. it wasn't conclusive until late yesterday evening. we were in charleston with his family dining, between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. he put a call out to governor romney, acknowledging he would be endorsing romney at today's event. this would be a little suspect given the statements the two have made. it was just a week ago where he called out romney for putting party before country as has been a theme throughout the campaign and then in november, governor huntsman said of romney that he was unelectable, saying he lacked a certain core and had so many shifting positions that made him not a sufficient candidate. huntsman is more moderate, as is romney, so many expected this to happen. here was

. here's the results. mitt romney and jon huntsman scored two votes each. newt gingrich and ron paul one each. rick santorum and rick perry, goose eggs. if all the polls are correct the question isn't whether mitt romney will win new hampshire, it's a question of how wide a margin. dan lothian is outside one polling place there in manchester. dan, how is the turnout? >> reporter: well, it's been pretty steady. we're at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven't seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk's office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won't have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state's office, they're expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican primary compared to last time in 2008, roughly 9,000 more, kyra. >> romney's had a pretty rough 48 hours. what kin

failing to finish strong could spell the end for some candidates. plus, a sitdown with jon huntsman. >> you sit back now and say we are going to let the people of new hampshire now cast a vote and live with the results tonight. >> shepard: former ambassador on his run for the white house. voters drop their first ballots early this morning. now they are ready to cast their last ones. less than an hour away now from the final poll closings. we will see which way the winds are blowing. and from grade school lobbying efforts to his eventual rise to power and all the highs and lows in between. we'll look at newt gingrich before he was a candidate. but first from fox this tuesday night, most of the polls here in new hampshire just closed. the rest open another hour. but we're already getting some very good information from our fox news exit polls. they now show mitt romney leading among voters who say their top priorities are the economy and beating president obama. we have all the details moments away but first, do we have some early results to report? two small towns kept up the tradition of op

. >> is it ever. >> let's get started here. >>> jon huntsman is going to drop out of the gop race today. he says he will endorse romney. we'll get more details on that. >> also if you've been looking, there are pictures that are mind boggling. a cruise ship much, much bigger than the "titanic" on its side. there are reports of six dead now. two americans among the missing and harrowing tales from those who tur vived and the captain has got some explaining to do. he is being asked by authorities there why did you leave that ship? >>> and the first chance for overseas markets to react to the mass downgrade of european nations. will you pay for the mess in europe later this week? will it affect us at all. >> i always wonder, europe, schmeurope. were you watching, golden glo globes. you go to bed at 6:00, don't you? >> i try to. it didn't work out that way. >> if you haven't seen the artist by now, have you seen it. >> i have not seen it. >> are you going to see it? >> if it's not rated pg i'm not going to watch it these days. >> if it's not animation. ricky gervais was not pg at all.

beneficiary. jon huntsman plans to withdraw from the broken the presidential race on monday. let's go to the phones to hear from patricia. democrat in bakersfield, california. caller: i watched the debate and i thought john hunt and it really good. one of the most decent candidates they have running. one of my other questions, i never hear them talk about what they have done lately. all the candidates talk about what they did in the past, but they have not said what they have done lately to help the economy improve. host: what do you think huntsman leaving the race mean for the rest of the field? caller: ron paul may get his supporters. host: santa cruz, california. go right ahead. caller: i was going to say, looking at jon huntsman, host: let's go to a new color. michelle and new jersey. what do you think about the news that jon huntsman plans to bowed out of the race? caller: a lot of folks here, within our own district, with my family, there is a lot of conservative moderates out there who insert -- supported huntsman. with him leaving, the field has diverted, with mitt romney bein

a lot of the daily tracking polls going down a point or two per day. you have jon huntsman in quite a few polls which we're going to show going up. chris christie came last night. he gave a very positive talk. somebody asked him about jon huntsman and it got pretty personal pretty quickly. and of course, john heilemann from that point suddenly tom ridge came out and started bashing chris christie. chris christie basically questioned jon huntsman's loyalty. >> integrity. >> and integrity. and there are many that are suggesting that the romney people are getting a little nervous. >> well, i think there's no question that jon huntsman yesterday in the nbc debate had his best moment in any debate on this issue. >> a great debate. >> on saturday night, mitt romney criticized his service in the obama administration. the next day, having 12 hours to figure out a great response, he hit romney twice in sequence. first by saying, you know, i did this country first invoking john mccain to make the point he was serving his country and not serving a democratic administration and came back and hi

congratulations in order tonight for, of all people, republican presidential candidate jon huntsman. jon huntsman, it appears, has finally made it. now that the republican presidential race has moved on from iowa, we are didn't really compete, to new hampshire, where he has been focusing, governor jon huntsman's public profile has finally, maybe at least, risen high enough for him to earn a starring role as the villain in a remarkable new anti-jon huntsman attack ad. have you seen this today? i saw this at the website wonkette. the ad -- now, it does not appear to be an official campaign ad. it appears to have been produced by ron paul supporters in new hampshire. and it specifically zeros in on jon huntsman's most recent job as u.s. ambassador to china. watch. ♪ [ speaking chinese ] ♪ [ speaking chinese ] ♪ ♪ >> jon huntsman is secretly not only the manchurian candidate but secretly actually chairman mao video. that is claimed by a group called nh, new hampshire, liberty for paul. now, that group does not appear to be formally affiliated with the ron paul campaign by any way, sh

him on the campaign trail, none of whom served in the military, unlike jon huntsman sons, serving in the navy. jon huntsman does not overtly make that case but it's there, and they have just made an ad out of it. so who knew. after jon huntsman's launch, he's running a capital c campaign, super aggressive, turned super aggressive in the last few minutes, essentially, before the new hampshire primary. he has the endorsement of the boston globe, a strong reach and highly populated southern new hampshire, endorsement the concord monitor the most influential newspaper inside new hampshire. is it too late? maybe it's too late. but after months of not making a ripple, this is what the crowds look like right now when jon huntsman turns up at an event in new hampshire. [ cheering ] >> joining us to tell me i have this all wrong and jon huntsman is going nowhere is karen tumulty the national correspondent from the washington post, who was in manchester tonight. karen, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, for having me, rachel. >> tell me how wrong i am, tell me how huntsman is still put

importance and i thank you for recognizing that with our film. >> i'm tamron hall. jon huntsman drops out of the race and warns his party tor unit fyo unite for any chance of winning the white house. >> today i call on each campaign to cease attacking each other and talk directly to the american people about how our conservative ideas will have create job, reduce our nation's death. >> huntsman immediately endorsed mitt romney calling him the most electable of the bunch. romney said i is a lul jon huntsman and his wife. he ran a spirited campaign based on unity, not division and love of country. i appreciate his friendship and support. it's interesting that mitt romney would bring up the love of country. it was jon huntsman who slammed mitt romney in one of the last debate whether he knows he said he worked for the obama administrati administration. he said i put my country over my party and he puts a compliment regarding that. >> reporter: he said in his words he put politics first, not country. huntsman said we have stop with the negative attacks. he attacked mitt romney as being out of

romney and jon huntsman cited for the first place with two votes apiece. the gap is expected to increase as the day goes on. former massachusetts governor mitt romney leads in a recent poll by as much as 24%. but yesterday he made one of his biggest mistakes on the campaign trail. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. >> he was talking about being able to choose your own health care provider, but it was taken all of context. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> i have no doubt mitt romney worries about pink slips, whether he would have enough of them to pass out. >> there's no question that of all the people running on either side of the aisle in this race, that is the best person to tackle this troubled economy getting back on the right footing and tell america growing again. >> that was mitt romney's son. john paul and jon huntsman neck and neck in an entry in the most recent poll. -- ron paul and jon huntsman. daniel underhill reporting abc 7 news. >> abc 7 is your election station. rebecca cooper and gordon peterson will h

northern new hampshire. mitt romney leaps to the lead or actually to a tie with jon huntsman. they each have two, newt gingrich has one and poor ron paul one as well. rick perry is the poor one. he didn't get zip. >> in that place. here's what i'm upset about. 75 people live there. where are the rest of the people? three of them voted for obama, ok? so then you have five, six, nine. 9 of 75. >> they can still come out the rest of the day. they don't have to get there -- >> thank you, brian. more faith in the power of the vote of the people. >> they could be exhausted. >> let's see this village and see if they were any better. harts location where mr. romney got five votes, ron paul got four. jon huntsman got two. rick perry got one vote and newt gingrich got one as well. i wonder if this is a precursor of things to come throughout the day. it would be interesting to compare those two little towns to what happens later on tonight as far as percentages. >> you know, so far, i think if you look at the campaigns there's only one candidate running a national campaign and it's mitt romney and

tonight is jon huntsman. who dropped out of the race this morning. chief political correspondent carl cameron begins the coverage tonight. >> reporter: unable to generate momentum in south carolina after disappointing third place in new hampshire, former utah governor jon huntsman bailed out and got behind the front runner. >> today i'm suspending my campaign for presidency and it's time to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. i believe that candidate is mitt romney. >> reporter: knowing it wouldn't happen he urged the rivals to stop trashing each other. >> the race degenerated to an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the american people. not worry of this critical time in our nation's history. >> reporter: huntsman's sliver of south carolina support is expected to gravitate toward romney. romney is seeking conservative trust and support, a move reminiscent of pleas for conservative unity made by john mccain en route to the g.o.p. nomination last time. newt gingrich is running second? south carolina but the attack on the business recor

jon huntsman. then jon huntsman drops out of the race. then the woman who wrote the editorial endorsing huntsman actually says, it's as if he turned to her, after love making, and said, you know what, i think i'm gay. >> jon huntsman is dropping his presidential bid. >> jon huntsman officially dropped out of the race for president. >> huntsman calls it quits. >> today, i am suspending my campaign. >> ending a candidacy that was always better in theory than in practice. >> some have described jon huntsman as a media mirage all along. >> he's singing a new tune when it comes to mitt romney. >> i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> he's praising mitt romney as the most electable. >> he's dropping out of the race today and throwing his support to the man he once called un unelectable. >> moderates are backing moderates. >> he attacked mitt romney as being out of touch. he said that he was a job killer, not a job creator. >> we are now left with big government conservatives. >> i wore my jeans! look at that! i wore my -- i wore my jeans today! >> we watched huntsman

. right now, long-shot candidate jon huntsman hosting an event in concord. he ignored iowa and gambled big on new hampshire. a poor showing could doom his campaign, however, today, huntsman did get a big endorsement. "the boston globe" chose him over a former massachusetts governor saying while mitt romney proceeds strategically trying to appease enough constituencies to get himself the nomination, huntsman has been bold. rather than merely sketch out policies, he articulates goals and ideals. jim acosta in concord for us. how important, how surprising is this endorsement? >> well, it's very surprising. and jon huntsman is hoping that this is his moment. he saw rick santorum, he saw rick perry. he's seen all the other unromneys in this race have their moment and perhaps this could be jon huntsman's moment. that was a very good endorsement and it did, basically diss the former governor of massachusetts. the governor who was in that state, where that newspaper resides. so, this is a good pickup for jon huntsman and we'll have to wait and see what happens. there is a new suffolk universit

one with jon huntsman. >>> i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> the first primary beghaj at midnight in new hampshire. most polls close three hours from now. we'll have complete coverage. here is what we're watching for. first, mitt romney's margin of victory. final polls show him with a nearly 20-point lead. if romney wins big he may see almost invincible heading into south carolina. if he doesn't win big, he may seem beatable, at least some experts predict. >>> second, who comes in second, jon huntsman gambled on a good showing in new hampshire. he has the chance to show he's a viable candidate. they play very well among many in new hampshire, and could help him emerge as the anti-romney candidate. >>> finally, independenting can stroh in this open primary, so how will they vote? they may decide the winner, who will that signal for next november? we're watching all of this unfold. >>> new hampshire state officials are expecting a record turnout of a quarter million primarily voters on this day. at one polling place, the candidates got caught in the crush as did l

news. ron paul is our projected second place finisher, with jon huntsman, though a man who staked it all on this state, projected third. and saying minutes ago he'll be staying in this. and it's on to south carolina. but the headline, it's a big night for mitt romney. let's start off our coverage with nbc's peter alexander. he's live from romney headquarters, university of southern new hampshire in manchester. with romney on stage right now, peter, good evening. >> brian, good evening to you. mitt romney is clearly elated, as are his advisers with the music playing a short time ago. they were literally dancing in the aisles here. for the first time in the entire campaign cycle, he's joined on stage by his wife and all five of his sons. here's what mitt romney said just a short time ago. >> tonight, we celebrate, tomorrow we go back to work. we do remember when barack obama came to new hampshire four years ago, he promised to bring people together. he promised to change the broken system in washington. he promised to improve our nation. those were the days of lofty promises made by a