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i'm chris matthews at the armory in manchester, new hampshire, where in just five days now, this state will hold its first in the country primary. leading off tonight, we are the 75%. that's the 75% of republicans who have never supported mitt romney, didn't vote for him on tuesday in iowa, and don't want him as their nominee. they've signed the abm treaty, if you will, anyone but mitt. but who? rick santorum? how well will santorum have to do in new hampshire next tuesday to become a real challenger? the warhead. could he become the warhead of the abm crowd? the good news for santorum is he's peaked at just the right time, before he could be hit by his rivals, vetted by the media. the bad news, there's time now. just who is this deeply conservative republican who won twice in blue state pennsylvania before getting clobbered by 18 points? plus, when president obama appointed richard cordray as head of the new consumer financial protection bureau, he essentially had five words for congressional republicans. like it or lump it. the president's feisty new attitude has as much to do with p

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and you go out in the streets of manchester. you go around this building. people are talking about mitt romney's enforced errors. and the entire republican party seems to be on the cusp of a war against newt gingrich and mitt romney. >> you mean the regulars in the party? the protecters of the wagon train tend to be out there defending romney? >> people that believe in the free market. people that believe in free enterprise. champions of capitalism believe that newt gingrich has stepped over the line. but today is the revenge of newt. we are running a new chapter in this republican party nomination. suddenly, mitt romney is not the favorite. >> newt gingrich seems to be offering himself up as the spear head of the obama reelection campaign. >> i think it's very ironic. i don't think a lot of voters are going to buy it. mitt romney needs a clean win tonight. after iowa. it's going to be a bloody road for mitt romney. especially because newt gingrich is going to zone in for the kill. >> the thing is, chris, the $5 million that newt spends on take ing apart ba

i'm chris matthews up in manchester, new hampshire, one day before the first in the country new hampshire primary. leading off tonight you can't handle the truth. it's finally happened. mitt romney, the number one threat to president obama's re-election is under attack by his own party. the other republican candidates are inflicting wounds that could destroy romney for the general election. at yesterday's nbc news/facebook debate, jon huntsman had the line of the day after romney criticized him for working for president obama. >> this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. >> that moment recalled joseph welch asking joe mccarthy, have you left no sense of decency? meanwhile, gingrich called mitt out for what he called his pious baloney. mitt romney's pretension of being a man above politics. so the games begun. romney's biggest vulnerability of all may not be his reputation as a flip-flopper, but his years making millions at bain capital. newt gingrich is going for the kill launching a $3.4 million advertising campaign, probably all negative in south carolina, using exc

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the other thing is, he's got the manchester "union leader" in new hampshire, which endorsed him. now, the "union leader" doesn't have quite the power it did a decade ago, but -- >> will they jump in on this on his side? >> there's no big sport among conservatives in new hampshire, no more fun they can have than attacking mitt romney. they've been doing it for years and years and years. joe mcquaid, will go nuts on newt's behalf. >> let's start with the former republican leader. okay, let me ask you this, who's going to be mitt romney's biggest opponent two, three weeks from now? will it be santorum, who's doing very well here and may win tomorrow night, or will it be newt gingrich, who will still be in the fight? >> i think it will be newt. >> still biggest threat down the road. >> i think more likely to be newt. >> newt's better copy. it's that simple. he's better copy. >> i think it's newt. anyone, gene robinson, michael steele, and howard fineman are staying with us. could santorum end up the winner here tomorrow night? that's ahead here on "hardball" at java joe's. ♪ he was

. >> you know, we talk about manchester and the southern part of new hampshire. there's a will the of people who moved out of massachusetts who are basically mitt romney-style republicans. and so i think, you know, i don't think he's going to get the same credit, and nor should he. in some ways, it's his home state. it's as close to his home state that you could probably find. i think he's going to have to really win in a dramatic fashion there to get any real balance. everybody's looking to whether or not he can -- what he can do in south carolina. >> if you're just joining us, and why wouldn't you be joining us, tuning into your television at 236 a.m. mitt romney is the apparent winner of the gop iowa caucus. rick santorum who came in just a few votes behind him, will also get eleven delegates. it appears -- the other, as we go forward, we have new hampshire next week and then after that, the next one is south carolina. south carolina has a very good track record of picking the actual winner. the other sort of variable that's in play after -- in the next -- in