>>> chuck todd is our political director and chief white house correspondent. good morning.
>> good morning. the candidates attacked each other and turned into most negative week of the campaign. final debate lacked that same negative energy . instead the front-runners played iowa nice.
>> today i think it is a big step forward and i think governor romney deserves some of the credit.
>> governor romney , you want to respond to that compliment?
>> yes, thank you.
>> reporter: so went the final debate. the two leading candidates, mitt romney and newt gingrich , choosing to avoid any clashes. the only veiled reference to their feud, gingrich poking fun at himself for being zany.
>> zany is great.
>> reporter: a word used by romney at "the new york times."
>> i get accused of using language too strong so i've been standing here editing. i'm very concerned about not appearing to be zany, and --
>> reporter: each time romney and gingrich got a question designed to get them to spar with each other, they shifted the focus often to president obama .
>> this president doesn't know how the economy works. to create jobs it helps to have created jobs.
>> i think in seven debates barack obama will not have a leg to stand on.
>> reporter: the positive debate is a marked contrast from most of the tv ads airing in iowa .
>> -- beginning witch was fined $300,000 for ethics violations.
>> it's about serial hypocrisy.
>> $10,000 bet?
>> not too many of us in iowa place $10,000 bets.
>> reporter: the latest ads stay most mostly positive.
>> others seem to be focused on attacks rather than move the country forward. that's up to them.
>> reporter: they got hit repeat repeatedly by the other candidates.
>> he personally as governor issued gay marriage licenses.
>> i want to make it very clear, i have been a champion of protecting traditional marriage .
>> reporter: michele bachmann and the former speaker questions about freddie mac .
>> he was taking out $1.6 million to influence senior republicans to keep the scams going.
>> sometimes people ought to have facts before they make wild allegations.
>> reporter: bachmann one time iowa front-runner now trailing badly was the most aggressive, even tangling with ron paul over the issue of nuclear weapons in iran.
>> we ought to sit back and not jump the gun and believe we aren't going to be attacked.
>> i believe i've never heard a more dangerous answer for american security than the one we just heard.
>> i think this wild goal to have another war in the name of defense is the dangerous thing.
>> reporter: but for the most part the debate was more kumbaya than contentious w a focus on president obama .
>> it's president obama we've got to talk about. he's unveiled himself as the president, not the right person to lead this country.
>> our only opponent is barack obama and we need to come out of this process beating him is collectively what we have to do.
>> the romney campaign is trying to show they have momentum again. they've nabbed a pretty big endorsement, south carolina governor nicki hayley, and they hope that momentum campaigns to him in the season.
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