From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC, this is Frekenomics Radio on Marketplace.

Here's the host of Marketplace, Hiras Doll.

And so it's done, the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney had it wrapped up pretty early

last night, so all the who got how many votes and what it all means and the grand political

scheme of things has been done to death by now.

So we're not gonna.

We're gonna do the story our way, Campaign Finance, all of Frekenomics, our once every

couple of weeks chat with Stephen Dubner, the co-author of the books and the blog of the

same name it's all about, the hidden side of everything.

Hey Dubner, welcome back.

Hey Kai, thanks for having me.

So we're all wildly surprised that Mitt Romney won big last night, aren't we?

Yes, yes, wildly surprised.

And it's just as obvious why Romney's been winning right, at least if we listen to his

rivals.

Here's Newt Gingrich, who came in a distant fourth place last night.

All right.

Now we gotta go back and figure out how you run in an environment where you clearly have

two guys who are gonna say things that aren't honest and who are gonna spend millions of

dollars doing so.

And here's Rick Santorum, who finished fifth in New Hampshire.

I'm a little bit behind the curve in the sense that Governor Romney has been spending

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