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Santorum. In 2012 we had a slight glitch where Mitt Romney won by 8 votes. Bret about two weeks later a new tally showed Rick Santorum had more votes than romney. You feel for Rick Santorum because he was snake bitten. He did have a good showing. He was kind of the story come in. Surprising showing, right. Bret the eventual winner of the most delegates would change once again. Iowa casts 22 votes for ron paul. [cheers] bret since they were not bound to vote for Santorum Or Romney at the conventi...

Bret tonight we take a look at what Iowa Caucus history and demographics tell us about what could happen at the this evenings meetings all across the state. My Colleague Bill Hemmer is at the Touch Screen this evening. His home for the night. Good evening, bill. Everything getting warmed up yet . Bill there sure is. A couple more cylinders in it this time and see how she drives down the road. Breakfast 2016 grant it 8 years ago. Best comparison drawing. Ted cruz in blew, Donald Trump in red. Tha...

Vo if you overdraw your account, Wells Fargo gives you an extra Day Grace Period to avoid the overdraft fee. What if everything came with a Grace Period . Like accidentally parking where you shouldnt. driver 1 hey what about this one . driver 2 nah. That one gets an extra Day Driver 1 somebody got lucky vo like having an extra Day Grace Period . When it comes to overdrafts, you can with Wells Fargo. Welcome back to our special coverage of the Iowa Caucuses. Right now voters are shuffling into Ca...

The top of that list. With one third prioritizing the economy, sort of different than what we see at the national level. No other issues come even close and as you can see at the bottom of the list there, Foreign Policy is a distant third. Now, what qualities are iowa republicans saying they are looking for in their nominee . Another big question heading no tonight. An overwhelming majority say its very important the g. O. P. Candidate has the mental capability to serve effectively. Almost as ma...

Theyre going to start setting all of this up. Im going to give you a look behind me. Essentially, what theyll do is lay out the ballots that they prepared for the evening. And then as people start rolling in, the doors will close at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, and that is when the process begins. Theyre going say the pledge of allegiance. Theyre going to then elect a Caucus Chair for this precinct. About 300 people expected at two precincts at this site at grand view university. Then the Campaign Repres...

Bounce . It is important. We look back to 1984, and the democratic caucus, Water Mondale ahead in the polls, 49 in the last iowa poll. 48. 9 . There is a surprise number, too. Gary hart at 17 . He was polling at 3. 3 points in the last iowa poll, and shows up less than a week later at 17, for the next 8 days thats all we talk about. He then knocks mondale off in new hampshire, and the contest for the democratic nomination in 1984 finally settled on June 5th final set of primaries when hardt take...

Against her, if he keeps spending money and talking about her, that is all you need to know. He would be completely ignoring her. She is right. I told Derek Jeter this one time. You never know who is watching. Right now when you guys were talking about donors watching this, they are closely watching this to see where Ron Desantis finishes. You are talking about leaning the operation. I do not even know what that is feasible in terms of what he did in iowa. He has not focused in new hampshire. He...

Care about trump has been hammering and comparing himself to joe biden. One of the questions is beating the incumbent president and Thats Something that iowans care about. In terms of winning by 50 or 30 a win is a win. And this time around, donald trump, according to the polling we have across the Board Show he is in a strong position, much stronger than he was in 2016. Republican primary and if he wins tonight, hes going into New Hampshire stronger than did he before. Is he already dominating ...

Time. But you cant take too much out of what happens in primaries or caucuses and project them at large around the general electorate general election. Because as you just talked about its such a narrow swath of voters in the first place. Look, in this country were lucky if we get 50 of voters turning out. So youre talking about what, maybe 10, 8, 9 of voters determining who wins a primary or caucus. So its a narrow swath. What i will say is it is a targetrich environment with Donald Trump and p...

Caucuses the last time around in 2016 just to give you a little sense, 8 36 esche eastern time. 7 36 iowa time. We got our first report. This man may be filling in. But in terms of 99 counties here what are we going to be looking for in them . Let me give you a few different ideas. I think well use 2016 here sort of as a Guide Post in splitting up the state. Remember, first, trump lost iowa in 2016. Ted cruz beat him by three points. And Marco Rubio was only a point behind trump. He almost beat ...