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Ground, compared to four years ago, that tells you anything about turnout, at least enough of an anecdote youre wondering which way is it going to go? >> i spent time with paul, there were a lot of people -- remember in 08, obama had nontraditional voters, independents, paul seemed to have hit that. if its a huge turnout, that will help him because his supporters have gotten out in bigger numbers than you would have guessed. >> are you feeling energy or not? >> depends who youre with. talking ab...

caucuses it starts counting. republicans will start choosing candidates in a campaign after everyone you see here and a few you dont, have been the front-runner or the front-runner -- or may soon become the front-runner. some of these boxes may soon be empty. politicos roger simon said iowa caucuses dont pick winners, they eliminate losers. a lot of people could continue on from here even if they dont place well. a loser here may take new hampshire. someone else could win south carolin...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com under two hours from the start of iowas presidential caucuses. a vote to shrink the field and perhaps give us a front-runner. mitt romney predicting, quote, were going win this but his opponents are promising the governor will have a much harder time after tonight. this afternoon the former house speaker newt gingrich told reporters his ads will start drawing, quote, a sharper, clearer contrast with governor romney and on cbs this morning, the fo...

and rick santorum are running neck and neck and neck. while perry and bachmann are struggling to stay in the race. huntsman is passing on iowa and doubling down in new hampshire. for gingrich tonights caucuses come several weeks after he peaked in the polls. but he said he is still in position to win. >> theres 41% who are undeci d undecided, its very possible to win. weve talked -- weve had 18,000 people in a telephone conversation call yesterday afternoon. we reached 89,000 eye juans...

hampshire. someone else could win south carolina and yet another may win florida. its just been that kind of a campaign. the polls here reflect it. take a look. the latest from the "des moines register," mitt romney and ron paul in a statistical tie. rick santorum close behind. newt gingrich fourth and fading. rick perry fifth and climbing slowly. michele bachmann in single digits. that poll came out over the weekend. arg showed romney in front. paul, santorum and gingrich essentially ...

where a few of them that you see here and a few you dont may soon become the front-runner. after tomorrow night that could change. some of these boxes may soon be empty. politicos roger simon said the best, iowa caucuses dont pick winners, they pick losers. they could continue on from here even if they dont place well. a loser here could take new hampshire, someone could win south carolina or another win florida. its been that kind of campaign. the polls here reflect it. take a look. t...

Evangelical. heres whats interestinghistor. what would happen if a roman catholic, somebody. i dont know he would self identify this way. a john paul catholic if you would, john paul ii catholic becomes the favorite of the evangelle cals. heres the danger for santorum if we can go to south carolina. if you look at the south carolina 08 results you will see huckabee losing by 15,000 votes in a state where fred thompson got almost 70,000. >> michele bachmann will be there waiting for him. >> if yo...

Stand to lose from whats going on. you say the u.s. economy wont suffer, and i agree, but weve often seen that its directed towards preserving the banking system as it is here. so will there be u.s. measures to protect american banks? do you see american banks suffering? >> well, we should be thankful for the federal reserve -- ive always thought the european central bank does not want to take the kind of bold and dramatic and controversial action that the fed did back in 2008 to save the u.s. f...

Hasnt always been kilt, is their point -- consistent, is their point. at the end of the day, does it all get lost because one erases the other? >> i think that whats going to happen is, first of all, im not so sure its going to be mitt romney. im sitting here in south carolina, and he doesnt have a ground game here, he doesnt have the pr here that newt and the others have had, and newts taken off the gloves. were looking forward to blood on the ground here in the next three weeks, and i think yo...

Romney? >> no, absolutely not because you look at the trends and that is, look, republicans historically have always chosen the next guy. mccain lost to bush in 2000. romney lost in 08, likely the guy in 12. so obviously you want to target the strongest person. you want to weaken him out of the gate. you also want to force him to respond to you while hes responding to the gop candidates as well. >> who do the dems want to be the nominee. >> they frankly want rick perry or michele bachmann. you w...