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>> doug, to be clear, since you have been in iowa, i know youve been there a long time handling communication now, trying to make sure everybody understands things from the perspective of the party, has there been a fight within the party over gt fact you dont have to show a photo i. d. to vote? has there been consternation for that? theyre trying to change the rules for the states election. there has not been worry about that for the caucuses? >> not at all. ive been with the secretary of state...

And by the way, gas prices are nothing relatively speaking. >> youre wrong. as a nation, we paid a record amount of money last year for motor fuel. almost half a trillion dollars per household. >> youre citing an absolute number. >> and we paid a lot of money for motor fuel. out of americans policies and we didnt get back to the record i.t. in 08, as a nation were paying more money than ever for motor fuel. >> and so, here is the thing, as the presidents been taking his victory laps on the payro...

>> doug, to be clear, since you have been in iowa, i know youve been there a long time handling communication now, trying to make sure everybody understands things from the perspective of the party, has there been a fight within the party over the fact you dont have to show a photo i. d. to vote? has there been consternation for that? theyre trying to change the rules for the states election. there has not been worry about that for the caucuses? >> not at all. ive been with the secretary of stat...

Overregulating us, that are killing jobs, that will pull back all those regulations since the 08 and have them audited. if theyre killing jobs, theyre out of here. we need a president of the united states that not only respects that constitution but looks down at the bill of rights and gets down to number ten where we talk about the powers delegated to the united states by the constitution or or reserved for the states respectively or to the people. and basically says that that federal governmen...

Potentially do well with other social conservative and economic conservative roots and platforms but it just didnt happen. she canceled that and as she said today, and a very emotional speech, that its time for her to step aside because she just could for the get the attention of voters here in iowa. >> dana bash, thank you very much. next on reporter roulette, jim acosta on the phone from new hampshire. jim, romney made an endorsement for president back in 2008. now the favors returned, isnt ...

Difference of one point. in 2008, it was a very different story. barack obama beating john mccain handily by 9 points and see you in 48 hours when the iowans go to caucus, how much the map behind us changes or does not. bret and meg megyn, back to you in des moines. >> bret: as bill said, a baptist preacher turned governor from arkansas came into iowa and turned into the caucuses. >> megyn: mike huckabee is working for us on fox news channel and hes here with insights, what it takes to win in io...

Republican presidential campaign of 08. as governor changed his position to pro-life and gingrich will hit him in ads he was taxpayer funding to keep abortion legal and taxpayer funded in massachusetts. that sort of thing is going to go very, very aggressively against romney and could resound against gingrich. he was popular when he insisted he would be positive. hes not going negative, but talking about facts of romneys record, but its increasingly caustic, and could do damage. >> jamie: the gi...

Going to be somebody whos going to tamper with the system too much. >> doug, to be clear, since you have been in iowa, i know youve been there a long time handling communication now, trying to make sure everybody understands things from the perspective of the party, has there been a fight within the party over gt fact you dont have to show a photo i. d. to vote? has there been consternation for that? theyre trying to change the rules for the states election. there has not been worry about that f...

Michael smerconish and contributor steve days is a conservative show host endorsing newt gingrich and a senior rrcht for yahoo. i will start with you. you have interesting thoughts as so many others have said. why is iowa so important. you say its the independents that count more than the folk who is caucus tonight. >> 2012 is a race where independents call the shot and no disto iowa voters. its not a particular state, but that component of the electorate. 2.5 million voters have left the republ...

When he came in second in iowa four years ago. so hes pretty much starting the 2012 cycle right where he wrapped up in second place in the 08 cycle. and truthfully, for months, regardless of who the front runner has been, whether bachman, then perry or cain, then newt and perhaps now paul, we have known and history has always shown that at the end in iowa, it comes down to a very close race as the vast number of undecides make up their mind, the polls tighten. were looking at a statistical tie. ...