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tonight, the first test of the republican presidential candidates that counts. anyone could win. >> what should the role of government be? >> and everything could change. >> we are not going to spend more money than what were bringing in in this country. >> its iowas choice. will iowans embrace mitt romney? >> i want to restore america. i want to turn around america. >> make ron paul the spoiler? >> i think we have too many laws is what the problems are. >> turn back the -- >> the esta...

the real winner in the caucuses, though it may have certainly been rick santorum who truly, within eight votes just missed the top spot. take a look at those numbers on your leaderboard. its just absolutely miraculous. the closest iowa caucus vote in history. the top four, mitt romney, santorum, ron paul and newt gingrich. >> and it didnt become official until about 2:30 eastern time this morning if you were watching. so we have romney congratulating santorum. and he says that he and s...

michele bachmann, the congresswoman from minnesota, only 5%. jon huntsman, the former utah governor, 1%. let me show you our official projections as of right now. well put it up on the board over here. we cant project who wins or comes in second, because it is so close between rick santorum and mitt romney, but we can project that ron paul, the congressman from texas, will come in third. newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house, will come in fourth. rick perry, the governor of te...

Texas has created over a million jobs. you cant ignore that. >> now, ive got a -- ive got a home -- i guess a home country question for you. whenchele bachmann and talked about the country needing a margaret thatcher, you actually agreed with that comparison. why? >> there are a lot of things that are very similar to early margaret thatcher, theres no doubt about that at all. i mean, margaret thatcher was famously asked about whether or not she would do a u-turn on something, and she said the l ...

Iowa caucuses, and its not a very big stretch that he wont or will, basically had is going to be a man who is going to be very hard to stop. if he goes into hnew hampshire and then wins that, hell have a two-fer under his belt and it will be mitt romneys republican party. unless somebody can stop him. if he doesnt win the iowa caucuses, who is it who is on top? is it rick santorum? is he now the new un-romney? the new alternative to mitt romney heading into these other contests he says hes going...

>> two reasons. one, hes the only one between gingrich, bachmann and perry hes only one running what i call a serious president. gingrich ran for brand-building potential. bachmann ran to get her name out there. if perry falls flat on his face, and santorum gets 30% and gingrich goes to th9% additio-- >> perry would be a fool to drop out before south carolina. >> he says he wants a third place finish. what if hes fifth or worse? >> i think -- i agree with matt that if its extremely lopsided, if ...

Also hit new hampshire as well at the end of the week for those debates. bachmann, that is the big question mark. you heard last hour with soledad say im moving on regardless. i dont know, if she finishes in the single digits, the low single digits, its tough. its tough for her to move on. she doesnt have a lot of money. her campaign doesnt have a lot of money. >> whats your sense about other issues that might impact the turnout tonight? >> reporter: a good question. it is decision day here, rig...

Bachmann takes some of that, perry takes some of that. thats the big "x" factor. >> the bigger -- first of all, he wins tonight, thats important tonight. the bigger the margin, harder for other guys to make a claim they need to stay on and go on to south carolina. >> lets talk about other guys, like rick perry has been hammering santorum hard, negative ads. this is his -- the target is on rick santorums back if youre rick perry. any chance that rick perry takes any votes away from rick santorum?...

Iowa-specific appeal. i know hes got a lot of support. but of the candidates, he is the least likely to win the nomination. its impossible. its not going to happen. >> no, but thats why -- >> you want to prop him up. >> if youre a democrat, youre asking yourself, okay, the one candidate in this republican field who conceivably given how bad the economy is right now, it may get worse next year, romney has the best shot on paper in the general election. whos the most likely non-romney guy or woman...

You wouldnt know it by all the media attention and the candidates havent had much time to spend, but the one thing thats the same is most of the ads out there are negative, big surprise. kyra? >> so, who is spending the most? >> texas governor rick perry is spending the most. his campaign, kyra, shells out almost $2 million on spots in iowa and another half a million came from the independent superpac working on his behalf. and second is mitt romfully and his superpac spent $1.6 million and roun...