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Broadcast the next hour. michele bachmann, mitt romney and newt gingrich will hold their caucus party in this city. all six making the most of their last chance to convince undecided voters. can you imagine what they are going through? this is the first vote of the presidential season and these candidates have been in this state for months trying to make their pitch to iowa voters. news * and mitt romney will be taking a break from campaigning to join me in a few minutes. you heard from rick per...

Balanced budgets, we have a balanced budget amendment to our constitution in texas. our legislature meets only 140 days every other year, and we lead the nation in the creation of jobs. thats what americans are looking for, a person whos principled, not tied to that washington crowd. megyn: but they also want somebody who can win, and they want, you know, thats why a lot of people believe that mitt romney is doing as well as hes doing, even with conservative voters who dont think hes conservativ...

Broadcast the next hour. michele bachmann, mitt romney and newt gingrich will hold their caucus party in this city. all six making the most of their last chance to convince undecided voters. can you imagine what they are going through? this is the first vote of the presidential season and these candidates have been in this state for months trying to make their pitch to iowa voters. news * and mitt romney will be taking a break from campaigning to join me in a few minutes. you heard from rick per...

Newt takes some of that, 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...

Yoe -- >> and return the $15 million. >> 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 ma...

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...

christine romans will show you why iowa voters may not be asking the same questions as you. lets go ahead and begin with jim in west des moines. youve been with rick santorum almost 24/7. you do let the guy sleep. whats that been like? >> reporter: it has been amazing to watch, kyra. who would have thought when all of this got start that had we would be chasing rick santorum around in the final 24 hours before the iowa caucuses that the international press, he had the japanese, the ger...

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...

2012. we were getting you up to speed on the bizarre fires. look at this man with the ponytail. hes been arrested. this is the worst string of fires in that city since the riots of 92. get this. there may be annism grags beef allegedly involved with this arrest. lots more to tell yu about that. thats coming up. >> he looked like he was kind of smirking in that video. a man accused of killing a park ranger is found dead fats down in a waterfall. apparently the exposure to all the co...

Could win new hampshire. if he won here or did something interpreted as a win, he will be hard to stop in north carolina. the type of candidate that appeals down there is much the same as here. that is, conservative evangelical wing of the party. thats why perry and bachmann are headed there, though they too will come back for debates. >> thank you, candy. lets give a flavor of what is going on 24 hours before voting in iowa. . ron paul is in cedar falls. lets listen to what he is saying. >> the...