in recent history, since the 70s, since they really established themselves, their political prominence, as these early voting contests. you mentioned these big differences, you said it. iowa has far more conservative, more evangelical religious voters. in new hampshire, not the case. the numbers are far, far less than that. in 2008, there were exit polling was conducted and it was shown that republicans leaving the polls just about 21% of those republicans here in new hampshire considered themselves to be very conservative. another big difference is that in iowa, there is a lot of farm business. big agriculture. here in new hampshire, the backbone of the economy is small business and so these candidates are talking a lot about the economy, a lot about their plans to fix things. shep. shep: you know, last time i was there where you re standing in 2008, the voters were telling us we don t much care what happened in iowa. is that still the case? yeah. we heard a lot of that. the vote
are so different that no incumbent gop presidential candidate has ever won both, not in recent history, since the 70s, since they really established themselves, their political prominence, as these early voting contests. you mentioned these big differences, you said it. iowa has far more conservative, more evangelical religious voters. in new hampshire, not the case. the numbers are far, far less than that. in 2008, there were exit polling was conducted and it was shown that republicans leaving the polls just about 21% of those republicans here in new hampshire considered themselves to be very conservative. another big difference is that in iowa, there is a lot of farm business. big agriculture. here in new hampshire, the backbone of the economy is small business and so these candidates are talking a lot about the economy, a lot about their plans to fix things. shep. shep: you know, last time i was there where you re standing in 2008, the voters were telling us we don t much care wh
new hampshire voters? reporter: a different landscape and challenge in new hampshire. some similarities. both mostly caucasian states. but there are a lot of key differences. you hit a main one: conservatism. there are a lot of conservatives. particularly religious conservatives and evangelical conservatives in iowa but not in new hampshire, a small portion. exit polling in 2008 when people were asked, how conservative they felt they were, very conservative was just 21 percent of people loaning the exit polls and republicans leading the polls. in 2008. and a big could be tingent in new hampshire of those that sometimes vote democrat and sometimes vote republican. in this contest, the independents can vote in the republican primary or they could cast their vote for president obama so it will be interesting to see how many come out and vote in this primary and come out and pick the republican candidate and how many are watching. we had a chance to talk to a lot of voters and we spoke wi
molly is in new hampshire. what are they doing to win over new hampshire voters? reporter: a different landscape and challenge in new hampshire. some similarities. both mostly caucasian states. but there are a lot of key differences. you hit a main one: conservatism. there are a lot of conservatives. particularly religious conservatives and evangelical conservatives in iowa but not in new hampshire, a small portion. exit polling in 2008 when people were asked, how conservative they felt they were, very conservative was just 21 percent of people loaning the exit polls and republicans leading the polls. in 2008. and a big could be tingent in new hampshire of those that sometimes vote democrat and sometimes vote republican. in this contest, the independents can vote in the republican primary or they could cast their vote for president obama so it will be interesting to see how many come out and vote in this primary and come out and pick the republican
chris, good morning. thanks for having me. i think people will be surprised because senator santorum s got a good ground game. he s got talented people on board and working the ground game hard. in south carolina, our republican primary voters expect to see him on the ground here. do you think santorum needs romney to make a mistake to really have a good chance, dick? i don t think so. i agree with chad. we ve seen rick santorum here time and time again over last several months. it s important to understand, look at numbers last night, new york times did some exit polling, the conservative republicans went with santorum. the evangelical republicans went with santorum. and mitt romney came in to iowa 25%, came out with 25%, got less votes this time than he did four years ago and the most exciting thing for democrats is, only 122,000 republicans voted yesterday or went to the caucuses yesterday. that s half of what turned out for barack obama in and hillary