a lot of people focus on it and it s the gold standard. and two questions really interesting in this poll. could you still be persuaded to support another candidate? you heard chris wallace mention it earlier and could be persuaded at 41%? now, the other question that caught our eye, is this your first iowa caucus? and that was, first caucus, 27%. what does that tell you about the caucus goers going into tuesday. tells me a lot of ron paul people, are out there. and they ve not participated before. that s a lot for ron paul. what about the santorum surge here. how does he have to make it real in all of these precincts? what does he have to tell the 41% to get them over the top? well, you know, the caucus is a neighborhood meeting. and it s actually a native american term for meeting of tribal leaders, so this is your friends and neighbors and they get together and santorum as people are talking to other
republicansment and it s abouten true historicalically, true in 2008 on both sides and mike huckabee outperformed his final number by 2 1/2 points and barack obama outperformed his final poll number for 5 1/2 points. bret: although the democrats have a second choice and in caucus they can move around. the way that the caucus unfolds is different, but the point is, surging candidates usually continue their surge and again, especially if there s nothing standing in the way. i mean, mitt romney is not going to be dropping negative ads on rick santorum right now. he may mention him as he did today. bret: tonight he praised him. said he s a good guy and not surprised he s doing well. yeah and for romney, if santorum or paul do well, that s a good thing for rit romney. well, santorum is good and bad. if he won the evangelicals, rallied around and the anti-romney. he doesn t want that he wants them splintered and broken up
2008. my friend and colleague bill hemmer has that from the touch screen. hey, bill, happy new year. and to you as well. i think it s been 21 hours. good to see you both and good evening. we re brg back the billboard and show you on the touch screen. we want find out how u.k. mike huckabee won and what was the success. and you tried to figure out what happened during the iowa caucus here. on the map behind us you ll see huckabee was the winner, and behind him was mitt romney. so we took the state and broke it down based on county. the counties that huckabee won is the deep red here in the middle. what romney did, he won the corners. romney won everything on the west side, which tends to be a little more conservative. and he won everything on the east side, all of these counties here, which tends to be a little more liberal. so he book-ended the states. one exception in this entire map from three years ago and this county here is jefferson
a lot of people focus on it and it s the gold standard. and two questions really interesting in this poll. could you still be persuaded to support another candidate? n be persuaded at 41%? now, the other question that caught our eye, is this your first iowa caucus? and that was, first caucus, 27%. what does that tell you about the caucus goers going into tuesday. tells me a lot of ron paul people, are out there. and they ve not participated before. that s a lot for ron paul. what about the santorum surge here. how does he have to make it real in all of these precincts? what does he have to tell the 41% to get them over the top? well, you know, the caucus is a neighborhood meeting. and it s actually a native american term for meeting of tribal leaders, so this is your friends and neighbors and they get together and santorum as people are talking to other
shutdowns. and they worked at pella for 14 years. loretta one of nearly 200 employees shown the door in november. and tim has a job there, but with one child in college and another about to go. fiscal discipline has become issue number one. at home and caucus night. if we can find somebody who can do just exactly what my family is doing and that is to control our spending and live within their means, overall the economy here is better than most places. the town s other big employer, premier corporation, is booming. adding 100 jobs to make farming, mining adrilling equipment. and that s helped buoy up other businesses that might have suffered. smoky rose coffee is brewing up profits and the meats had the best year in decades. we ve had one company lessen and the other increase, and that helps to keep it stable around here. this is a small town, almost everyone knows someone