position he s had fours years ago and today. and he s not expanded that, but it may be enough to win this thing this time, but his vote was been pretty steady and no erosion. santorum is a guy who is hot, he has got the momentum. not as hot as mike huckabee was, not as good a candidate was mike huckabee was four years ago, but the guy that s basically got this solid organization, the best organization by far is ron paul. and in spite of getting beat up a little last week, his people are not going to go away. now, it depends on voters turnouts and he could easily, in the second place today and those are the three that really are players, gingrich and bachmann are all behind and at this point in time one of those three will come in first and the other two will be very close i m sure. joe, we kept hearing that this year would be different and you could win in iowa just with the national debate and tv commercials and yet we see rick santorum making this late
romney has the same position he s had fours years ago and today. and he s not expanded that, but it may be enough to win this thing this time, but his vote was been pretty steady and no erosion. santorum is a guy who is hot, he has got the momentum. not as hot as mike huckabee was, not as good a candidate was mike huckabee was four years ago, but the guy that s basically got this solid organization, the best organization by far is ron paul. and in spite of getting beat up a little last week, his people are not going to go away. now, it depends on voters turnouts and he could easily, in the second place today and those are the three that really are players, gingrich and bachmann are all behind and at this point in time one of those three will come in first and the other two will be very close i m sure. joe, we kept hearing that this year would be different and you could win in iowa just with the national debate and tv commercials and yet we see
looking for someone, a candidate of the moment and that moment is not being spoken to. and is there a chance that, you re the architect of momentum coming out of iowa, back to the carter days, where you know, he won technically, i mean, you know, for practical purposes he won iowa and came in second, no commitment. he beat everybody else, that came out of iowa. there s a long distance between iowa caucus and new hampshire, and not so now. does that change who winsee aye. back then we didn t have the process and or jam everything into each other or christmas and new years. and loading up the system in 1984 is joe who ran the mondale campaign who was on earlier and we went back in iowa and gary hart finished second and used that in one
this is the kind of numbers we dealt with four years ago, and in the end, they want to be with a winner. and evangelicals, if it s not santorum, to be the banner carrier and you ll start to see it fold in pretty quick. joe? i think that iowa is pull of surprises and they will surprise you every time. there are going to be a lot of people that go into that caucus, it s a situation where things move in that room. and they move in unexpected ways and i i really believe something disruptive is likely to happen on tuesday. gentlemen, thank you both so much for the expert analysis, we ll see how the world turns tuesday night. bret. bret: all right, chris, thank you. they say all politics is local. we ll examine the iowa economy and what the iowa voter is looking for when we come back.
dealt with four years ago, and in the end, they want to be with a winner. and evangelicals, if it s not santorum, to be the banner carrier and you ll start to see it fold in pretty quick. joe? i think that iowa is pull of surprises and they will surprise you every time. there are going to be a lot of people that go into that caucus, it s a situation where things move in that room. and they move in unexpected ways and i i really believe something disruptive is likely to happen on tuesday. gentlemen, thank you both so much for the expert analysis, we ll see how the world turns tuesday night. bret. bret: all right, chris, thank you. they say all politics is local. we ll examine the iowa economy and what the iowa voter is looking for when we come back.