iowa voters were inundated with information over the past three weeks, i talked to the winningers, a couple who will be supporting mitt rondell any tonight at caucuses and describing their life, averaged ten phone calls a day from the campaigns and got mail out the wazoo. and last night a phone call at his mother s house inviting them to go to participate in a town hall with mitt romney, 22,000 people from across iowa participated in this teletown hall. a ramally teletown hall and an opportunity to ask questions. and it wasn t on the schedule and romney campaign says over 22,000 participated and reminded to come to this event. they went to the eevent and listened to the speech and i asked them immediately after the speech, what do you think, i m a romney voter now. a lot of people went to events and did seem to be a little bit of sampling and you saw in the des moines register
iowa voters were inundated with information over the past three weeks, i talked to the winningers, a couple who will be supporting mitt rondell any tonight at caucuses and describing their life, averaged ten phone calls a day from the campaigns and got mail out the wazoo. and last night a phone call at his mother s house inviting them to go to participate in a town hall with mitt romney, 22,000 people from across iowa participated in this teletown hall. a ramally teletown hall and an opportunity to ask questions. and it wasn t on the schedule and romney campaign says over 22,000 participated and reminded to come to this event. they went to the eevent and listened to the speech and i asked them immediately after the speech, what do you think, i m a romney voter now. a lot of people went to events and did seem to be a little bit of sampling and you saw in the des moines register
their recovery. in other news now, the senate has agreed to extend the federal payroll tax cut but only for two months instead of a year. the house hasn t scheduled a vote on the measure yet and many house republicans aren t happy with the temporary extension. president barack obama backs the deal, but he s calling on law makers to do more. i m very please ad to see th work the senate has done. while this agreement is for two months, it is my expectation, in fact, it would be inexcusable for congress nigot to further extend this middle classes tax cut for the rest of the year. it should be a formality and hopefully it s done with as little drama as possible when they get back in january. in the meantime, president obama is expected to sign a spending bill passed by the senate today, which will keep the government running through september 30th. you hear the drums, kind of know what s going on. it s the occupy wall street movement, returning at least for one day. today s
to say he s all in in iowa is not fair to the romney campaign. but he s clearly made the decision to compete. the irony of all of this, newt gingrich is the one candidate so far, the major candidates that you have to spend a dime in iowa. he s there campaigning today, but i think it s interesting, we hearing from romney, he s got the ad and now chris christie is going to do a teletown hall with io io iowans, doing these phone conference calls with 2500 caucus goers getting a phone call and saying, stay on the phone, listen to chris christie. we ll see how that goes. thanks chuck todd. republicans are saying they will support extending the payroll tax cut by capping fall salaries for three years and withholding some benefits from millionaires. democrats say that s not good enough and the plan won t pass. bob corker is live on hill.
was the one who had the idea for the meeting, for the teletown hall, who requested it and that as breakfast was finishing last week, they, leaving hi parpt and she said, this would be a great thing for us to do, would you consider it. we have a lot of good sound bites we have coming out of that that we will play for folks. third quarter numbers over the weekend, originally saying, past the deadline, right, jamie? she didn t seem to be too phased. she raised what some people thought was $4 million. but she spent a lot more as well. what s the mood from the staff there? well, the campaign remains optimistic that has been there posture from the very beginning. it wasn t broken. they think that they are going to do very well in iowa. they are staking their campaign on iowa. and in some parts on new hampshire. and south carolina.