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Different stages of sort of undecided, could change their mind, havent picked a candidate, not sure. so thats an awful lot of folks. now, do they pay attention to the candidate of the moment? they most certainly do, and a lot of them will tell you, hey, lets take a look at rick santorum. and today at an event here in polk county the room was packed. yes, granted, much of it was media, but there are an awful lot of curious folks that wanted to take a look at him, and a bunch of them were undecide...

Listen, i got all the respect in the world for my opponents but you have to ask yourself are we going to replace a democrat insider with a republican insider and expect to get any change in washington, d.c.? >> i am not a politician. i am not an establishment person. i am a real authentic iowans. and that is what they want. someone who will reflect their values. >> dont think im going to win, i think if you look at the numbers, that volume of negativity has done enough damage. >> bret: sight and...

Bit of that commitment in order to compete tomorrow night. >> michael steele, one question a lot of questions some have. if theyre picking a nominee, thats good for romney, in a general election, who is the most electable? >> 48% say romney and nobody else is sitting there. next would be gingrich at 13%. whats iowa doing, do you think? are they picking a nominee. >> >> with 40% is still undecided and thats hard to tell. in the first poll that you showed, the understatedness of the romney commitm...

We began this process of winnowing down the field, the number of undecides has reduced not only over the past month but over the past three days. ppp had a poll today that had only 11% undecided. >> that poll is one we dont put a whole lot of stock in it quite frankly. >> what we know is that the field is -- that voters are making their mind up on the field. well see as those candidates who have the best organization in the state are probably going to be those are the ones who do the best on cau...

Candidates, they are all socially conservative enough, and fiscally conservative enough but they are trying to get all the information they can before the call. trace? >>trace: we talked about undecided but the undecided are running out of time, now. >>reporter: they are. they are. we are a little over 24 hours before the meeting start before people actually start making the speeches on behalf of the canidates and voting takes place. steve king, congressman from iowa, and influential republican ...

Yesterday. >> even with all the exposure, one high profile iowa republican says pondering may go down to the last second. >> i know what it is like to sit in the precinct and be undecided. there will be a lot of caucus goers who make up their mind in that room that night. >> the undecided are much more interested in the practical issue and whether or not a campaign has enough money in the bank or momentum to win in iowa but the nomination. and the general election. bret? >> bret: steve brown liv...

This could be a bad year too. i dont know. i think this is so unpredictable, 41% undecided. we dont know whats going to happen. >> no doubt. >> thank you so much for coming in. it would not be java joes without andrea mitchell. >> this is where it all began. >> youre off where today? >> im going to head to do my show, im going to try to catch up with ron paul today. >> with rand, his son. >> two pa >> and still ahead this hour, michele bachmann will be our guest here on the set at java joes also...

>> also, weve got something very unusual thats happening in mt. rainier. theres been a murder of a park ranger and theyre looking for this person. they feel like hes escaped on foot at this point and have had to actually rescue some of the people that have been camping. well tell you more details about that. >> the fat weather service says blizzard condition in the great lakes could make the travel youre trying to execute impossible. >> isnt this like one of the busiest days of the yea...

change between today and tuesday. >> but, look, i think this is a volatile environment, where people are going to walk in undecided or semi-decided, and maybe as many as 50% could switch during the course of the caucuses. >> hes not the only one hoping undecided voters will break his way. michele bachmann was out today too. she hopes iowans will decide to back a native daughter so she can prove the pollsters wrong. well, the new year is bringing new violence to syria. video posted on...

Instead of down, creeping up. >> encourage your people to come out of the caucus, going there undecided is be just fine but lots of them -- >> helping them make up their minds. >> watch that dynamics of that happen. 1,774 caucus locations. that means if youve got 1,774 well-respected effective speakers on our behalf, youre going to pick up a lot of the undecided. thats going to make the difference on tuesday night. >> congressman steve king, thank you so much. up next, another week, another se...