and you can't control the other variables, you wish and hope that you could, but in the end, you can't. >> governor, the straw poll in iowa obviously was a turning point for you, you dropped out of the race the day following, it doesn't have any significance in terms of delegate selection, it's symbolic, but it's extremely expensive. you spent a lot of money there, a lot of effort there, then if you can't win, you said, you didn't see a pathway forward. is the iowa straw poll becoming too much of a challenge and maybe becoming irrelevant or see that it has a place in the future of the republican process? >> well, i think what you saw during this campaign so far a lot of these straw polls, iowa, being one of the earliest and prominent, a benchmark, but for us we put down a lot of chips early on that aims straw poll and as it turns out. three days later, a week later, the media, pundits, observers, the voters moved on