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Moines. less than two hours from the start of the iowa caucuses. here with some perspective on tonight's big event is the republican governor of this state. terry branstad. welcome, governor. >> welcome, bret. great to have you at our capitol building. >> a gorgeous place, thanks for having us. i heard you talk about predictions or turn out. the weather is pretty nice and what is your thought about coming out. >> my friend says a lot of peopler concerned about the direction the country is going. the national debt going up more than a trillion dollars every year since obama has been president a...

Moines. less than two hours from the start of the iowa caucuses. here with some perspective on tonight's big event is the republican governor of this state. terry branstad. welcome, governor. >> welcome, bret. great to have you at our capitol building. >> a gorgeous place, thanks for having us. i heard you talk about predictions or turn out. the weather is pretty nice and what is your thought about coming out. >> my friend says a lot of peopler concerned about the direction the country is going. the national debt going up more than a trillion dollars every year since obama has been president a...

hour three of the candidates are taking part in a rock the caucus rally, targeting younger voters. i want you to listen in here. i think we got michele bachmann, ron paul, rick santorum, all of them looking for the last-minute vote. let's listen in -- >> -- to do business if you're a job creator because of our tax code. i'm a tax lawyer. i want to abolish the tax code and do away with it and put it in its place a pro-growth code so that you can wildly succeed with your future and with your plan. i want a future for you. i want a hope for you. and we can do that if we open up the oppo...

this is decision day in iowa. just four hours from now, republicans will gather in caucuses across the state and cast the first votes in the 2012 campaign. the candidates have spent months of the trial paving the way with millions in campaign cash. much of that money has gone towards a barrage of negative advertising. now, in a final flurry of appearances, the rhetoric has reached a new peak or maybe a new low. >> you said mitt romney, somebody who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president. i have to ask you, are you calling mitt romney a liar? >>...

Nbc's domenico montanaro is in the middle of it all in iowa. domenico, what's it like? >> reporter: it's really interesting. everybody's out there on the trail. it looks like this is coming down to a three-person race between romney, paul, and santorum. i was about 50 miles south of south dakota, out in orange city and sioux city, and a lot of enthusiasm for rick santorum. a lot of people said they had just made up their mind in the past week that they liked bachmann, they liked gingrich, but now they're with santorum. we're seeing him start to rise, and if he coalesce religious voters, he cou...