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2012 ballots are cast, iowa caucuses on january 3rd. first up, nbc news campaign embed alex moshi is in iowa on the ground. alex, who is banking on a win in iowa? >> well, i think all the candidates right now are really trying to, you know, grasp all the voters in iowa. they want to win here. it's obviously the first nominating process -- state in the process. we've seen rick santorum here a lot. he's visited all 99 counties. mitt romney was here yesterday. drawing crowds of over 200 people. so we're really looking at it's a wide-open game. herman cain and mitt romney are still in the lead her...

huge transformation, of course. i think what people realize is you go here and it almost changes every single day. the first couple of weeks it was maybe 100 people. you know, sleeping on the ground with a tarp pulled over them and a backpack or in a sleeping bag and now we've started to see tents pop up and as really as the city has started to give us more space to do what we want to do which is express our first amendment rights. i think it's allowed us to try to get more organized. that's why this movement has come so far. >> talk to me about the tents. i've seen a number of what ...

changes every single day. the first couple of weeks it was maybe 100 people. you know, sleeping on the ground with a tarp pulled over them and a backpack or in a sleeping bag and now we've started to see tents pop up and as really as the city has started to give us more space to do what we want to do which is express our first amendment rights. i think it's allowed us to try to get more organized. that's why this movement has come so far. >> talk to me about the tents. i've seen a number of what appear to be sort of military-style tents. >> it is. one of the things we've realized in ...