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Some activists here in iowa decide to do, say hey, we've got to force mitt romney to keep proving his conservative credentials. to say you'rnot going to end this early. you've goto go out there and earn the conservative vote. >> matt, what about turnout? because this is a big key. bigger turnout, presumably better for romney because a lot of strategists i've talked to say thoseou bemoderates those could be independents. en democrats, who come out and say, no, we don't want a santorum, a bachmann, or paul doing that well, we don't want to present iowa that way. we want to go with romney. >> one...

Credentials. to say you'rnot going to end this early. you've goto go out there and earn the conservative vote. >> matt, what about turnout? because this is a big key. bigger turnout, presumably better for romney because a lot of strategists i've talked to say thoseou bemoderates those could be independents. en democrats, who come out and say, no, we don't want a santorum, a bachmann, or paul doing that well, we don't want to present iowa that way. we want to go with romney. >> one thing you see, in 2008 we ha a record turnout wth just under 120,000 iowa republicans. and in that four-year span ...

And this is important. this is the first voting in the presidential campaign. what's the mind-set o an iowa republican going in to this caucus? > well, i think the other y take awy, not just in the nbc/marist poll but in the "des moines register" poll is two in five voters could change their mind between caucus day. it's moved from three out of five which it was just a couple weeks ago. i think that's the juxtaposition between the desire to beat barack obama t also making sure we have a minee that c addressively articulate th republican, principle, conservative message going into a neral ectio...