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Fluctuating polls for others on the final day of the campaign trail. the latest "des moines register" poll showing the political pendulum in iowa swinging away from ron paul and toward rick santorum as we're talking about. however, ron paul is hitting the state hard today after a weekend braeng, hoping to reverse that tornado. he and he's recruited his son, tea party faifrlt, rand paul to the front lines. paul also making the case this weekend that he is electable. >> i always say that i'm pretty mainstream. i think that people who are attacking me now are the ones who can't defend their recor...

The final day of the campaign trail. the latest "des moines register" poll showing the political pendulum in iowa swinging away from ron paul and toward rick santorum as we're talking about. however, ron paul is hitting the state hard today after a weekend braeng, hoping to reverse that tornado. he and he's recruited his son, tea party faifrlt, rand paul to the front lines. paul also making the case this weekend that he is electable. >> i always say that i'm pretty mainstream. i think that people who are attacking me now are the ones who can't defend their records and have been all over the pl...

75 to 150 voters coming out to give him a second look. >> nbc campaign embed carrie dann, thank you so much. >> thanks a lot. rick santorum is telling iowans to pay attention to the candidates that have made their votes and opinions a priority. >> thank you for getting our message out there about we've got the conservative kre dengs, we ha we have the track record. we have made the case we're the best candidate out there that they can trust. >> nbc's andrew rafferty joins me by telephone. santorum is doing things the old-fashioned way which could pay off at the caucuses. >> that's right. ric...

As a result, iowans are opening their mail bocks to a slew of negative letters and pamphlets all targeting gingrich. nbc's campaign embed is in des moines, alex mo. good to see you. give us your -- >> how are you? >> i'm great, thank you. give us an idea of what kind of mailers we're seeing. describe them. >> that's right. as you said, there was a slew of negative mailers in iowans' mailboxes. i saw at least eight and five of them were specifically targeting newt gingrich. one from ron paul, mitt romney campaign, and two from a pro-mitt romney super pact, all targeting newt gingrich. and the o...

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...