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>> it appears somewhere around a third or so of the potential voted be population could change their mind and it is not necessarily they are undecided kut but could change their mind and a caucus system allows for that to occur, because of the unique process. and i think that because the voting doesn't begin until the evening of tuesday, there is no absentee vote, clearly, that this final home stretch of campaigning can make a big difference and we could see a surprise something we're not expecting on tuesday evening. >> jamie: when i spoke to rick santorum, he joined me on "happening now" on ...

♪ ♪ >> bob: that is definitely queen. [ laughter ] we talked about newt, but some people say newt is his own worst enemy. here is what i'm talking about. >> really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working. have nobody around them who works so they literally have no habit of showing up on monday. no habit of staying all day. no habit of i do this and you give me cash, unless it's illegal. >> bob: this is the kind of thing in a general election would be devastating for newt. in the republican primary caucus system, that is not far off from what both republicans th...

The caucus process came out of democratic party reforms in light of the 1968 convention. the idea was, we don't want to sigh any smoke-filled rooms. >> iowa caucus historian, jeff stein, said that led to big changes in his state. >> for 1972, they decided to elongate the process, start picking delegates at precinct level, then the county and then the state and to the national connection. -- national convention. so there was citizen input from the start itch the new, elongated process, required iowa democrats to hold their first round of caucuses in 20,000 or so precincts, much earlier than bef...

Rank and file more power itch the caucus process came out of democratic party reforms in light of the 1968 convention. the idea was, we don't want to sigh any smoke-filled rooms. >> iowa caucus historian, jeff stein, said that led to big changes in his state. >> for 1972, they decided to elongate the process, start picking delegates at precinct level, then the county and then the state and to the national connection. -- national convention. so there was citizen input from the start itch the new, elongated process, required iowa democrats to hold their first round of caucuses in 20,000 or so pr...