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Conservative senators have an out-sized impact on that chamber? >> they might. i think it depends who wins in 2012. do republicans take control of the chamber? second, what kind of republican wins those seats that allows them to take the majority? as we found from the 2010 election a lot of tea party republicans won but a lot of conventional and even a few moderate republicans won because that's what it took to win in certain seats in certain districts. i think the tea party has a good chance to wield influence in '12 and to have influence in the next congress, which will begin in january of 2...

>> governor, do you have anything or would anyone within your close circle have anything to do with this add or did the teacher come up with the ad herself? >> actually it's our campaign that did the ad but this teacher literally sat down in front of a camera like i am right now and just talked. she just talked what was on her heart. we have another teacher starting with a similar ad today and we will have workers in the private sector and parents and grandparents. but she just said what was on her mind. it's amaze to go see how outrageous it is. that's what happens when you see so much influe...

>> going off for 17 days in hawaii. he will be playing a lot of golf. he told congress that they needed to stay in session and pass his tax break for the payroll tax. and that they shouldn't leave for vacation until they did that and yet he's going off for 17 days for golf in the sun. i just think it's time to have a president whose idea of being hands-on does not meaning getting a better grip on the golf club. >> it's sort of interesting that governor romney is going after the president. that's the first question. the second, is it a fair criticism he's going off to hawaii for a christmas vac...

They would have been obligated to go and vote for mccain for a certain amount of delegates but they would have been ron paul people. there will be probably one quarter of the people who turn out in a normal midterm gubernatorial race in iowa, will turn out and vote in the caucuses. it will be the libertarian flock that will matter. iowa is a state with a strong isolation over 100 years and that will help them as well. >> i don't think endorsements are that potent. people pay attention to them because you get media attention and some money bounce from them but not that potent. and i was struck ...

Congresswoman bachmann. but has he been aggressive toward his colleagues in this at all some. >> not unreasonably so. he took a whack at governor romney last week after saying he was not going to do it. he said he was more conservative romney and we should not nominate somebody whose views were prone to change and who is undependable. he took a pretty explicit whack at him but that's what it is about. it's not unfair or unreasonable. entirely within the bounds of fairness. i suspect we will see tougher language on the part of all the candidates toward each other. that's not necessarily a bad t...