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A disappointing second, to michele bachmann, but he carried this area very strongly. he's struggling a bit there tonight. that's an indication that romney's having a harder time. now let's come back to 2012, again, and look at the map. this to me is still the biggest impact of the night. we're missing the votes out here in the western part of the state. woodbury county, where sioux city is, 3.5% of the population. some of these counties have a lot of democrats. you say, oh, it's 5% of the population, but you know it's a democratic county. this is conservative republican country. we don't have ...

Another race, almost. it's going to be very hard for rick santorum to really pick this up and take advantage of it. the burden on a candidate now is massive. and he doesn't have an infrastructure. >> james, as a democratic strategist, how does the obama white house view this race tonight? >> well, look, a broken clock is right twice a day. political spin can be right about that often. the spin at the white house is happy is absolutely true. what jessica said, it's undisputable. for this night, i don't know what it means pb but you look at these results, with the way the turnout looks, with the...

118,000 range. but jessica does make an important point. have been even republicans say the intensity gap early on, they want to see that the tea party enthusiasm of 2010 carries over to 2012. so we want to see that number at the the end. that isn't it. but wolf, when you watch this, you see a slight santorum lead. there's a couple things you look for the dynamics. four years ago, we had a two-man race. look at now, you have a three-man race. newt gingrich is winning run county. one of the big stories tonight, regardless of how we end up in the end, ron paul won one county. we don't have the r...

Divided support, as you've heard, from so many of the people already. and that, really, if he were going to somehow pull ahead, he needed at least, say, around 45% support tonight. so what they think they're looking at is a more drawn-out battle, which is just fine with them, because, of course, an incumbent president wants to sit in the white house and wait as long as he can before he faces a challenger. the other thing they're going to be looking at, wolf, though, is turnout tonight. and remember, the republicans got 120,000 people out to the caucuses last time around. the democrats got 240,...

>> that was a lifetime ago. >> that was a lifetime ago. but, you know, she made a big point, if she was born in iowa, this was going to be her state. this was going to be -- >> so you think she might drop out or, given her money situation? >> soul searching is what you -- i think, yes. >> and if you're rick perry, what justification do you have for going forward? just because you've got money in the bank? >> the justification of going forward, i talked to rick perry today. he said he's the only conservative who can mount a national effort, fund-raising effort, against mitt romney. ca...