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the united states supreme court. i will have the type of individuals working, the philosophy that we share, to go into those agencies that are overregulating us, that are killing jobs, that will pull back all those regulations since the '08 and have them audited. if they're killing jobs, they're out of here. we need a president of the united states that not only respects that constitution but looks down at the bill of rights and gets down to number ten where we talk about the powers delegated to the united states by the constitution or or reserved for the states respectively or to th...

Right now that consists of six candidates. at some point that will narrow. people will have to choose. when they start thinking about the electability issue, what i heard iowa voters, people going to caucus here this evening, have been saying in the last few days, that's really starting to influence and shape their opinions about this race. they want somebody that can win in november and when voters start focusing on that, defeating barack obama is the ultimate goal here. they're starting to gravitate toward governor romney. that will continue. >> if he were to win the nomination, are you shor...

Right now that consists of six candidates. at some point that will narrow. people will have to choose. when they start thinking about the electability issue, what i heard iowa voters, people going to caucus here this evening, have been saying in the last few days, that's really starting to influence and shape their opinions about this race. they want somebody that can win in november and when voters start focusing on that, defeating barack obama is the ultimate goal here. they're starting to gravitate toward governor romney. that will continue. >> if he were to win the nomination, are you shor...

Earlier there's this precipitous decline as santorum was surging. you could just see ron paul going down. is that partly because of iran, foreign policy concerns that he's not material to be commander in chief? >> i think that is probably not as big a deal for a lot of iowans as it is for people in washington and in politics and certainly for the candidates, michele bachmann has been more outspoken on that as have some of the other candidates. i think it's more an electability issue, less offe e offensive to positions than the notion of time to pick a president and i think overall, ron paul ha...

Why? we've never seen anything like this. >> well, you know, the lead has changed hands just about as many times as you can imagine. in fact, rick santorum's the only one who's not been in the lead and now there's some people who think he might be the one who will actually win. i think iowa voters are looking for the best candidate, nobody's perfect but they're looking for a strong candidate because they know the country's in trouble. when you increase the national debt more than a trillion dollars every year that obama has been president and when you attack the private sector business decisio...