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Today the thing that should scare you the most is the size of the crowds and the enthusiasm he's drawing in eastern iowa today. that is establishment republicans. they are an underrated part of the turnout here in iowa, and if south carolina establishment, as they always have in the past, rallies with the tea party governor behind him, romney, however many candidates are in south carolina, could win that, too, even though it's not been a strong state for him. >> wow. >> the establishment has one choice in iowa, one choice nationally. president bush 41 sees that, a lot of members of congress se...

Today the thing that should scare you the most is the size of the crowds and the enthusiasm he's drawing in eastern iowa today. that is establishment republicans. they are an underrated part of the turnout here in iowa, and if south carolina establishment, as they always have in the past, rallies with the tea party governor behind him, romney, however many candidates are in south carolina, could win that, too, even though it's not been a strong state for him. >> wow. >> the establishment has one choice in iowa, one choice nationally. president bush 41 sees that, a lot of members of congress se...

They are an underrated part of the turnout here in iowa, and if south carolina establishment, as they always have in the past, rallies with the tea party governor behind him, romney, however many candidates are in south carolina, could win that, too, even though it's not been a strong state for him. >> wow. >> the establishment has one choice in iowa, one choice nationally. president bush 41 sees that, a lot of members of congress see it and gingrich is not doing anything to win them over. i'm not saying romney is a lock, but somebody is going to have to encroach on the establishment vote, bot...

Just ask us, we will tell you. that's the problem we have right now. if for conservatives we have a wealth of choices here. we have at least four good choices out there. and that's -- that's one of the problems we've got right now is we're divided among so many candidates and that's one of the reason that mitt romney is hanging in there in second place because he's got the establishment vote locked up. but the tea party's divided and the conservatives are divided out among everybody else. >> may be quite an election. on the hill people are saying that the tea party has had a couple of words on...

>> it's momentum. >> and it helps if the right stays fractured, there's enough establishment vote to allow romney to win if -- especially if bachmann, perry, santorum, none of them breaks out and they all get that 12%, 13%, this is good news for romney to consolidate the establishment vote, get 26%, 25%, 27% -- >> he would be off to the races. mike, really quickly, michele bachmann picking up some pretty big crowds out in iowa. rick perry also seeming to have a bit of a surge out in iowa. what's it looking like with you guys out there? >> yeah, rick perry's going to the second week of his bus ...