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>> that's important to say. the different people we have in here are different representatives of candidates who actually spoke. so you, sir, you spoke for newt gingrich. >> i did, yes, sir. >> what is your name? >> chris walker. >> what is your name? >> rob johnson. i spoke for rick perry. >> gloria sissen, mitt romney. >> and you spoke for ron paul. >> i did. nathan o'connor. >> well, thank you very much to you all. so that's what it looks like. if we can go back over here, the counting is progressing fairly quickly, wolf. we're going through just a small group of names. we're also trying to...

Here because i don't want to get their counts. how quickly does this happen? i mean, it looks like they're going to be done in five minutes. >> we don't mess around here in the hawkeye state. so we've got the whole world waiting to see the results from ankeny ten. but this process is happening in 770 other precincts simultaneously. the best of the grassroots process. >> what's interesting to me was last time around we had, what, a social conservative at the very top. and the guy who won the nomination ended up actually getting second here. >> correct. in this precinct four years ago mike hucka...

Under way. in ankeny, you see as they're speaking, you see the paperwork in the corner here. this is a unique process. we can take you right inside. once they start to tabulate them, we've got reporters on the scene. we can watch from the caucus sites. then be we pull out, come back to the map and we'll watch the state of iowa. remember, that was completely blank a little while ago. slowly starting to tune in. you see one or two of these precincts, that 1% of the vote being reported so far. history tells us the republicans count pretty quickly. once this process gets under way. >> they make a ...

look at what we call the bottom four right now. we see newt gingrich, the governor rick perry, michele bachmann, jon huntsman. he's technically there even though he didn't campaign really in iowa. he's spending all of his time in new hampshire. presumably he'll come in last. he won't drop out because he's doing all of his campaigning in new hampshire. but remember, this is very early right now. it's sort of coincides, this top tier w the most recent polls we saw, not only our cnn/time poll, the "des moines register" poll, an nbc/marist poll. these are the three individual, the top ti...