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Electable. >> shepard: what's mitt romney's game plan for the campaign when iowa is finished on wednesday? >> a lot of it will depend on how he does. if he comes out with a win, shep, is he going to go on to new hampshire with a head of steam that no other nonincumbent candidate in the republic party has ever had before. romney is way ahead in new hampshire. they are preparing for a long, hard slog. if they don't do so well here in iowa they will go into new hampshire and prepared to go into south carolina, florida, after that slowly racking up all the delegates they need for what they believe...

Electable. >> shepard: what's mitt romney's game plan for the campaign when iowa is finished on wednesday? >> a lot of it will depend on how he does. if he comes out with a win, shep, is he going to go on to new hampshire with a head of steam that no other nonincumbent candidate in the republic party has ever had before. romney is way ahead in new hampshire. they are preparing for a long, hard slog. if they don't do so well here in iowa they will go into new hampshire and prepared to go into south carolina, florida, after that slowly racking up all the delegates they need for what they believe...

Evangelical christian with ties to the most conservative groups in iowa could be having a last minute surge. it could not be enough to push him to first or second but coming from the very, very back in the poll, he could be the one to win the expectations game and get banner headlines to propel the candidacy. iowa is the first of 50 states voting in a sprint at the beginning of a marathon and all campaigns have recognized twit not be over in january, it could be a long, hard slog. and whoever gets the breaks they get a lot of momentum. they all are trying to find the very, very rare caucus goe...

Predictions. newt wants to stay nice. will he do that in 2012. >> probably not. but i don't think the rest of the field is going to be nice to him as well. he will have to mount some defense against the attacks coming against him. i think he is going to be a little scroogy. >> a little naughty as well. robert, your prediction? >> i agree with karen, i don't know if scroogy is a word. but i agree. all americans hate negative politics. when you go negative, it works. newt gingrich will have to contradict his pledge about not going negative and go negative. >> robert, stay with you, romney has be...

This is going to last forever, be a long, hard slog. you do a little bit better in iowa than you expect. win new hampshire and south carolina. boom. it's over. because of expectations. >> one thing that could happen is gingrich could win most or all the early states and that's when the establishment which is not gearing up en masse to stop him now could say, okay. this isn't good for us. and that -- and we're not going to let the press force romney oust the race. we're going to california. >> one of the keys to understanding romney is despite the fact that he was way ahead a couple months ago ...