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>> tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. >> dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. let's begin with dana there. romney's two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasn't a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. it's the size of his win that's really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the party to finally rally behind him? >> reporter: well, fred, that's probably not going to happen...

Tom foreman has the breakdown. >> reporter: when the democrats do it, there's debate, horse-trading, a real raucous caucus. but the republican caucuses all around the state are much more low key. step one, show up. any voter can take part as long as he or she is already a registered republican or willing to become one at the door. step two, listen up. after the pledge of allegiance cauc caucusgoers hear speeches from people representing the candidates. they can be from in state or out, big names or small town folks. they make a quick pitch for their pick. step three, mark it up. pieces of pape...

hour three of the candidates are taking part in a rock the caucus rally, targeting younger voters. i want you to listen in here. i think we got michele bachmann, ron paul, rick santorum, all of them looking for the last-minute vote. let's listen in -- >> -- to do business if you're a job creator because of our tax code. i'm a tax lawyer. i want to abolish the tax code and do away with it and put it in its place a pro-growth code so that you can wildly succeed with your future and with your plan. i want a future for you. i want a hope for you. and we can do that if we open up the oppo...

>> rachel streitfeld, what do you glean on the trail that reporters dipping in and out might miss. >> i was based in new hampshire four months. that really gave me the opportunity to delve bought state. i did a lot of shoe leather reporting, enterprise reporting. i saw all the candidates through the state. i got a lot of contacts. i could see if there was a democratic tracker that would also ask the health care question. i would see the different way they handle questions and set up for events, which gave you insight. some use a lot of lighting, some are more low key. that was interesting to s...

>> chuck todd and peter alexander are in iowa tonight. >> abc's john carl in iowa for us tonight. >> we'll turn our critical edge on reporters in iowa and washington and especially the surge in negative reporting about ron paul. >> this the skeleton in ron paul's closet. this is from the ron paul newsletter. >> so you read them but you didn't do anything about it at the time. >> i never read this stuff. >> why did the press take so long to start examining the congressman's sometimes inflammatory record? i'm howard kurtz and we're kicking off the 2012 season onsome reliable sources." ...