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On doors and connecting with voters. but the folks at the top of this poll, mitt romney, herman cain, have spent the least amount of time in iowa. how do we explain that? >> i think first with mitt romney, we can't forget he's been an incredible sum of resources here just four years ago, so it's not like he was starting from scratch this caucus cycle. he maintains that reservoir of support from last time. i suspect we'll see more of governor romney here before january 23rd. with respect to herman cain, we saw him here a number of times before the straw poll. we haven't seen him here in the las...

Strategy. everything that we've done up to this point has worked beyond our expectations and we're just going to -- as i usually say to my staff, keep your head down and sell tickets. >> how much money did you raise this month? >> we're over $5 million. >> so more than a million a week. >> average $1.25 million a week. >> and how many more staffers have you added in the early states? >> we went from 32 staffers the day of the florida straw poll to 63 today. so we've doubled in the last 30 days. >> mark block, chief of staff to herman cain, thanks for coming in this morning. >> thanks for havin...

Kind of two-sided answer is not going to get them out of trouble. they're either going to have to come forward and say here's what happened, whether it's an apology or some kind of explanation, or they're going to have to, you know, definitively say nothing happened and face the consequences of whatever paperwork or what have you is out there. >> mark, do you think anything is to these allegations, mark? >> well, i don't know for a fact one way or the other on it. what i do suspect is absolutely the case, you know, with politico or us or anybody else in the journalism world, the first story is...

Consistency. >> a status review this afternoon for a civil case involving john edwards. a judge scheduled a hearing for later today. the case involves a suit brought by edwards' mistress, rielle hunter. she's suing to get property back from a former staffer. this weekend the white house welcomed to very wet trick-or-treaters. kids of military families and elementary school students got cookies and candy from the president and first lady. check out former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel on the "l." a picture with a bunch of zombies. the caption read, in case of a zoom zombie apocaly...

And we'll have much more of that "daily rundown" interview with herman cain's chief of staff, mark block. it was pretty fascinating. you can go ahead and listen in at 11:30 a.m. eastern straight ahead. we're going to have much more. in the meantime, some good news for the cain campaign. the first state to vote in 2012 has the former god father's ceo in first place. cain holds a slim lead over mitt romney. front-runners are well ahead of the rest of the pack. even though neither candidate has poured major resources into the hawkeye state. jennifer jacobs is the chief political writer for the ...