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>> i was so nice to you today. >> i was trying to further frustrate -- >> all right. meanwhile, the guy who runs the republican party in the great state of iowa, matt straun says this, regarding this. out of respect to the candidates involved, party officials will not respond to every rumor, innuendo or allegation during the two-week process. that said, iowa g.o.p. officials have been in contact with appanoose county republican officials tonight and do not have any reason to believe that the final certified results of appanoose county will change the outcome of tuesday's vote and we should poi...

Precinct, mr. romney got two votes. and yet when you look at the official results, it was reported as 22 so suddenly it looks like mitt romney wound up with 18 votes too many. >> there's other reports that mitt romney might have gotten 21 votes that belonged to him and were not put in his column. rick santorum looked at this entire thing. matt straun came out and made the announcement and said i know it's been a late night. here's the winner. i'm going to certify it in two weeks. he wanted to make sure the numbers are the same. here's what rick santorum said. >> they're going to be certifying ...

Look at the giants, they're in the playoffs. they're winners. the vikings are not. >> i was so nice to you today. >> i was trying to further frustrate -- >> all right. meanwhile, the guy who runs the republican party in the great state of iowa, matt straun says this, regarding this. out of respect to the candidates involved, party officials will not respond to every rumor, innuendo or allegation during the two-week process. that said, iowa g.o.p. officials have been in contact with appanoose county republican officials tonight and do not have any reason to believe that the final certified resu...

In the republican party and the excitement we have. 33 consecutive months against chairman matt straun we've had growth against the democrats. that's not us growing a little more than they are. since barack obama has been elected, one in ten iowa democrats have abandoned the republican party. that's something that should send, though the president certainly has a strong organization in the state, should send a real cause of concern to the white house, to the iowa democratic party, itself. it's one of the reasons republicans here are so excited. >> doug, that admirable spin. don't you get an in...

That point. it was about 120,000 in 2008 on the republican side. that was a big number. what are you expecting in terms of turnout and what kind of logistical planning do you have to do if you're expecting a big number this year? >> i tell you, logistically, it's obviously very difficult. we have 809 different caucus sites. 1 1,074 different precincts. it's a great beast our chairman matt straun is trying to tame here. we're just not sure yet. part of it is the number you talked about with people uncertain who they're going to support. we expect there will be a large and robust turnout because...