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Lot of folks have been saying. so i think romney's ad was hard hitting, it was positive, it talked about what he can do and perhaps a little bit more effective -- megyn: that's an interesting point, because gingrich fights back, but he can't do it with the same -- what i saw in iowa was all ron paul focused on gingrich, and he can't fight back because he doesn't have the dough. here's gingrich's ad, which kate was referring to, which is positive but not getting seen by a lot of people. >> we can be in the spirit of general washington and the americans who fought for freedom. we can go out, get...

Carl, all that matters for these candidates right now is that first poll. what's happening in iowa. >> reporter: it's a mad dash to the starting line. it seems like a great yes shen dove is coming. newt gingrich is having his first bus kickoff tour event right now in iowa. he has plans to hit 44 cities in the final week. that's been trimmed down to 22. we have live pictures of mr. gingrich as he campaigns. he not on had to trim some of his schedule but he had to try to get a couple more bucks on the air. when it comes to the ground game he's behind and when it comes to air support he's grossly...

Don't know if enough to get him where he needs to go, and the other problem he has, just like gingrich, a lack of money to get that ad seen by as many people as possible. megyn: all right. they saturate the airwaves, people are listening to them all week long, and then they go into these caucuses a week from tonight, and they chat it up. they talk to each other. one representative or spokesman on behalf of each campaign will speak to the iowa caucusgoers. kate, you tell me historically how unusual would it be for, let's say, a gingrich who's in third place under the average to catapult into fi...

Saying he's very encouraged by that, of course, because it gives him the opportunity through a quippy ad that's not saturating the airwaves since he doesn't have the money to do that, but at least it gets it on fox news, people are talking about it. so i think that it's really anybody's game right now. there's a lot of talk about ron paul, and that's got conservatives alarmed, and they realize they are going to have to unify behind one of these candidates unless they want to give ron paul the victory, and a lot of folks have said that is going to discredit the iowa caucus if that happens. megy...

Gingrich there, and he's done really well in the polling that we've seen -- not a lot of polling, but polling we've seen in florida which is january 31st. so if he can hang in to get to south carolina and then to florida, he might still be in the running. megyn: and one final question. you had an interesting piece talking about how the ron paul supporters who we've been seeing place him so high in places like iowa don't tend to be republicans, they tend to be independents and democrats who are, for various procedural rules, allowed to vote in caucuses or primaries. do you subscribe to the noti...