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Undercutting that it was an untenable situation. but the branstad folks have been able to continue and get what they need done. there are enough outside groups that they were able to get their things accomplished. the state party can be a central plier or it can be a sideline player. it's not like branstad's folks going into the 2014 elections would have been crippled without control. what that changeover means is that it's a very satisfy coo for the people who want the it to happen. i do think that things are healing, wounds are being stitched up and they're getting stronger. >> about the evo...

This just after the 2012 election that brand stad flat out called for an end to the ritual of the true poll. he said i think it's outlived his usefulless. it's been a great fun raiser for the party but i think its days are over. he expanded on those comments this past august. >> anybody who wants to can have a straw poll and i think that's fine. i don't have any problem with that at all. my interest is protecting the iowa precinct caucasus. that's the first real test of voters. we also know that straw polls have not very scientific and whoever wince a particular central poll is not a good indi...

Candidates. shame on us for covering it. and the iowa caucasus, if fact thaw they were unable to count the votes that night, they declared the wrong person the winner. what if we had known that night that santorum had won. it would have changed thing for mitt romney. i think governor branstad is rescuing iowa too keep its position as a place we really pay attention to. starting in iowa, it's a rural state, no big cities, it's not diverse. it's almost entirely white. on the other hand, the people of iowa take this seriously. so i think a valuable thing to say but i think governor branstad can a...

>> i think rand gets a big step up with ron paul supporters. up with of the biggest republican stories of the year has been the way that rand paul has expanded his influence. he's working with eric holder on the issue of sentencing we form. the filibuster he staged on drone issues. he's done something his father never managed to do which is expand his appeal to become a broadly acceptable candidate. he won the cpac stra poll a week ago. he's in as good a position as anyone for the iowa caucasus. it looks me to rand paul is on his way to winning the war. >> is the consensus here the straw poll ...

Down and they elected one of their own to succeed him. in june of 2012, ron paul support ares cleaned up at state and district nominating conventions, those were the conventions that picked most of the delegates to tampa. so it was that the ron paul win got to go to tampa. it that it got to crash mitt romney's party. it got to declare their state as a ron paul state. and more importantly, it was the ron paul wing that because of all of this, won control of the state republican party, the official party organization in the crucial first in the nation caucus state. now, all of this set the stage...