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Spending tens of thousands on campaign advertising in the state as opposed to the millions of other candidates like that of mitt romney. all signs point to a close contest come tuesday night, with so many iowans still waiting for a sign that tells them which conservative candidate is going to be the right one for them. msnbc's richard lui is here to talk about the voters still on the fence in the hawkeye state. richard, we've been talking about this, 41% still undecided. iowans don't like to be told what to do and they're keeping us guessing. >> they are. and that's a significant number. for...

Like the candidates, they're not all the same. >> they're looking for the last bit of information that will help them decide. richard, thank you. joining us now from iowa this morning, republican strategist trey hardin. let's get straight to it to find out what you think about this. here is another nugget from the "des moines register" poll. who is best to relating to ordinary iowa rns? it cracks out interestingly. 20% say santorum, 20% bachmann, 20% say ron paul. then where you see mitt romney, way down there with 10%. trey, what does this say to you about the one thaing undecideds are like...

Bit. having said that, a lot of analysts still insist that the economy is far from healthy, so that unemployment rate, 8.6%, below the 9% that it had been during the summer, they still say that 8.6% is not enough to create a healthy economy, and that will be the president's biggest challenge to reelection. but the president trying to stay in the conversation right now while we head into officially the republican primary season. thomas? >> nbc's kristen welker at the white house, great to see you. thank you. here is a look at some other stories topping the news for you. the manhunt under way ...

For a deep freeze with some spots expecting to see snow. the weather channel's mike seidel has more for us from dunkirk, new york. hey, mike. >> reporter: hey, thomas. so far, so good out here in western new york on the new york state thruway. where it is finally looking and feeling like winter. the thruway in good shape this hour, but tonight and through turs morning we'll have squalls through here and cleveland and erie. we've already had snowfall up in northern lower michigan, traverse city it started snowing yesterday on new year's day. look at the wind. we're getting 30 to 40-mile-an-hour...

Said, listen, we are iowans. we're proud of this process. we take it seriously. we want to get it right. and each of these candidates has a little something we like about each of them, but at the end of the day we have our eye on the prize this november and we want to make sure we're vaulting the right candidate forward. >> it seems like they can't franken candidate, the perfect person they can can look together, looking for the x-factor that remains to be seen. we'll see how it all plays out. trey hardin, thank you so much. >> thank you, thomas. on the hunt, a national park is closed right ...