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Petition requirements were. with 2300 people knocked off the ballot, it's hardly analogous. >> he has acknowledged that. it was his own fault that they didn't get things done as early as they needed to in virginia which is where he lives. what do you make of the critics it proves their point. folks that mitt romney supporters, they say his campaign is not focused? >> i think we have something of a point. organization matters. it's critically important in iowa as you and griff were discussing. it's important across the country, but bottom line, as important as organization is message. bottom li...

rhetoric certainly is getting sharper. and there are seven major candidates now but after seven more days, will some of those candidates start falling by the wayside on the campaign trail? that's coming up in our strategy session this hour. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're here in dubuque. a bit chilly but no snow. it's getting ready, a week from today, the iowa caucuses. you're looking at live pictures from dubuque. this will be the first state to have an impact on the 2012 presidential campaign, and it's all happening here in iowa. the republican caucuses c...

Yesterday that had paul one point back of -- of gingrich. you have the romney attacks, the zany stuff and so on now, and -- and also in the gallup tracking polls over the last week nought's been, you know, sinking a little bit. if -- if he's not increasing, you know, the fever may be abating just a little bit at this point. it's not that romney is coming on, but i think that we're getting to real crazy time in iowa where you're going to have some of the secondary candidates moving out. i mean, you've got rick perry starting a -- a road trip for ten days of intensive, intensive, you know, campa...

Independent pollster scott rasmussen is president of rasmussen reports. fill us a little bit on these numbers. was newt gingrich the only alternative, that is the only republican whose name was offered in that particular poll? >> in this poll, yeah. we're tracking every single matchup on a rotating basis in our daily tracking polls. what is significant here is about the trend. just as others like rick perry and herman cain, newt gingrich rose to lead the president by a couple of points but that was a few weeks ago. as soon as he became the front runner his numbers began to decline. a week ago ...

Point back of -- of gingrich. you have the romney attacks, the zany stuff and so on now, and -- and also in the gallup tracking polls over the last week nought's been, you know, sinking a little bit. if -- if he's not increasing, you know, the fever may be abating just a little bit at this point. it's not that romney is coming on, but i think that we're getting to real crazy time in iowa where you're going to have some of the secondary candidates moving out. i mean, you've got rick perry starting a -- a road trip for ten days of intensive, intensive, you know, campaigning, the kind of thing po...