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Voters feel they're being taken for granted and forced to make a decision. you know, by the state. that's wrong. we are going to have to revisit some of that and voters would appreciate that. take it from one virginia voter. >> when you look at iowa -- >> one angry virginia voter. >> yes. >> when you look at iowa, though, what they do in iowa is really exactly the opposite, right? >> right. >> you say you can show up that day. you can vote. >> show up with a driver's license, prove you live in the neighborhood and participate. and to that end, there are democrats who intend to attend the repub...

Seeing that statement that there are few things our last few presidents of the united states have in common. george w. bush and president obama but their paths started by winning the iowa caucuses. talk about iowa not being popular, the national popular vote the last for presidential elections. piffy comments notwithstanding, i don't think they can prove it accurate when you actually look at the numbers. >> can it be a whittling out process? we'll know tomorrow who's ahead and how it looks. what happens if he leave iowa with four people they consider viable and head into new hampshire that way...

>> do you think people are being served up sort of the details of the horse race and not sort of the context of why there is this horse race? >> yeah. i mean, i didn't know what caucus really meant before i came to iowa. so i looked it up in the dictionary, and it's an interesting process where people are supposed to get together and share ideas to come to an agreement about how to move forward as a group. and the group pick a leader. and that seems really contrary to what's happening in iowa with these people that are really fighting with one another instead of coming to a consensus about an ...

'80s. you can't see it, but alex sa said -- why say that? ah -- >> the importance of iowa. iowa is not the super bowl but a playoff game for conservatives. this is where the right, the evangelicals, twice at many here as in new hampshire, pick the candidate like santorum. he's run a patient race, let's not give him more credit. he looks like he stepped forward because everyone else stepped back, and i'm not sure that that vindicates retail. just nobody's seen him because he did retail. this is still a media-driven process, not an organizational process. >> who has the most to gain in this? >> ...

Of like a jimmy carter in the 1970s. still only at 5% nationally in the polls. that was the kind of disparity, the arbitrage that didn't seem possible anymore. voters in the early states of iowa and new hampshire would not settle on a candidate if they didn't seem viable nationally, but rick santorum is, if he does well here, winning this the old-fashioned way. >> i remember rick santorum standing up before a meeting in rock rapids i, iowa, the southwest corner of the state months and months ago. laid it out. this is what i'm going to do. earn this the old-fashioned way. it's what we've seen. ...