bit who makes up the voters there. >> reporter: well the republican party is lot more spread out throughout the state and it has the folks in western iowa a little pouty these days. normally they get a lot of campaign visits. but let's take a look at the video at last campaign visit in sioux city on december 5th. for the rich republican, red dirt area, this was the last campaign visit in the last eight days. it was the first campaign visit in 14 days. one visit in 20 two days. unheard of out here with such rock solid republican turf. the state party chairman says the campaigns may be making a mistake not paying close attention to western iowa. >> that may be a mistake. because one thing we know, the rock-ribbed republicans they turn out on caucus night. even though there are more republicans across the state the one thing you do know in northwest iowa those republicans will turn out and do whatever it takes to start the process to replace barack obama. >> reporter: it's believed the campaigns are spending a lot less time out here because of different kinds