terms of its public presentation, in terms of television, how much more air time it gets, it absolutely is the background noise on the ground in iowa among republican evangelicals and all states among republican evangelicals. >> there's no question about it. though mitt romney calls it out as bigoted and bill bennett denounced jeffress and jon huntsman demanded rick perry repudiate the reverend, that is the background noise and it's especially important in the bible belt. in iowa, yes, but also in the southern states. and that's one reason why when the haley barbour didn't run and governor huckabee, mike huckabee didn't run and so forth that rick perry's sitting over there in texas says i've got an opportunity to get in this race because there's no way the southern bible belt republicans will vote for a mormon.