and by their super pacs. one of the biggest discrepancies exists between how much the romney campaign and its super pac has spent versus newt gingrich outspent 8:1 by the romney campaign, but i think a lot of people in this state, as you speak to iowans are looking for that purity in a candidate. think like ron paul's -- they like the conservative policies and belief system of rick santorum and michele bachmann. and romney hiship who has only spent ten days on the ground. four years ago he spend 77 dates here. it remains to be seen how he all plays out. >> peet you are alexander from des moines, iowa, for us this morning. thank you, sir. let's bring in reed epstein