in iowa this cycle than any other candidate and was the first to visit l 99 counties in the state. with limited resources and moneyae staff he's been traveling fromevent to eventn a pickup truck. earlier is week, a cnn/"time" poll showed him forhe first time in the top three. now he's suddenly turning out larger cros and drawing more media atteion. so he could make a strong showing in iowa by courting conservative voters like previous winner mike hkabee did four years ago. senator santorum, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you, david. good to be with you. >> so this is the candidate i'm sitting with who's got the hot hand in iowa. here's the des moines sunday register, romney, paul lead. santorumloses in. we just talked about in tha last segment how you have had this surge, paicularly in the last couple of days. what does it mean? what does it say to you about at's going on here in the ste? >> well, the people of iowa, i've been saying this from the very beginning, people have asked me, whet are you going to get your surge? you're not going anywhere.