reduce expectations, be prepared for rick santorum to win perhaps in minnesota if not in two states tonight and even as we speak, chris, we got an e-mail blast from the romney campaign trying to tap down expectations. they would like to win in every state but acknowledge they can t do that. it says, missouri is strictly a beauty contest, reminding us that no delegates are handed out there today and as our campaign is set from the outside hit romney is not going to win every contest. they want to make sure the headlines tomorrow are buffered in case this they read santorum, the big winner of the night. peter, thanks to you, we appreciate that. andrew raferty is following the santorum campaign on the phone from colorado springs. what s the feeling there? i m sure you just heard what peter had to say. the romney camp trying to tamp down expectations. reporter: that s right, chris. they think it could be the best day they ve had really since the iowa caucus.
talladega, and the west alabama straw poll is this weekend. andrew raferty joining me now. what s cain s focus as he meets with voters? reporter: the cain train behind me, as they call it. and throughout alabama today and also in texas where we heard a couple days ago from herman cain, a subtle shift in his message. before when he was campaigning throughout the month of september, we heard it was 9-9-9. now he s focusing on foreign policy, criticizing the president from withdrawing troops by the end of the year and being critical of foreign policy, so you re hearing more focus on ideas and issues that aren t involving the 9-9-9 plan. andrew, we are seeing several new articles in major newspapers
the campaign trail yet but i think this is going to boost his visibility quite exponentially. also, andrew, you talk about the radio spot, it is encouraging people to send in money. how is the cain campaign doing as they continue to rake in very strong numbers? i asked them the other day, what is it exactly you talked about a fund-raising boost. what are those numbers? they said they ve been raising more than $1 million a week for all of october. that already puts them above that $2.8 million they reported last quarter and the radio ad where cain directs people to that website, that is essentially just a splash page. you go to that website it has the 9-9-9 plan detailed in almost the same fashion detailed on his actual website and then suggested donations of various 9-9-9 amounts. andrew raferty, great to see you that morning. a staged kiss at a high school musical has some c
one voice united we stand i am america one hope my 9-9-9 plan creates 6 million jobs. obama doesn t want you to know because he doesn t want me to win. all right. so the first spot you saw was the tv ad featuring the cain campaign manager there smoking a cigarette at the end. the second one is the radio spot that s going to be airing in all 50 states across the country especially in iowa, a state where a lot of people spend time in their car. cain him seven is in texas, and that is where we find andrew. take us through both of these ads and how is the cain campaign responding to some of the backlash they re getting today about the tv spot? yeah, we have two very different ads, the radio ad, of course, is more of a traditional
shared by michele bachmann, that he s from minnesota. a lot of supporters from there can make that short car ride down from minneapolis. but they re feeling good, wearing green shirts today. they re a very visible presence throughout the fair grounds. they have all their volunteers out wearing these green shirts presidential hopeful mitt romney may be the gop front and governor pawlenty just spoke runner in several polls but he s not in iowa today. saying he thinks it s going to be a good day, a lot of instead, the former massachusetts governor is movement. focused on new hampshire. but it is not the spectacle that last night he tried to explain michele bachmann has going on remarks that he made earlier in today, who has this indoor tent iowa about corporations being people. it s really astonishing to me with her bus parked outside. that the obama folks would try and argue that businesses aren t as soon as you walk in, though, people. what do they think they are? little men from ma