i m a victim of negative attacks. if you re trying to figure out if you stay in at the end of a race, if i ve been a conservative populist, appealing to conservative voters and come in at the bottom of the race in iowa, you ve got a big problem. what made you make your decision? you, of course, were an adviser to rudy giuliani. not a social conservative. he didn t play in iowa. but he did make his big bet in florida. when he lost, he got right out after. how do you make that a decision, if you re not a winner, when do you get out? you figure out what is the must win for you, the best fit for the campaign you want to run? florida seems to be the tie-breaker. when florida didn t work out, when rudy game in third in florida, he knew the game was up. pulled out the next day and endorsed john mccain. if you re a social conservative candidate, running on that populist train, rick perry or bachmann and end up at the bottom of the caucus on tuesday night, you have a real problem. the quest
expectations, trying to go for sympathy vote saying, hey, look, i m a victim of negative attacks. if you re trying to figure out if you stay in at the end of a race, if i ve been a conservative pop list, appealing to conservative voters and come in at the bottom of the race in iowa, you ve got a big problem. what made you make your decision? you, of course, were an adviser to rudy giuliani. not a social conservative. he didn t play in iowa. but he did make his big bet in florida. when he lost, he got right out after. how do you make that a decision, if you re not a winner, when do you get out? you figure out what is the must win for you, the best fit for the campaign you want to run? florida seems to be the tie-breaker. when florida didn t work out, when rudy game in third in florida, he knew the game was up. pulled out the next day and endorsed john mccain. if you re a social conservative candidate, running on that populist train, rick perry orme chel bachmann and end up at the bo
good evening, from cnn s election center because, yes, it has begun and it s an episode of survivor. at least that s how republican presidential candidate rick santorum described the iowa caucuses. here is the thing about iowa. no offense, iowa, you re really important but you re also small. only 2 million registered voters. 640,000 of them republicans. and if the 2008 caucuses were an indication of what s ahead for tomorrow, only about 100,000 of those republicans will actually go out on a cold january night to cast their votes. those who do, it only is a 50% success rate when it actually comes to picking the eventual nominee. so, what s all the hype about iowa? the bottom line is, it has a huge influence in who stays and doesn t stay in a presidential race. it may be small but it packs one big punch. listen to the candidates today. they know what s really at stake tomorrow. we are not looking for a chief executive officer. for this country. we re looking for a commander i
good evening, from cnn s election center because, yes, it has begun and it s an episode of survivor. at least that s how republican presidential candidate rick santorum described the iowa caucuses. here is the thing about iowa. no offense, iowa, you re really important but you re also small. only 2 million registered voters. 640,000 of them republicans. and if the 2008 caucuses were an indication of what s ahead for tomorrow, only about 100,000 of those republicans will actually go out on a cold january night to cast their votes. those who do, it only is a 50% success rate when it actually comes to picking the eventual nominee. so, what s all the hype about iowa? the bottom line is, it has a huge influence in who stays and doesn t stay in a presidential race. it may be small but it packs one big punch. listen to the candidates today. they know what s really at stake tomorrow. we are not looking for a chief executive officer. for this country. we re looking for a commander i
organization on the ground here than all of the other campaigns. no matter who wins this caucus on tuesday night. the president s put a campaign on the ground here. we ve had 350,000 phone calms, 1,200 meetings, 401 meetinging with is a or theers and are proud of that and here to correct the record. there s a lot of non-republicans here. we re not going to let mitt romney s followers get away without telling the truth. you view this as a very good thing for democrats? a lot of discussion. we think what we ve seen on the ground is counter and a lack of enthusiasm for a republican nominee. they have the flavor of the month. we now have rick santorum. we ve had newt gingrich. we ve had cain. we ve had perry, we ve had bachmann and then we ve had the flav e of the month and then mitt romney, if he s a flavor, he s stale.