well, the iowa caucuses aren t exactly comedy gold, but conan o brien gave it a shot on his show last night. sxwr of course, everyone is excited today the republican iowa caucuses. or as it is also known, old white guy mardi gras. well, steve, the so-called conservative blow torch of iowa radio joining us again this morning. steve, if the caucuses were like mardi gras, he didn t get the most speed. what happened to your guy? what happened is, i know this is going to sound like spin and maybe it is, but his people think, i talked to one of his key people in iowa who think i might have saved him from fifth place. i had one radio program from the time i endorsed him and between
at the winners and losers and dan lothian and david mattingly looking ahead to the battlegrounds that are now more important than ever. all right, let s start with dana bash. dana? well, we have some potential news this morning about what this caucus has did to the field on the republican side. michele bachmann who, of course, came in a disappointing sixth, effectively dead last here in iowa is going to hold a news conference in a few hours. her campaign is not saying what it is about, but it is hastily arranged news conference. it is hard to imagine that she s going to have something and not give us news about the future or maybe lack there of of her campaign. so, kyra, we re waiting to see exactly what she says. obviously, she is somebody who was one of those who is riding very, very high in iowa. not that long ago. she actually won the first contest here. the ames straw poll only to see her popularity absolutely plummet in the last few weeks. that will be probably, poten
michigan with visibility dropping down to zero at times, dangerous driving conditions, no doubt about that, and it will be windy across parts of western p.a. and upstate new york with 40 mile an hour plus winds potentialee potentially right through the rest of the day. places like new york city, if you re traveling out of those airports, we ll see delays throughout the afternoon. cleveland to say the least with the snow will see some of that also. some chillier air all the way down to west palm beach, with wind-chill advisories there. it is cold in iowa. not snowing but cold. and tomorrow we expect high temperatures in the mid 30s, which by iowa standards is pretty nice. good election weather. kyra, back to you. well, it s 2012. and the november election doesn t seem so far off right now. we re going to take you back to the center of the political universe, if you don t mind, right after the break. a lot of iowans haven t made up their minds about who to vote for tomorrow. but that c
steve days is backing newt gingrich. he is a syndicated radio talk show host in des moines, and he has a lot of followers. as a matter of fact, he s been called the conservative blow torch of iowa. and his heat gets results. he endorsed mike huckabee in 2008, and huckabee won iowa. steve, you re backing gingrich. the polls haven t been so good to him lately. how is the conservative blow torch endorsement here going to help him? well, i don t know. we ll see. i kind of think that the media has overhyped my endorsement the last few months. if anything, i m the reason mitt romney lost iowa. but mike huckabee had to win that campaign himself. candidates win elections, not talk show hosts. but i hope that the real positive and bold solutions that newt has for the country, i m hoping if anything that my endorsement will open up the eyes of uncommitted voters to take a fresh look at those again between now and january 3. why did you wait so long to
that s right. one of the big questions in this day before the iowa caucuses is whether the man in the sweater vest can make mitt romney sweat. rick santorum is in the enviable position of being the final surging non-romney conservative to do well. before these iowa caucuses so we are chasing him from stop to stop to stop today. he is chasing the undecided caucus goers. and you get the sense looking at the poll that came out over the weekend that showed rick santorum in third place. if you look at the last two days that that poll was taken, he is surging into second place into a statistical tie with mitt romney. so it s no surprise that the former massachusetts governor went after rick santorum, talking about the fact that santorum was a senator in washington, trying to tie him to those other politicians, those other washington politicians, who are in the race. and rick santorum had a response for that. let s play that for you. senator santorum was kind enough to endorse m