in 80. bob dole in 88 and huckabee who failed to take the nomination. fielding the argument maybe iowa shouldn t be first. until recently the major candidates didn t spend much time in iowa, jon huntsman skipping iowa altogether said they pick corn in iowa, not presidents. kind of a snarky way to put down a state where he s not spending any time. chairman of iowa s republican party. great to see you. great to see you. the institution, doll weg. and joining everybody for breakfast this morning. why iowa, when you look people have said this. you look at the actual demographics of the state. it s not a diverse state. it s 91% white and not really representative of a lot of other competitions that will happen across the country. so why iowa? two things. first, we start the process. we don t finish the process. we play the role of widower, not designed to be predictive of the final outcome, whether the nominee or ultimate victor in the white house but ironic
we ll look at big stories. give you interesting details and go inside information, only a worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. we re going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the starting point this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between presidential candidates mitt romney and ron paul, and that means the race for third is on between rick santorum and rick perry, newt gingrich and michele bachmann as well. the good news for them, more than 40% of iowan voters say their minds could be changed. got some breaking news to get to this morning. police are speaking to a person of interest right now in the los angeles arson spree. even as eight more fires were set overnight, surveillance videotape, show you this, shows the person officers want