architect of george w. bush s victories in 2000, 2004. and joe trippi who started working on a county for ted kennedy in 1980. tiny j jones county in the northeastern part of the state in iowa. let s go through some of those entrance polls. carl, tea party, not surprisingly paul doing very well. is he one of the godfathers of the tea party. romney gets 18% to paul s 25 on the very conservative santorum doing well 27%. romney down at 14%. what do you make of that? what matters here is the differential. there is only one of these groups where there is a big gap between somebody and everybody else and that s unelectability where a third the voters say that s their number one issue and romney is getting nearly half of those people. chris: 47% for romney and santorum only 10%. what s interesting is like when the tea party support it s split it s 25%, 24%, 18%, 15%. that s split among the very
stand up. hearing at various sites an romney is there. some of mitt romney s sons are there various representatives of the campaign. have a couple minutes to make their last pitch to the caucus goers by b. why their guy or gal is the one to vote for. bret: you see background iowa is the swing state for the general election. republic party in all of these places is getting ready to mobilize for the general election but, of course, the big voting tonight is for this election. the g.o.p. nominee. right now the top tier going in and these are entrance polls, people walking into caucus sites. ron paul, mitt romney, and rick santorum. and then the bomb bottom tier bachmann, newt gingrich, and then governor perry. now, there is no order here yet. and, again, they are entrance polls as megyn said, persuasive speech could change a lot. let s get to the all star panel here in iowa. joined by steve hayes senior
willing to tell pollsters about what was motivating them, what was important, what they were looking for in a candidate. sometimes while it is still too early to call in terms of what is going to happen for the individual candidates you can tell a lot about the way the night is going to go based on what electorate turned out to caucus. again, results tonight, it is too early to call based on early entrance polling. it is ron paul, mitt romney, and rick santorum who are competing to win the iowa caucuses. coming up we will be getting our first results from our entrance polls soon and also hearing from nbc s david gregory. you are watching nbc s coverage of the iowa caucuses. [ male announcer ] wouldn t it be cool if you took the top down on a crossover? if there were buttons for this? wouldn t it be cool if your car could handle the kids. .and the nurburgring? or what if you built a car in tennessee that could change the world? yeah, that would be cool.
ago as we get more results and see how the race shapes up. megyn: chris, thank you zbloobts if you want to see the realtime results coming in, obviously tune in here but go to foxnews.com/iowa and you can click on different counties realtime and see the results as they are popping up. see the different colors there. those are the different candidates and get a sense of how this map of this state, 99 counties is really filling in. right now, ron paul, 25%, santorum, 24%. royz, 23%. this is an active fluid thing. as you are watching here or during the break, check out foxnews.com/iowa. we re keeping an eye on entrance polls. martha, some interesting information. we re getting a sense of what
architect of george w. bush s victories in 2000, 2004. and joe trippi who started working on a county for ted kennedy in 1980. tiny j jones county in the northeastern part of the state in iowa. let s go through some of those entrance polls. carl, tea party, not surprisingly paul doing very well. is he one of the godfathers of the tea party. romney gets 18% to paul s 25 on the very conservative santorum doing well 27%. romney down at 14%. what do you make of that? what matters here is the differential. there is only one of these groups where there is a big gap between somebody and everybody else and that s unelectability where a third the voters say that s their number one issue and romney is getting nearly half of those people. chris: 47% for romney and santorum only 10%. what s interesting is like when the tea party support it s split it s 25%, 24%, 18%, 15%. that s split among the very