been talking about the advantage he has with home schoolers and evangelicals. they actually unlike a lot of flash in the pan candidates grab headlines because of celebrity. they re doing more than that and raising a lot of money and they re microtargeting in iowa the same way barack obama did sometime ago. i wonder though is this anything special about ben carson nationwide or do you sense today this may just be iowa returning the form, the state that helped pat robertson, mike huckabee and rick santorum. carson could be a more powerful version of huckabee, of santorum and pat robertson. he s putting that together for iowa but when you look at his
it may not change anything. it may be one pole. but it does underline what we ve been sensing that carson has momentum in iowa. he has momentum and real grass roots support. more in iowa know his life story. there s a significant number of home schoolers in iowa. they teach his story. there s, it s amazing. i mean, this is one narrative or sort of store try that s brought it up here we missed as us, joe, when we sort of understand the policy of trying to figure out where everything is going. this came out of nowhere. i tell you what, when you look steve, at what we started looking at last week, mark helped us dig into this. we started talking to people in iowa more closely. we found out he has an amazing home school network there. his story is taught in home
dollars. through home schoolers and churches and all the things in iowa. ben carson is building a pretty remarkable ground game. i ve got to say, i had not thought this until yesterday afternoon and after seeing all these numbers. there s only one way to knock trump off of his feet. ben carson could win iowa. if he wins iowa and somebody chancing trump in new hampshire then it s game on. it s a series of local races that begin with iowa and new hampshire and i think ben carson
government. here is mike huckabee at the event i mentioned. take a listen. the decision for your children s education is not in the hands of the government. it is in the hands of the mothers and fathers who are not only responsible for bringing the children into the world, but who are responsible for training their replacements. who is in your view doing best among this group right now in this race? there s no way to really tell. there s no polls of home schoolers. i haven t seen prominent endorsements from that group yet. they have a number of choices. first of all, mike huckabee, they still like him. rick santorum, he still has home schooled kids. they still like him. ted cruz i think has done well with this group. some of them have been interested in the ron paul campaign in the past and may come over to rand paul, the libertarian, government leave me alone. stay with me, kathie.
10,000 children and multichild households, so we re talking about 10,000 adults or less probably. so it s not you re not going to win the caucuses necessarily just by having home schoolers. you have to have other coalitions as well. but mike huckabee, for example, was able to substantially unify these home school he was really the first one to tap this group, and i think it did make a difference for them, in part because these folks actually went out and campaigned for him. they make a bigger difference than just the average caucus-goer. that s the whole point, their ability to come out and be priests and captains and stand up at the caucus meeting and be visible and credible. there s an interaction there, you mentioned huckabee, with the policies that some of the conservatives are advancing, particularly an emphasis on pushing forward their ideas at the local family level, not relying on a far away