i know a lot of you but they re always first. the good news and bad news. you re for them being first? i love the process and think it s fantastic. i think that huntsman made a mistake saying i m not going to bother with iowa. whether he won or not. he guaranteed himself a loss there and people who are political junkies, looked down on it and disrespected iowa. and they say they picked corn in iowa didn t pick presidents and i don t think that stuff is going to work. and never the way to go in florida and it s nice there. and what about iowa, too much importance to put on it? i like it that middle america gets to have a say and rather than just coast, getting to speak first, but, i do like the idea of a rotating super tuesday thing, like the olympics where there s a bid and there s five states and it rotates every year and i think that would actually be a healthier way to pick a
to some extent made vulnerable by the way he rose to prominentsy. how so? because he did in the debates. he didn t spend a year and a half here in iowa, becoming an iowan. rick santorum has essentially become an iowa. he speaks to iowa from the inside out. people know who he is, they know his record, they know what he stands for. the other reason this kind of advertising works is that most people here in iowa didn t really know anything very much about newt gingrich, so this negative advertising is painting on a blank canvas. of a famous guy who is a blank campus. except there s a john henry aspect to this. newt gingrich earned that positive number he came in here with by live debate performances. right, on his own. he didn t do it by going from town to town. but he performed in the debates. look, newt gingrich knows a lot about policy, about domestic and foreign policy. but iowans didn t know a lot about him. wait a minute. i ll take that up to a point. you cannot sit
i know a lot of you but they re always first. the good news and bad news. you re for them being first? i love the process and think it s fantastic. i think that huntsman made a mistake saying i m not going to bother with iowa. whether he won or not. he guaranteed himself a loss there and people who are political junkies, looked down on it and disrespected iowa. and they say they picked corn in iowa didn t pick presidents and i don t think that stuff is going to work. and never the way to go in florida and it s nice there. and what about iowa, too much importance to put on it? i like it that middle america gets to have a say and rather than just coast, getting to speak first, but, i do like the idea of a rotating super tuesday thing, like the olympics where there s a bid and there s five states and it rotates every year and i think that would actually be a healthier way to pick a
they never say the word mitt romney, even though all his people and donors are involved in it. you re shaking your head? i agree with you. here s one reason why it s working here. first of all, the sheer tonnage. i ve never seen in a concentrated space so much advertising, you know, from davenport all the way out to sioux city and back you can t escape it. you can t escape it. you can watch entertainment tonight, you can choose anything the other thing here, newt is to some extent made vulnerable by the way he rose to prominentsy. how so? because he did in the debates. he didn t spend a year and a half here in iowa, becoming an iowan. rick santorum has essentially become an iowa. he speaks to iowa from the inside out. people know who he is, they know his record, they know what he stands for. the other reason this kind of advertising works is that most people here in iowa didn t really know anything very much about newt gingrich, so this negative advertising is paintin
to some extent made vulnerable by the way he rose to prominentsy. how so? because he did in the debates. he didn t spend a year and a half here in iowa, becoming an iowan. rick santorum has essentially become an iowa. he speaks to iowa from the inside out. people know who he is, they know his record, they know what he stands for. the other reason this kind of advertising works is that most people here in iowa didn t really know anything very much about newt gingrich, so this negative advertising is painting on a blank canvas. of a famous guy who is a blank campus. except there s a john henry aspect to this. newt gingrich earned that positive number he came in here with by live debate performances. right, on his own. he didn t do it by going from town to town. but he performed in the debates. look, newt gingrich knows a lot about policy, about domestic and foreign policy. but iowans didn t know a lot about him. wait a minute. i ll take that up to a point. you cannot sit