support john, john, that s not true. if you live in iowa. i have to stop you. that s not true. you had no exchanges. aetna just pulled out of virginia. the thing was dying. they had to do something. let me get in here. that is a talking point. obamacare was not perfect. it could have been fixed if there was bipartisan consensus, if they had gotten together. but to say that obamacare is imploding is a talking point from the right. that is not correct. and if you re going to say things like that, you have to give it in context and give the whole thing. one is because they weren t letting the mandate happen. they weren t enforcing the mandate. and the other thing is that according to republicans and democrats, it s the way that this administration is talking about obamacare. it s causing uncertainty among insurers. so it s not imploding. it s not like it s sitting there and imploding. there s a force behind that. go ahead, john. well, aetna pulled out of virginia. iowa didn
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