democrats. they have to get to know you as a person often on a first name basis. that gives us a chance to see the sincerity of the candidates that maybe you don t get necessarily in a big money state. i m from minnesota so i totally understand the midwest and the sincerity aspect of it and really meeting people in the face-to-face setting but look on the republican side. you had rick santorum winning that last time. obviously he was not the gop nominee. so is iowa a better predictor of democrats? not necessarily. the republicans have never nominated a candidate ever that did not finish in the top three in iowa. so iowans don t necessarily view ourselves to be kingmakers. we re probably way too nice for that. we sort of view ourselves as maybe a win knowing fort. we look at the field and say, here are two or three really good candidates the rest of the nation gets to decide fwr there. interesting. you say on the ground now it s cruz and carson on the gop side and it s bernie sand