help rick santorum and they don t want that kind of a turnout. women do very well with mitt romney. they like him. and they don t want the sort of ideological purists if you will. those are not his people. his people are that sort of solid 25% that have liked him all along, they believe he s electable and they want those people to come to the polls tonight. . they don t want those they don t want this. they don t want younger voters that ron paul might bring. they just want their dependable mitt romney voters to come out. this is the evangelical base of mike huckabee four years ago. come forward 2012. here are the colors. watch this. this will fill in live as results come in. here, interesting questions. we have the evangelical voters. the darker the area on the map, the higher the percentage of evangelical voters. if you talk to people in the santorum campaign, they say they ll go into the caucuses look to perry people in the eye,
look bachmann people in the eye and say your candidate can t win, you have to support us to have a conservative voice in the election. what perry hopes bachmann and perry add up to 18 that blocks santorum from winning. evangelicals? if evangelicals divide, romney conquers, that s what it is. romney doesn t want the evangelical voters to turn and say, you know what? we kind of like rick santorum now, we think we re going to unify behind a candidate. that s what happened with mike huckabee in 2008 and that was what gave huckabee the huge percentage, 45% of them. he really needs evangelicals to split. we ll show you later in the show. we ll break down the tea party vote in iowa. evangelicals big in 2008. the tea party, a new element in 2012. still ahead, it wasn t long ago he was in the lead. now he s on the sidelines. we ll ask herman cain his choice among the remaining candidates. despite his stullables in
captions by vitac www.vitac.com under two hours from the start of iowa s presidential caucuses. a vote to shrink the field and perhaps give us a front-runner. mitt romney predicting, quote, we re going win this but his opponents are promising the governor will have a much harder time after tonight. this afternoon the former house speaker newt gingrich told reporters his ads will start drawing, quote, a sharper, clearer contrast with governor romney and on cbs this morning, the former speaker, remember, he s the candidate who keeps promising to stay positive, well, gingrich called romney a liar. are you calling mitt romney a liar? yes. why are you saying he s a lier? this is a man whose staff created the pac, his millionaire friends fund the pac. he pretens he has nothing to do with the pac. it s balogna, he s not telling the american people the truth. it s like a pretense he s a conservative. governor romney s laughing off gingrich s attempt to be more aggress
hearing mitt romney kind of brush off newt gingrich. you don t want to tangle right now. you want to stay upbeat and positive, and do some of that, the speeches, with the sort of high flying rhetoric, which is what he did today. and to that point, candy, governor romney has focused on president obama, not republican rivals in the closing hours. he also brought his sons out to stup f stuch for him today. rather than paying someone to build a fence he decided to work with his five sons and his wife and he was going to build a fence on his own. my dad is extraordinarily cheap. he is as cheap a human being as you ve ever met member could have afforded to have someone else come in and build that fence but he wanted to do it himself. explain to me why they think my dad s cheap, candy, is a good closing message in the campaign. reporter: that s right. because what s been the wrap on mitt romney, he s too distant, aloof, he doesn t have one of the story lines people like to
tell about their childhood, how they understand the pain of america. this is about putting the flesh on mitt romney that some people say he looks like an executive but he doesn t look like he cares. that s what the family does, that s what wives do, that s what sons do. that s what the campaign has been for the last couple of weeks and he has been out with his family. for mitt romney the message is, make no mistake. for the family it s to humanize the guy as they move teefeerds. he s flesh and bones and that s what this is about out here. candy crowley, at the mitt romney headquarters, second time around for governor romney. hopes iowa makes him the front-runner. ron paul s campaign, well, launched its strongest attack so far against governor romney. listen to this. part of a one-minute radio ad. romney s record is liberal. and putting him up against obama is a recipe for defeat.