infrastructure that ron paul has. but a first would really grease those skids as they move into new hampshire where mitt romney is showing a huge lead. these are the early voters. this is the entrance poll. these are not official results. i want everyone to be cautious. over to john king. you made an excellent point. the early arrivals four years ago in the republican and democratic caucuses in iowa, they didn t necessarily we didn t necessarily get it right in terms of when all of the respondents came in. the most eager people show up early and sometimes the most organized campaigns show up late. we ll watch lou this plays out. if you look at this right now a dead heat in the early wave between ron paul and mitt romney, any minute now you ll start to see counties reporting their caucus results. we ve got seven candidates. huntsman is not really playing in iowa. six in contention in iowa.
look at what we call the bottom four right now. we see newt gingrich, the governor rick perry, michele bachmann, jon huntsman. he s technically there even though he didn t campaign really in iowa. he s spending all of his time in new hampshire. presumably he ll come in last. he won t drop out because he s doing all of his campaigning in new hampshire. but remember, this is very early right now. it s sort of coincides, this top tier w the most recent polls we saw, not only our cnn/time poll, the des moines register poll, an nbc/marist poll. these are the three individual, the top tier. no matter how you look at these entrance polls, you can think of it as the most recent poll in iowa. because this is a poll really. and it s a little bit more accurate presumably than the other polls because this is a poll that isn t of likely caucusgoers. we know these are real caucusgoers who participated in this poll, this entrance poll as we call it. the top tier will presumably getting mo