part of what he said was about his two sons who just came back from serving in the middle east. and it reminded me and would like to close with this and it s so important, why the iowa experience and the new hampshire experience, the places where you actually have to see people, you can t just buy tv ads or use robo calls but in the end it s people, this process is what they risk their lives to preserve. this process of people coming together, sharing values, sharing fears and dreams, finding a way to come and get it to work unlike the current total mess in washington which i believe, frankly, is a bipartisan mess, unlike the current mess in washington, the american system over time works when the american people roll up their sleeves to make it work and every one of us, part of what made the negative ads so shameful, every one of us should
so technically at stake tonight because of the way the district conventions work so there is no recount provision in this at all. but that doesn t mean they re not going to that you re not going to have the representatives of the czar and romney campaigns want every scrap of paper counted because the perception of who wins still will matter a little bit. the biggest chunk of vote is in story county, call it the des moines one that mike huckabee won 17 points over mitt romney four years ago but we do expect paul to do better in that county. half of the remaining raw vote, something like 8,000 votes yet to be counted, half of it is in story county but let s look at this big picturewise. this is a huge night for rick santorum. he is now looking like the leader of the conservative primary. he comes out of here with real momentum especially if he can, you know, hold that razor thin lead, you know, that he is the perception and, frankly, all
and that leaves mitt romney in one of these weird positions where he s just simply how much does he win by, how quickly does santorum close the gap and now they set themselves up for south carolina 11 days after that and at that point if newt gingrich is there serving as sort of a lead blocker for santorum, which it sounds like what newt said he would do, i m going to throw all these bombs at romney and by the way almost plow the field for rick santorum, i mean he didn t say it in those terms but it seemed to be the subtle message he was sending, boy, that helps santorum buy some time to build an organization because right now he doesn t have the infrastructure, frankly, to compete in the biggest prize in january and that s florida on january 31st. chuck, in terms of how rick santorum might meaningfully position himself against mitt romney in new hampshire, the sharpest contrast to that mr. czar has drawn with mr. romney is on family values issues. things like abortion, even in
your family is wonderful. i ve enjoyed my visits with your staff along the way. ray sullivan and joe are great people. basically i want you to know you matter. and are making a difference. i visited a thousand homes today and you better and you matter to them also. this has to be the greatest honor of my life. and you need more volunteers to help you in south carolina, count me in. i ll be happy to serve you again. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] colton smith from texas. i wanted to read that to you. and ps d by saying sorry i rambled so much. it s 1:30 in the morning and i ve been out putting out sign, 4 assigns. that s what it s all about, folks.
headed political candidates headed at him for the next few days. it s not a good night for mitt romney even though he pulled up to wherever he s going to end up one or two. one of the things we saw in 2008 was that mitt romney earned the ire of so many other candidates with his negative ads. we may be seeing that as sort of mano a mano way specifically with gingrich coming out of iowa if he plays the tip of the spear anti-mitt romney role we see him messaging tonight talking about mitt romney as a massachusetts moderate would will manage the decay of america, that is the kind of message that somebody who maybe is running alongside mitt romney may not give him but running behind him comfortably for revenge might be happy. we re look at michele bachmann s campaign headquarters. she s running sixth right now in iowa despite a very hard-working campaign there. let s see what she has to say. thank you, brad. i appreciate that. i was introduced in all 99