one s yet grabbed that slot for the american worker. hey, i don t blee washingteliev washingtonal going to solve our problem. i believe 300 million americans are going to solve our problems. i believe in you. if he goes to new hampshire and talks about the american worker, there s a place for rick santorum to go further than you think. move him out of the conservative social space and getting ready for the next state. and that is the mark on national security. he opened his rally, credit sized president obama for not dealing effectively with iran. not just an attack on president obama. the laying down of the attack on ron paul we ll hear moff you. speaking of the poll, go to non-electable poll pup like that, and ron paul has a dubious honor of leading the unelectedable poll at 29% and then michele bachmann at 28% and gingrich at 11%. mitt romney, one of those electable polls obviously. so ron paul, you know, is this where, really, he s going to reach his height and then die?
welcome to our new show called starting point. we re live once again at the waveland cafe in iowa. today, of course, is decision day. today the campaign stops thinking about polls and projections and actually starts being about real numbers. iowans, of course, going to cast their votes for the person they would like to see run for president against president barack obama. tonight s test has rick santorum surging. he appears to be the gop with the most mo, momentum, going into today s caucuses. practically picking up his mail in this state. mitt romney hasn t been and he s doing pretty well, chatting and talking about winning, oozing confidence, like charlie sheen, people tell us on the campaign trail. michele bachmann is asking, do you believe in miracles? she says get ready for a big surprise on her part in the iowa tonight. she ll join us along with her kids to tell us why in a starting point exclusive. plus, get real. we have not found any skeletons
of the part and the more conservative wing of the party, overlapping circles of tea party supporter at evangelical christian whose have not settle and a candidate. that s where we ve seen the bouncing around from bachmann to perry to cain to gingrich and now santorum. the process demands an alternative to romney. the question, if it is santorum here, does he have the capacity to the grow into a true national threat? the romney campaign, pretty dubious. that s really the translation, that s let s not attack him yet. we re not sure he can be a national candidate. for the budweiser candidate, the question you put on the survey is, who would you rather have a beer with? who s the populist guy? the working man s candidate? you said it. this guy s from pittsburgh. that s his home. he knows steel mills don t just build towns, they build families, and there isn t a candidate you know, mitt romney s campaign is a campaign for the american investor knop
elements don t do anything about endorsing candidates. we re just trying to get our members to go out and review and analyze what s going on and then make their own choice, and that probably is why the numbers go up and down so much, because people are doing exactly that. then when you have a debate every two week, somebody gets beat up on it, their numbers go down and something else s builds up. that s seems to be the progress of the whole process. amy, talk about mitt romney. he has been courting the tea party, and unsuccessfully, but let s listen to what he told to republicans in south carolina. this was just a few weeks ago, and then you can chime in. i believe on the issues as well. that i line up with a smaller government, a less intrusive government, regulations being pared back, holding down the regulations, maintaining a strong defense.
many tea party folks will find me, i believe, to be the ideal candidate. amy, do you see a situation where the tea party will ever support mitt romney? well, you know, we re just not there yet. we haven t coalesced behind any candidate. i thought with would by now. the people across the country, you re seeing it right here in iowa, 41% are undecided as of today. there are literally people going into the caucuses tonight, listen to the campaigns and make their decision from there. it s very symbolic what s happening across america. it s going to be really interesting to see what happens here tonight. we ve seen santorum surge, ebbs and flows in the campaign, i don t think we ll have any surprises in new hampshire. i think south carolina may be a game changer and i think we may see the tea party movement start to coalesce behind one or two candidates going into, out of south carolina, into florida.