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the eventual nominee and he cannot wrap it up until perhaps the convention. at that point you have the classic problem that happened with jerry brown that s happened with other candidates in the past. so giving him a speaking sure d supporters feel like they re behind the nominee. i don t think and the ron paul campaign can prove me wrong. i would invite them to join us tonight to tell me if i m wrong but i don t think the ron paul long game here is to influence slightly the make up of the convention speakers list. no, no. or to influence mitt romney s eventual platform when he becomes the nominee. i don t think that s what ron paul is in it for. i think ron paul is in it in the long run to change american politics and in the shorter run to make sure mitt romney isn t the nominee. i think that ron paul specifically wants to try to leverage his position into somebody other than romney being the nominee even if it s not ron
it s a little less as the total turnout is. what you re seeing with ron paul is a lot of new voters, about 25% new caucus goers coming for the first time. as i ve seen the early numbers and was looking at the maps of east versus west versus middle the evangelicals are pretty much across the board kind of where they were at huckabee in 2008 but when you talk about a two man race in 2008 between mike huckabee and mitt romney, those are the two choices. now they ve got santorum, gingrich, perry, bachmann. some of them as you ve seen from your polling to dr. paul and some to mitt romney. you re seeing mitt romney under perform a little bit where he was in the west but over performing in the middle and so i think at the end of the day it s a little bit like 2008 but mostly a lot different. in terms of how huckabee put together his iowa win in 2008 and the sort of long bumpy road that lies ahead of all of these candidates who aren t named mitt romney tonight, do you think there is a lesson
if you could advise say rick santorum does come out successful tonight and become the main candidate for the evangelicals going forward against romney, what advice could you give him and other contenders that you could give in saying that if we had done this in 2008 this would have happened so you could sort of like give them a warning not to repeat what tripped up huckabee in 2008? first of all, i would make sure reverend sharpton you re the fashion guru for any other candidate because you re my fashion guru. i always try to follow what you wear. i have my red tie on trying to look good. second is focus on what you know. rick santorum is going to go to new hampshire tomorrow, compete there, try to compete everywhere but go to south carolina and stake your claim. you know, we competed in new hampshire. then we went to michigan. we spent valuable resources in michigan four years ago trying to kind of do the knockout punch on mitt romney. when we probably should have stayed in south
described themselves as evangelicals. tonight they are favoring rick santorum, 30% of evangelicals said they would vote for santorum. 21% you see went for ron paul. newt gingrich to 14%. mitt romney and rick perry are getting 13% each. we ll keep you atrack of how things are going in these key groups and how they are choosing their candidates as the night goes on. that s fascinating. four years ago mike huckabee united the evangelical vote to win the iowa caucuses and win them big. his campaign manager in 2008 was chip saltsman and chip is kind enough to join us tonight now from nashville. thanks very much for taking the time. really appreciate it. good to be with you. when you look at the similarities between the number of evangelicals among the caucus goers turning out tonight in 2012 compared with when you won in iowa in 2008 what does that tell you about iowa and about what we should expect for the night s results? well, i think what we re seeing is a couple things.