well, the iowa caucuses aren t exactly comedy gold, but conan o brien gave it a shot on his show last night. sxwr of course, everyone is excited today the republican iowa caucuses. or as it is also known, old white guy mardi gras. well, steve, the so-called conservative blow torch of iowa radio joining us again this morning. steve, if the caucuses were like mardi gras, he didn t get the most speed. what happened to your guy? what happened is, i know this is going to sound like spin and maybe it is, but his people think, i talked to one of his key people in iowa who think i might have saved him from fifth place. i had one radio program from the time i endorsed him and between
at the winners and losers and dan lothian and david mattingly looking ahead to the battlegrounds that are now more important than ever. all right, let s start with dana bash. dana? well, we have some potential news this morning about what this caucus has did to the field on the republican side. michele bachmann who, of course, came in a disappointing sixth, effectively dead last here in iowa is going to hold a news conference in a few hours. her campaign is not saying what it is about, but it is hastily arranged news conference. it is hard to imagine that she s going to have something and not give us news about the future or maybe lack there of of her campaign. so, kyra, we re waiting to see exactly what she says. obviously, she is somebody who was one of those who is riding very, very high in iowa. not that long ago. she actually won the first contest here. the ames straw poll only to see her popularity absolutely plummet in the last few weeks. that will be probably, poten