than 50 cars set ablaze since friday. los angeles police announce arrests. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re counting down the hours to the first voting of the 2012 presidential campaign. 28 hours to be precise, until iowa republicans gather at more than 1700 locations for their party caucuses and start picking their favorites. candidates have spent millions of dollars, logged many thousands of miles in this long iowa marathon. now it s a sprint. as they dash across the state looking for the last few votes. mitt romney is at the head of the pack trying to hold back ron paul and a hard charging rick santorum. let s go live to cnn joe johns joining us from marion iowa right now with the latest. joe? wolf, mitt romney is pushing across the state traveling hundreds of miles. certainly one of the busiest days of his entire campaign. he is trying to get his supporters to go out and caucus for him. on the final day of campaigning, energy is everything in io
say in economics so much leverage. indeed. you can see the dual pronged aspect of the broad policy debate of rig trade, rig banking that is sucking money out of our country that s kraegt the symptoms that kirsten is aware of. knowing that obviously with this mr. strains charge and the special interest in charge of this administration, whatever fantasy policy changes any of us would want to see to move towards a culture of investment in our country it won t happen under these people, at least not at this point in time, which makes your work doubly important kirsten because you may be the only band aid that allows people to get through. if they want to learn more about lift how do they do it? please visit us at liftcommunities.org and i just want to put in a plug for a new coalition that lift is part of the steering committee of. it s nonpartisan. represents many sectors called opportunity nation.
you chose to serve. you put on the uniform of a country that was not yet fully your own. the new americans came from several african nations, russia, ukraine, asia and south and central america. this country s latino voters obama may have had in mind when he reminded the audience of the administration recent decision of stop deporting young people who came here illegally as children. lifting the shadow of deportation. deserving young people brought to the country as children. that s why we still need a dream act. dream act would codify what is now a controversial order by secretary napolitano and further provide young people brought here illegally with a path to citizenship. the citizenship issues divides obama with mitt romney who celebrated the fourth with his wife and family in new hampshire. we don t want to make america more like europe or any other place. we want to make america like america. this is an opportunity nation, a place for people to come for hundreds of years
clear politics average of iowa polls with nearly 23%. ron paul a close second with more than 21%. and a surging rick santorum, this is really been the big story over the weekend taking a number three spot. newt gingrich and rick perry round out the top five. jon: mitt romney has to get past his gop rivals first he is looking ahead to the general election. believe in that wonderful hymn america the beautiful , and that stands is that says oh beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years. this is not about their time they were writing our declaration and our constitution, it was about their time. this merit society, this opportunity nation, this free nation continues to be a beacon to the world and a shining city on a hill. i look today at our president, i don t think he understands that america. jon: john roberts is following the romney campaign in dubuque, iowa. it is our quick response vehicle he is riding in
ron paul a close second with more than 21%. and a surging rick santorum, this is really been the big story over the weekend taking a number three spot. newt gingrich and rick perry round out the top five. jon: mitt romney has to get past his gop rivals first he is looking ahead to the general election. believe in that wonderful hymn america the beautiful , and that stands is that says oh beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years. this is not about their time they were writing our declaration and our constitution, it was about their time. this merit society, this opportunity nation, this free nation continues to be a beacon to the world and a shining city on a hill. i look today at our president, i don t think he understands that america. jon: john roberts is following the romney campaign in dubuque, iowa. it is our quick response vehicle he is riding in right now. what is governor romney up