important is that on a night like tonight? reporter: well political insiders tell us it is going to be very, very telling tonight. the people who have spent months or more here organizing all of their precinct captains, surrogates, supporters. tonight it s a cold, lengthy process for somebody, it takes patience and commitments. you want to make sure all the doors you knocked on, all the people you got to commit to you will turn around and get everybody out to vote. we talked with the governor s office and they say listen it s like nothing else and tonight the organization will show. take a listen. the campaigns with the best organization are going to call up every single last one of their supporters, which could number in the 20 to 30,000 range and make sure they know where to go on caucus night. organization also matters because at these individual precincts, and there is 1,774 throughout the entire state, you want to make sure that you re campaign has a precinct leader. reporte
important is that on a night like tonight? reporter: well political insiders tell us it is going to be very, very telling tonight. the people who have spent months or more here organizing all of their precinct captains, surrogates, supporters. tonight it s a cold, lengthy process for somebody, it takes patience and commitments. you want to make sure all the doors you knocked on, all the people you got to commit to you will turn around and get everybody out to vote. we talked with the governor s office and they say listen it s like nothing else and tonight the organization will show. take a listen. the campaigns with the best organization are going to call up every single last one of their supporters, which could number in the 20 to 30,000 range and make sure they know where to go on caucus night. organization also matters because at these individual precincts, and there is 1,774 throughout the entire state, you want to make sure that you re campaign has a precinct leader. reporte
$700,000 in one evening. governor pawlenty was there, they clearly understood they needed to bring tea partiers and republicans under the same movement. i think if you are willing to work at it, you can do that i think there s a genuine feeling on the part of most of the tea party people they are sophisticated enough to know that splitting the vote gearan these pelosi stays as speaker and obama stays as president and reid stays as majority leader and they are willing to look over minor differents to make sure they beat those three. greta: why aren t republicans going over to the tea party? i think part of it is a matter of style. part of it is what people are actively involved in. if you are a republican precinct leader you probably don t become a tea partier. there are a lot of republicans who do go to the tea party events. where you have elections on a certain cycle, people got so
$700,000 in one evening. governor pawlenty was there, they clearly understood they needed to bring tea partiers and republicans under the same movement. i think if you are willing to work at it, you can do that i think there s a genuine feeling on the part of most of the tea party people they are sophisticated enough to know that splitting the vote gearan these pelosi stays as speaker and obama stays as president and reid stays as majority leader and they are willing to look over minor differents to make sure they beat those three. greta: why aren t republicans going over to the tea party? i think part of it is a matter of style. part of it is what people are actively involved in. if you are a republican precinct leader you probably don t become a tea partier. there are a lot of republicans who do go to the tea party events. where you have elections on a certain cycle, people got so
much-talked-about organization really kicks into effect, and you need to make sure that you have a precinct leader at all of iowa s 1,774 precincts, and they make sure that iowans across the state show up right at 7:00 on a cold, dark night to cast their vote. so when they get there, they re going to see signs, they re going to see stickers, there s going to be la cards all over the place, and that is going to show momentum for certain candidates, and it s going to be the downfall of others because, ultimately, an undecided iowan who has viewed all these candidates is going to want to go with the winner. so whoever s west organized is best organized is the person they re going to cast their vote for. megyn: are they going to go with the winner if they believe it s someone more moderate like mitt romney or more outside the mainstream of conservative republican thought, say, like ron paul? might they do that when iowa historically has been a more conservative state and has gone along w