we believe what he said at the debate this morning and last night is the only one in the race that has not been part and sar pell of washington, d.c. and wall street, not the mess of debt, bailout government mandated healthcare in d.c. it will stand him in good south carolina. that is friendly fert for us. we believe his message, social conservative and retail campaigning is going carry the day. gregg: you think he can make up a 26-point deficit in just a couple of weeks? we have seen this race go up and down, candidates who rise from the ashes. when the people of south carolina see rick perry and realize that his fiscal and social tea party conservatism best in the nation job creation record. the fact that he can really relate to the folks of the economy there, i think we re going to do real well in south
debate this morning and last night is the only one in the race that has not been part and sar pell of washington, d.c. and wall street, not the mess of debt, bailout government mandated healthcare in d.c. it will stand him in good south carolina. that is friendly fert for us. we believe his message, social conservative and retail campaigning is going carry the day. gregg: you think he can make up a 26-point deficit in just a couple of weeks? we have seen this race go up and down, candidates who rise from the ashes. when the people of south carolina see rick perry and realize that his fiscal and social tea party conservatism best in the nation job creation record. the fact that he can really relate to the folks of the economy there, i think we re going to do real well in south
polling in the second tier. he wasn t spending a lot of time there, hadn t spent a lot of teem there as he did 4 years ago, and then he made a calculated risk which paid off. i seem to be rising, the other people seem to be falling. i m going to go all-in. it was a risky, interesting thing he did. yes, even though as mr. gingrich says, only 25% of the people voted for him, that was more than it had been just a few weeks before. because of the increase, he seemed to have calculated a way that didn t explode in his face, but how do we deal with the fact that santorum, who was nowhere on anybody s radar has now become a legitimate rival to him? i think that question remains to be seen, whether he s a legitimate rival. remember, iowa is the only place first of all, it s not a primary, but a caucus, the only place where retail campaigning really works. that worked for jimmy card are
he wasn t spending a lot of time there, hadn t spent a lot of teem there as he did 4 years ago, and then he made a calculated risk which paid off. i seem to be rising, the other people seem to be falling. i m going to go all-in. it was a risky, interesting thing he did. yes, even though as mr. gingrich says, only 25% of the people voted for him, that was more than it had been just a few weeks before. because of the increase, he seemed to have calculated a way that didn t explode in his face, but how do we deal with the fact that santorum, who was nowhere on anybody s radar has now become a legitimate rival to him? i think that question remains to be seen, whether he s a legitimate rival. remember, iowa is the only place first of all, it s not a primary, but a caucus, the only place where retail campaigning really works. that worked for jimmy card are carter back in 1976.
for ron paul. rick santorum then in at 16%. but, it s very, it is too close to call. we have three contenders here. organization matters. carl cameron was absolutely right. you go into any one of these 1744 caucus meetings and somebody gets up and make as particularly good speech it sways minds. jon: organization matters. but personal retail campaigning matters as well. mitt romney has done less of that in iowa than the other major contenders. that s right but he leads in part because there is another thing there called money. interesting, but money doesn t necessarily buy you love. the guy who spent the most money there on television for example is rick perry who between his super pac and his campaign has spent five 1/2 million dollars on television, $4.5 million being spent by romney. about 2.25 million spent by ron paul and million dollars spent by newt gingrich. jon: we have roughly 120,000 voters in iowa tonight who