the debates have been so important for republicans. and i think if you track the rise and fall and you saw the perry oops moment, you would see the start of his decline nationally in the polls. it s been amaze ing. again, it is also amazing to see romney is, if you take out his highs and lows, incredibly flat here. let s get back here to iowa. i think we can also see here. okay. so iowa i really love this thing. how the pictures pop up. we re still getting used to this, too. we have romney starts out as the leader. michele bachmann, now. what s interesting in iowa is you see a couple of the only people who haven t risen i suppose you see here. you see bachmann. you see cain get much higher than he got on the national poll. romney continuing to stay in the 20s. you see gingrich with the surge there. then you see the ron paul surge which obviously you didn t see nationally. mitt romney. then you see mitt romney there. then you would see rick santorum. rick santorum.
and i think if you track the rise and fall and you saw the perry oops moment, you would see the start of his decline nationally in the polls. it s been amaze ing. again, it is also amazing to see romney is, if you take out his highs and lows, incredibly flat here. let s get back here to iowa. i think we can also see here. okay. so iowa i really love this thing. how the pictures pop up. we re still getting used to this, too. we have romney starts out as the leader. michele bachmann, now. what s interesting in iowa is you see a couple of the only people who haven t risen i suppose you see here. you see bachmann. you see cain get much higher than he got on the national poll. romney continuing to stay in the 20s. you see gingrich with the surge there. then you see the ron paul surge which obviously you didn t see nationally. mitt romney. then you see mitt romney there. then you would see rick santorum. rick santorum. so you see paul and santorum here, bachmann, people you don t
perry oops moment, you would see the start of his decline nationally in the polls. it s been amaze ing. again, it is also amazing to see romney is, if you take out his highs and lows, incredibly flat here. let s get back here to iowa. i think we can also see here. okay. so iowa i really love this thing. how the pictures pop up. we re still getting used to this, too. we have romney starts out as the leader. michele bachmann, now. what s interesting in iowa is you see a couple of the only people who haven t risen i suppose you see here. you see bachmann. you see cain get much higher than he got on the national poll. romney continuing to stay in the 20s. you see gingrich with the surge there. then you see the ron paul surge which obviously you didn t see nationally. mitt romney. then you see mitt romney there. then you would see rick santorum. rick santorum. so you see paul and santorum here, bachmann, people you don t see nationally you see here in iowa. right. and that s b
polling station with the final numbers from iowa to show us who s on top right now and why everything could change on tuesday. and our ali velshi is over at the social media screen keeping tabs on what americans are saying online about the candidates. it s been a very busy new year s day out on the campaign trail in iowa. cnn s jim acosta is covering the last big push for votes. jim, set the scene for us. a very important day today. reporter: that s right, wolf. and newt gingrich is not crying anymore after weeks of taking abuse from mitt romney. the former speaker sent a clear message he is ready to return the favor. making his way through an iowa sports bar, newt gingrich signaled it s getting close to last call before the caucuses. what better time and place to start a brawl with his nemesis, mitt romney. frankly, if you re willing to be dishonest to try to get to be president, why would we think you d be honest once you are president? reporter: abandoning his clinch
my office today and one of my co-workers had left me literally a bunches of pieces of coal. i think it was a joke but i m not sure. anyway, steve, you have spent some time in iowa recently. what s your sense of the race with nine days to go? i think that the ron paul surge, all the talk about the ron paul surge and the support that he has out there and the momentum he has potentially going into the january 3rd caucuses is real. i think that s real. i think the stories about his organization, i think they re all accurate and the question to me is whether the news surrounding his newsletters. he had these newsletters that had racist comments and anti-semitic comments. way back in the early 1990 s. in the 90 s when he wasn t in office. he says he didn t write them but he hasn t given yet a coherent explanation. he says he has some moral responsibility for the newsletters and their content but hasn t really owned them the way that you might expect. he hasn t said who has written