their ads or them making appearances here like they did four years ago, but he believes that is about to change, and they are about to be front and center which is where they want it to be right now in the presidential race. and david, looking at the different pictures of the different candidates and still a crowded field there. do we expect that there will be some folks who will emerge and rise to the top here, and it is going to be close like we saw in iowa? well, south carolina has always touted itself as the king maker, and they have history to back them up here. ever since this primary began in the 80s, every single candidate who has won here in south carolina has gone on to win the party s nomination. they are not shy about reminding everyone about this. they even moved the primary up ahead of florida just so they could remain the first voice in the south with this southern primary. they did that at an expense, they lost half of the delegates, so that the fight is not so muc
then she has tumbled, tumbled in a pretty intense way in the polls. it s really unclear why because she has at least at the beginning she had done pretty well in debates. she had been here campaigning very hard. she, like rick santorum at the end of this campaign, was around the state. she did all 99 counties. guess what, she was even born here. she was born in water loo, iowa. she is a native daughter of the state. she did not do very well. very disappointing. at the end of the day, suzanne, you know this. you ve covered many campaigns. you need money to go on. if you re not doing well, the money dries up and that is a critical problem for her. it s a mystery. she actually won that straw poll back over the summer here. do we have any sense of why her campaign just didn t gain the traction that was necessary? you know, she was competing with other candidates here who were pretty strong when it came to being socially conservative, which is really where she was appealing. t
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
go on the 10th now, because nevada over the weekend moved off the 14th. see the x through the 14th? they wanted to be only four days behind new hampshire but new hampshire s law requires nobody be less than seven days behind it. nevada moved off to february. the next real contest will be the first southern primary. that will take place in south carolina. no republicans won the presidency without first winning in south carolina. and the last contest in january will be florida on the 31st. four days of that nevada will go, on the 4th of february. that is the calendar. because it now accelerates things we are ten weeks from tomorrow, the first votes will be ten weeks from tomorrow. now in iowa right now herman cain leads the most recent poll by iowa university, but the reality is cain is attesting to building an organization but there is a lot of skepticism, a lot of iowa republican caucus goers say he probably does not have the organization that he
why in the world would they do this? well, you can blame florida. florida has decided to push its primary up to the end of january. so now let the dominoes fall where they may. so iowa could possibly want to move their primary to earlier than new hampshire since they are traditionally the first state to vote. iowa, new hampshire, aren t the only ones a little upset over what florida is doing. cnn s shawna shepherd joins me from south carolina. the site of what is the first southern primary. good morning to you. are they talking as well about what they might do and how much they might move their primary up? reporter: they re absolutely talking about it, and they re going to try to make sure that they get their voice heard. they re not happy with florida s decision, and they really want to hold on to that, that title of the first primary in the south and they re going to do whatever they can to make sure that they don t lose that title. we talk about what the states are goi