good evening, from cnn s election center because, yes, it has begun and it s an episode of survivor. at least that s how republican presidential candidate rick santorum described the iowa caucuses. here is the thing about iowa. no offense, iowa, you re really important but you re also small. only 2 million registered voters. 640,000 of them republicans. and if the 2008 caucuses were an indication of what s ahead for tomorrow, only about 100,000 of those republicans will actually go out on a cold january night to cast their votes. those who do, it only is a 50% success rate when it actually comes to picking the eventual nominee. so, what s all the hype about iowa? the bottom line is, it has a huge influence in who stays and doesn t stay in a presidential race. it may be small but it packs one big punch. listen to the candidates today. they know what s really at stake tomorrow. we are not looking for a chief executive officer. for this country. we re looking for a commander i
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girls. at last word, bochblg children are listed in fair condition. watch this. welcome back a. hour two, i m brooke baldwin. got to talk about iowa ushgs, one day left. also, the president signs a defense bill despite his and i m quoting serious reservations. and iran tests a missile. starting with joe johns on the ground in iowa, i know you have been with the romney camp today. here we are one day left, what s mitt romney up to? reporter: well, he s moving across the state at a very fast clip, brooke. he as also playing it very safe. couple of events today, didn t take questions, made some jokes. pretty much stayed to his stump speech. that s what he s been doing for the past two or three days. it s pretty clear that the romney camp is happy where they are, what they re saying is they don t expect to win, they re not predicting a win. nonetheless, they would very much like to win and i think they re running strong in the polls. so it s a challenge for him to make hi