not only who will win iowa, but if the party is excited, is the party intense. this is the 2008 map. this is where mitt romney did very well. the more mainstream republican party is over here in the earn part of the state. dubuque. this is a more conservative area. big test for governor romney. but look at the middle. this is where mike huckabee won the state. small, rural towns. communities where you find evangelical voters. this is the big test for santorum tonight. will they peel off, some voting for bachmann, some for perry, some voting for other candidates. i want to clear this out. i want to bring you fast forward to campaign 2012. the map is clear and it will fill in tonight. what do i mean? let s take a look. these are evangelical voters in iowa. the darker the color, the stronger the evangelical
this is decision day in iowa. just four hours from now, republicans will gather in caucuses across the state and cast the first votes in the 2012 campaign. the candidates have spent months of the trial paving the way with millions in campaign cash. much of that money has gone towards a barrage of negative advertising. now, in a final flurry of appearances, the rhetoric has reached a new peak or maybe a new low. you said mitt romney, somebody who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president. i have to ask you, are you calling mitt romney a liar? yes. you re calling mitt romney a liar? you seem shocked by it. yes. why are you saying he s a liar? this is a man who s staff created the pack. his millionaire friends fund the pack. he pretends he has nothing to do with the pack. it s balogna. it s like his pretense that he s a conservative. wow. let s go live to our chief political correspondent, candy crowley. she s in des moines. you
step with the rest of the party. he says ron paul s views are not the message of the whole republican party. no, of course not. it s not the message that a president of the united states could ever afford to extend. in other words, we re a party of leadership in the world. we have a fleet that covers all of the seas. as a matter of fact, makes foreign trade possible, trade of all sorts. and with just eight days until iowa, the man who won the caucuses last time around is making a bold prediction. former arkansas governor mike huckabee says he ll bet mitt romney will win iowa, but ron paul could pull it out because of his excellent organization. iowa may be eight days away, but it s virginia posing a problem.
intervening, a lot can change between now and january 3rd. that s number one. number two iowa is not always predictive. new hampshire is famously contrary, and its open independents can vote in new hampshire, favoring have someone like a huntsman or romney. so i think the underlying dynamic has been this, republicans are searching for the most conservative candidate thecan nominate with a chance of getting elected. ultimately they ll come back and look at mitt romney. the problem for mitt is he s a suspect conservative, but he s electable. he can do that, he won t win iowa, but resurrected in new hampshire, and i think still is the most likely default option for the republican party. ed, as i mentioned, you ran mike huckabee s campaign which won iowa four years ago. how important is a field organization, especially in a
stopped. there s also a third account by a family friend, reported in the patriot-news by cnn contributor sara ganim, suggesting mcqueary didn t even directly see the molestation. so, today, at this preliminary hearing for two of his bosses, mcqueary finally gave his account, in open court, on the record, under oath, and it was a powerful one. he said he saw sexual activity between jerry sandusky and the boy and he told superiors what he saw. there s no question in my opinion mind that i conveyed to university officials that i saw jerry with a boy in the shower and that it was severe sexual acts going on and that it was wrong and over the line. he went into detail, and our apologies, it is graphic detail, telling the court he heard rhythmic slapping sounds, like skin on skin. then he says, i looked in the mirror and shockingly and surprisingly saw jerry with a boy in the shower. he said sandusky was behind the boy, the boy was against the wall. he told the court he beli