the final day of the campaign trail. the latest "des moines register" poll showing the political pendulum in iowa swinging away from ron paul and toward rick santorum as we're talking about. however, ron paul is hitting the state hard today after a weekend braeng, hoping to reverse that tornado. he and he's recruited his son, tea party faifrlt, rand paul to the front lines. paul also making the case this weekend that he is electable. >> i always say that i'm pretty mainstream. i think that people who are attacking me now are the ones who can't defend their records and have been all over the place. >> nbc campaign embed anthony terrell, live at the polk county convention center in des moines. anthony, explain the mood on the ground and the push from the paul camp, now that both ron and his son rand are in town together. >> hey, good morning. they're pretty excited about senator rand paul being back here. he's trying to motivate conservatives to get behind his father's candidacy, pointing to his consistency and rand is also