nail-biter race, but when you look at at the polls, you see the electability issue of mitt romney, and the number of people who are just sort of waiting to the very end to decide what to do. and it shows you how iowans were really searching for their gop candidate until the very end, and they were still searching for the candidate. you must have been on the phone with your relatives? absolutely. and i will say except for ron paul, because they have had their yard signs up long before anybody else, and many of those entrance polls show it, too, because many people long before december had been decided on ron paul. christine, good to see you. sure. rick santorum clearly connected in iowa, but his surge has a closer look at the controversial statements he has made about african-americans on welfare and locking up doctors who perform abortions. [ panting ] ha ha ha!
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