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Resources. this might go back to the, you know, that old strategy for winning in iowa, that grassroots is what really matters here in order to win this state. that tv advertising, big budgets, big buses with your name plastered across it, that doesn t always mean everything in this state, wolf. he worked the hardest. there s no doubt about that in iowa. he was the first to visit all 99 counties and spent an enormous amount of time with limited resources there. let s go to anderson cooper and ali velshi. they re monitoring social media. what do you see? we re talking about where the biggest buzz is online. at the risk of sounding like a big nerd, i ve been following this very close my. wouldn t be the first time, ali. i hear you. we re bogging down, actually. we re getting 14,000 to 15,000 tweets per hour that are naming one of the candidates. the colors here correspond to various candidates. all night and most of the day, with the exception of a few minutes, ron paul has been ....
High turnout, we have a big intensity gap this time? many democrats will say no, many republicans will say, it s an improvement. one other point i want talk about. if we have a close race, i want to look at candidate visits. let s close this down, take away the graphics. this is rick santorum, he visited all 99 counties. look at him out in the western part of the state that mitt romney carried four years ago. let s look at mitt romney, he visited this area the least. of the candidates who visited iowa in this cycle, it was romney the least. santorum tonight is going to claim doing it the old-fashioned bay has helped. if you close this down and just come back and look, we re filling in the map at 88%. wow. just wow. and we re going to look at who s left. you look at these open counties, there s no votes here, tiny counties. they could make a difference. in a very close race, they could make difference. ....
That went overwhelmingly for rick santorum. the right experience, 16%, and that is a really interesting one, also helping romney. we re going to break those down. but best appearence for a president, and this is where you see the romney strength. 37% of caucusgoers say working in government, working in business, 53% say that s the most important thing. so let s flick it over. wasn t looking for the flick, you missed the flick. most people cared about this, and overwhelming. this has been romney s key message. he has been saying, i m the outsider, i ve got the business experience, i know how to fix the government. you do not want an insider like, say, newt gingrich was, michele bachmann was, you need somebody or perry this government, you need somebody outside of government. santorum was a senator, is no longer. so there you go. and 53% of the voters say that that really was the most important ....
that was a lifetime ago. that was a lifetime ago. but, you know, she made a big point, if she was born in iowa, this was going to be her state. this was going to be so you think she might drop out or, given her money situation? soul searching is what you i think, yes. and if you re rick perry, what justification do you have for going forward? just because you ve got money in the bank? the justification of going forward, i talked to rick perry today. he said he s the only conservative who can mount a national effort, fund-raising effort, against mitt romney. can he make that case after tonight? harder, but we ll see what happens with santorum. see how santorum performs in new hampshire. perry s not going to new hampshire. perry s going to south carolina. southern governor, conservative, a tea party message. look, he understands, he blew it in the early debates. the voters in iowa never forgave him for those gaffes. he s going to try one more time in south ....