Offense to that, but does he have a natural debate style, jeb bush? well, yes, it s again, it s very much directed at the substance. i think that for example tomorrow night that jeb needs to be jeb. he can t pretend to be donald trump. he can t pretend to be someone he s not. so he needs to be shorter with his answers, perhaps more focused, sharper, demonstrate passion when appropriate. all right. so dr. taylor, you next. let s talk about your guy. your guy is dr. ben carson, he was polk at 6%. now he is closing in on donald trump. are we going to consider to see this mild mannered candidate or is he going to change himself, make a met a metamorphosis on stronger comments? well, i think ben is going to do what people expects him to
Caucusgoers in iowa. he s trying to convince them to maybe change their minds and support him. they re going to start actually voting there very soon. soledad o brien is joining us from clive, iowa. it looks like a pretty big event over there, soledad. they re just sitting down. did they just do the pledge of allegiance? they just did the pledge of allegiance. very big event. they were estimating 1200 people would be here. i think that estimate is accurate. they just literally officially have gotten under way. christy taylor at the mike right now. she s the person that runs the caucuses. two things happening. one, not only are they officially under way, but there s a rumor that governor rick perry will be here soon to address the crowd. we haven t seen his people officially here to bring him in, but we are told that he will be coming not only from some of the people who are helping run this caucus, but some of the folks in the crowd have told us as well. they re very excited, those w
Now west des moines precinct two has the results in. here they are. mitt romney the clear winner with 160 followed by rick santorum with 87 votes. that s a very similar result. actually just larger numbers because the precinct is bigger. very similar result to precinct one which reported and closed a couple minutes ago. dr. christy taylor has been running the thing. are you surprised? no, actually i m not. i think this is about what i expected as things have gone on this week. what are the interesting things that i saw when i first came here, it was jammed with probably what, a thousand people here? probably close to it, yeah. the number of undecideds. people literally who were trying to figure out and were on the fence and in lots of cases they were going different directions. in the last three o four weeks people have changed their minds. i ve talked to many people who have changed from two to three to four candidates. is it an indication people were telling me i m look
The red ballots. in their count mitt romney is ahead significantly, number two behind mitt romney is santorum. that is what happened with precinct number one, west des moines. over here they re still counting. they re on their second count for precinct number two, which are the white ballots. they ve actually at the same time we turn around for one second. they re making the official, 79 votes for mitt romney. ron paul third with 42 points, gingrich is fourth, 24. we re still working on west des moines two. so you heard what christy taylor, who runs this precinct christy, will you give us those numbers one more time? sure, governor romney has 79, santorum 46, paul 42, gingrich 24, perry 23, bachmann has 10,
overregulating us, that are killing jobs, that will pull back all those regulations since the 08 and have them audited. if they re killing jobs, they re out of here. we need a president of the united states that not only respects that constitution but looks down at the bill of rights and gets down to number ten where we talk about the powers delegated to the united states by the constitution or or reserved for the states respectively or to the people. and basically says that that federal government was created by the states to be an agent for states, not the other way around. let s work together to get our country back. you have my backing in this caucus. and i promise you one thing. for the next four years, i will have your back in washington, d.c. god bless you, god bless iowa. we ll continue to be the greatest country in the world. you heard the texas governor rick perry in clive outside of des moines at the caucus there. a pretty big it s a pretty big caucus there in