iowa, and he s done it at precisely the right time. his organization is good because he s spent a lot of time here, his buzz is exactly what you want. social conservatives arrallying to the extent there is any unity underway. is it enough? we ll know in 36 hours. jenna: and we re looking forward to watching this with you over the next 36 hours, earmuffs and all, carl, your fashion sense we completely accept. let me just ask you one quick question. we talk about the winners, right? there s a winner out of iowa. is that true that there is one winner, or could you have more than three tickets out of iowa that are really changing the face of this race? reporter: all right. so history has been in iowa a cliche that there are three tickets out of iowa. sometimes it s a fiscal conservative and a social conservative and a popular candidate with a late-minute surge. there s various different combinations. every single time the iowa caucus has happened in the last 35 years, there have been can
challenged mitt romney here at iowa, and he s done it at precisely the right time. his organization is good because he s spent a lot of time here, his buzz is exactly what you want. social conservatives arrallying to the extent there is any unity underway. is it enough? we ll know in 36 hours. jenna: and we re looking forward to watching this with you over the next 36 hours, earmuffs and all, carl, your fashion sense we completely accept. let me just ask you one quick question. we talk about the winners, right? there s a winner out of iowa. is that true that there is one winner, or could you have more than three tickets out of iowa that are really changing the face of this race? reporter: all right. so history has been in iowa a cliche that there are three tickets out of iowa. sometimes it s a fiscal conservative and a social conservative and a popular candidate with a late-minute surge. there s various different combinations. every single time the iowa caucus has happened in the las
basically, one of the most inept presidential campaigns they ve ever seen. he says he doesn t give credence to sources that aren t named. here s a bit of his response from this morning. all right. well, in that sound bite what he had to say this morning was, basically, it s an inside beltway story, and if people aren t going to put their names on these statements, he s not going to give it any credence. by the way, whether he s your pick for president or not, the guy is texas tough because he told us he s been out jogging in this weather. we can barely make it bundled head to toe, but he said he likes it, it s invigorating, and he is ready to meet these voters one by one. martha? martha: and carl on has some earmuffs you can borrow, shannon. we just saw him. reporter: will do. martha: thank you, shannon, great to see you. bill: doing a great job. martha: i love that shot of rick and anita perry showing up and ringing somebody s doorbell.
rick santorum had the benefit of coming and having his moment at the last second, literally right on top of the iowa caucuses. it is entirely possible that he could pull off a huge upset win because he s had enough evangelical pastors getting behind him. so as we told you sometime around labor day when we were at the iowa state fair, this is going to be a photo finish. now it is. martha: yeah. indeed it is. carl, fascinating stuff. and when the earmuffs come out, we know carl s in iowa, right, carl? reporter: and it s cold. i almost, i almost cussed for it, it s cold. [laughter] martha: you look great. thanks a lot. regardless of the polls, everybody sounding pretty confident as they go into tomorrow. take a listen to a few of them to how a few of them are sounding in recent sound bites. check it out. this is an election that s not being driven by money raised, it s being driven by connection with the voters,
there and he joins us live from sioux city, iowa, with some of the highlights. no earmuffs just yet either. still a warm day there? no, it s still i mean, it s colder but still not cold enough yet. you can take a couple much weeks, it will probably be about that time, you know? i don t know. upstate new york kid. yeah, yeah. it s getting there. but it s not there yet. more to the point of the live shot was the debate last night which was noted last night and again this morning for its civility. the seven candidates up on stage who had knocked each other around in a number of debates and most recently last saturday spent a lot of time being nice and looking presidential. president obama we have to be talking about. he s unveiled himself as president that s not the right person to lead this country. i sometimes get accused of using language that s too strong so i ve been standing here editing. and i m very concerned about not appearing to be zany.