john edwards spent almost four years in iowa, chris dodd moved there, hillary clinton had awesome name recognition, but it was the ground game of barack obama. and a bunch of youngsters out there working every single county. is newt gingrich, is he working every county? is he going to be able to -- who's got the best ground game in iowa, to your knowledge? >> he's doing better. romney theoretically has something that can be activated. remember, he got 25% last time and has a network there he worked very diligently, very under the radar as we've been chasing other candidates. going riff has staffed up, but the thing about iowa is the person who spent the most time there is rick santorum. he visited 99 counties. people who bought the most ads there are michele bachmann, ron paul, rick perry, rick perry super pac. this is not shows up in the polls. a lot of us are waiting to see if the people who put the time in there, like santorum, are going to do better or if romney has a support base that's not shows up in all the flash of these candidates who rise for two months then collapse. >> yea

john edwards spent almost four years in iowa. chris dodd moved there. hillary clinton had awesome name recognition. but it was the ground game of barack obama and a bunch of youngsters out there working every single county. is newt gingrich, is he working every county? is he going to be able to -- who's got the best ground game in iowa, to your knowledge? >> he's doing better. romney theoretically has something that can be activated. because remember, he got 25% last time. he has a network there that he's worked very diligently, very under the radar as we've all been chasing other candidates. gingrich has staffed up. but the thing about iowa is that the person who spent the most time there is rick santorum. he's visited 99 counties. people who bought the most ads there are michele bachmann, ron paul, rick perry, rick perry super pac. it's -- this is not showing up in the polls. i think what a lot of us are waiting to see is if the people who've really put the time in there like santorum are going to do better. now -- or if romney has a support base that

john edwards spent almost four years in iowa. chris dodd moved there. hillary clinton had awesome name recognition. it was the ground game of barack obama. and a bunch of youngsters out there working every single county. is newt gingrich working every county? who's got the best ground game in iowa to your knowledge? >> he's doing better. romney theoretically has something that can be activated. he got 25% last time. he has a network that he's worked diligently, under the radar as we've all been chasing other candidates. gingrich -- the thing about iowa, the person who spent the most time there is rick santorum, he visited 99 counties. the people who bought the most ads there are michele bachmann, ron paul. this is not showing up in the polls. what a lot of us are waiting to see is if they're going to put the time in there. the support base is not showing up in the flash of these candidates who rise for two months and collapse. >> we haven't mentioned rick perry, he's down at 7%, he's got a lot of money, and we should point out that the evangelical chris

we scratch our head every single time, like thinking about the john edwards episode, like what in the hell are they thinking, that they think they can get away from this stuff. it involves a huge amount of hubris. to run to the president of the united states, you think you're bigger and better than others. and it creates blinders. he was told the stuff was going to come out. he knew the sexual harassment charges were out there swirling about from the past and they would become an issue. and he reassured everyone saying, it's not a big thing. >> jim, you tweak something with me with this fox thing. usually you're a conservative, you go over there for a somewhat softer landing on a tricky day. but tomorrow, i would expect that he's going to get tough handling over there, because he's now a problem for conservatives. he's not their champion anymore. he's getting in the way of finding a champion. i wouldn't expect he'll get any nicer treatment over there in this environment than he'd get anywhere else, right? he's going to get pounded tomorrow afternoon. >> he's going to get pounded no ma

we scratch our head every single time, like thinking about the john edwards episode, like what in the hell are they thinking, that they think they can get away with this kind of stuff, and part of it it's just hubris. to run requires an enormous ego to think that we can be the president of the united states, that you think you're bigger and better than others. and it creates blinders. he was told the stuff was going to come out. he knew the sexual harassment charges were out there swirling about from the past and they would become an issue. and he reassured everyone saying, listen, it's not a big issue. it's not a big thing. >> jim, you tweak something with me with this fox thing. usually you're a conservative, i'm not fox -- i'm not knocking fox right now. you go over there for a somewhat softer landing on a tricky day. but tomorrow, i would expect that he's going to get tough handling over there, because he's now a problem for conservatives. he's not their champion anymore. he's getting in the way of finding a champion. i wouldn't expect he'll get any nicer treatment over there in t

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