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the >> mitt romney thanking his supporters. let me show you the results which were last updated about six minutes ago. rick santorum at 24.6%, mitt romney, 24.5%. there are still eight counties that have not reported. we're talking about a 41 of vote difference. one other thing, when hundred 21,000 votes -- 121,000 votes.

it has surpassed 2008 totals. in 2000, '85. 1996, 90,000. a good turnout tonight. we are going to wrap up our coverage even though we do not know the exact winner. we will wait for the final tally in the overnight hours. thank you for being with us. we will tell you about what is coming up. "washington journal" is tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. , you know we will talk politics. those are our guests. be moving on to new hampshire primary, building on the the results of the iowa caucuses and tomorrow we have

coverage including a 4:00 p.m. jon huntsman town hall and a 7:30 rick santorum town hall. all that is tomorrow on c-span as we continue our coverage. right now we're going to show you the caucus we covered it tonight and for those of you who are at least nine years. this is one -- late-nighters. thank you for being with us. this is one mitt romney won.

ok. i am the temporary chair of the precinct. i am pleased to see this group of people here that are my neighbors. thank you for coming. i would like to call the caucus to order at this point. the first order of business, i am serving as a temporary chair. i would like to entertain any motions for permanent shares. anybody else want the job? all in favor of michael carver say aye. >> aye. >> thank you. we have our acting secretary here. we need to have a motion to see

who would like to be permanent. i move pbs are permanent secretary. all in favor, ok, very good. wonderful. we now have some business. it is wonderful to start out on a note we are all together. i would like to begin this evening by having us say the pledge of allegiance. if we could stand. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you very much. i would like to begin this evening, one of the traditions we have at our city council

meetings is that we read the statements before every meeting. i think it is apropos for our discussion this evening. i would like to read the statement before each of our meetings. we are a leader in character count, and endeavoring to promote and model principles of trustworthiness, respect, fairness, caring and citizenship. we expect that all participants will act in a respectful manner consistent with these principles. i thought it was fit with what we were trying to accomplish. what i would like to do is give you a couple of words tonight about the agenda. i think you should have a copy of our draft agenda so you have

an idea what we're going to be about. one of the things we will be doing, we will be focus on the balloting for our presidential ballot. then we will have other business regarding our precinct leadership. to the end. some may decide after the vote you can leave. that is fine. we welcome all of you to be here as long as you would like to participate. we're going to move the process forward so that we do not drag through the evening.

if you have any platform issues you would like to have bus address later on, feel free to come here and grab one of these pieces of paper and turn it into the secretary. whatever the issue, you can make a simple statement like cutting spending or whatever. i do not care. if you have an idea, you are welcome to dewitt. ok. the next thing we will be doing, i do not know if we have -- we are going into the preference poll. one of the things i wanted to decide before we take the ballot, it is a simple request.

we have six delegates that will be elected to the county convention. i would like to suggest the following, the cutoff point for allocating delegates would be 15%. no candidate that cost less than 15% would get any delegates. if you end up with 8%, any candidate that would have over 15%, when we calculate the ballot, would get one delegate to the convention. we will be working on the final allocation plan after we get the results. we'll have a discussion with the various people to decide what seems fair and reasonable based on the results. at this point i would like to put on the table, as a form of, are you willing to offer that as

a motion? basically, when we do the polling, come back to our results that as far as the delegate selection, we want to have some relation, anybody would have to get a 15% of the ballot to be qualified. that is the motion you have made. any discussion? all in favor? any opposed? ok. that was a starting point. i thought it was better to deal with that now than later on and some becomes then with 14. at this point that is the will of the group. at this point, do we have

anybody that is going to speak for michelle? nobody? ok. my understanding is that rick santorum's wife was going to be coming. she is not here yet. we will proceed down list. we have speakers for grit perry, ron paul, newt gingrich and mitt romney. we will worker in as soon as she gets here. i would like to walk onto the podium joe weber. he is a friend from texas. come on up here. you can come up here. tell us why we should support for perry for president. >> where i am from we say howdy.

we are grateful to be here. i want to tell you, it is the first time i have been to iowa. to be treated as nice here as texas is amazing. the ministers, thank you for having us. rick perry and i grew up together we played football together in high school. we went to texas a&m together. he went into the air force. he went into politics. i went into the marine corps. [laughter] [applause]

we were all over the world. i know if you are in college, you worry about them. we never worried about hours because rick perry kept a close eye on our children. more important, i had to make several calls from the combat zone to rick perry and say, i am sending a kid home and he has made the ultimate sacrifice. i think you need to be with his mom and dad. there were other cases where i said he is not in as good as shape as when he came to us. i think you need to be with his mom and dad. he dropped whenever he was doing and when to be with that family. that is personal and may not be relevant to you but it says something about the virtue of this man.

leadership, i feel comfortable as a marine to talk about leadership. i know there are many leaders in this audience. and people who are been leaders. leadership that comes down, and gets people. our country, if we have ever needed a leader to get people to do things, we need it right now. leaders of character. in 36 years, in places that were good and bad and situations that were good and bad. i know i am a burned out marina and you people are -- you said things were better when you were our age but i will tell you, our country is at a tipping point

our society and culture. i think it is because we forgot where we came from. we forgot how we got to be prosperous. we forgot those who paid the prices -- the price to get us where we are. i think rick perry will get us back to understanding and appreciating that and providing leadership, the character our nation needs so desperately. thank you very much. god bless all of you. [applause] >> thank you, thank you, thank you very much. i appreciate that. i should mention, we drew numbers. this sequence is based on that. we tried to be fair in terms of this sequence. the next person we have is mark baker. he is going to speak on behalf

of ron paul. >> good evening. coming here, i did not know i was going to speak for ron paul. i thought i would. i got interested in ron paul from my daughter and her fiancee, 19 years old and 21 years old. they look at the future and they say, something has to change. we cannot keep doing what we have been doing for the last 20 years. i believe that ron paul can make the most change of any of the candidates. we have a fantastic athlete of republican candidates this year. all of them are fantastic. if you look at ron paul's record, he has been as consistent as anybody.

he supports the constitution as good as anybody. some of my friends have said, what about his foreign policy? it is different than the rest of us. can we continue in our economic challenges to be the policeman of the world? can we continue to spend millions and millions and millions of foreign aid to countries that do not appreciate it? i believe as the previous speaker said, we are on the cusp. if we do not do something radical, we will not be able to help anybody. what do we want? do we want our federal government telling us what to do or do we want liberty? yes, ron paul is the most libertarian of all the candidates. some of my conservative friends have said, he is not strong enough on the social issues. do we really want our federal

government deciding what we can do? those of us that are christians think at some point the government may be telling us what we can and cannot do. do we really want that? ron paul, his line is, let's bring liberty back. he is a libertarian. can we really not trust ourselves to live in liberty? i think we can. i think ron paul is the best chance to do that. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. we have somebody who just arrived. is that correct? i believe the next speaker that is going to be coming up is mrs. rick santorum. am i correct? ok, come on up.

the wife of rick santorum is going to be addressing our group. thank you for joining us. [applause] thank you very much. i tripped over that myself earlier. >> thank you so much. it is so nice to be here tonight. it is an honor to be here with so many wonderful people. we thank iowa. we came here last summer for four and a half weeks. we had a wonderful time. we get to know so many of you and iowa and the way things are. we fell in love with the place. we have been back many times, my husband more than me. i am at home with our seven

children, home schooling our children. he has had 381 town hall meetings here. he has really enjoy them, the time with all of you, listening to your concerns, what is on your mind, answering any questions you have at. i would take a moment to introduce four of my seven children, elizabeth, peter, patrick. [applause] they are here tonight. our two of the boys are with our husband. a girl is at home. i wanted to tell you a little about rick. we have been married for 21 years. rick is a father, he is a great daddy. he has a real love and passion for his family. he understands the importance of family as the foundation for a

strong society. you have to have strong families to have a strong country. that is the heart -- it is foundational for our nation. the economy cannot be strong if families are not strong. rick is a great provider. we have always lived on a budget. we grew up very simply. i am one of 12 children. he grew up in public housing. we live on a budget. he says he will put his practices to life. he did when he was in the senate. as soon as he would be president, he would balance the budget. he would get the debt under control. rick's economic plan would bring manufacturing jobs back to our nation. he grew up in butler, pennsylvania, a steel town. when he grew up there, there were a lot of manufacturing

jobs. he saw a lot of those jobs leith. -- leave. they went overseas. rick has a passion to remove federal regulations and lift the burdens on companies so we can restore jobs and our country. rick is a great teacher. we home school our kids. he believes that parents are the first teachers. he has been a great partner with me educating our children. he wants to get government out of education. rick is a great defender of life. he has led the charge in the pro-like movement, defending children in the womb, children with disabilities, and people at all ends of the spectrum. he understands national security. he offered the iran freedom and

to put at. he understands that issue well -- freedom and support act. he understands that issue well. rick is a very faithful man. there is nothing more beautiful than a husband and a father who is on his knees praying with his family. that is the glue that makes our family strong. faith is everything for all of us. if you want someone who has a vision and the track record to do what is necessary to restore our country to our founding principles, who has the experience and courage to be commander in chief, and someone who understands the role that faith and family play in not only of a culture, but our economy, my husband is your guy. thank you for listening to me. god bless you. [applause] >> i am sorry.

i did not tell everybody. [inaudible] thank you very much for coming. thank you very much. she did not have the benefit about 3 minute limit. she did not have the benefit. we appreciate her. the next speaker we have is we have dean who is speaking on behalf of newt gingrich. [applause] dean has never said much of anything about many things, has he? >> that is a tough step. i missed it myself. >> i had a hip replacement and two knee replacements. i am glad i did not have to have another one.

a retired farmer living in urbandale. some of you know me, i know some of you. i got to know two candidates really well. i worked with them, herman cain, whom i supported first, and when he brought up, i supported newt gingrich. gosh -- dropped out, i supported newt gingrich. i said it is either herman or newt gingrich. i know you both personally. i think he would both do a good job. i went with herman cain until he dropped out. it was easy to switch to newt. there is a letter here that was

prepared by the gingrich people. i am not going to read it. i am going to speak from the heart. newt says i am asking for your vote for a simple reason, america has big problems, and big problems require big solutions. that is the gingrich letter. i read a little bit of it. he talks about his tax plan. having worked with newt gingrich when i was president, he was speaker, the guy is really good. he is really sharp. i just got an e-mail the last couple of days from a former congressman who played gopher on "love boat." he said he worked with gingrich in the house.

the architect of reagan's tax and budget plan, he was the author -- he is a brilliant economist. he said there are two levels of taxation at which you get no income. if they catch you at 100%, nobody works. if you tax at 0, there is no income to the government. would that be so bad? there is a curve at which, the government gets maximum income. that level is not very high. he has endorsed newt gingrich.

newt says that is why i have been endorsed by the architect of reagan's economic plan. he said my job plan would create more jobs than any other candidate. i do not know who the candidate is going to be. it is going to be one of the people voted on tonight i am going to support that person we need change in the white house. -- tonight. i am going to support that person. we need change in the white house. [applause] i got to know all of the presidents personally. i never met president obama. he has come in since i retired.

i thought the worst president -- i like him as a person, but as a president, jimmy carter. there is no comparison. there is no comparison. in chicago politics, four years ago at this caucus i told a chicago store that got a few laughs. you know chicago politics, chicago politics is pretty nasty. president obama grew up there. he was a community organizer, whatever that is. these two guys were hired to go to a cemetery and write down the names on the tombstones. so they could vote.

they were walking down two lent -- lines of tombstones, writing down the names, and one guy says, come on, we have to get out of here. the other guy says, i cannot read the name on the tombstone. he says, is it, move along. the guy says, he has as much of a right to vote as anybody else here does. [applause] >> thank you. i am the last speaker. i am here telling you why i am supporting mitt romney. i would like to begin by thanking all of you to come this evening. it makes me proud to be a part of urbandale. as a lifelong republican, active member of my church, father, grandfather, one who

believes in america, i ask you to consider voting for mitt romney for one reason -- he is a proven leader who can win next november. he is an experienced business leader who understands what needs to be done to get our economy moving again. he has a plan and will execute it. his leadership skills were demonstrated as governor of massachusetts bring in people and governments together to solve problems. -- massachusetts. bringing people together to solve problems. he gave up two years of his life to turn around the olympics in salt lake city and make them an international sports event in which all of us took great pride. finally, his record as a family and faith leader as demonstrated by his 42 year marriage and the example he set

as a father for his five sons and grandfather for his 16 grandchildren. we need change. we desperately need change at the top. mitt romney can make that happen next november. you can help by casting a vote for mitt romney. thank you. [applause] how did i do on the time? that is a first. normally i go over. i get in trouble because i talk so long. that is why i wrote out what i was glad to say. thank you for your attention. the next that we are at, you all -- the next step that we are at, you all need to remain seated, we have people passing out ballots.

as everyone registered to vote? you should have your tag. if anyone has not registered, but go back and register. we have different people who are going to be responsible for passing out ballots in different sections. the ballot will come to you. then they will be collected. after the ballots are collected, we have a group of people, i have two cpa's -- doug is going to be chair of the ballot committee. they are going to be responsible -- i lost my pen. make sure i get a pen.

huh? what is going to happen, we have some business we are going to take care of after we vote. you do not need to rush off. what we are going to do, we have a committee -- dean, are you okay? does that work all right? those six people are going to exit this room. they are going to be going into a conference room and take in the completed ballots and counting the ballots. after the count is completed, uh, doug will be bringing the results back here.

we will announce the results of our poll before we call them into state headquarters. we felt it made sense that the people ought to know how the ballot comes out before we turn them into state headquarters. that is the process. we have a number of things. as soon as the ballots are collected -- if you have the ballot ready, you can fold them. these are secret ballots. we may have to go to a different color. they all work the same. i want to tell everybody that i had a few apprehensions about some of these people that might sneak in.

i am so pleased that that has not been something we have been dealing with. it is great to see all of you who care as much as you do about our country exercise one of the most important rights we have in this country, the right to vote. we have that right because we have had people who have died and fought for that right, the right to vote. it makes me proud to be here this evening. [applause] is that the ballot? here. um -- where is my -- [crowd murmurs]

>> does everybody who should have a ballot have a ballot? >> the other thing i want you all to keep in mind is that -- you see these baskets we are passing around? we are going to be passing those around very shortly. what we are going to be doing is asking you to consider that all of this money is going to go for the republican party to help support our efforts this coming fall. we are going to need all of the money we can get. be as generous as you want to be. we are going to be passed in this basket around. as soon as they have made the round, we are going to be passing the buck at around -- bucket around. we appreciate your generosity. we want to see if we can collect a sum tonight. i wanted to mention that so you

can be thinking about that. the other thing we are going to be passing around, i would like to read the statement now, we are going to be passing around some clipboards. here is what this statement -- this has come from the republican party of iowa. the headquarters, the name of this is "defeat obama." here is what they wanted us to share. "many of us are here because we

are worried in the country is going in the wrong direction. we must get our country back on track. americans cannot afford four more years of and obama administration. to beat obama and elect republicans up and down the ballot will not be easy. obama is projected to raise over $1 billion for the democrat campaign. special interest groups will contribute millions of dollars as well. we need to show that the elections cannot be bought. we will not allow ourselves to be out worked by liberals. in 10 months, i can count on all of you to go to the ballot box. voting alone will not defeat barack obama. our candidates need our help. they need as on the front line. in pressing upon iowans the importance of this election. i have setup sheet we are going

to pass around. here is what i would like to have the think about. think about it from this perspective. think about donating one at work, just one hour between now and november -- donating one hour, just one hour between now and november. all we are asking for is your name and e-mail. >> are you counters? i think we have probably got it. >> do we not have more buckets? >> what if we start. we will go through and and fold

them and put them in piles based on candidate. >> ok. >> we can make our own piles. >> i'm just sitting here observing. >> [inaudible] >> we are glad to have you. we are sorting them into piles. start your own pile. [paper crinkling] >> we are not deducting for spelling.

there we go. [inaudible] [paper crinkling]

>> [inaudible] they were here four years ago. >> were they? >> in that room where we were. >> check them.

>> there is more down here. if you want to check the first pile. dead wrong. >> i am dead wrong. >> in hieroglyphics. [inaudible] [laughter] >> good point.

>> i'm going to make one more run. i will be right back. >> romney. >> i am ok with that. >> let's start consolidating. let's put the romneys there. >> they going to check? >> we are going to count them twice. we will check them twice. we will check them and tell them -- count them twice. here is rick santorum. santorum. here is ron paul. >> here is newt.

>> i have newt right here. >> what about mitt romney? here is mitt romney. >> what about rick perry? >> rick perry is right here. >> what about michele bachmann? >> here is more newt. where did newt go? >> here is perry. >> if you want to take that pile. the second time. make sure they are all there. count them. you understand what i am saying?

[paper crinkling] [inaudible]

>> ron paul. >> 37 bachmann, confirmed. >> i have 37 here. >> this is perry. [inaudible] >> all right. who would like to redo that.

-- that? mmhmm. 37 for rick perry. okay.

confirmed? >> that is. [inaudible] okay. >> 824 rick santorum. -- 82 for rick santorum. >> i got 51. >> 514 ron paul. it is confirmed. -- 51 for ron paul. it is confirmed.

[inaudible] >> third count, sorry. >> yes. >> we want to confirm huntsman here. >> 1. >> and there you go.

[paper crinkling] >> make sure there are not any on the floor. >> double check the floor. >> make it official. >> not sitting on any. >> 14. >> 14. >> gingrich. 34. >> romney. still counting. a lot. >> 115. 115. >> we had 334 people vote so far.

>> at the end here. >> that is all right, take the time. -- your time. >> 100.

16 it is. 116. >> on 116. -- 116. good job. do these need to be [inaudible] saved? >> why do not hang on to them? why do we not put them all in one nice container? here you go. trying to confirm my numbers

here. and check the percentages. >> 335 votes. >> yep. mhmm.

>> so, we want to make that 4

divided by -- >> 1 divided by 355. it is .00. >> it is .03. >> it is .03. >> it is not going to matter. your top three are 15 and above. >> obvious satisfied? -- are you satisfied? >> i am. >> is the camera crews satisfied? [laughter] thank you everyone. good job. [inaudible]

>> is $10. the alternates are seated. generally speaking. doug, you are the person with the results. do you want to bring them up? i will ask you, i will let you and our chair announced the results. what is that? these are the ballot. if you want to say a word about what was accomplished. >> we had four or five counters. we so did all of the ballots into piles according to -- we sorted all the ballots into piles according to a candidate. each pile was counted twice and verify price. -- verified twice. >> the account we have -- -- the count we have.

the highest number is romney with 116, 34.6%. santorum, 82, 24.5%. paul, 51, 15.2%. perry, 37, 11%. gingrich, 34, 10%. bachmann, 14, 4.2%. huntsman, 1, .3%. a total of 335 votes.

[applause] those are your results. those are your results. >> could i have someone here that is representing but santorum -- rick santorum, we are looking to allocate, we have a total of six delegates. we would have one delegate for paul, two for santorum, and 34 romney. -- 3 for romney. based on the percentages, that would seem fair. does anyone have any comment? those would be the three candidates that would be selected. that would be my immediate thought.

does anybody have any thoughts? would somebody like to make a motion to that effect? a second? all in favor say aye. opposed? what we have is a situation -- what i would like to have, i would like to have this -- those people that want to but dissipate -- participate, i'm not going to be asking to be a delegate. i would like to have those people who want to participate in the wrong id discussion come over here. those who want to participate in selecting the three delegates for romney, in this corner. the ron paul, who is the ron paul leader?

the fellow who spoke for ron paul? any of those people with ron paul can go over here. maybe the santorum people can be in the middle. does that make sense? this is going to take a few minutes to get that accomplished. there are going to be some people who leave. that is the way it works. thank you. ok, anybody here with santorum, the ron paul people over there. ron paul people here. these and torn people here in the middle. he wrongly people here on this -- the santorum people here in the middle. the romney people here on this side. we need the three delegates from romney. anybody who would like to put his big as a delegate can be over here. -- who would like to participate as a delegate can be over here. ok, santorum will have two

delegates. there will be one delegate for the romney people. one alternate and one for santorum, alternate. you need to have two delegates and one alternate. the romney people can go over here. i will move in that direction. it is a little dangerous here. any of the romney people can be over here. romney people can be over here. what we are looking for is we are looking for three people that would be willing to go to the county convention on march 10. that is what we are looking for. any of you would like to do that? the county convention, which would be on saturday?

no, no. yeah, yeah, you can. you can. doug should be back from that. he came back in. is there anybody else who would like to? >> let's get names written down here. >> i hope that that does. >> i am not dying to go. i would go if i need to. >> motion for that guy. >> i am on it. that is cool. >> it looks like romney does not have very many people over there either.

sounds good. nobody wants to. ok. i guess you need to a defiers of to the secretary. >> cool. -- need to identify yourself to the secretary. >> cool. thank you. [crowd murmur] >> republican party of iowa reporting center, please hold. this is the republican party of iowa reporting center, may i

please have your name? >> mark morrisey. >> what county are you calling from? your precinct name? >> urbandale 8, number 528. 77158. >> ok. i am going to redo candidate names. after i do, please tell me how many votes they received. michele bachmann. >> 14. >> herman cain. >> 0. >> newt gingrich. >> 34. >> jon huntsman. >> 1.

>> ron paul. >> 51. >> perry. >> 37. >> buddy roemer. >> none. >> mitt romney. >> 116. >> rick santorum. >> 82. >> any no preference? >> none. >> any other? >> none. >> i am going to read these back. michele bachmann, 14. herman cain, zero. jon huntsman, 1. perry, 37. buddy roemer, zero. mitt romney, 116. is that correct? >> that is correct. a total of 355. >> your results have been recorded. thank you for your time.

>> thank you. we could? thank you. -- we good? thank you. [crowd murmur] >> what about the ron paul people? [crowd murmur]

>> that is correct. that is correct. >> i noticed things have deteriorated. we do have, we now have names that we have identified. secretary, you of going to be putting them these names. i think we have three delegates larson.ney, ross, lars is that correct? we have one alternate. ok. then you have the delegates that of the two delegates from santorum. the two delegates.

they of the delegates. david is the alternate. the other gentleman that that is the ron paul delicate is nicholas. i am sorry. whatever like to do, those of the names i would like -- what i would like to do, those are the names i would like to put before the caucus. we have to selected our delegates. it may seem disjointed. we got that job accomplished. thank you. all of you that are remaining here, if you want to come over here, we do not want to -- those that are the delegates, would you come up here and talk to our secretary. they would need to get all the

information can read it he signed in. -- information. if you signed in. that is our man there, the secretary. the other thing we want, we have a list for jr. delegate. there is no cost. we can have as many as we want. do you have the jr. delicate form? -- junior delegate form. come on up and sign her up. just sign in your name. anybody that is the seventh grade up to high-school, come up here and sign up. it appear ensign in. -- get up here and sign in. any jr. delegates. we have the four right here.

-- from right here. do not worry about it. do not worry about it. that is no problem at all. we are very flexible when it comes to junior delegates. how did we do? did we do ok? [applause] can you imagine the democrats having a meeting like this and being over by 8:05? it would never happen. they would still be arguing and yelling and shouting. now i will be in big trouble for saying those things we do have a few issues we want to cover. what of the issues? you people were not into issues tonight. all those in favor of having a

balanced budget amendment? that is one of the issues. how many would say yes? how many oppose? we just adopted that. term-limits for congress? anybody want a term limits for congress? anybody opposed to that? i guess we are for term limits for congress. both of these are term limits. they want to go after those long-serving people. we cannot have any term limits if you are on the city council. maybe three or four terms. said i just started my second term -- since i just did my second term. what i would like to do -- just started my second term. what i would like to do is call a motion to adjourn the caucus.

all in favor? thank you all for coming. have a great evening. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> here is the results of the republican of iowa caucuses. mitt romney and rick santorum finished in a statistical tie for first place. ron paul rounded out the top three. you can find the latest news about the presidential race on our web site, c- span.org/campaign2012.

>> that site has already made up its mind. this side has already made up its mind. >> rice is a university. >> i can call you anything i want to call you. you'd just be quiet. >> you do not on me. >> i do not own you but i can tell you -- >> gentleman will suspend. >> i work for the private sector. >> the confrontation at a hearing rank as the fourth most watched video in the c-span video library. watch it for yourself at our home page, c-span.org /videolibrary. click on the most watched tab to view other videos from the year. >> ron paul finished third in tonight's iowa caucuses.

the candidate talk to supporters for about 15 minutes. [crowd murmur] [inaudible] [applause] [laughter]

>> good evening, everyone. is anybody excited? [applause] i have great news for everybody. we got one of the three tickets out of iowa. [applause] as we go on, there are only two candidates that have the resources to compete as we head into new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and louisiana, and that is ron paul -- [applause] did everyone have fun tonight? please join me in welcoming the champion of the constitution, the thomas jefferson of our day, doctor ron paul. [cheers and applause]

[crowd chanting"ron paul] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. that is great. [crowd chanting "ron paul"] thank you very much. thank you. i think he might recognize my wife. her picture is on a cookbook. anybody see that cookbook? [applause] thank you very much. what a delightful crud. sometimes i think, that was a good speech, no, that was a good crowd.

we talk about, one of three tickets out. it is true. one of two that can actually run a national campaign and raise some money. there is nobody else that has people like you working hard and it is yes dick who believe in something. -- and enthusiastic who believe in something. [applause] that is all the difference in the world. before i continue, i want three of our chairman to step forward, a.j., david, as well as drew, who has been the chairman of the central committee. they have led the charge all throughout ohio. [applause] all i can think about in tough campaigns and all the hard work

is the work you people do. it is unbelievable. the energy you have, what makes me feel good is you are doing it because you believe in something. that is what is worthwhile. [applause] you also know that there are two good things. some people think, you do that because you believe in something. certainly. how is the best way to promote a cause? that is, when an election. that is how you promote it. the enthusiasm has been unbelievable. it is fantastic. it is national. thousands of people have been involved. they are ready and rearing to go. we have to look at the wonderful changes that have occurred in our country in a positive way. the country has suffered a lot in a negative way. the economy is in trouble. of civil liberties are being

trashed. our foreign policy has been a mess. it grants us economically -- drains us economically. we had the task, where we are successful, we -- reintroducing the idea is the republicans needed for a long time. that is the conviction that freedom is popular. [applause] once again, we have had a fantastic showing for this cause in challenging people, not the status quo we have been putting up with. challenge them and say, you have to go back to this old fashioned idea, is dangerous idea, let's of a constitution.

-- obey the constitution. [applause] too often, those who preach limited government, they forget that invasion of your privacy is big government. we have to emphasize protecting your personal and economic rights is what the government is supposed to do. they are not supposed to run our lives or spend our money. [applause] also, along those lines, what we have introduced, i hear it so often, the of the day someone came up to me and he was refreshing my memory, he knew i knew the statement, i have said it, in the old days, nixon said even the republicans except it liberal economics. he said, i am waiting for the day we can say we are all austrians.

[applause] the biggest change i think in intellectual and political change that we have brought about is the emphasis on a very important matter, making sure we get to the bottom of the ultimate bailouters. we need reforms and we need a new monetary system. and obey the constitution. this is something we have made great progress. the first step, we have worked so hard, it is on the table. a national poll came out. they were talking about how many people supported the gold standard. how long has it been since they have taken a national poll on the gold standard?

the great strides we have made have been on foreign policy. the fact we can talk and make it credible. talking about what eisenhower has said. talk about the old days when robert taft said we should not be engaged in these in tinkling alliances. he believed what the founders wanted. he did not want to be in macon. we do not need the nato and un to tell us when to go to war. we have seen a great difference. the maturity of the american people -- the majority of the american people are behind us. they are tired of the war. it is costing too much money. too many people get killed, injured, sick. 70% or 80% of the american people are saying it is time to get out of afghanistan. [applause]

those are the issues. those of the issues we have brought front and center. they are out there. they are not going to go away. we have an opportunity to continue this momentum. it will not be long there is going to be an election in new hampshire. this is going to continue. this movement is going to continue. we are going to keep scoring, just as we have tonight. [applause] [crowd "doctor paul"] we have come up of an election. we are winners. we are the top vote getters. we will go on. we will raise the money. i have no doubt about the volunteers. [applause]

they are going to be there. a lot of you have said, the thing to me in the compliment me -- you thank me and you can let me. you have helped me along. you help my family along. without your disease and, we cannot do it. this is where i feel -- without your work, we cannot do it. this is where i feel the most updated. i worry about you and making sure you are satisfied. i think there is nothing to be ashamed of. be ready to move on to the next, which is new hampshire. -- next stop which is in hampshire. [applause] [crowd chanting "ron paul"]

now, i have another speaker, a special guest, he has been with us this evening, in our campaign for a few years. you may have met him. i would like him to come out and say a few words. he has been serving in the military for 10 years. he has been overseas. a lot of it was in iraq and afghanistan. he was on tv tonight. he did not get to finish his statement. i asked him if he would come out and finish his comments. why he is fighting for the constitution. what he thinks we should do? i would like to invite him to come say a few words to you. [applause] >> how about ron paul? [applause]

if there is any man who had a vision for this country, it is definitely him. his foreign policy is better than any candidate. i'm sure you all know that. we do not need to be picking fights overseas. everybody else knows that too. i am flabbergasted. this is an incredible moment for me. it is like meeting a rock star. we are going to go to new hampshire. we are all going to get involved. we are going to keep talking to people. we are going to make sure this man is the next president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you very much. that is a powerful message. once again, we all know where the active military people said their money. they said it to our campaign for

liberty, for the constitution, for limited government, for personal liberty and privacy, and a wise foreign policy. the most important thing we have to remember is you want to have influence in the world. that is very important. we want to be active in the world. we want to trade with people and be friends with people. what we need to realize -- there are people who say we are an exceptional nation, we certainly are. we are slipping. this idea that our exceptional as some, we are so exceptional, what we must do is prove it to the world -- if they did not do it, we are going to invade them. the best way to spread our message, that is to our job at home. preserve our liberties at home. provide for the free market. have a sound currency.

balance the budget. send an -- set an example and get the rest of the world to emulate it. that is the road to peace and prosperity. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [crowd chanting "ron paul"] >> thank you all. [applause] >> net to former house speaker newt gingrich. he finished in fourth place. he spoke for about 10 minutes to

supporters in des moines. [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers] [cheers and applause] >> good evening. [cheers] we all know that the 2012 election is about jobs and the economy. we know that americans demand a candidate with ideas and solutions to rebuild the america we love. [applause]

there is only one candidate in this election, we just punched his ticket for new hampshire. [applause] [crowd chanting "newt"] >> thank you, linda. i want to thank the majority leader in the house, and my former colleague in the congress, who held us together. i want to thank everybody who worked during the avalanche of negative ads. we want to thank the people of iowa, through being drowned in negativity, people were positive, they were excepting, they were willing to ask questions, they would listen, they wanted to get to the truth

rather than the latest 32nd distortion. it gives us the feeling that this process does work. i am delighted to be here tonight. i think we are at the beginning of an important campaign. [cheers] the ultimate goal of this campaign has to be to replace barack obama and get america back on the right track. [applause] but let us be clear, one of the things that has become of this in the last few weeks in iowa is that there will be a great debate in the republican party before we are prepared to have a great debate with barack obama. i think it is important to understand that. i want to take a minute to

congratulate a good friend of ours, that is with santorum. -- rick santorum. he runs a great, a positive campaign. [applause] we have had a great relationship. i admire the courage and discipline, the way we focus. i admire how positive he was. i wish i could say that all the candidates. here is the key thing, it is not just about beating obama, as important as that is, it is about what do we need to do as a country to get back on the right track? that is fixing the congress, the bureaucracy, resetting the culture, getting the judges to understand that they operate within the constitution, not above it. there are steps we have to take. we have to reestablish the work

ethic and recognize that we want to reward work, not redistribution. we want to reward paychecks, not food stamps. this is going to be an important conversation. we also have to understand, this will be a major debate, congressman paul has had a very good night. i congratulate him. his views on foreign policy i think are stunningly dangerous for the survival of the united states. i think it is a simple question which i would be glad to ask congressman paul. if you have a terrorist who is prepared to put on a bomb and where it as a vest and walk into a growth restored or a mall -- grocery store or a mall and blow themselves up as long as they kill you, why the think if they

get access to a nuclear weapon they would not use it? it is one of the most frightening things we have to confront. if they are going to live in safety, they have to live in the world where there is no iran in a nuclear weapon, -- no iranian period. weapon, [applause] is the world dangers in doing need to be strong, or is the world's eighth in just the americans are confused? i have no doubt that in 9/11 it was that people trying to kill us. i have no doubt about the iranians. i have no doubt about the importance of the survival of israel as a moral cause that is central to our future. [applause] so, we will have a great debate.

it is important for setting a new stable foreign policy for the 21st century. one of the great debate, that is what this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980's with ronald reagan and help change washington in 1990, somebody who is into changing washington, or if you want a massachusetts moderate who will be good at managing the decay but has given no evidence he has any ability to change the culture of political structure or government. [applause] let me be clear, i think it is important given all the things that had been done in this state. we are not going to go out and run st at.

-- run nasty ads. but, i do reserve the right to tell the truth. [cheers] if the truth seems-, that may be more a comment on his record then it is on politics. this is going to be a debate that begins tomorrow morning in new hampshire and will go on for a few months. i'm convinced the republican party will take an era of reagan -- pick an heir of reagan and someone with a track record of changing washington. [applause] of what is a two last things. -- i want to say two left things. you will find rick santorum saying the same things, my dad was a soldier for 27 years. i would not have survived

against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising if it were not for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and helped us in every town, precinct, people who went out because they cared. we have someone who drove in from indianapolis around thanksgiving, said, i am staying. someone else who bought three children and drove up from texas and said, i am staying. people who wanted to get america on the right track. they did not have a super pak. they had courage. they were smart. together, we survived the biggest onslaught and we set the stage. [applause] i want to say one last thing. we were over in waterloo, which has the largest caucusing.

a very distant relative. 190 years, name craig, who came from pennsylvania spoke. he was very kind. he has gotten to know my younger daughter. he sent her what he was going to say. part of what he said was about his two sons who just came back from serving in the middle east. it reminded me. i would like to close with this. it is why the iowa experience and the new hampshire experience, the places where you have to see people, you cannot buy tv ads. this process is what they risked their lives to preserve. this process of people coming together, sharing of values, sharing fears and dreams, finding a way to come and get it to work, unlike the current mess

in washington which i believe is a bipartisan mess, unlike the current mess in washington, the american system over time works when the american people roll up their sleeves and make it work. everyone of us, it is part of what made these ads is so shameful. this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us. we should act with the of them. thank you. god bless you. [applause] off to new hampshire. [applause] ["eye of the tiger" playing] ♪

♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> net two rick perry. he finished in fifth place. he said he was returning to texas to "decide the best path for." this is 10 minutes. >> yeah.

you kids are awesome. all right. hey brother. thank you. you and ruth were awesome. i cannot think of any better people to have worked in iowa for us. i want to take a moment and say thank you to the people of iowa. they welcomed us into their homes. these were communities that reminded us of places where we grew up, where i travelled across the state of texas. it is so much reminded me of that race back in 1990 when we travelled across the state of texas. nobody thought it had a chance to win. we surprised a lot of people. [inaudible]

the values this country was based upon. all of you folks who travel from 30 plus states to come here and to work into caucus and to put up signs, i want to share with you a letter that was handed to me earlier. he said, words cannot express how thankful i am for being able to serve the this past week. my name is colt smith. [applause] my name is colt smith. i am 24 years old. i just graduated. he said, he got his bs in agg. he graduated in the top 10 in his class. -- of 13, just like i did,

right? [applause] [laughter] he said, i drove here, i broke down in kansas. i spent two thousand dollars to get it fixed. he said, i got a loan. he still made it. he said, this has been the best experience of my life. he said, today, i saw you for the first time. i know you were a good man. i never realized what a great many wear. -- man you were. [applause] he said it brought me to tears to see a man who feared the lord. when you told that soldier, you

call him your christian brother, he said it blew me away. he says, i want so much for me to know -- he said i wanted to know that i got to know your son and i got to me to life. your family is wonderful. i have enjoyed my visits with your staff. they are great people. basically, i want you to know the matter. you and making a different. i visited one dozen homes today. -- 1,000 homes today. this has to be the greatest honor of my life. you need more volunteers to help you in south carolina, count me in. i would be happy to serve. [applause] colt smith from texas. [applause]

i wanted to read that to you. he p.s.'ed it by saying, it is 1:30 in the morning, i have been out putting up signs. [applause] that is what it is all about. that is what this has all been about. i just want to say, thank you to everyone who has come and volunteered and worked and made the most incredible experience for myself and for the woman i have been so blessed to have by my side all these many years, for 30 years of my life. [applause] there is not anybody that has fought any harder or been a greater partner that my wife. we are blessed to be standing on the stage and representing the state of texas.

representing america. i think the values that are so important to our country. to be here with my children, griffin and meredith and sydney. when i began this campaign, i did not do it because it was a life-long ambition to be president of the united states. i did it because of a country is in trouble. many of you have heard the story of a sitting on the couch talking about, this was not my purpose in life, but our country was in trouble. it was my duty to serve my country one more time. this campaign has never been about me. it is about a movement of americans who see of our country -- it is not on the track most of us want it to be on, $15 trillion worth of debt. 50 million americans on food stamps. 13 million of our fellow

citizens are of of work. they did not see a washington that is willing to make hard decisions to help them, to get them back on their feet again. they are looking for people to make some right decisions. they are looking for someone who will stand up and give them hope, so we can give -- to get this country back on track. with the decision tonight in iowa, i have decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight's's caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. i believe this is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. a nation that i was blessed to serve as a pilot in the united states air force. a nation that has been and will continue to be a beacon for freedom around the world.

dan, you -- marines like yourself, soldiers who are serving still today, chairman, sailors around the world, -- airmen, sailors around the world, you have made every minute of this worth it. with a little prayer and reflection, i am going to decide the best path forward. i want to tell you, there has been no greater joy in my life than to be able to share with the people of iowa and this country that there is a model to take this country forward and it is in the great state of texas. [applause] god bless you. thank you all for being with us tonight. ♪ ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

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♪ [country music playing] ♪ >> and our coverage continues, we are going to head out to michele bachmann's campaign headquarters. she is getting ready to address her supporters. >> i cannot think of a more incredible person than michele. [applause] >> there is no other candidate that works any harder than michele bachmann. i am so excited about your future. you take us to south carolina.

you take us to florida. you take us to new hampshire. you go get them. right here is the real deal. this is what we need in this country. i have talked about my young kids and what they are being faced with with the irresponsibility of this generation and the people in washington d.c. this lady is the toughest person in washington d.c. with that, i want to introduce you to the next president of the united states, michele bachmann. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate that. i was introduced in all 99 counties with that same phrase, pound-for =pound. thank you for everything you have done. i have some prepared remarks.

i am so grateful you are here. then we will have a party afterward. thank you so much everyone. thank you to iowa. i have called ron paul, rick perry, to congratulate each one of them on their respective places. the people of iowa have spoken. they have written the first chapter in this long journey to take our country back from barack obama. make no mistake, we will. [applause] once again, this wonderful republic that we are privileged to live in has worked. the process worked. it is the people of iowa who chose tonight. it was not the pundits. it was not the media. all this has been a tough campaign, we should never forget that it will make the eventual nominee cried for even the cover battles that will come against

barack obama. i am so proud of the people who have run our campaign. i will be forever grateful to this wonderful state and to the wonderful people of iowa for launching us on our path to victory in the iowa straw poll. this has given voice to people all over the country that barack obama's liberal policies are finished and in 2012 there will be another occupant in the white house, who knows, maybe even another michele and the white house. [applause] once again, it is the people's voice that will be heard. make no mistake, as i have said, though both will be a one- term president. did you hear that america? you heard it here. i am a very real person. i am not a politician.

i do not aspire to be a politician. i saw what the government was doing to all of us, our children, the liberties, i decided to stand up. i decided i was not going to fight for only our five children, but also for your children. they deserve it. we deserve to give them a better and a more hopeful future. it is really true. we have strayed from the vision of our founders' view. the 2012 election may be our last opportunity to reclaim our liberty from a government that seems bent on taking more and more of it away from us every day. since they one of barack obama's presidency, i have led the fight against his liberal- socialist policies. when the president wanted a $1 trillion stimulus package, i said no. when the president bush to take over your health care and replace it with socialized

medicine -- when the president pushed to take over your health care and replace it with socialized medicine i let the president know we were against it. we do not want socialized medicine. we are not going to keep socialized medicine. socialized medicine will be repealed. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] when the president said last summer he wanted to raise the debt limit to an unbelievable $16 trillion, i said no. the american people have tragically been deprived in their president a leader as he routinely withers when he is confronted with a paramount challenge of our generation. president obama is guarded and hardened his hea ideology. he replaces his own reelection plans above the interests of the

american people. look no further than his denial of building the keystone 2 pipeline. that was about his reelection. nothing to do with energy independence for the american people. his liberal reign will end and the american people will be free. what we need as a candidate in the likeness -- is a candidate in the likeness and image of ronald reagan. what we need is a fearless conservative. one was no compromises on their record. -- with no compromises on their record. on defending america. >> that is michele bachmann. a disappointing night for the woman who won the straw poll. she won

>> rick santorum. >> rick santorum. >> rick santorum. >> ron paul. >> rick santorum. >> michele bachmann. >> newt gingrich. >> rick perry. >> mitt romney. >> rick santorum. >> rick santorum.

>> newt gingrich. >> mitt romney. >> mitt romney. >> rick santorum. >> santorum and the one spot, from the second, paul and gingrich is tied in third. it appears at first count here. santorum, first, romney second, calling gingrich tied for third. allows these totals to our audience and we will make the official tabulation to des moines. just again, to so that we have nt of the observers and

the permanent secretary. that would be fine. the tally is santorum 41, romney 32, paul and gingrich at 13, bachmann 7, perry 6, huntsman one. santorum wins, romney second, paul gingrich tied for third. i will announce the results to our caucus and we will make the call to des moines. by that time we meet at this stage, we will announce. yes, yes. maybe we could do it this time,

iff if a, you would secure those until we take a break here, that would be great. congratulations since, a very excellent job, this was a part of the political process. thank you very much. oh, this is pristine. it is great to be in iowa. [inaudible] we appreciate your efforts greatly. thank you for all you ever done, g,len a chance the constitution. -- glen, to advance the constitution. we appreciate it. we have some important things yet to do. we have to advance the county

convention which will elect delegates to the national convention as we continue through this process. after that this comes some real delegate work here. the sheriff will secure that. you might use the mike. pat, don't you say? thank you. let is a >> and gentlemen, thank you for your patience. thank you, mr. freeman, for permanent secretary, and our candidate surrogates who observe this and everybody has given

their assent to this vote total. i'll send another shot around the world, ladies and gentleman. tonight in this precinct, near silver creek, in seventh place, governor hunt spent with one vote. in sixth place, governor. with six votes. -- gov. perry with six toes. in fifth place, with congressman bachmann, seven votes. tied for third place, we have a tie, congressman ron paul and speaker newt gingrich, 13 votes apiece, tied for third. in second place, governor mitt romney with 32 votes. and our winner this evening, of the republican precinct caucus, trainer, iowa, silver creek,

senator rick santorum with 41 votes. [applause] we think this arrogance and at this point in time, now it is incumbent upon me to -- we thank the surrogates at this point in time, it is incumbent on me to report the results telephonically which will also be covered by the media. alas mr. freeman again, and the sheriff that they like to be there at the call to make sure that they are all reported correctly. we will convene here momentarily to let these delegates to the county convention. i know you from central some -- from the central committee, and we will be right back. i could use your help on the speakerphone.

we have got to find -- there we go. [inaudible] [dial tone] [phone dialing] >> the jay, do you have the actual form? if you could bring that in here and make sure that we have that on our call here.

as permanent secretary, when you record that force, the vote totals? that is the official document that will be used for the tally. what happens now is that the statewide at this very hour, almost all of the caucuses at this time have taken their presidential polls. some have had longer speeches by circuits, some have a larger audiences in some of the larger

metropolitan areas, so it takes that long or to tabulate the votes. but this is the process that will be replicated over 1000 times in the state, of calling in these tallies. the actual job for that falls upon a secretary. mr. dreyer will be pulling in the results -- funding and the results there. he is transferring the data that the sheriff and mr. freeman put, that was attested, he is putting in on this form, and we will have mr. freeman and the sheriff verify both totals are corresponding to hear, and i would just look at these myself also 41 san, forum, that is correct. 32 romney, that is correct. paul 13, that is correct. cambridge 13, that is correct. bachmann 7, that is correct.

perry 6, that is correct. jon huntsman one, that is correct. do you agree? i am assigning this. -- i am now signing this. and we are take creek/silver street -- silver creek precinct. traey schoolnor, -- treynor school, if you would be so kind and fun in those results, please. [dial tone]

[phone dialing] [busy signal] >> i guess we will try again. [dialtone] [tone dialing] [busy signal] >> if let me do just one other thing here, ok. [dogtown] [fund dialing] >> we are sorry, when placing a

-- >> let's try that there. a lot of people calling in right now. gen calling the republican party of iowa. >> told the music playing] >> this is derek. >> i am the precinct chair for silver creek. we are attempting to fun and certification of the straw poll results and our number. we are having trouble getting through. >> you just need to keep calling that number. >> just because the activity in the queue is very busy. ok, thank you very much. that is will we thought. we just wanted to check. >> thank you.

[phone dialing] [busy signal] [tone dialing] [tron] >> please hold. we will be with you in a moment.

>> hello, the sistine of the republican party reporting center. may i have your numbers. >> my name is mr. dreyer. >> ok. what county are you calling from? >> potawatomi. in all right, and what is the present name? >> silver creek. >> silver creek. ok, and the precinct key. >> 78029. >> ok, and i am going to read the candidate names to you. please tell me how many votes they received for this

precinct,. >> ok. >> michele bachmann. >> 7. >> herman cain. >> 0. >> newt gingrich. >> 13. >> jon huntsman. >> 1. >> ron paul. >> 13. >> rick perry. >> 6. >> buddy roemer. >> 0. >> mitt romney. >> 32. >> and rick santorum. >> 41. >> ok, at any for no preference? >> no, we do not. >> or others? >> no. >> are you providing results for another precinct? >> no, i am not. >> could you read those back to make sure that we have those correctly received? >> if yes, i will. michele bachmann, 7. herman cain, zero.

newt gingrich 13. jon huntsman, 1. >> ron paul, 13. rick perry, six. buddy roemer, 0. mitt romney, 32. rick santorum, 41. and other and no preference for both 0. >> that is correct. >> ok, your results of been recorded. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> well, we have done our task at hand and now we move into the second, very important round, which is to let central committee members as well as delegates for the candidates or the county convention. we will resume -- and i think mr. freeman, a candidate for congress and the second congressional district in nebraska. thank you very much, we appreciate it. glenn, thank you very much. can you secure those?

maybe we can get those into an envelope. that would be great, i would be tremendous. -- that would be tremendous. now a little business at hand. because this area has done such a good job in the voting turn now and also in its representation in elections, we do have a central committee that we can elect to the club on the central committee. at this juncture, i will like to entertain any motions for any people to the numbers of the central committee. each precinct in the county, of course, sends a delegation

during the central committee members were to run the party and the county in their -- and their duties include attending committee menes and working to build the republican party to elect more republicans to office. alex have any nominations for the potawatomi central committee. -- i will accept any nominations for the potawatomi central committee. any nominations from the floor? i will put in nomination, the name of mr. bryant dryer. yes, ma'am. we had a nomination for craig. do we have seconds for those motions? a multitude of seconds here. those are two members. any additional folks that would like to be members right now of the county central committee

from this precinct? matt beale -- thiel. and did we have another nomination? are you nominating her? >> yes. >> we have a nomination for ms. chris ra. e e sanny and for her nomination question -- chris raney any nomination. to close the slate? >> let's call the question.

all in favor of closing nominations at this juncture, signify by saying hide. all opposed say nay. the ayes have it. let's take up the question which is to let the following four members of our precinct to the potawatomi county central committee. mr. dreyer, mr. cork,o and others. the ayes have it. congratulations to our new central committee members. [applause]

and mr. dreyer, it is part of their illustrious duty to record those names on off form a at some point and we will turn as and. the potawatomi county convention will meet saturday march 10, 2012, at a location yet to be announced. all caucus attendees who want to become delegates to the potawatomi county convention, need to inform the precinct secretary and provide your name, physical address, phone number, and e-mail address. the county convention delegate count will not be limited. for those of you cannot ask and it did not win, a very important part of this evening is to attend the county convention. that moves forward to the state convention and eventually to the election of national convention delegates. you can sign right now for county conventions. may -- you may have already signed up to be a delegate.

any that would like to sign up may do so at the conclusion of the evening or you may see mr. dreyer during the course of this evening to do so. and mr. dreyer, there is a form the for that. what i will mention, we have had some young people here this evening, and any jr. under the age of 18, in the junior delicate wishing to attend, if they give their name and information to the present secretary, there will be admitted to the county convention and credentialed as junior delegates. i have to tell you, one of the great thrills for me was back in the 1970's, being a junior delicate at some of these different types of conventions. party platform resolutions. there were some forms at the onset this evening as you came in the door. this is a bottom-up type of

process, with the pocket -- with the party platform. we encourage your input, you're drafting, your proposed tax, for submission to the party platform. a committee will look over that and you can have been put down the line. these can be local issues and parochial interests, and the impact on national issues. it moves from precinct to county to district to state and ultimately to the national convention. and all of those platform resolutions will be given appropriate of adding and you can talk to any of the people on the county chairmanship and i still -- you can still talk to mr. dryer if you have any questions about that. there will also be some county convention committee members, announced at a later date. those will be actual members from the committees. that business will be taking care of later. is there any other business with a good -- my goal was to be done

in 90 minutes. i think we have almost achieved that. i wish to thank all of you for being here tonight. we had a tremendous crowd, a very large crowd. all like to think the high school for their auspices and their hospitality. we would like to thank the good people from the c-span networks, this tremendous crew here this evening. c-span is a gem. they are red diamond in the route, because they show comprehensive news coverage without a filter. you get to hear it from the mouths of the news makers, and it is a superior way of providing journalism. without further read to i would call for a motion to adjourn. mr. young moves, and we have a second. maybe a colleague of seconds in the front row. of voice but it is appropriate. all in favor, signify by saying

aye. opposed to say. motion to return. thank you for attending tonight's caucus. we very much need your continued support for our republican efforts in this county during the next two years. there being no further business of this caucus, we adjourned. god bless you. have a good evening. merry christmas, happy new year. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> here are the results of the republican iowa caucuses. candid its mitt romney and rick santorum finish in a statistical tie for first place. congressman ron paul rounded out the top three with 21% of the

vote. you can find the latest news about the presidential race on a hard campaign website. c-span.org. now the iowa caucuses are over, the presidential campaign moves to new hampshire which will holds the nation's first primary next tuesday. today at 4:00 p.m. eastern, jon huntsman holds a town hall meeting in manchester, new hampshire. at 7:30 p.m., rick santorum is in brentwood new hampshire. you can watch both of these " road to the white house" events on c-span and at c-span.org. newt gingrich finished with 14% of the above. he spoke for 10 minutes to reporters and supporters in at des moines.

>> good evening. we all know that 2012 election is about jobs and the economy. we know that americans demand a candidate with ideas and solutions to rebuild the america we love. there is only one can get it -- ray kony, a conservative in this election, and we just punched

his ticket for new hampshire. >> new! newt! newt! >> well, thank you, linda. and i want to thank the majority leader in the house and my former colleague in the congress, who really all summer held us together. when really a cut of fallen apart. i want to thank everyone who worked in the fall, particularly during the avalanche of negative ads. particularly i want to thank the people of ottawa. all through being drowned in negativity, everywhere we went people were positive. they were receptive, they were willing to ask questions, they would listen, and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i am delighted to be here

tonight. i think we or the beginning of an extraordinarily important campaign. the ultimate goal of this campaign has to be to replace barack obama and get america back on the right track. [applause] but let's be clear, one of the things that has become obvious in the last few weeks in iowa, is that there will be a great debate in the republican party before we are prepared to have a great debate with barack obama. and i think it is very important to understand that. and i want to take just a few minutes to congratulate a good friends of ours, someone who we admirer and his family will mark, rick santorum. he ran a great, positive

campaign. [applause] i served with rick and we have had a great relationship over the years. and i admire the courage, discipline, the way he focused. i also would mire how positive he was. i wish i could say that for all the candidates. but here is the key thing to ask. it is not just about beating obama, as important as that is. it is about what do we need to do is a country to get back on the right track. and that is a lot bigger than just replacing one person in the white house. that is fixing the congress, fixing the bureaucracy, resetting the culture, getting the judge is to understand that they operate within the constitution, not above it. there are tremendous steps we have to take. and we have to be established the work ethic and recognize we want to reward work, not redistribution. we want to reward paychecks, not

food stamps. and this is going to be an important national conversation. it is not just about here at home. we also have to understand and this will be a major debate, with congressman paul having a very good night. i congratulate him having done very well. but the fact is his views on foreign policy, i think, are stunningly dangerous for the survival of the united states. and i think it is a very simple question which i would be glad at the next debate to ask congressman paul. if you have a terrorist who is prepared to put on a bomb and where it is a vest and walk into a grocery store or more and abbas and blow themselves up as long as they can kill you, why would you think that if they could get access to a nuclear weapon, they would not use it? an iranian nuclear weapon is one of the most frightening things we have to confront for the future of every young person up

here and every young person out there. if they are going to live in safety, they have to live in a world in which there is no iranian nuclear weapon, period. [cheers and applause] so a you -- so we will have a very important debate, it is the world dangerous and do we need to be strong enough to protect ourselves, or is the world really safe and just the americans who are confused? i have no doubt about 9/11. it was that people trying to kill us. it was not the americans. i have no doubt about the iranians and about the importance of the survival of israel as a moral cause which we have to recognize as central to our future. [applause] we will have a great debate with congressman paul. and it is important for setting a new stable foreign policy for the 21st century.

one other great debate. that's what this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980's with ronald reagan and helped change washington in 1990 as the speaker of the house, someone who is into changing washington. or do we want a massachusetts moderate who in fact will be pretty good at managing the decade but has given no evidence in his years at massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure for change the government. now let me be clear, because it is important, given all the things that were done in the state of the last few weeks. we are not going out and running nasty as. we will not run 30-second diatribes. but i do reserve the right to

tell the truth. [cheers and applause] and at that truth seems-, -- ne gative, that may be more comment on his record that it is on my politics. this is going to be a debate that begins tomorrow morning in new hampshire and will go on for a few months. i am convinced that the republican party will take an air of reagan and some with a track record of changing washington. i think you'll find cracks and torn saying the same thing, my dad was a career soldier for 27 years. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising if there were not for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in

every precinct, people who went out because they cared. we have someone up here who actually drove in from indianapolis around thanksgiving and said, i am staying. someone else who brought three children and drove up from texas and said i am staying. we had people who wanted to get america back on the right track. they are not millionaires. there were not from wall street. they did not have a super pac, they had courage, they were smart, and together we survive the biggest onslaught and we've set the stage. [applause] i want to say one last thing. we were over in waterloo earlier, which had the largest single site for caucusing. a very distant relative, like 190 years, named craig cambridge, it came from pennsylvania, for his great

grandfather came from pennsylvania, spoke for me. he had said to her, my under daughter, what he was going to said. part of what he said was about his two son who just came back from serving in the middle east. and it reminded me and i like to close with this because it is so important, it is why the pilot experience in the new hampshire experience, this is where you actually have to see people, you cannot despite tv ads are use robo-calling, in the end, it is people. this process is what they risked their lives to preserve. this process, people come and together, sharing values, sharing fears and dreams, finding a way to come and get it to work, unlike the current total mess in washington which i believe frankly as a bipartisan message, unlike the current mess in washington, the american

system over time works with the american people roll up their sleeves to make it work, and everyone of us, it is part of what made these negative ads are shameful, everyone of us should remember that this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. we should act worthy of them. thank you. good luck and god bless you. on to new hampshire. eyeof the tiger"playing ]

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you bet. you kids are awesome. all right. hey, brother. , oh, man, thank you. u.n. ruth were awesome. i cannot think of any better people to have worked in iowa for us. they did a fabulous job. i just want to take a moment and say thanks to the people of iowa. they welcomed us into their homes. and these were communities that reminded a need and i of places where we grew up, and where i as an agriculture commissioner travel across the state of texas. i have to tell you, cliff, so much reminded me of that race back in 1990 when we travel across the state of texas. nobody thought we had a chance to win. and we surprised a lot of people. and the fact is, we had that same feeling here. people who love american, who love the values this country were based upon.

and all of you folks who traveled from 30 plus states to come here and to work and to caucus and to put up signs, i want to share with you a letter that was handed to me earlier. and he said, words cannot express how thankful i am for being able to serve you this past week. my name is " smith. -- colt smith. i just graduated from university. he said he got his bs degree in agriculture. he graduated -- he graduated in the top 10 in his class. of 13, just like i did, right?

and he said, i drove here, i broke down in kansas. he said, i spent $2,000 to get it fixed. he said, well, i got a loan. but he still made it. he said, this has been the best experience of my life. he said, today i saw you for the first time. he said, i know you are a good man. but i never realized what a great man you were. [applause] he said, it brought me to tears to see a man who feared the lord. and when you told that soldier, or you called him your christian brother, he said it blew me

away. he said, i want so much for me to know -- oh, he said, i want you to know that i got to know your son and i got to meet your wife, anita. your family is wonderful. i've enjoyed my visits with your staff along the way, chris sullivan, they're great people. basically i want you to know you matter. you are making a difference. i visited 1000 homes today. and you better -- and you matter to them also. this has to be the greatest honor of my life. and if you need more volunteers to help you in south carolina, count me in, i would be happy to serve there. thank you. colt smith from texas.

i wanted to read that to you. he also said, sarin of our rambling but i have an out and it is 1:30 in the morning and i've been out putting up 400 signs. that is what it is all about, folks. that is what this has all been about. and i'd just want to say, i think you to everyone who is common volunteered and worked and made the most incredible experience for myself and for the woman that i have been so blessed to have by my side all these many years, for their years of my life. there is not anybody that has fought any harder or has been a greater partner then my wife. and my sweetheart and a lot of my life and we are blessed tonight to be standing on this stage in representing the state of texas, and frankly, representing america, and i

think the values that are so important to our country. and to be here with my children, britain and meredith in sydney. when i began this campaign four months ago, i did not do it because it was a lifelong ambition to be the president of the united states. i did it because our country is in trouble. made you heard the story of us sitting on the couch talking about that this was not my purpose in life, but my country was in trouble. and it was my duty to serve my country one more time in this campaign has never been about me. it is about a movement of americans to see our country, that really not on the track that most of us wanted to be on, $15 trillion worth of debt. some 50 million americans on food stamps. 13 million of us, 13 million of our fellow citizens are out of work.

they do not see a washington willing to make hard decisions to help them, to get them back on their feet again. for people tog make some right decisions. they are looking for someone that will stand up and give them hope, that we can get this country back on track. so with the voters' decisions tonight and i like, i decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight's caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. i believe that this is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. a nation that i was blessed to serve as a pilot in the united states air force. a nation that has been and will continue to be a beacon for freedom around the world. dan moran, you, marines like

yourself, soldiers that are serving still today, sailors around the world, he made every minute of this or that for ourselves, and with a little prayer and reflection, i am going to decide the best path for. but i wanted to you, there has been no greater joy in my life than did the able to share with the people of iowa and of this country, that there is a model to take this country forward. and it is in the great state of texas. cobb was you. thank you all for being with us here tonight. -- god bless you all. thank you all for being here with us tonight.

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♪ [country music plan] >> we are heading out to michele bachmann campaign getting ready to address her supporters. >> an incredible person, michelle. there is no other candidate out there that work any harder than michele bachmann. i am so excited about your future. you'd take it to south carolina. eutectic of florida.

if you take it to new hampshire, and you go get them. because right here is the real, real deal. and this is what we need in this country. i talked about my young kids and what they are being faced with and the irresponsibility of this generation and those people out in washington, d.c. you lay -- washington, d.c. this lady right here pound for pound as the toughest person in washington, d.c. but that, i want to introduce you to the next president of the united states, michele bachmann. [plus] >> thank you. i appreciate that. i was introduced in all 99 counties with that same phrase, pound for pound. i cannot thank him enough and the entire iowa team, thank you for everything you have all done. i just have some prepared remarks. i am so grateful you are here

and we will have a party afterwards, so stick around. they do so much, everyone, and thank you to iowa, my home state. i have called ron paul, rick perry, to congratulate each one of them on their respective places this evening in the lineup. the peacoat -- the people of iowa have spoken very they have written a very first chapter in this long journey to take our country back from barack obama. and make no mistake, we will. once again this wonderful republic that we are privileged to live then has worked. the process worked. it is the people of iowa who chose tonight. it was not the pundits. it was not the media. and while this has been a tough campaign, we should never forget that it crucible will make the in potential nominee tried for even a tougher battles that are yet to come against barack obama. i'm so proud of the people who

run our campaign here in iowa. and i'll be forever grateful to this wonderful state into the wonderful people of iowa for launching us on our path to victory in the iowa straw poll. and this state is given voice to people all over our country that barack obama's liberal policies are finished, and that in 2012, there will be another occupant in the white house. who knows, maybe even another michelle in the white house. [applause] once again, it is the people's voice that will be heard there. make no mistake, as i have said often an early, barack obama will be a one-term president. did you hear that, america? you heard it here from iowa. i'm a very real person. i am not a politician nor do i ever hope or aspire to be a politician.

i saw what the government was doing to all of us, to our children, and doing to our liberties, so i decided to stand up. i decided what fight not only four or five children and our 23 foster children, but for your children, too, because they deserve it. if we deserve to give them a better and more hopeful future. it is really true that we have strayed from the vision of our founders' view of government and the 2012 election might very well be our last opportunity to reclaim our liberty from a government that somehow seems bent on taking more and more of it away from us every day. but since day one of barack obama's presidency, i have led delphi in washington against his liberal-los -- liberal-socialist policies. when the president wanted a $1 trillion stimulus package, i set up. when president bush which it won the pushed to pick up your health care and replace it with

socialized medicine -- madison, i let the president know that the american people were against it. we do not want socialized medicine. we're not going to keep socialized medicine. and barack obama, socialize medicine will be appealed. -- repeal. when the president said last summer he wanted to raise the debt limit to an unbelievable $16 trillion, i said no. over the last three years, the american people have tragically been deprived in their president of leader as he routinely withers when confronted with a paramount challenges of our generation. if president obama it is guarded and guided by his heart in the etiology, and he has withheld any process for economic recovery as he routinely places his own political fortunes and his own reelection plans above the interest of the american people.

look no further than his denial of building the keystone pipeline. that was all about his reelection. nothing to do with energy independence for the american people. his liberal rain will and and the american people and our economy will finally be free. because they see, what we need is at hand did it in the likeness and image of a ronald reagan, who had the old differences necessary to take on nine barack obama. we need a peerless conservative, one with no compromises on the record on spending, on health care, on crony capitalism, on defending. >> michele bachmann talking there to supporters tonight. calling the candidates to congratulate them, a disappointing night for the woman who won these ames straw poll. she 15% of the vote tonight. no indication that she has any plans to pull out right now.

>> here are the results of the republican, iowa caucuses. candid its mitt romney and rick santorum finished in a statistical tie for first place. congressman ron paul rounded out the top three but 21% of the vote. you could find the latest news about the presidential re -- race on our website. congressman ron paul finished third in last night's iowa caucuses. 21% of the final budget. that can that it talked to supporters for about 15 minutes. -- the candidate talk to supporters for about 15 minutes.

>> good evening, everyone, is anybody excited -- got great news for everyone tonight -- we have one of the three tickets out of iowa. [applause] as we go on, there is only two candidates in this race that have the resources to compete as a go to new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and louisiana