join us is "time" magazine's white house correspondent, michael shearer. i appreciate your patience. thanks for waiting. aside from the obvious, winning iowa what is the real difference for romney and his campaign now compared to when time published the first article in early december? is it that victory of eight i a iowans coming out over rick santorum? >> there's that but also the fact that there isn't isn't another candidate in the field right now who seems to have the ability to take romney on the when we ran that first cover, newt gingrich was just surging, there was a lot of momentum behind him and romney almost surgically took him apart, romney and his supporters took him apart in iowa, a situation now where rick santorum is the new golden boy, but rick, more so than gingrich really doesn't have the infrastructure with reck rick perry staying in the race, barely polling in new hampshire, i think dish believe that the win in iowa was a big deal for the romney campaign. this is you know, mitt romney who we all knew from 2008 is the guy who got the sil