go ahead, linda upmeyer.uest: sure, that is requested every individual boat will be counted at the caucus -- sure, that is a great question. any individual vote will be counted at the caucus. each of the candidates has the opportunity to have an observer what the count. they are called into a central location, and all that is tallied. typically, that is at party headquarters in des moines. i'm not positive if that is exactly the location in this year, but it will be a central location in iowa, and that is when the votes will be added together and we will have results. host: you will get to see the caucuses unfold on c-span and c- span2 tomorrow night. our coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. connie, democratic caller bank in maryland. caller: to be a christian, i don't understand how you can sit there and say you are for newt gingrich. you need to read the bible in mark, luke, and john. you should go down to where newt lives. he was sitting in a driveway having oral sex with a lady -- host: connie, we a

host: let's get a response from linda upmeyer. guest: speaker gingrich has done a wonderful job of creating jobs. he has his strong record of creating nearly 11 million jobs when he was the speaker of the house over his term there. he also moved the country from a deficit to surplus. i i think we have evidence that jobs can predict that that job can be completed. we also have evidence that he has worked very well with foreign leaders and tents across the table and complete that work. so i think we have history that shows that can be done. as far as immigration, the first thing the speaker intends to do by 2014 is have the southern border secured. that's the first up here is making sure that employers are employing illegal immigrants. he has been very clear about the importance of doing just that. host: niki is next, democratic caller in norwood, conn. caller: thanks for taking my call. hi, linda. i've been a 40-year registered democrat. i was really unhappy in 2006 when they got the democrats in. i like newt gingrich, but i think

and i want to thank linda upmeyer, the majority leader in the house, and greg ganske, my former colleague in the congress, who really all summer held this together, when really it could have fallen apart. i want to thank everybody who worked all fall, particularly during the avalanche of negative adds. i want to thank the people of iowa. all through being drowned in negativity. everywhere we went, people were positive, they were receptive, they were willing to ask questions, and they would listen. and they wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. and it really gave us a feeling that this process does work. i am tligted to be here tonight, and i think that we are at 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. but let's be clear, one of the things that became 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's ver