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well, simon conway is an iowa radio talk show host who has spoken to each of the republican presidentialcandidates, except mitt romney and jon huntsman, who's not competing in iowa. simon, thank you so much for coming on and doing this simulcast. i see you at the mic there. what's it smell like to you out there? what's the sense? if i'd ask you to do a little peration now on which way it's going, what is it? >> first of all, it's always a pleasure to welcome a democrat to the simon conway show. >> are we all giving our party labels o out here? are you giving me yours or what? you want to give me one but don't give yourself one. >> chris, i'm not a republican, never have been and never will be. >> so you give out labels, but you don't assign one to yourself. that's very clever. >> well, there isn't one. i just want to make sure we're starting with some honesty. your clearly working for the re-election of barack obama -- >> i want to make sure -- >> -- and that's okay. >> this isn't going to go very long here if you're going into this game of assigning -- what's your political voting recor

. >> the road to iowa's gop voters drug drive time radio host simon conway, but don't expect an easy ride with simon. he's coming up next. >>> and the occupy movement heading to iowa as well for tuesday's republican caucus. hundreds of protesters are expected to try to disrupt the gop hopefuls outside campaign offices and at some of their events. >>> out west the movement will hit pasadena's annual tournament of roses parade. police have give permission for occupiers to march down the parade route after all the official floats pass by. that typically gets up to 800,000 viewers in pasadena. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. earn points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. >>> mitt romney is having a little fun at newt gingrich's expense

then simon conway talks about the latest in politics and the current republican field. after that, a look at the final results of the iowa poll with ann selzer. "washington journal" is live starting at 7:00 here on c-span. >> in the last caucuses in 2008, barack obama won the democratic caucuses and went on to win the presidency. mike huckabee won the republican caucuses but dropped out two months later. see what rackauckas looks like with previous video online. through tuesday, our cameras are following the 2012 candidates evidence throughout the state. every morning live from iowa, political guests are taking your calls. we will show live coverage from two of the caucuses from the western and central parts of the state. will have the results of the nearly 1800 caucus's plus candidate speeches. atch videos of the candidates on the campaign trail. read the latest the candidates and people like you. >> more live political coverage later today as republican candidates continue to make their way across iowa before the tuesday caucuses. this afternoon, rick santorum is in o

we will also talk with simon conway, a talk-show host for who radio, and ann selzer will be on. people listen up 7:00 central time. 8:00 eastern, we will hear those poll results, the final "des moines register" poll prior to the caucus. we hope you will stay with us through the weekend. enjoy the rest of your day here. stay tuned for lots more politics. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> in the last iowa caucuses in 2008, barack obama won the democratic caucuses and went on to win the presidency. mike huckabee won the republican caucuses but dropped out two months later. see what the bill looks like online at the c-span video library. our cameras are following candidates at events throughout the state. political guess are taking your calls every morning on "washington journal." we will show live coverage from two of the caucuses from the central and western parts of the state on c-span and c-span2. later on, the results of all of the caucuses and candidates be sent -- speeches. see what the candidat