Monday, January 2, 2012

Video: Waiting to decide in Iowa



>> following the polls in iowa for awhile now you've seen a lot of front runners come and go. candidates are up one week, down the next. iowa voters it seems can't seem to coalesce behind one candidate. with just three days to go kelly o'donnell spent some time today with iowans still making up their mind.

>> reporter: in this political season, the heart of iowa has not been so easy to win over.

>> who wants to try the fudge?

>> reporter: shop owner and republican voter kelly sharp is still undecided and underwhelmed.

>> you know, you get a little wore out. you get wore out from the negative campaign . you get wore out from this person saying something about that person.

>> reporter: in living rooms across iowa , an onslaught of political ads. more than $16 million spent by campaigns.

>> you can always tell caucus is close. santorum never had any ads.

>> reporter: since mid august iowa voters have had more than 500 chances to see a republican contender in person.

>> i've been pretty much all over the place. i've gone from candidate to candidate.

>> reporter: an active republican chris bor reroey has seen them all but not made his choice.

>> are you surprised you're undecided?

>> very surprised. i've got a santorum bumper sticker on the side of my refrigerator in the garage, a ron paul yard sign in the back of my truck. but nothing out there. because i cannot come to terms with one candidate.

>> reporter: wife jodi is a democrat. chris is a fiscal conservative who says he's most concerned about the country's debt. he looked hard at bachmann and then gingrich but --

>> i started to worry that he wouldn't be electable.

>> reporter: back in 2008 , chris supported romney.

>> i'm afraid romney's the ultimate politician, the ultimate candidate, but he may not be -- i'm not convinced he's the ultimate president.

>> reporter: chris says he's most disappointed because he'd expected to be volunteering for his top candidate by now. instead at tuesday's caucus he hopes other voters will help him finally decide.

>> maybe there's some magic in something that somebody points out that maybe i hadn't considered. and so i'll be doing a lot of listening.

>> reporter: having so many undecided voters going into tuesday night makes the way of caucus actually worse. even more important, voters will try to influence each other. they'll be debating the merits of candidates. inside those caucus rooms some minds will be changed or finally made up. kate?

>> down to the wire. kelly o'donnell in iowa . thanks so

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45836304/

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