"The biggest lie about Iowa? That this face to face campaigning is so meaningful....Yeah, that “retail’ campaigning was real important to those wonderful Iowans wasn’t it?"
I agree as to your point about the negative attacks on Newt, but the face to face strategy did work for Santorum. He was the only one to visit all 99 counties.
Doesn’t change this fact:
Two weeks of negative ads totally wiped out what was accomplished by the full year of the face to face stuff - and we are told that we should pay attention to Iowa because it is the one state where TV ads will not decide it.
TV ads did indeed decide the outcome.