At every event little cards where passed out to everyone in attendance. When they fill out the cards they are committing to a candidate. I took a picture of the stack of returned cards at one event. There were about 120 people at this event, and this is the stack they received. Just because you are at the Romney event did not mean you supported Romney.

At this event I sat at a table of 8. There were 2 democrats who were there just to learn (a very nice elderly couple), a young man named "Tim" with a video camera who I am not sure who he was supporting- and the rest were supporters. Many of the people I talked were there just to meet Mitt and get a look. The campaign was excited to see so many cards.

Every where I went I met people who were very dissatisfied with those who were dropping out of Ames. Many took it very personally for their home state; perhaps realizing that McCain and Giuliani had completely disregarded the state GOP and in effect the Iowa Caucuses. To quote Tancredo, "THEY WERE GOING TO LOOSE!!!"