ALTOONA, Iowa - A large crowd of voters - many enthusiastic supporters - plus a mass of cameras and reporters turned a Rick Santorum event into a chaotic scene, but there was no doubt where the interest was. 
 
 The former Pennsylvania senator spoke to voters in a side room of the campaign favorite, Pizza Ranch, Monday evening. Last week, there would be no need to occupy the entire restaurant, the side room would be enough. Monday, the day before Iowans kick off the voting process the entire restaurant was packed and cameras swarmed the candidate. 
 
 Standing on a chair and using a bullhorn, Santorum gave voters waiting for him in the main part of the restaurant, who were not able to hear him, his final pitch. 
 
 "I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow night, but this has been an amazing experience," Santorum said to the crowd of about 150. "The people of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina have not only made me a better candidate, not only will they make be a better president, but they've made me a better person." 
 
 He told Iowans to, "Trust what you've seen and heard … You want to be first? Lead." 
 
 He repeated what he's been stressing all week: don't vote for someone just because others say they are electable. 
 
 "They may not be able to do what American needs to get done and that's a victory that will feel very empty," Santorum said, wearing a gray sweater vest. "It will not be Pizza Ranch pizza, you will walk out of those caucuses hungry. Walk out of those caucuses like you just ate at a Pizza Ranch buffet." 
 
 Santorum added: "You will not only shock this country, but you will shock the world." 
 
 It was the last of five events in a day where every event was packed with voters, political tourists, and a crush of reporters and cameras. 
 
 While leaving the Hotel Pattee in Perry, Iowa - his second event of the day - Santorum said his campaign, despite their financial disadvantage, does have the ground game in New Hampshire to compete there. 
 
 "We are going to do better, we are going to move up that ladder and if we can finish in the top three or four that would be a good finish for us," Santorum told ABC News. 
 
 Mitt Romney's SuperPAC, "Restore Our Future," has spent three million dollars in the state on advertising, most of it targeting Newt Gingrich directly. When asked how he would handle being on the receiving end of the onslaught of negative ads his rivals have had to endure, Santorum answered, "I'm not Newt Gingrich. I feel pretty comfortable that their attacks will ring hollow coming from where they are coming from." 
 
 He stressed that despite his conservative stances he will be able to appeal to more moderate voters citing his wins in Pennsylvania and that voters trust him. 
 
 "People tell me, 'I don't agree with everything you say, but I trust you,'" Santorum said. 
 
 Throughout the day he stressed electability, but in Perry without being asked he mentioned working with Democrats, including Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton. 
 
 "When I agreed with her, I worked with her," Santorum said referring to Boxer as a way of criticizing President Obama for not working across the aisle. "We've got to set it aside because we have a country to run." 
 
 At Santorum's third event of the day in Boone he told the crowd that voters were receiving robo-calls that said he wasn't tough enough on preserving the second amendment. 
 
 "Believe it or not, someone is out there making robo-calls saying I'm against the second amendment! Whoever that is - Ron Paul - whoever that is," Santorum said, pointing his finger directly at the Texas congressman. "If Ron Paul got his way, there'd be no gun manufacturers in this country." 
 
 At that moment a protester and supporter of Paul's shouted that Santorum was "lying." The candidate didn't pause and the protester soon left. 
 
 The event was also in a Pizza Ranch, Santorum's third for the day and by their count 33 rd Pizza Ranch stop, It was so tight and warm a woman fainted and was receiving medical attention. 

 DAVENPORT, Iowa — After conceding hours earlier that he won’t win Iowa, Newt Gingrich changed his tune. 
 
 “We may pull off one of the greatest upsets in the history of the Iowa caucuses,” he told a room of supporters in Davenport on Monday night. 
 
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 It was a reversal from what he told reporters earlier in the morning, when he sought to lower expectations heading into Tuesday night’s caucuses. 
 
 “I don’t think I’m going to win,” he said at a stop in Independence, Iowa. 
 
 The change came after a supporter on a tele-town hall pressed him to stop saying publicly that he won’t win. 
 
 “You’re going to win tomorrow night, and I want to hear you telling people you’re going to win,” the supporter said. 
 
 Newt seemed reluctant to give the supporter what he wanted, and say outright that he could win. 
 
 “From here on out, I’m going to quote you,” Newt told the supporter. 
 
 Fewer than 30 minutes later, Newt, unprompted, announced he had been “inaccurate” when he said he wasn’t going to win, criticizing the press for focusing on the first half of his statement, in which he claimed a victory of sorts regardless of the outcome. 
 
 “Whatever I do tomorrow night, I will be a victor because I’m still standing,” he said on Monday morning. 
 
 Iowa is largely an expectations game. Winners don’t have to come in first; losers don’t have to come in last. So long as candidates beat expectations for their respective campaigns, they can often live to campaign another day. 
 
 Later on Monday, however, he pivoted slightly. 
 
 He told supporters that based on polls he’s seen, he expects to finish between second and fourth place on Tuesday night, a broad prediction. 
 
 Since skyrocketing into the lead in November, Gingrich has seen a steep slide in the polls as he endured a barrage of attacks from the rest of the field. He blames the attacks, and his lack of an immediate response, for his fall. 
 
 But even after flirting with the lead in Iowa and New Hampshire, South Carolina has always been Gingrich’s stronghold and the state where his campaign is most well organized. Gingrich alluded to his South Carolina support in vowing to stay in the race regardless of his finish in Iowa. 
 
 Gingrich tried to set expectations for one of his opponents, Mitt Romney. 
 
 At the Davenport event, he told supporters that Romney will receive between 22 percent and 24 percent on Tuesday night. 
 
 “I’ll leave here strategically in a better position than Gov. Romney,” he said in an interview with Piers Morgan.
– It's crunch time in the cornfields, and while polls show Newt Gingrich in fourth place, the candidate yesterday said he may still "pull off one of the greatest upsets in the history of the Iowa caucuses." The upbeat tone, however, only came after a supporter asked him to stop publicly declaring that he won't win, Politico notes. Mitt Romney, meanwhile, told supporters: "We're going to win this thing," the Des Moines Register reports. Campaign aides later said that the "thing" Romney meant was the nomination, not the Iowa caucuses. As rivals talked victory, Ron Paul—who is, along with Romney and the surging Rick Santorum, considered a leading contender in Iowa—said his chances of winning the White House are slim, AP reports. Asked whether he could see himself in the Oval Office, he said: "Not really, but I think it's a possibility." Santorum drew large crowds as he made his final pitches, ABC reports. He urged Iowa's voters not to pick somebody purely on the basis of electability. "They may not be able to do what American needs to get done and that’s a victory that will feel very empty," he said.