CHO: Thirty-six minutes after the hour. To politics now, and a dead heat in the first presidential caucus state. A new poll from "The Des Moines Register" shows that Iowa voters are leaning toward Herman Cain and Mitt Romney. Now, it looks like a dead heat there. Cain holds a slight one percent lead. That's well within the margin of error. The Iowa caucuses are set for January 3. Ron Paul did OK in the register poll, but he really excelled in a straw poll of likely Iowa voters. That may be because he showed up yesterday. He got 82 percent in the National Federation of Republican Assembly's presidential straw poll. Herman Cain was second at 15 percent. Paul and Rick Santorum were the only candidates to show up at the Iowa event on Saturday. Rick Perry isn't going to be skipping any debates after all. The Texas governor says he's ready to take part in the next four debates in November. CNN is hosting two of those debates in Washington, D.C., and Arizona. Earlier, Perry had indicated he might skip some of the debates in order to spend more time with voters. Iowa is pretty much the center of the political universe this week. The first in the nation caucus state will play host to most of the candidates. CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser takes a look at the week ahead in politics.</s>PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Hey, good morning, Alina. You know, most of the Republican presidential candidates will spend much of this week in Iowa, the first state to vote in the primary caucus calendar. On tap, a forum moderated by Iowa's Republican governor on Tuesday, and a GOP party dinner on Friday night. The next day, two of the candidates, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, they face off in a debate in Texas organized by a Tea Party group - Alina.</s>CHO: Paul Steinhauser, thanks. One man in India with 39 wives and close to 100 children. We've just described what some are calling the world's largest family, and you'll meet them after the break.
Herman Cain Leading in Iowa