Romney: I'll hit Iowa up for votes eventually

He won’t be competing in a crucial straw poll in Ames, Iowa next month, but Mitt Romney says he’ll be spending more time in the state which holds the first contest in the presidential primary and caucus calendar.

“My wife and I will be campaigning in Iowa,” Romney said Monday night in a tele-town hall with nearly 10,000 Iowa Republicans, “You won’t be seeing too little of us.”

The former Massachusetts governor, who’s making his second bid for the GOP presidential nomination, promised to come to the Iowa State Fair next month. Romney has also agreed to attend a presidential debate in Ames, Iowa scheduled for August 11.