[SaxxonWoods]

Just checked the Paulian stronghold ZeroHedge. They are in despair, they say it’s over for Paul. Much gnashing of teeth and general clothes rending.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

ok the Conservative vote split 4 ways in the Iowa pot luck dinner straw poll

.. a blow out against Romney when the Conservative votes are consolidated

[prisoner6]

Meh. No excitement or enthusiasm. Romney, Santorum, et al are GOP same old, same old.

If any of them beat Obama in 2012, conservatives loose in 2016 and possibly far beyond.

Looks like I'm not gonna have a dog in the 2012 fight.

[Brad’s Gramma]

14 votes, huh. Wow Mitt, you sure walked away a winner tonight!

FOURTEEN??? BWAAAHHHH

[FrankR]

[Texas Fossil]

According to the Iowa GOP on Twitter:

Final results:

Romney - 30,015
Santorum - 30,007
Paul - 26,219
Gingrich - 16,251
Perry - 12,604
Bachmann - 6073
Hunstman - 745

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Mitt wins by 8 votes. That win is a loss as the field narrows.

[MasterGunner01]

If Mittens won by 14 votes over Santorum, who came from nowhere, I don't think Mittens won in a “landslide”, Karl. With all his money, Romney could not rise above 25% and that's the real story. The Republican electorate sees Mittens as another Juan McPain clone and they are rejecting him.

[Diogenesis]

THE REAL DEAL:

"Vote Count Error? Did Rick Santorum Really Win the Iowa Caucuses?
DES MOINES, Iowa - Edward True, 28, of Moulton, said he helped count the votes
and jotted the results down on a piece of paper to post to his Facebook page.
He said when he checked to make sure the Republican Party of Iowa
got the count right, he said he was shocked to find they hadn’t.
“When Mitt Romney won Iowa by eight votes and I’ve got a
20-vote discrepancy here, that right there says Rick Santorum won Iowa,” True said. “Not Mitt Romney.”

"Several UNREPORTED news reports have it that Romney
did not win the Iowa Caucuses.
Barring any objective, verifiable proof that shows more than 12 votes mistakenly
being credited to Santorum, Romney lost."

"Could Typo Rewrite Caucus History? (Santorum may regain win)"