[ohioWfan]

I knew it!

[Proud2BeRight]

When the liberal RINO was in the lead by 8, they went yelling “WINNER” at the top of their lungs over and over and over again. Each time the RINO was in a story it was "The winner of Iowa" blah blah blah. Now the final count comes in and Santorum WON by four times the old differential and the Yahoo headlines says “Santorum “may” have won, the RINO now calls it a tie, and this article calls it “a wash”.

Oh, how I despise liberalism's spin.

[JohnBovenmyer]

The Des Moines Register has a fair amount of detail and is mostly practicing journalism here.

They link to a spreadsheet with the precinct breakdown for the 1766 precincts they were able to certify. That spreadsheet verified my surmise that whatever the votes were in the other 8 non-certified precincts, they are not being counted. They're not even lines on the spreadsheet. Hopefully someone will perform further journalism and discover what went wrong. As of this posting the Iowa GOP site hasn't been updated today; the Register is the only site with data posted.

I don't have time for a full comparison now, but a glance at the "certified" spread sheet in comparison to the one posted after "Mitt won" revealed a couple interesting points.

First, they broke down the voting by others in more detail. Sarah Palin only received 23 votes statewide. Cain received 45. Some much for their hopes of resurrection.

Second, although they aren't providing totals from the 8 "non-certified" precincts now, their unofficial results were provided earlier this month and if unchanged would provide Santorum with an additional 35 vote margin:

46 Romney
81 Santorum
64 Paul
30 Gingrich
31 Perry
15 Bachman
2 Huntsman
269 Total

So although they are now saying Santorum 'won' in the 99.5% complete 'final' tally, had it been 100% the best available data suggests he really won by about 69 votes. The size and trend of those 8 unofficially counted precincts makes it fairly likely that Santorum really did win Iowa.

So we're off to an interesting day. Santorum flips Mitt in Iowa. Perry reported to be dropping out. Newt gets dropped on by ex #2 tonight and what will likely be an interesting debate tonight. I'm off to work so will be offline awhile.

[throwback]

It is interesting that you can hardly find the headline “Santorum Wins Iowa” on Google. It's also interesting that a bunch of votes go missing. I guess it's the only way Romney or Paul could taint the win, so they took it. Oh well, at least Mitt has to shut up about winning 2 states now, although he benefited by being the the inevitable nominee for some time. I'm for Santorum, but I hope Newt takes his pound of flesh out of the media during the debate tonight for the hit piece ABC's running on him tonight. This media, what a bunch of lying pigs.

[Lazlo in PA]

Santorum for President Ping List.

FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.that up.

[Scotswife]

I figured something was up when they were still “counting” votes until 1 am.

[newzjunkey]

Santorum supporters were suckers to think if he came out on top in the final results the reporting would reflect it.

As an establishment player Santorum understands this.

[Impy]

Iowa can’t even count right. Pathetic!