“Ron Paul said that he was not disappointed with the outcome, pointing out his popularity with both young and independent voters.”
Pamela Geller had last night, at her site Atlas Shrugged, very interesting numbers concerning Democrats who voted for Ron Paul in Iowa. Somewhere in the 30% of his final votes were from acknowledged Democrats.
I doubt Newt Gringrich would have done so badly if the Democrats had stayed home.
That is preposterous. If those 7,865 Paul voters who were Democrats would have stayed home, then the results would have been:
Santorum - 26.2%
Romney - 26.2%
Paul - 16.0%
Gingrich - 14.2%
Perry - 11.0%
Gingrich would have gained less than a percentage point, and he still would have trailed the Conservative candidate by 12.0 percentage points instead of 11.2.