Posted on 01/20/2012 11:03:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
GREENVILLE, S.C. — On the eve of the South Carolina primary, Iowa Republicans dealt Mitt Romney’s campaign a blow by formally declaring Rick Santorum the winner of their Jan. 3 caucuses.
At 18 minutes before midnight Friday, South Carolina time, the Republican Party of Iowa released a statement revising its Thursday announcement that reported Santorum ahead of Romney but also saying the two-week-old race had no clear winner.
“In order to clarify conflicting reports and to affirm the results released January 18 by the Republican Party of Iowa, Chairman Matthew Strawn and the State Central Committee declared Senator Rick Santorum the winner of the 2012 Iowa Caucus,” the state GOP’s statement read.
The news that Romney — who for two weeks celebrated what he jokingly called a ‘landslide’ eight-vote victory in Iowa, only to see it reversed this week when the state GOP certified Santorum the leader by 34 votes — officially lost the first contest muddies his narrative, especially as Newt Gingrich surges in the polls in South Carolina...
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Here are the links to the election nite numbers:
By precinct:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=2475248
By county:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=2475414
Those are not the certified numbers, but what was phoned in or input by computer that nite.
Here are the certified caucus results:
http://data.desmoinesregister.com/results/?info=caucus_results
The 8 missing precincts are: Cerro Gordo county - precinct Mason City W2 P3; Emmet county - precinct E’VILLE-WARD 2; Franklin county - precinct Geneva/Reeve; Lee county - precincts FM 4A, FM 4B, Franklin Cedar Marion, and Washington Green Bay Denmark; Pocahontas county - precinct Center-S Roosevelt-N Lincoln.
4 of the 8 are in Lee county and there’s been a national firestorm over that.
Santorum should remain in the race several more weeks if he can because there is a good chance that Newton will collapse soon even if he sweeps SC. I would imagine though that financing for Santorum is good only through FL. He was cheated out of his little victory in IA by uninformned Republican primary voters. Mittens, it has been said, has a huge lead among the retirees and professional Republicans in FL.
“Rick Santorum Wins the Iowa Caucus.”
That’s a headline the Santorum team didn’t read on the morning after the Caucus. It’s a headline Conservatives didn’t read. It’s a headline the public would not read until the morning of the South Carolina primary, two primaries later.
There has been considerable angst about the Virginia primary, and who was allowed to be on the ballot there. “Someone was getting cheated!” Perhaps it’s just my faulty perception, it I haven’t noticed nearly as much angst about Santorum being deprived of his victory.
During this season, public perception is important. I don’t think I’m being overly suspicious here, because it was known at the beginning of the week, that Santorum had won the Iowa Caucus. Still, those that control the statements refused to call Santorum anything other than a person who tied Romney at the Caucus..., until now, the morning of the second Primary after Iowa. Two primaries where reasoned assumptions of the benefits of Santorum’s win were thwarted. In fact their emphasis was on the eight precincts that hadn’t reported out.
IMO, Santorum’s ability to build momentum was checked in Iowa. People considering him were not allowed to think of him as the winner. That is the life blood of a political campaign during a primary season.
We allow open caucuses and primaries. We allow candidate’s victories to be stolen. We revel in the victories of folks voted most favorite with the help of Democrats. We flatter ourselves as the keepers of the flame.
We should be bowing our heads in shame. Alas, there are no keepers of the flame.
You don't even need to examine his record. Just review his answers in Thursday's debate.
I hope you are not being superstitious?
Statistical anomalies can easily happen, particularly with such a small sampling.
What about PRIOR to 1980?
If you only select parameters that support your wishful thinking you can contrive support for any argument.
But that’s not very honest, or conservative.
Maybe you need to look at the record instead what Newt & Mitt’s buddies in the media. Santorum is far the most conservative candidate left.
very timely.
should give Santorum a bump going into NH.... oh wait...
another example of the MSM distorting and interfering with this primary.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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