Iowa Caucus

Agent Smith

I have no problem believing that I stayed up till 5:25am watching the Iowa cacaus.....

cristoir

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

He looks delighted with himself up on stage.

He should. Pretty much every pundit had declared him dead in the water.

kmart6

If Romney gets this Santorum's speech could look very stupid in hindsight!

kmart6

Hell Santorum by 5!

Jimmy Iovine

kmart6 wrote: »

If Romney gets this Santorum's speech could look very stupid in hindsight!

Santorum's just gone ahead by 5.

cristoir

Santorum up 5 votes. F I V E.

cristoir

99% in. Poor Mr Gore must be having flashbacks if he is watching.

This whole thing was a farce..

kmart6

Wow that sounded terrible:

"We don't take her out in public because she has a disability!"

cristoir

Santorum stretching his lead. Now 7 votes in it :P.

Jimmy Iovine

kmart6 wrote: »

Wow that sounded terrible:

"We don't take her out in public because she has a disability!"

Yea that was awful. Sounded like he was trying to hide her. Big mess up with his words there.

cristoir

Romney now ahead by 11 VOTES.

kmart6

Romney's eyes look like he's been crying!

Jimmy Iovine

cristoir wrote: »

Romney now ahead by 11 VOTES.

Where are you getting your updates? My sources are way behind it seems.

Jimmy Iovine

I see Romney's sons have inherited his abnormally large forehead. Poor chaps.

cristoir

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Where are you getting your updates? My sources are way behind it seems.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-04/iowa-caucus-live-coverage/3757930

Einhard

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

My dad asked me the other day why I've an interest and I honestly can't tell you the actual reason.

Because it's the greatest show on earth! No other reason required:D

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

I see Romney's sons have inherited his abnormally large forehead. Poor chaps.

And his abnormally large fortune. poor fuppers.

Jimmy Iovine

We're heading for the closest finish in a GOP presidential primary/caucus since the 1936 election in South Carolina.

SyntonFenix

Romney just said he's going to balance the books. Yeah, good luck with that one.

cristoir

For a minute there I thought Romney was going to start singing.

cristoir

Santorum 29,892, Romney 29,865. 27 votes

Jimmy Iovine

Go away Piers Morgan. Can't stand the head on him.

35 in it.

cristoir

Retracted by the source it seems.

Game still on.

Jimmy Iovine

19 now.

Suryavarman

cristoir wrote: »

Santorum by 34 votes with 100 percent reporting.

It's over.

I think there is still another 8 precincts to give in results.

Think I might call it an early night

kmart6

19 to Santorum

cristoir

Suryavarman wrote: »

I think there is still another 8 precincts to give in results.

Think I might call it an early night

Aye some chap on twitter posted a result and I posted it here without checking.

kmart6

Oh 18 now.....

cristoir

Santorum up by 18 votes with two precincts left.

My labtops about to run out of battery and I haven't the energy to find the charger. Good night all.

Jimmy Iovine

Santorum spent about $1.65 per vote; Romney spent around $113 per vote.

Ha.

Killer Pigeon

Damn, if any Republic bar Paul wins this Presidential Election, it's going to be war with Iran.

Jimmy Iovine

Romney is ahead by 1 vote.

Jimmy Iovine

Santorum back up by a MASSIVE 4.

Killer Pigeon

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Santorum back up by a MASSIVE 4.

Where are all these fundamentalist Christians coming from?

Edit: Seriously, his views are more hardcore than Dana's.

Jimmy Iovine

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Where are all these fundamentalist Christians coming from?

Edit: Seriously, his views are more hardcore than Dana's.

Yea I had a look at them there. They are pretty sensational alright. It won't get him too much further though surely.

matthew8

MITT ROMNEY HAS WON THE IOWA CAUCUSES BY 8 VOTES. Glad I stayed up for it. Switched between FOX and CNN, I prefered CNN's production but I felt FOX were more knowledgeable, the magic moment was when Wolf Blitzer of CNN rang a republican party chairwoman in Clinton county and informed her that not all the results had gone to Ames, within a couple of minutes it got sorted out, glad I stayed up for it though annoyed Ron Paul came third.

Belfast

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/section/NEWS05/Iowa-Politics-Insider
Romney

24.6%

30,015
votes

Santorum

24.5%

30,007
votes

Ron Paul

21.4%

26,219
votes

Gingrich

13.3%

16,251
votes

Perry

10.3%

12,604
votes

Bachmann

5%

6,073
votes

Huntsman

0.6%

745
votes

No pref.

0.1%

135
votes

Other

0.1%

117
votes

Cain

0%

58
votes

steelcityblues

If you remember Huckabee's vote here from four years ago, Iowa is above average in popularity for religious conservatives.

I doubt Santorum will fare so well in most other states.

Silvio.Dante

Congratulations to Santorum. He played a blinder in the camapign.

However he'll hardly stick it out, unless there's a coalition oc the Right behind him.

Will Perry and Bachman endorse a Catholic..?

hooradiation

I guess this makes Santorum the not-Romney of the week.

Wonder who's turn it'll be next...

K-9

Bachman expected to announce her withdrawal shortly.

Suppose her and Perry will back whoever they think will be most advantageous.

Suryavarman

As this article points out that since 1972 only Bill Clinton and George McGovern have won the nomination without winning New Hampshire or Iowa. Also any candidate that has won both has gone on to win the nomination. Seen as Romney is a dead cert in New Hampshire any other candidate will have to make history to get the nomination.

K-9 wrote: »

Bachman expected to announce her withdrawal shortly.

Suppose her and Perry will back whoever they think will be most advantageous.

I'm thinking that Bachman will back Santorum and I think Perry will most likely back Gingrich. Although the optimistic Ron Paul supporter in me wouldn't be surprised to see either of them back Paul.

Soldie

To what extent did Romney actually "win" the Iowa caucus? He won the popular vote and whatever media mileage he can subsequently get out of that. But given how little came between Romney, Santorum and Paul they're each projected to get six delegate votes. With that in mind, surely they're on level pegging. Am I missing something?

Suryavarman

Soldie wrote: »

To what extent did Romney actually "win" the Iowa caucus? He won the popular vote and whatever media mileage he can subsequently get out of that. But given how little came between Romney, Santorum and Paul they're each projected to get six delegate votes. With that in mind, surely they're on level pegging. Am I missing something?

It's all about perception going into the rest of the season. Sure a large win would have been a big boost but there is a bonus to being number one no matter the margin.

As an aside it was interesting to note that Romney got pretty much the same number of votes this time as he did in 2008.

amacachi

Soldie wrote: »

To what extent did Romney actually "win" the Iowa caucus? He won the popular vote and whatever media mileage he can subsequently get out of that. But given how little came between Romney, Santorum and Paul they're each projected to get six delegate votes. With that in mind, surely they're on level pegging. Am I missing something?

As the above said, it's all about "perception" and "momentum".

Soldie

I don't doubt that Romney will get mileage out of the fact that he won the popular vote, but I don't think it's "all about" that. At the end of the day it's the amount of delegate votes you get that matter the most. On that note, I thought this was interesting.

K-9

It's perception but all 3 can claim a victory and even Newt has come out of it respectably.

Belfast

Delegates
Mitt Romney 30,015 24.55% Delegates 7
Rick Santorum 30,007 24.54% Delegates 7
Ron Paul 26,219 21.45% Delegates 7
Newt Gingrich 16,251 13.29% Delegates 2
Rick Perry 12,604 10.31% Delegates 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2012_Republican_presidential_primaries#Iowa_caucuses

Killer Pigeon

Wow, 8 vote difference.

nfs

eight in the difference? wonder how many paul votes were counted as romneys or santorums! I'd be more concerned in new hampshire with the amount of e-voting systems there, paul definitely wont do so well