Santorum Wins Iowa by 34 Votes

[Mark37snj]

Just 2 days before the South Carolina primary, we've now learned that there's a new top vote-winner in the Iowa Caucuses from January 3rd.

The Des Moines Register is reporting this morning that Rick Santorum won with a 34-vote advantage over Mitt Romney.

The original count indicated that Romney beat Santorum by 8 votes.

Yet, GOP officials admit there were inaccuracies in 131 precincts and results where missing from 8 precincts and are declaring the vote 'unresolved.'

http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/gop-candidate-rick-santorum-wins-iowa-two-weeks-af/nGTb6/

 

[UtahApocalypse]

HUGE news. Iowa and the MSM have lost ALL credibility now.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

lawl...MSM- You guys suck.

 

[opinionatedfool]

I want to know Ron Paul's new numbers.

 

[Constitutional Paulicy]

So it's official. Cant wait to hear what spin they will put on this.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

I want to know Ron Paul's new numbers.

TOTALS
Rick Santorum: 29,839
Mitt Romney: 29,805
Ron Paul: 26,036
Newt Gingrich: 16,163
Rick Perry: 12,557
Michele Bachmann: 6,046
Jon Huntsman: 739
Others: No preference, 147; Herman Cain, 45; Sarah Palin, 23; Buddy Roemer, 17; Fred Karger, 10; Gary Johnson, 8; Donald Trump, 5; Paul Ryan, 3; Condoleeza Rice, 2; Roy Moore, 2; Ben Lange, 2; Mike Huckabee, 2; Rudy Giuliani, 2; Tim Pawlenty, 2; Scott Walker, 1; John McCain, 1; Ralph Nader, 1; Pat Buchanan, 1; Robert D. Ray, 1; Jared Blankenship, 1.

 

[jsgolfman]

If the vote is unresolved, how do you declare a winner?

 

[Kords21]

I'll tell you how it's going to be spun. 1)santorum surge part 2 2)Newt's ex-wife torpedoes his campaign
On Friday, the media paints Santorum as the clear-cut anti-Romney since Newt will be unviable (depending on the interview) Paul and Perry will be relegated to fringe status with several pundits across the media suggesting they drop out since in their eyes it'll be a santorum/Romney race.

 

[brandon]

Inconsequential. This is exactly why Iowa has a caucus system, because popular elections are nothing but a clusterfuck.

 

[openfire]

 

[Student Of Paulism]

Is it any shock? We already knew about the missing truck, the lights going out, some citizen saying only 2 people voted for Mitt in his caucus, yet 22 got reported (i guess the party will say someone hit an extra '2'

Ron won this state, people, plain and simple. Combine the above with the media blitz on Frothy, along with the GOP's fear and loathing of Paul winning the state and blatantly admitting they would 'resort to something' in tons of interviews. Ron Paul won IA and for lack of a better term, he basically got fucked over by our lovely and honest government. People said he had an unreal ground game there, even other candidates admitted it. There is just no way he lost that state, and if he had won it, his support would have been a lot better right now. They didnt want that snowball of his to get any bigger.

Our elections, sadly, are no different that what communist countries have going on.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Just worked out the new numbers. Everyone went down in total votes. Romney went down the most:

 

[J_White]

lol !
its time for Iowa GOP to say "oops".
does not change much in term of delegates, but it destroys the media and establishment meme that Romney won Iowa AND NH, which is seen as a very rare thing.
thankfully there is more time before MSM declares Romney as the inevitable savior of the GOP against Obama.
get to work !!

 

[phill4paul]

Is it any shock? We already knew about the missing truck, the lights going out, some citizen saying only 2 people voted for Mitt in his caucus, yet 22 got reported (i guess the party will say someone hit an extra '2'

Ron won this state, people, plain and simple. Combine the above with the media blitz on Frothy, along with the GOP's fear and loathing of Paul winning the state and blatantly admitting they would 'resort to something' in tons of interviews. Ron Paul won IA and for lack of a better term, he basically got fucked over by our lovely and honest government. People said he had an unreal ground game there, even other candidates admitted it. There is just no way he lost that state, and if he had won it, his support would have been a lot better right now. They didnt want that snowball of his to get any bigger.

Our elections, sadly, are no different that what communist countries have going on.

With 1700+ districts it would only have taken an error of 2 in each to suppress Paul's numbers.

 

[Paul or not at all]

This is good for Mitt Romney, this also means we will get 4th in SC unless they are under-polling us like in NH....

 

[Liberty74]

Honest mistake or was the fix in for the establishment pick, Romney?

We know the media was in for Santorum to make sure Paul got knocked out of the top spot which he was in.

 

[pinkmandy]

Lol. Me, too.

This will at least alter the perception of Romney's momentum and the assumption he will be the nominee. Santorum might do really well in SC but he's not even on the VA ballot and his extreme religious views won't favor him in many states. Now, if Santorum were on the VA ballot he'd definitely do better than Romney (imo) and if the perception is out there that Romney can be defeated I think Paul will pick up even more anti-Romney votes in VA. I just don't see Santorum garnering broad support. This is good for us I think.

Rick Santorum is not on the ballot in Virginia, Ilinois and Washington D.C.. He did not qualify for all of the delegates in Ohio and Tennessee
http://www.thestate.com/2012/01/10/2108414/romney-and-paul-national-candidates.html

 

[Liberty74]

This is good for Mitt Romney, this also means we will get 4th in SC unless they are under-polling us like in NH....

They did not under poll us in NH. Polling was pretty accurate. The Huntsman surge attempt by the media fizzled.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Honest mistake or was the fix in for the establishment pick, Romney?

We know the media was in for Santorum to make sure Paul got knocked out of the top spot which he was in.

I hope a real investigation is done. Seems that a Paul supporter was the first to bring this to light when his precinct showed Romney as 22 when there had only been 2. I want to know when the other 20 votes were added; was it when they phoned it in? was it by who entered the numbers? was it sometime later? who? what? when? where? and why?



The most important part of this story has not even come out yet........ I honestly feel that the GOP may be forced to force IGOP to no longer be first after this. This could become a HUGE impact as 2016 comes into play.

 

[pinkmandy]

The cynic in me says they know Newt is about to plummet in the polls and this is a way to surge frothy to take second over Paul.