Santorum Wins Iowa by 34 Votes

[cajuncocoa]

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.

yup

 

[pinkmandy]

8 total precincts ans the votes from those precincts. The current vote totals show Santorum won, but because those other votes are missing, the real totals will never be known.

wth?

Does anyone know which precincts? And who was in charge of each one?

 

[blazeKing]

Well the corporate whore media says Romney had a historic sweep...anyone really think they will retract that?

 

[wgadget]

I'm guessing Herman Cain will be endorsing Santy, then. They BOTH have press conferences scheduled today...joint, perhaps?

 

[cajuncocoa]

At what point can we say for certain that the GOP ptb won't find 34,000 yet-unreported NH primary votes for frothy in the back of someone's car?

 

[pinkmandy]

After listening to speakers plug the various candidates, registered Republicans attending the various caucuses are handed blank sheets of paper. Voters write the name of their preferred candidate on the paper, which is then collected. Every vote is hand-counted by the caucus chair and secretary in front of the caucus. The results are recorded on an official form (Form e) provided by the Republican Party of Iowa and are announced to the caucus.

A "caucus reporter" is chosen to report the results to the Republican Party of Iowa. And within fourteen days of the caucus, certified results are released, breaking down results for all caucus votes that were cast by precinct.

The Des Moines Register reports that Form Es are missing -- and may never have existed -- for eight precincts. And the paper says more than 100 of the Form Es didn’t comply with the party’s instructions. In some cases, the forms were not signed by the caucus chair and secretary; and in other cases, the vote counts were not recorded on official forms.

The vote certification also was complicated by party officials having to hunt down the vote totals from dozens of missing precincts.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fin...over-romney-8-precincts-will-never-be-counted

I haven't found which 8 precincts yet. I'm also curious about the forms that didn't comply- did they just toss those votes? I think they should be disclosing which precincts they are and who the caucus chairs were because they had a fairly simple yet important task to accomplish. I don't want to make accusations but it's difficult not to question such things when actual data and information isn't easily found.

Iowa SoS website w/voting info:
http://sos.iowa.gov/

I don't see anything there yet.

 

[Verad]

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fin...over-romney-8-precincts-will-never-be-counted

I haven't found which 8 precincts yet. I'm also curious about the forms that didn't comply- did they just toss those votes? I think they should be disclosing which precincts they are and who the caucus chairs were because they had a fairly simple yet important task to accomplish. I don't want to make accusations but it's difficult not to question such things when actual data and information isn't easily found.

Iowa SoS website w/voting info:
http://sos.iowa.gov/

I don't see anything there yet.

From http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.c...r-exclusive-2012-gop-caucus-count-unresolved/

THE EIGHT MISSING PRECINCTS
* Cerro Gordo County’s Mason City Ward 2, Precinct 3
* Emmet County’s Estherville Ward 2
* Franklin County’s Geneva-Reeve
* Lee County’s Fort Madison 4A
* Lee County’s Fort Madison 4B
* Lee County’s Franklin-Cedar-Marion
* Lee County’s Washington-Green Bay-Denmark
* Pocahontas County’s Center-South Roosevelt-North Lincoln

 

[kylejack]

Mittens loses his honor of being the only non-incumbent to ever win both Iowa and New Hampshire.

 

[rprprs]

yup

nope. Perry is now WAY beyond fringe...lol.

 

[EndTheFed]

How had RP done in those areas or surrounding areas?

 

[RockEnds]

I wonder how long it will take for Strawn to be ousted.

 

[Shane Harris]

my god who cares. its less than a percent lead. for delegate purposes it doesnt matter

 

[Cinderella]

It's all about the delegates

 

[wgadget]

No, it's all about MOMENTUM and MEDIA PUSH. Mitt already got it.

But the real story in a perfect world ought to be the INEPTNESS and CORRUPTION of the media and the IA GOP.

 

[RockEnds]

No, it's all about MOMENTUM and MEDIA PUSH. Mitt already got it.

But the real story in a perfect world ought to be the INEPTNESS and CORRUPTION of the media and the IA GOP.

Exactly.

 

[RockEnds]

The worst possible outcome is that Iowa is discredited, loses the caucus, and instead of simply changing the order of states, the parties switch to a national election. There's been a push for all states to vote simultaneously, and that would completely eliminate candidates who do not enter the race with powerful, corporate backers. I hope if Iowa loses the first in the nation status, another small state is given the spot. I think it's very important that candidates are vetted by the voters in little coffee shops as opposed to large, meaningless debates broadcast by media giants.

 

[kpitcher]

131 precincts? Now there is a list of names that should never be allowed to serve in politics again. It's too easy to just wonder if they didn't like the outcome so messed up on purpose.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

This issue has been here on this forum for over a week. Over two weeks of "money, momentum and media" for Mitt Romney, effecting voting in New Hampshire, North Carolina and Florida (many people in Florida have already mailed in their ballots):

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...omney-really-win-both-Iowa-and-New-Hampshire/

 

[AhuwaleKaNaneHuna]

I want to know Ron Paul's new numbers.