Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Iowa caucus results

  • Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul were in a tight, three-way race in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night, based on partial returns in the opening vote of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.
  • (Chicago Tribune)
  • As the votes from Tuesdays Iowa caucus begin rolling in, we have real-time results. The map below, provided by Google, breaks down the results by county, noting how many precincts have reported the outcome of their caucuses.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • What should we expect from the results in Iowa tonight? I would prepare to be surprised. In 1984 I ran the state for Vice President Walter Mondale's campaign. We won with 49% of the vote.
  • (FOX News)
  • Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum were in a razor-thin battle for the lead with more than half of the vote in Tuesday night from the Iowa caucuses — the crucial opening act of the 2012 presidential race.
  • (Politico.com)
  • Iowa voters began to caucus across the state Tuesday night, delivering the first real verdict of the 2012 campaign season, after a final frenetic day in which GOP candidates made their final appeals. With results expected by 11 p.m.
  • (Politico.com)
  • At the beginning of the GOP Iowa caucus night, the TV pundits obsessed about the Imagine that! Not knowing the results before the results are known! They'll do it the old-fashioned way, Todd said.
  • (Denver Post)
  • Forget the measly presidential contest.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Update, 9:45 p.m.: With 31 percent of precincts reporting, the order of the leaders has changed: Romney is now in first, Santorum in second and Paul in third, but the margins are infinitesimal: just 0.
  • (International Business Times)
  • Yesterday in Des Moines, he said the Iowa caucus results might be "small in numbers" but will "send a very big message.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Results were not available at press time be laughable if they were not so insulting to the president and to the intelligence of voters.
  • (New York Times)

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