Tuesday, January 3, 2012

With 48% Reporting, It Santorum 24%, Romney 23%, Paul 22%

Via Talking Points Memo:


Iowa
 
with 48% reporting.
Last updated 
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    Rick Santorum
    13,339
    24.3%
     
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    Mitt Romney
    13,011
    23.7%
     
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    Ron Paul
    11,972
    21.8%
     
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    Newt Gingrich
    7,248
    13.2%
     
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    Rick Perry
    5,544
    10.1%
     
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    Michele Bachmann
    3,065
    5.6%
     
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    Jon Huntsman
    308
    0.6%
     
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    Herman Cain
    23
    0.0%
     
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    Buddy Roemer
    9
    0.0%
     
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    Other
    227
    0.4%
     
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    No Preference
    115
    0.2%
     

16 comments:

  1. 'Fading' ... That's how it's done ...

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  2. RP can't win the western counties. Stuck in third, probably.

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  3. E-gads, there were so many warmongers at the Iowa Caucus I could hardly stand to be in the room.

    I tried to sway some People. Every single one I talked to said they didn't like Ron Paul's foreign policy,... one Person said he wanted America to "stand tall" and surround other countries. I tried to tell him "standing tall" means bombing and killing. I think it short circuited his brain a bit or something. I'm not sure he made the connection.

    It was an amusing night, ballots do get dropped on the floor and counters do try to say they counted the ballots when they didn't but some of the crowd was watching and called him out on it every time.

    Sad to say, it appears Iowans love war.

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  4. I dont get the Santorum surge. He did horribly in the straw poll. Just one week ago he was non existent. Can the media really push someone from the bottom straight to the top in such a short time?

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  5. 20 minutes ago...US Army vet fresh from 10 years overseas about to explain why Ron Paul would be good for America and CNN cut the feed (Blitzer, "oops, looks like we're having technical difficulties, we'll get back to Ron Paul headquarters later")

    CNN FRAUD! Looks like that was a tell folks in broad daylight. If your betting the green Odummer will win in November..Goodbye America. Next time I hear someone say the word s " We need Change " I am going to kick you in your teeth.

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  6. Here goes another 4 to 8yrs of tyranny.

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  7. Sadly, a Ron Paul 3rd place finish means he's probably toast. I know it's early, but he essentially put all his eggs in one basket.

    He was 5th in 2008...to spend that kind of cash there and time and to only move up 2 spots is not ideal.

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  8. @John Galt That's exactly how they do it.

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  9. Santorum? SANTORUM? FFS, Iowans. Are you really that stupid? Say it ain't so. My guess is the simple-minded evangelicals who are waiting to be raptured followed orders from their pastors, no questions asked.

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  10. Yes the 'Establishment' has the power to 'surge' Santorum. Why? He's not Paul or Romney. Paul is Paul and Romney is Mormon. That church is still an independent power center.

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  11. This is utterly depressing. I cede malis. Rick Santorum? The empire is on fire and they throw gas on it.

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  12. As Tom Woods might say, when the sheeple hear "Citizen, this is the man we choose for you to follow." they are conditioned to comply.

    If Santorum wins, I may just go looking for some of those floating countries I keep hearing about.

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  13. Who are the 115 people that voted "no preference" and why on earth did they even show up and cast a ballot? Is Iowa really that dull this time of year?

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  14. Santorum has NO grassroots and NO ground organization. I have been studying this for months. This is evidence to me--and the fact that the Iowa GOP publicly admitted that they would do everything they could to ensure Ron Paul doesn't win the Caucus--that the Santorum "win" is rigged. He didn't come anywhere close to a win in the Straw Poll. There are no signs for him in Iowa. He can't get even get at least 100 to an event he holds. This was a last minute pull by the scared establishment. It's all over the Internet. No one truly following this believes that Santorum won legitimately.

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  15. Santorum has NO grassroots and NO ground organization. I have been studying this for months. This is evidence to me--and the fact that the Iowa GOP publicly admitted that they would do everything they could to ensure Ron Paul doesn't win the Caucus--that the Santorum "win" is rigged. He didn't come anywhere close to a win in the Straw Poll. There are no signs for him in Iowa. He can't get even get at least 100 to an event he holds. This was a last minute pull by the scared establishment. It's all over the Internet. No one truly following this believes that Santorum won legitimately.

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  16. Americans have sat on their liberties for at least the last 6 or 7 decades and they are pretty much gone. Compounding this are decades of government schooling, television, relatively easy prosperity, government checks, etc.

    Do the commentators on this post think that Ron Paul is going to be able to waltz into Iowa, talking about liberty and individual responsibility, and suddenly Americans are going to wake up? Americans are still forging their own chains. They love government and totalitarianism.

    Ron Paul is trying to awaken a slumbering, drunk, wholly selfish, and self-centered people. Ron Paul got 14,402 votes more than in 2008. While disappointing that he did not win, he showed substantial improvement.

    Liberty is only going to come to a people who will fight and die for it. The men who signed the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Scant few of us, myself included, have made a similar pledge.

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