Report: Santorum Currently Up 80 Votes In Iowa Caucuses Ballot Count…
Oh my.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — It’s conventional wisdom in Republican circles here in South Carolina that if Mitt Romney wins the state’s primary this Saturday — having already won in Iowa and New Hampshire — he’ll be the GOP presidential nominee.
“If for some reason he’s not derailed here and Mitt Romney wins South Carolina — no one’s ever won all three — I think it should be over,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. “That would be quite a testament to his ability as a candidate and a campaigner.”
But what if Romney did not actually win Iowa? That could change the calculation considerably. And there is a very real chance that the Republican Party of Iowa will announce this week that Rick Santorum, and not Romney, won the Iowa caucuses.
Results released on caucus night — actually, at 2 the next morning — showed Romney won by eight votes, 30,015 to Santorum’s 30,007. Many observers assumed that those results were final, especially when party officials said there would be no recount.
But the results were not final. Even though there is no provision for a recount in the party caucuses, state GOP rules do require that the results be certified, which is nearly the same thing. That certification process began the day after the caucuses and is expected to wrap up this week, yielding a final, official vote tally.
The final numbers will be different from those released on caucus night. One campaign source says the vote count as of midday Monday showed Santorum ahead by 80-something votes. If that number holds through certification of the last precincts, Santorum will win. Of course, there is always the possibility that some of the final precincts will contain discrepancies that put Romney back on top. It’s just not clear.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, January 16, 2012, at 8:50 pm | 
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dare I say it?
Santorum/West
Why not, it sounds better than Obongo/Romney.
Even if it’s true it will never be accepted or retracted. Someone else must win SC to up the ante and end the Romney run. I am sick to death of hearing how he has it in the bag.
Hire barry to find some votes.
It’s a trap!
A few radio commenters today weren’t all that willing to go along with “inevitable Mitt.” He might be winning a primary here or there, but he’s WAY down in delegates.
Won’t matter
The Left, the DemocRATS, and the MSM want Romney, they are already plotting a devious attack and character assassination on him. A true Conservative would be harder to beat. BTW aren’t we getting sick of the MSM telling us whom we should choose as a candidate to run against our ‘Dear Leader’.
CzechRebel on 1389 Blog had it figured out on January 6. Something very fishy was going on that night:
http://1389blog.com/2012/01/06/stealing-an-election-massachusetts-style-v-chicago-style-will-that-be-the-story-of-november-2012/
I TOLD YOU.
yall feel better about Iowa already, dontcha?
I didnt vote fer no damn Romneycare, OR RINO Paul.
We ALL need to get behind Santorum and PUSH. Anyone with any sense knows we not only need a TRUE conservative, Perry is going to drop, Newt is a damn PROGRESSIVE (his own words!) and Ron Paul is well…..Ron Paul.
The last person I would trust to say its over is Lindsey Graham.
Doesn’t matter. The ship has sailed.
Dumb. Whether he wins by 80 or loses by 8 it still doesn’t change the fact that it was (for all practical purposes) a tie.
Zip. Have a martinae on me. What an awesome night, U Rock.
I knew that RINO Romney would try to steal this.
Yet again conventional wisdom is neither.
unfortunately this won’t even make the RADIO news breaks
@Guy from Utah says:
January 16, 2012 at 10:58 pm
The last person I would trust to say its over is Lindsey Graham.
DITTO!