Results estimates show top three Gop presidential candidates, including Ron Paul, each winning seven delegates in crucial first primary.
By Gil Kaufman, with reporting by Andrew Jenks
Mitt Romney
Photo: Jewel Samad/ Getty Images
Des Moines, Iowa — Everybody loves a winner, but sometimes not losing is the best you can hope for. After finishing in a near dead heat in the crucial first primary in the nation, Tuesday night's Iowa caucus, supporters of Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were both feeling very good about their candidates' finishes.
With Romney coming out on top by a grand total of eight votes, his camp couldn't exactly shout from the rooftops, but, well, a win is a win in the closest race in Iowa caucus history.
After overseeing the caucus meeting at Drake University earlier in the night, student Sam Pritchard said at the Romney results party at the hotel Fort Des Moines...
By Gil Kaufman, with reporting by Andrew Jenks
Mitt Romney
Photo: Jewel Samad/ Getty Images
Des Moines, Iowa — Everybody loves a winner, but sometimes not losing is the best you can hope for. After finishing in a near dead heat in the crucial first primary in the nation, Tuesday night's Iowa caucus, supporters of Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were both feeling very good about their candidates' finishes.
With Romney coming out on top by a grand total of eight votes, his camp couldn't exactly shout from the rooftops, but, well, a win is a win in the closest race in Iowa caucus history.
After overseeing the caucus meeting at Drake University earlier in the night, student Sam Pritchard said at the Romney results party at the hotel Fort Des Moines...
- 1/4/2012
- MTV Music News
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By Gil Kaufman
Voters register their votes in the Iowa Caucus
Photo: Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images
It all comes down to this. Tonight Iowans will cast their votes for the Republican candidate of choice. Who will the barrage of ads, baby kissing and stumping pay off for? Will it be the business-like Mitt Romney, the surging Ron Paul, the dark horse Rick Santorum, the veteran politico Newt Gingrich or trailing Michele Bachmann?
MTV News is on the ground in Iowa and will be covering the caucus and live-blogging all the details. Keep refreshing for up-to-the-minute political drama here!
7:55 Caucus adjourned!
7:49 Most of the caucus goers leave (that wasn't so bad fussy baby, now was it?) and Pritchard asks for a motion to adjourn.
7:41 Booya! The official results are in and the results are being read!
By Gil Kaufman
Voters register their votes in the Iowa Caucus
Photo: Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images
It all comes down to this. Tonight Iowans will cast their votes for the Republican candidate of choice. Who will the barrage of ads, baby kissing and stumping pay off for? Will it be the business-like Mitt Romney, the surging Ron Paul, the dark horse Rick Santorum, the veteran politico Newt Gingrich or trailing Michele Bachmann?
MTV News is on the ground in Iowa and will be covering the caucus and live-blogging all the details. Keep refreshing for up-to-the-minute political drama here!
7:55 Caucus adjourned!
7:49 Most of the caucus goers leave (that wasn't so bad fussy baby, now was it?) and Pritchard asks for a motion to adjourn.
7:41 Booya! The official results are in and the results are being read!
- 1/3/2012
- MTV Music News
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