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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
That's a fabulous story! And AGDee, that's 8 VOTES, not 8 points. But the important thing for people to remember is the candidates all take their delegates with them, so top 3 (or 4 if it's close which in this case it wasn't) can hold their heads high moving forward.
As a person with no horse in this race, I was reasonably happy with the outcome. I don't like Santorum AT ALL, but knowing caucus goers are generally blue-hairs, it's not a surprise he did well. Paul was the big surprise to me, and the scariest for the Democrats in my opinion because he provides the clearest counterpoint to the president. Romney may be the most sane of the bunch, but like Kerry, (is everyone from MA boring?) it's hard to get very excited about someone who's such a yawnfest. And you need exciting to get out the vote. "I think he'll do an ok job and not run the country into the crapper" is no way to get frenzied voters beating down the doors on November 6th.
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Not true. Iowa has a very complicated system to award delegates. They won't be awarded until June 16 when they have their Iowa State Republican Convention. If by then a front runner breaks away, he may actually get all the
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...l?ref=politics
If you go to the link, ignore the very partisan first part and skip to the last part about apportioning delegates.