The 2012 Iowa Caucus is now behind us. After a nail biter that lasted well into the night, Mitt Romney was declared the winner by just eight votes. Out of 122,000 votes cast, Romney won by just 8 votes. Just 8 votes? Seriously? I've never seen anything like this in the primary season. So now that Romney won Iowa and is expected to win big in New hampshire, does this mean the race is over? Take a look at this synopsis from Real Clear Politics.
From Real Clear Politics:
I see several key takeaways for your water cooler discussions in the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses, the last of which has received far too little attention.
1. It really was a good night for Mitt Romney. Some people are trying to spin this as a bad night for him because he fell just short of his 2008 showing and failed to demolish a weak crop of Republican candidates. But he also invested less time and fewer resources in Iowa this time around; he didn't really become active until a few weeks ago, when it became clear he had a chance to win....
2. Romney is not the inevitable nominee. Regardless of what the pro-Romney camp insists, it wasn’t a greatnight for their man. He has weaknesses (as described above), even if they are, as my lawyer friends would say, “non-dis-positive.”
Though he’ll almost certainly win New Hampshire by a large margin, his semi-favorite-son status there renders it something of a nullity for every candidate not named Jon Huntsman (who has to finish a very strong second if he wants to continue in the race).....
3. Rick Santorum may well be the future of the Republican Party. While I find it highly unlikely that he’ll be the nominee this time out, there’s a good chance that the Republican coalition will fundamentally change in the next 20 years and move toward Santorum’s style of politics. Twice in a row now, the party has toyed with nominating a candidate who combined social conservatism with economic populism; Santorum’s speech last night was essentially a northern version of a speech Mike Huckabee could have delivered in 2008....
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