Official Iowa Caucus Results Thread

[big bad fab]

Let's have a minute of silence for T-Paw...

With absolutely everyone becoming a front-runner at one stage or the other, he may well have been the clear winner tonight , having solidified support among conservatives, while keeping good relations with future VP nominee Romney

In fact, I'm a bit sad, because we could have had a more conservative candidate, but less pizzaesque than Cain, less obsessive than Bachmann, less loony than Paul, less antiquated than Gingrich, less lilliputian than Santorum... Sigh...

[big bad fab]

Whatever everyone says (yes, I agree, Santorum did very well and is the winner of the night), Romney is now on a very good path to nomination:
- a big victory in NH
- what is more, a divided conservative camp in SC resulting in no clear winner between Gingrich and Santorum; the best possible result for Romney apart a narrow victory: Gingrich very slightly ahead of Santorum and then, an ugly fight between the two of them
- swift wins in Nevada, Florida, Michigan and even Arizona

Only a big disappointment in NH and/or a massive win by Santorum both in SC anf FL could derail him.

(Too bad I had to go to bed, it seems to have been a very fine night , though I've lived this morning (CET)'s CNN interview of an exhausted and voice-broken local chairman in a county where only 97% reported... with Blitzer and King trying to have some sort of British humor... and eventually identifying the source of Romney's narrow win. A great moment )