Thursday, January 19, 2012

Breaking: Santorum Wins Iowa: GOP Elites Declare Race A Tie

Joyce Morris, a poster on Facebook, may have best described the frustration that is being felt by GOP voters: "The Iowa Republican Party has been caught in a lie and with their pants down trying to orchestrate a win for the 'Establishment' candidate, Romney. Isn't it interesting that on caucus night a lead of 8 votes was touted by all as a win for Romney but a lead of 34 for Santorum is a tie?"

When the media declared Romney the winner of the Iowa Caucus, the vote tally was based on results that were phoned-in from the various precincts across Iowa; but when officials actually started counting the votes and Santorum pulled ahead, the unthinkable happenned.

Jennifer Jacobs with The Des Moines Register reports: "Results from eight precincts are missing... and will never be recovered and certified, Republican Party of Iowa officials told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday."

Unable to certify the results of the Iowa Caucus, state party officials scrambled and declared the race a tie. Iowa GOP executive director Chad Olsen exclaimed to the media that the race was "a split decision." And then, in an attempt to control the damage, party insiders immediately set out to control the narrative and went to bat for Mitt Romney.

Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn delivered the narrative to The Des Moines Register: "I can’t speculate without documentation from the missing eight." After claiming that he congratulated both Romney and Santorum, he added; "I don’t think the certified vote totals take anything away from either Governor Romney or Senator Santorum.”

John Stineman, an Iowa Republican operative, echoed those sentiments: "It will be a story and Santorum will seize upon it, but it won’t change the current political narrative.” Stineman added that "it certainly wouldn’t have changed how New Hampshire came out, nor (Romney’s) status as the national front-runner.”

But, in spite of what Mr. Stineman and Mr. Strawn are telling us, the political narrative has changed and Romney's status as front-runner has changed as well. He can no longer claim a win in Iowa and with Rick Perry's recent departure from the race and a Gingrich-Santorum surge in South Carolina, it's clear that "Mr. Electability's" star is quickly fading.

Are the lost votes in Iowa just an innocent mistake? You can read the full story in The Des Moines Register and decide for yourself.

8 comments:

  1. Corrupt just like the government. They probably set it up. Ron Paul probably won. They can't let that happen.

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  2. GO SANTORUM AMERICA NEED YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA THIS GREAT NATION !!!!!

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  3. The GOP has been in the tank for Romney since the beginning. I was wondering after they said Romney "won" by eight votes - with a margin of error a win ticket on eight votes? I believe it is time to form a third party after the 2012 election - The Republicans did not object when the Democrat congress didn't vet Obama in 2008; have never investigated the cry from 60% of Americans on Obama's constitutional eligibility; have never requested or demanded Obama release all of his records that he has sequestered. As a life long Republican I find the party weak - they don't fight back. If THEIR candidate, McCain, in 2008 had opened this keg of worms on Obama maybe we wouldn't have the clown in office now!

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    1. I couldn't agree with you more if I tried because now all we hear are bad things about the men that want to boot Obama out of the White House but this man Obama or maybe his name is Barry Soetoro or maybe his name is Harrison J Bounel (042-68-4425) if which is a fraud.

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    2. I agree wholeheartedly with anonymous and Carol. The Old Republican Establishment couldn't wait to brag that Romney had won Iowa and now that it is Santorum who won they are downplaying Santorum's win. The Old Republican Guard, a bunch of old coots who have been in DC tooooo looooong need to go and make room for our conservative candidates who will energize the Party....or perhaps a new conservative party is the answer. Wake up conservative Republicans and become involved.

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  4. I have never liked Romney or Newt because they are way to sneaky because if look at them they never really look at anyone in the face when they are speaking and that mean they have something to hide.

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  5. This makes me wonder how many Republican votes will come up missing in the November election.

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  6. It's time for the Old Polygrips who were in congress when Dems ran it for forty years to go. They're more Demo than Republican. I don't care for Santorum myself, but it's not a "tie" when he won and a "win" when Romney was named the presumptive winner. How embarrassing to be that transparent. We need solid conservative candidates, not ones like McCain and Dole who were merely cannon fodder.

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Posted By: Chris Carmouche