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Santorum won January 3 Iowa presidential caucuses

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum pauses as he address his Iowa Caucus night rally in Johnston, Iowa, January 3, 2012. REUTERS/John Gress

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum pauses as he address his Iowa Caucus night rally in Johnston, Iowa, January 3, 2012.

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DES MOINES | Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:00pm EST

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Former Senator Rick Santorum won the January 3 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses by a razor-thin margin of 34 votes, according to certified results released on Thursday by the Iowa Republican Party.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had been declared the winner on the night of the caucuses, but now falls to second place. Santorum received 29,839 votes, compared with 29,805 for Romney, according to the new figures.

Romney had previously been declared the winner by 8 votes. Santorum now ends up the winner after being almost an afterthought in the race just weeks before the Iowa contest.

The Iowa caucuses were the first contest in the state-by-state battle for the Republican presidential nomination to face Democratic President Barack Obama on November 6. The caucuses were a quirky contest in which voters in the Midwestern state cast ballots at hundreds of public meetings around the state.

After Iowa, Romney went on to win the January 10 New Hampshire primary. The next contest is Saturday in South Carolina.

(Reporting By Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Will Dunham)
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Comments (10)
AlfredReaud wrote:
Really? 34 votes now? The congregation on one small church in a farming region? I must ask: Was this electronic or paper ballots?

This is so Bushesque as to be hilarious except for the fact that the fate of America rests on these kind of antics.

Something in the background of the picture here, and the one yesterday that you carried of the Romney camp supporters get-together honestly gives me the heebie-jeebies, but I can’t put my finger on what it is actually. There is a klaxon going off in the back of my mind when I looked at both though, the kind you hear on warships when “General Quarters, man your stations” is called…

Jan 19, 2012 10:11am EST  --  Report as abuse
doggydaddy wrote:
How does THIS mistake occur? It doesn’t; not by accident. American democracy is dead.

Jan 19, 2012 10:14am EST  --  Report as abuse
Yamayoko wrote:
This is indeed a big boost to Santorum in upcoming primaries. But it is not usual to see election result so lightly reversed like this, especially in an advanced country U.S. thrived with electronics.

Jan 19, 2012 10:35am EST  --  Report as abuse
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