Iowa Caucus Results 2012 - By: Sym Terry

Mitt Romney was sticking the individual of Tuesday nighttime's Iowa caucus. The once Massachusetts governor emerged successful over late Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) by a razor-thin margin of meet eight votes. The net results, announced azoic Wednesday by the Ioway GOP, showed Romney had 30,015 votes to 30,007 for Santorum. Despite the ending, Romney was unable to acquire 25% percent of the choice. With 99.5% of precincts news, Romney won 24.6% to Santorum's 24.5%. In all, many than 122,000 tube ballots were direct, a platter for Iowa Republicans. In 2008, Romney poured $10 meg into his effort in Iowa, but finally came in product site behind hand sometime River Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee

The Republican party is earnestly fractured. Apiece of the prima trio candidates represents a real opposite segment of the GOP. It's top Romney seriously misplayed the expectations mettlesome. Anything inferior than a win and he'll be slaughtered by the media for the incoming period. NBC News gift not telephone the vie and instead wait for all the votes to be counted. It's honourable too cease to tendency. Romney is implausible to ameliorate on his 2008 closing. It looks similar he'll get roughly the assonant percent of the choice. NBC News now projects Paul will finish in third place. We don't know the winner yet, but this will be the closest Iowa caucus result ever.

The Iowa caucuses are an electoral event in which residents of the U.S. state of Iowa meet in precinct caucuses in all of Iowa's 1,774 precincts and elect delegates to the corresponding county conventions. There are 99 counties in Iowa and thus 99 conventions. These county conventions then select delegates for both Iowa's Congressional District Convention and the State Convention, which eventually choose the delegates for the presidential nominating conventions (the national conventions). The 2012 Iowa Caucuses were held on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.[1]

The Iowa caucuses are noteworthy for the amount of media attention they receive during U.S. presidential election years. Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first major electoral event of the nominating process for President of the United States. Although only about 1% of the nation's delegates are chosen by the Iowa State Convention (28 Republican delegates in 2012, assigned proportionately), the Iowa caucuses have served as an early indication of which candidates for president might win the nomination of their political party at that party's national convention, and which ones could drop out for lack of support.

The Iowa Caucuses are commonly recognized as the first step in the U.S. presidential nomination process for both the Democratic and the Republican Parties. They came to national attention in 1972 with a series of articles in The New York Times on how non-primary states choose their delegates for the national conventions. Democratic operative, Norma S. Matthews, state co-chair of the George McGovern campaign, helped engineer the early-January start for Iowa. McGovern finished second to Edmund Muskie in the first early Iowa caucuses, but the momentum was sufficient for an ultimate Democratic nomination in 1972 for McGovern in Miami. Four years later, the Iowa Republican Party scheduled its party caucuses on the same date as the Democrats'.

In 1976, an uncommitted slate received the most support, followed by former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, who came in a distant second, but won the most votes of any actual candidate. With no dominant front runner at the time, Carter was able to use the publicity of his "win" to achieve victory in the New Hampshire primary, and then to win his party's nomination and eventually the Presidency. Since then, Presidential candidates have increased their focus on winning the Iowa caucus.

In 1980, Republicans began the tradition of holding a straw poll at their caucuses, giving the appearance of a primary election. George H. W. Bush campaigned extensively in Iowa, defeating Ronald Reagan, but ultimately failed to win the nomination.

While they have been a financial boon to the state, the political value of the Iowa caucuses has gone up and down over the years. In 1988, for example, the candidates who eventually won the nominations of both parties came in third in Iowa. In elections without a sitting president or vice president, the Iowa winner has gone on to the nomination only about half the time (see below).

When Iowa senator Tom Harkin ran for the Democratic nomination in 1992, none of the other Democratic candidates chose to compete in Iowa, which minimized its importance in the nomination process. President George H. W. Bush was unopposed on the Republican side.

Both parties have tried to preserve the position of Iowa and New Hampshire in their nominating schedules.[2][3] However, Alaska and Hawaii have had their Republican caucuses before Iowa in the past, and in 1988 the Hawaii victory of Pat Robertson and the 1996 Louisiana victory of Pat Buchanan over Senator Phil Gramm had a significant impact on the results in Iowa.

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