{"id":2502,"date":"2012-01-03T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T02:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2012-01-03T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T02:29:41","slug":"dead-heat-romney-paul-santorum-lead-early-iowa-results-everyone-else-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/dead-heat-romney-paul-santorum-lead-early-iowa-results-everyone-else-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAD HEAT: Romney, Paul, Santorum Lead Early Iowa Results, Everyone Else Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-iowa-caucuses-2012-1\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/author\/michael-brendan-dougherty\">Michael Brendan Dougherty<\/a><br \/>\nActual votes are now being counted tonight in the Iowa caucuses.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"AP santorum\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static7.businessinsider.com\/image\/4f03ac7269bedd5254000012-400-\/rick-santorum.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n9:21 EST  15% Reporting<br \/>\n<strong>RESULTS HOLDING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24% Paul<\/li>\n<li>23% Santorum<\/li>\n<li>23% Romney<\/li>\n<li>13% Gingrich<\/li>\n<li>10% Perry<\/li>\n<li>6% Bachmann<\/li>\n<li>1% Huntsman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current Rumors<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Bachmann staffers preparing to tell her she should quit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/ron-paul\">Ron Paul<\/a> overrepresented in &#8220;entrance polls&#8221; but still very much in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Electorate is MUCH YOUNGER than four years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/share\">Share<\/a> of young vote doubled in 2012 &#8211; a very GOOD SIGN FOR Paul<\/p>\n<p>At 9:06 EST  10% Reporting <strong>ABSOLUTE DEAD HEAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24% Paul<\/li>\n<li>23% Santorum<\/li>\n<li>23% Romney<\/li>\n<li>13% Gingrich<\/li>\n<li>10% Perry<\/li>\n<li>6% Bachmann<\/li>\n<li>1% Huntsman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of 8:52 EST, with 6% of the vote in, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/\">here&#8217;s where things stand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24% Santorum<\/li>\n<li>24% Paul<\/li>\n<li>22% Romney<\/li>\n<li>14% Gingrich<\/li>\n<li>9% Perry<\/li>\n<li>6% Bachmann<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of voters under 30, a startling 58% are voting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/ron-paul\">Ron Paul<\/a>, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/msnbc\">MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/mitt-romney\"><strong>EARLIER:<\/strong> Mitt Romney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/ron-paul\">Ron Paul<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/rick-santorum\">Rick Santorum<\/a> are locked in a dead heat in the polls going into tonight&#8217;s caucus. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/rick-perry\">Rick Perry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/newt-gingrich\">Newt Gingrich<\/a>, and Michelle Bachmann are fighting for their survival in this race.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;re going to cover it all.<\/p>\n<p>Keep checking back here for more all the updates through the night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-how-the-votes-are-being-counted-in-iowa-2012-1\">This Is How The Voted Are Being Tallied In Iowa<\/a> &#8212; It doesn&#8217;t get simpler than this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-only-thing-that-really-matters-in-iowa-tonight-2012-1\">The Only Result That Really Matters Tonight<\/a> &#8212; Is Mitt Romney Really a Frontrunner, or a Toxic Asset?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-elections-iowa-caucuses-1-2012\">THE TRUTH ABOUT IOWA: Google Has Set Up a Massive loft to track the real time results tonight.<\/a>  &#8212; A grand tour of their impressive sp ead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/one-candidate-is-going-to-drop-out-after-getting-crushed-in-iowa-tonight-2012-1\">One Candidate Is Going To Drop Our After Getting Crushed In Iowa Tonight.<\/a> &#8212; Everyone is moving on to New Hampshire, except the person who won the Iowa Straw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/poll\">Poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iowa-caucuses-circus-2012-1\">THE TRUTH ABOUT IOWA: It&#8217;s Like Summer Family Camp With Booze and Rock Stars<\/a> &#8211;The whole thing is basically a traveling circus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sarah-palin-michele-bachmann-iowa-race-2012-1\">Sarah Palin To Michelle Bachmann: Maybe You Should Just Drop Out<\/a> &#8212; From one firebrand woman to another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-one-reason-romney-is-winning-iowa-2012-1\">Rick Perry Spent $6 Million Dollars On Ads In Iowa But Forgot To Do One Thing<\/a> &#8212; And that is one Romney might win tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ron-paul-iowa-bachmann-2012-1\">All The Other Candidates Are Piling On Ron Paul Today.<\/a> &#8212; They want to be the &#8220;anti-Romney&#8221; not him. &#8220;He wants to wipe Israel off the map,&#8221; said Bachmann.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/in-iowa-the-only-thing-thats-changed-for-romney-in-four-years-is-the-date-2012-1\">Everything In Iowa Is Exactly The Same As It Was Four Years Ago For MItt Romney <\/a>&#8212; He has the same personality and the same polling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mother-nature-may-be-the-biggest-factor-in-romneys-favor-tonight-2012-1\">Mother Nature Is Voting For Romney<\/a> &#8212; Clear Skies Mean Lots of Older Voters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-how-the-iowa-caucuses-work-2012-1\">What the heck is a &#8220;Caucus&#8221; anyway?<\/a> &#8212; How the voting works tonight and we there might be big surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider By Michael Brendan Dougherty Actual votes are now being counted tonight in the Iowa caucuses. 9:21 EST 15% Reporting RESULTS HOLDING 24% Paul 23% Santorum 23% Romney 13% Gingrich 10% Perry 6% Bachmann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[12,232],"tags":[4896,4898,3232,3598,4899,166,93,89,625,94,2683,95,4897],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}