{"id":2509,"date":"2012-01-04T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2012-01-04T01:17:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:17:22","slug":"mitt-romney-beats-rick-santorum-by-a-mere-8-votes-in-iowa-caucus-followed-by-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/mitt-romney-beats-rick-santorum-by-a-mere-8-votes-in-iowa-caucus-followed-by-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Beats Rick Santorum by a Mere 8 Votes in Iowa Caucus Followed by Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"romney santorum AP\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Politics\/396\/223\/Mitt_Romney_Rick_Santorum.jpg?resize=396%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmartin-sig.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nFinal vote count:<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney           30015 24.6%<br \/>\nRick Santorum        30007 24.5%<br \/>\nRon Paul                  26219 21.4%<br \/>\nNewt Gingrich         16251 13.3%<br \/>\nRick Perry               12604 10.3%<br \/>\nMichele Bachmann   6073     5%<br \/>\nJohn Huntsman           745     .6%<br \/>\nHerman Cain                 58     0%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmartin-sig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bmartin sig\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmartin-sig.jpg?resize=141%2C19\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"19\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> What does this mean? It means it&#8217;s still anyones game because every 2 weeks someone was on top; Cain, Perry, Gingrich, Paul. DO NOT let the media or this caucus influence how you will vote. Vote for the candidate who best matches your views.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I think is bullshit that Iowa is always first for caucus&#8217;. This system needs to be changed. The first state to vote should change for every election, no state should ever be first every time. It sets a bad precedent, and we know  will influence the uneducated uniformed voter.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I think it&#8217;s bullshit that ANYONE can vote in a republican caucus! Yes, thats right if you weren&#8217;t aware democrats can vote in these things. Where is the logic to have a REPUBLICAN\/GOP caucus (or democratic for that matter) if your competitions party can vote and influence the results?<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least however these caucus&#8217; result lets get something clear. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savingtherepublic.com\/Who_Are_You_Going_to_Vote_ForCase_Against_3rd_Party_Run_in_2012.html\">No one can go 3rd party<\/a>. This caucus demonstrated that one thing is for sure, we are split. It&#8217;s early in game, but there is no superstar candidate to run against Obama. The Nov. general election will more than likely be a close race. Attorney General Holder and the regime are already laying the groundwork to fight it out in the courts if need be. A 3rd party candidate will hand the election to Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final vote count: Mitt Romney 30015 24.6% Rick Santorum 30007 24.5% Ron Paul 26219 21.4% Newt Gingrich 16251 13.3% Rick Perry 12604 10.3% Michele Bachmann 6073 5% John Huntsman 745 .6% Herman Cain 58 0%&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2512,"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":[12,232,10],"tags":[4914,167,3598,4913,166,93,4912,89,4919,4920,4915,94,2683,4916,4917,95,4918,4921],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmartin-sig.jpg?fit=141%2C19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509"}],"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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}