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This is 2012, last night here in iowa. but i want to go back to 2008. remember, 2008, that was huckabee. huckabee was the story in 2008. and hes this orange in the middle. he took the whole sort of center swath of iowa. and down here, this peach, that was ron paul who only had 10% of the vote back in 2008. just that one little county down there in southeast iowa. and then the whole middle here went to mike huckabee. and you haditt romney in the red around here. and then, of course, around des mo...

You cant deny, as rick santorum comes out of this vote, those last two days of polling last week proved to be true. he was getting incredible momentum. and both romney and santorum had this to say before the final numbers even came in. >> thank you, iowa, for the great send-off youre giving to us and to the others in this campaign. look, this is -- this is a campaign night where america wins. were going to change the white house and get america back on track. >> you know that new hampshires all ...

>> and we are a little punch drunk, as you can tell. >> its been quite an exciting night. mitt romney declared the winner here. 30,015 votes. and rick santorum, 30,007. if you do the math, it is eight votes that separated them. and as ashleighs been saying, you should always exercise your right to vote. that last precinct, we had to wait until they reported in order to get to these numbers. it was back and forth and back and forth. >> like 2 1/2 hours ago. the whole cnn team has been h...