and we ve just taken a poll in the aftermath of what has happened in iowa to see what s going on. how have likely primary voters in new hampshire, how have they changed, if at all, as a result of what has happened in iowa? john king is here with us. take a look at these numbers. this is the new cnn/orc poll. caucus watchers. people who watched iowa closely in new hampshire. how have they changed? take a look at this. in late december, 47% were for romney. 47% still for romney in new hampshire. ron paul 17% late december. 17% still. same for huntsman hasn t changed. 13%. then 13%. now. santorum has doubled from 5% to 10% in new hampshire. gingrich has lost a little bit. 12% to 9%. but romney s got a huge lead in new hampshire. if you look at the top three there, you would say, and as a new englander, i can say this, stubborn yankee pride saying
states. whe wheel get back to you, joe, joe is in ankeny. we have other caucus watchers. we have the results of the entrance polls. ron paul slightly, slightly ahead of mitt romney. 24%, 23%. that s not the official results. they re counting votes right now. we ll get the official results. this new at&t 4g lte is fast.
reporting. it is a virtual tie between rick santorum and mitt romney. we ve already heard from ron paul. he s coming in third. newt gingrich, we heard from him. he s coming in fourth. we heard from rick perry, a dramatic change. the texas governor not going to south carolina. as he originally anticipated. he s going back to texas to reassess whether he should continue in this campaign. michele bachmann, we heard from her. she says even though she s come in a very, very disappointing 5%, virtually last, she says she s going to continue. we ll see if she does. jon huntsman didn t really campaign in iowa, he s campaigning in new hampshire. he s not dropping out. a dramatic night, indeed. it doesn t get much closer than this. let s go over to cnn s john king over at the magic wall. first of all, john, rick perry, i think it s fair to say, all but announcing it s over for him. he said he was going back to texas to reassess. he s going to sit down with the team, look at the polls
look at what we call the bottom four right now. we see newt gingrich, the governor rick perry, michele bachmann, jon huntsman. he s technically there even though he didn t campaign really in iowa. he s spending all of his time in new hampshire. presumably he ll come in last. he won t drop out because he s doing all of his campaigning in new hampshire. but remember, this is very early right now. it s sort of coincides, this top tier w the most recent polls we saw, not only our cnn/time poll, the des moines register poll, an nbc/marist poll. these are the three individual, the top tier. no matter how you look at these entrance polls, you can think of it as the most recent poll in iowa. because this is a poll really. and it s a little bit more accurate presumably than the other polls because this is a poll that isn t of likely caucusgoers. we know these are real caucusgoers who participated in this poll, this entrance poll as we call it. the top tier will presumably getting mo