how nasty do you think it s going to get between gingrich and romney? delicious. can t get no better. lsu is in the bcs championship game. the saints in the playoffs. they re getting ready to go after each other with meat cleavers. i m excited. you know about delicious coming from new orleans. i will say this about governor rick perry. when you start your campaign in a burnt orange tie, as an agie, you deserve to lose. wolf is standing by looking at the numbers. it s as close as possible. mit romney and rick santorum. here s something you re going to see no place else. when we come back, we have a brand new cnn poll. we ve just conducted in new hampshire, from iowa. they re all going to new hampshire next tuesday. the primaries in new hampshire. the first primary in the nation. we re going to tell you what we re seeing in new hampshire now in the aftermath of what we ve just seen in iowa. our special coverage continues right after this. all energy development comes with s
dark red is romney, purple san tomorrow ru tor rum. i talked to him several hours ago. wolf. he said the plane will be warmed up in the morning, i m going to aiken, south carolina. obviously the people in iowa, people in iowa humbled rick perry tonight. sounded like he was going home to call it quits. the question in new hampshire, south carolina, beyond, who does that benefit? senator santorum will think it s him. speaker gingrich will think it s him. we re going to watch this play out. we re waiting for the final votes. we re up to 97%. see rick santorum with the tiniest lead. 27-10. do i have that right? is that 37 votes? that s 37 votes. i wasn t so bad at arithmetic. that s 37 votes. that s nuts, right? can he make it up? can romney catch up? can santorum pad the lead? story county, 2.7% of the population, only 67% of the vote in from from this county right now. santorum third. not a lot of votes, if the
involving this republican presidential campaign. you got the news. john, tell our viewers what you ve learned. i m told by a senior republican source very close to the arizona senator, john mccain, the 2008 republican presidential nominee, that he will travel to new hampshire tomorrow to endorse governor romney. remember, john mccain carried new hampshire last time. it was his strongest state in the primary campaigns. romney was a rival then and quickly endorsed mccain after he dropped out of the race after new hampshire around super tuesday. the irony here, remember, rick santorum has faced questions in the last week in iowa about why did you, if you re a conservative, how did you endorse, how did you possibly endorse you see senator santorum, how did you endorse mitt romney last night? santorum said he endorsed romney to try to stop john mccain. they were not friends in the senate. you could say senator mccain is returning a favor. little payback right now. here s rick santorum
all right. we ve now heard from all of the candidates. it s an amazing, an amazing race in iowa right now. the vote, it s so close right now. look at this. rick santorum is ahead of mitt romney by five votes, with 99% of the precincts reporting. only five votes. we re going to hear we ve heard from all of the candidates giving their speeches over their campaign headquarters. we expect to speak with rick santorum shortly. get his thoughts on what has happened. let s go over to john king at the magic wall. john, 1% of the precincts remaining. i don t remember a time when it s been this close. i think this is the closest iowa caucus ever. no matter what happens with the final 1% of the precincts, we have the closest result in iowa history. purple is rick santorum. see the impressive nature, the breadth of his performance
tonight. unfirefight for senator santo m santorum, a lot of counties in the middle, i m not taking anything away from themes are smaller counties population wise. he s ahead by five votes. will that hold up? we need to see the final precincts come in. looking at the map suggests it will not hold up. story county, a large county. 2% of the precincts out. governor romney winning here. santorum third. when you get to 98% very rare do you see a structural change. with 2% precincts coming in, likely to pick up votes there. let me move to the eastern part of the state. dubuque, big romney country. 100% of the vote in here. come down a little bit south. ron paul is winning this county. jackson county. governor romney coming in second. if these percentages hold up, a chance for governor romney to pick up a few votes there. we ll see if senator santorum can pick up the gap. move down. more votes out here. 3% in clinton county. mitt romney winning here. the possibility exists, this narrow margin