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Dream scenario. >> let's listen in. >> good evening, everyone. what a night. thanks for think hanging in there. i am matt strong, chairman of the republican party. i am excited that ira republican his a record turnout for the 2012 republican iowa caucuses with twenty 122,255 iowans, turt to vote as republicans to start the process to replace barack obama. i want to thank all of my staff. i want to thank the volunteers because the precinct leaders, the 1774 leaders were all volunteer, giving of their time. a couple of those, we had to chase down here in the wee hours to get the final precincts ...

Dream scenario. >> let's listen in. >> good evening, everyone. what a night. thanks for think hanging in there. i am matt strong, chairman of the republican party. i am excited that ira republican his a record turnout for the 2012 republican iowa caucuses with twenty 122,255 iowans, turt to vote as republicans to start the process to replace barack obama. i want to thank all of my staff. i want to thank the volunteers because the precinct leaders, the 1774 leaders were all volunteer, giving of their time. a couple of those, we had to chase down here in the wee hours to get the final precincts ...

>> and, right now, here is the announcement. >> what a night. thanks for hanging in there with us. first and foremost, i'm chairman of the republican party here in iowa. even at this late hour that i'm excited about, is that either of the republicans had a record turn out for the 2012 iowa can cusses with 122,255 iowans turning out to vote. and i want to thank all of my staff. i want to thank the volunteers because, remember, the precinct leaders were all giving up their time. the good news is we're able to verify the vote reports tonight. the great thing about the caucus process, every step o...

Caucuses. thank you very much. have a good night. >> matt stran. >> 122,255. >> had to get that final turnout number back in. but mitt romney wins the iowa caucuses by 8 votes. mitt romney wins the iowa caucuses by 8 votes over former senator rick santorum. took until 2:34 eastern time for that to happen. the interesting thing was that it's going to take 2 weeks for all of these precincts to officially certify this result. but 8 votes separates 1 and 2. >> and the interesting thing at the end was the turnout, 122 thousand. someone suggested that they may suggest an enthusiasm gap on the part o...

Dream scenario. >> let's listen in. >> good evening, everyone. what a night. thanks for think hanging in there. i am matt strong, chairman of the republican party. i am excited that ira republican his a record turnout for the 2012 republican iowa caucuses with twenty 122,255 iowans, turt to vote as republicans to start the process to replace barack obama. i want to thank all of my staff. i want to thank the volunteers because the precinct leaders, the 1774 leaders were all volunteer, giving of their time. a couple of those, we had to chase down here in the wee hours to get the final precincts ...