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>> that is correct. welcome to the cnn election center. i'm zoraida sambolin along with ashleigh banfield. did you miss it last voted. >> but only eight of them really matter. >> they all mattered. look at this. mitt romney, 30,015. santorum, 30,007. closest caucus in history. only eight votes separated them. >> what a difference eight votes can make. if you think you don't matter when you go to your polls. yes, this is a caucus, but should we just tell you that even though it's a caucus and even though we don't have final delegate counts out of iowa, we do have that presidential preference. w...

Abuzz because we had a little bit of a standoff for a while. we didn't have numbers until only about 2 1/2 hours ago. >> let's take a look at the leaderboard. in case you missed it, in case you were sleeping, this is what happened. actually at 2:30 in the morning, finally mitt romney, eight votes ahead of rick santorum. there are the numbers for you. 30,015 to 30,007. big news. >> when she says eight votes, you did hear right. not 8%. eight votes. so your vote matters, folks. if that doesn't energize you to get to the polls or to your caucuses as this season kicks off, i don't know what else w...

There are people in the background. john? >> i feel like mathew broderick when he comes out and says, it's over. what are you still doing here? go home! really, go home. it's over. you know? i haven't seen anything this slim in all of my time covering these caucuses. 8 votes separating the two of them. i am a little confused that matt strawn said with 270 precincts there was one in clinton county that didn't come in. did he misspeak? 30,015 for mitt romney and 30,007 for rick santorum. it doesn't get much closer than that. and you could say there are bragging rights out of the iowa, saying i w...

Background. john? >> i feel like mathew broderick when he comes out and says, it's over. what are you still doing here? go home! really, go home. it's over. you know? i haven't seen anything this slim in all of my time covering these caucuses. 8 votes separating the two of them. i am a little confused that matt strawn said with 270 precincts there was one in clinton county that didn't come in. did he misspeak? 30,015 for mitt romney and 30,007 for rick santorum. it doesn't get much closer than that. and you could say there are bragging rights out of the iowa, saying i won. but there is real si...

Where each campaign had a senior staff person who was able to observe and verify the results. everyone should know, within party rules, each county has two weeks to send the certified form "e" with the results from each precinct in their count tow republican headquarters. so within two weeks, the republican party of iowa will have the final certified results of the iowa caucuses. but i can report with 1770 presincts reporting, governor mitt romney received 30,015 votes. and senator rick santorum received 30,007 votes. congratulations to governor mitt romney, winner of the 2012 caucuses. congra...