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Precinct itself to the 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 and their county to republican headquarters. so within two weeks, the republican party will have the final, certified results. but i can report, with 17,070 precincts reporting, governor mitt romney received 30,01 a 5 votes. rick santorum received 30,007 votes. congratulations to governor mitt romney, winner of the 2012 iowa caucuses. congratulations to senator santorum fo...

is getting ready to fly it texas to reassess whether he should bother, whether he should continue in new hampshire and south carolina. michele bachmann coming in sixth. she says she will continue but we will see if she does. jon huntsman in new hampshire. we are waiting it speak with the chair of the republican committee right now that is going to announce that one final precinct. we are going to speak to that precinct captain shortly. we will try to find out what is going on. has there been a snag, a snafu, a hanging chad. we don't know what is going on. but one precinct would color...

little fun. >> we did. yes. and oddly, the fun apparently is continuing, because we are still on the air. >> yes. >> long after we thought we wouldn't be. >> right. >> in the special cnn after dark edition. so gloria, in terms of tomorrow, i mean we will find mitt romney -- >> you mean today. >> today. a few hours from now, mitt romney will head it new hampshire as well as rick santorum. >> right, romney is going to new hampshire where he has a sizeable lead. he is clearly the favorite in new hampshire. he is going it say he's got the wind at his back. >> you are talking about, like ...

>> and we are a little punch drunk, as you can tell. >> it's 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 ashleigh's 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 here. in fact, i'm still wondering if they're putting their shoes back on. i saw wolf, john king, g...

the real winner in the caucuses, though it may have certainly been rick santorum who truly, within eight votes just missed the top spot. take a look at those numbers on your leaderboard. it's just absolutely miraculous. the closest iowa caucus vote in history. the top four, mitt romney, santorum, ron paul and newt gingrich. >> and it didn't become official until about 2:30 eastern time this morning if you were watching. so we have romney congratulating santorum. and he says that he and santorum are actually both winners. and both candidates are looking forward now to new hampshire, t...