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The republican party's 2012 nominating contest begins officially tomorrow night at 7:00 central time, 8:00 p.m. eastern when the doors will be closed at republican caucuses in iowa. caucusgoers will congregate at nearly 1,800 precinct gatherings around the state. after everybody recites the pledge of allegiance, a caucus chairman and secretary will be elected and any candidates or representatives get to make short speeches. then a vote by secret ballot in a presidential preference poll. the results will be tallied, right then and there, announced at the meeting and sent to the state republican...

collapsed. people left homeless are dealing now with freezing temperatures. in north africa today tunisians are counting millions of votes by hand. the results of parliamentary elections are expected tomorrow. tunisia was the first country to overthrow the dictator in what became the arab spirang. 80% turned out. many faced long waits. >> i waited three hours to cast your ballot. >> something like 3 1/2 hours. we didn't feel it. it was like five minutes because we were very, very happy to be inside there. >> well worth it for many of those folks. tunisia's new parliament will write...

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Republican has made way for a field of democrats. >> there were a lot of voters who showed up, expecting their names to be on the roster in los angeles county. when they got there, the names weren't on. in that scenario, you're supposed to be handed a provisional ballot. but election officials vewere getting complaints. it could have an california 39, the district that ed royce is retiring. and gill cisneros made a huge play for hispanic voters. that piece of los angeles county, which is part of royce's district, that's where some of the irregularities were today. it could make the counting pr...

Our panel for this portion of our coverage includes msnbc contributor melissa harris perry, professor of political science at tulane. rachel maddow is here, you may remember her from live coverage in the last seven hours. michele goldberg and ranesh. glad to have you here. first let's go -- i believe we have chuck todd is in iowa at the moment. he has been tracking very closely which counties are counted and which are uncounted in this nail biter of an election. what is the latest? >> we have a handful of votes left at this point and so there's various reports out there the google site helping...