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as these holidays wind down. the president yial campaign sean is heating up. one week from tomorrow, the iowa caucuses will mark the first formal votes in the 2012 race. right now, it's too close to call, statistically speaking. according to a poll from the american research group, ron paul, mitt romney, and newt gingrich are locked in a three-way statistical tie. you can see it there. 21, 20, 19% apiece. paul steinhauser is in des moines with more on this three-way battle. and no clear front-runner at least for iowa, paul. >> reporter: no clear front-runner. and that poll you just s...

Vote to be able to make it official. they've crossed that. that was always -- the only reason that wouldn't have have happened if there was trickery from the north. looks like they didn't get away with that. that means that the referendum will be official. it's pretty much assumed that it will be about 95% vote for separation. that's pretty much a given. then it will be the next steps, and the next steps leading to july when they finally make it official are negotiating oil revenues, negotiating borders and other areas like the one of several flashpoint areas. a lot of steps to go to make it a...