pennsylvania governor, giving his speech to his supporters. his family on the stage with him. he s off to new hampshire. then south carolina. the only candidate we still haven t heard from is mitt romney who s doing amazingly well right now. candy crowley is over at mitt romney headquarters. i take it he s getting ready to speak any minute now, candy. reporter: he is. we ve been told that he was going to come out after rick santorum finished. i suspect you ll see him quite shortly behind me. one funny moment, wolf, in the middle of santorum s speech, rather at the beginning, when he began by thanking his wife and said he wanted to publicly thank god. this room had been quite quiet and respectful. the minute he said i d like to publicly thank god, there was this huge cheer. and it seemed so dissonant that we all looked up. it was because the clicker at the bottom of the screen showed romney pulling ahead, albeit,
29,924. 29,911. ron paul is in third place. newt gingrich is in fourth place. it just changed even as we were speaking. now it s 19 votes ahead. 29,935. 29,916. santorum slightly, ever so slightly, ahead of mitt romney. so bottom line is we don t know who has won the iowa caucuses as of yet. john king, you re looking at that 1%. that 1% of the precincts that have not yet reported. do we get any clues who might emerge? because, what, 19 votes is tiny. from looking at the results that have come in so far from what s still out, the clues tell you governor romney, perhaps, will make this up and eke out a very narrow victory. why? story county, 98% of the precincts in. if it stays consistent with the rest of the night, romney s winning this district. santorum running third. governor romney could easily pick up a few votes there, again, if it stays consistent. come to the eastern part of the
romney to make up the difference. either way, the results essentially a dead heat. indeed. take a look at this. santorum is now ahead by 27 votes. 29,892. mitt romney 29,865. 99% of the precincts are in. anderson? the good news is piers morgan has joined us. excellent news. excellent news not only for us but for all of our viewers. is it always this exciting? no. this seems extraordinary. five votes. one of the great comebacks i would imagine in modern political history, isn t it, santorum? amazing. i ve been enthralled. it s just fascinating this is a race where we ve seen every one of the candidates be the front-runner at one time or another. santorum surged certainly timed perfectly for this actual caucus time. wait until they start ripping apart santorum and newt gingrich
and we ve just taken a poll in the aftermath of what has happened in iowa to see what s going on. how have likely primary voters in new hampshire, how have they changed, if at all, as a result of what has happened in iowa? john king is here with us. take a look at these numbers. this is the new cnn/orc poll. caucus watchers. people who watched iowa closely in new hampshire. how have they changed? take a look at this. in late december, 47% were for romney. 47% still for romney in new hampshire. ron paul 17% late december. 17% still. same for huntsman hasn t changed. 13%. then 13%. now. santorum has doubled from 5% to 10% in new hampshire. gingrich has lost a little bit. 12% to 9%. but romney s got a huge lead in new hampshire. if you look at the top three there, you would say, and as a new englander, i can say this, stubborn yankee pride saying
goes after mitt romney as we started to see tonight. the race is actually going to heat up. does it matter at this point who comes in first, who comes in second? in terms of delegates, remember, 25 delegates are at stake from iowa. doesn t matter. it s not winner take all. it s proportionate. in other words, they re going to divide up eventually the delegates from iowa. bragging rights, david gergen, you want to weigh in. bragging rights are important. if you win by five votes, it s still a, you know, i won, but still for all practical purposes it s a tie. i think in some ways it may be more important if santorum wins by a few than if romney wins. if romney wins, he was sort of expected and going to eke it out. if santorum wins, it goes to piers point. a great comeback. i thought listening to the two speeches tonight, we saw what was happening in this race. mitt romney gave a perfectly confident speech. very much on top of things. santorum makes emotional connections. talked a