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Congressman paul and all of the other can dates who competed in the 2012 caucuses. have a good night. what is the final turn out. final number is 122,255. thank you, everybody. all right. there you heard matt straum. eight votes, he said that romney is the winner by eight votes over rick santorum. ron paul third. how many total turn out did they say. 122,255. like 118, 119 four years ago. so a little bit more. not much more. certainly not close to the 220,000 or so that turned out four years ago in the democratic caucuses. do you think the whole issue of whether that is an energized republican base or not, what is your view having seen so many. i think the last time around, i think that s a record, 119 or 118,000. a little bit more. so i m sure they will be happy. though i had heard from other republicans they were hoping for ....
fortunately you did. was it your cell phone or hard line. my cell phone. anderson, talk to these ladies. they want to hear from you. you re trending worldwide apparently on twitter, i just learned. are you big on twitter? not so good. i just got an an ipad for christmas but i don t know how to work it yet. would you ladies like to be the co-anchors of a new cnn program, cnn after dark. very exciting moment in the history of iowa. and the iowa caucus. can we ask you ladies, are you happy that the winner of the iowa caucus says mitt romney? edith, first to you. edith? are you gone? i m happy that it s won. as county chairman, did not take a a stand. as to who i voted for this evening. and i did not share that. ....
Let me start with edith. thank you so much. on behalf of all of us, on behalf of the american people, thank you for clearing up this mystery. tell us how you feel right now, edith? i m just so overwhelmed with all of this. overwhelmed. you re happy? i m very happy with what has happened here. but i m amazed. because really and truly, my people did call this in tonight and i don t know where the glitch was. i did hear from romney campaign about 11:20. and i gave them the figures. then i went to bed. and it has been kind of interesting to wake up. very interesting. let s get the reaction from carolyn. how do you feel about this, carolyn? you were huge in solving this great mystery. well, i guess if i hadn t answered my phone the mystery would still be going on, wouldn t it? ....
Cain. i don t want to be the person who messed it up. what i drew, coincidentally, when i interviewed mitt romney last week, we drove in his bus from davenport to clinton county. he went to a rally. so he may have gotten those eight votes by showing up in clinton county on that day to speak to the folks there and they liked him. there was a big crowd. he did well and he wins the iowa caucus. not by much, piers, but he wins. i come back to a win is a win. if three months ago you were told would you win in iowa you would be thrilled. but a you would think, i would be second or third in new hampshire. he won the first one. he will probably win the next one. we have great news. anderson, please. i want you to join in this conversation. guess what? joining us now on the phone, edith and carolyn. [ applause ] ....
Rick santorum, second, 30,007 votes. mitt romney wins by a grand total of eight votes. eight votes. ron paul third. newt gingrich fourth. and you saw the others earlier. an amazing moment. mitt romney wins, albeit, narrowly, on the other hand, john, a win is a win. a win is a win. and you have watched. this is our final number, wolf. this is our final number from the iowa republican party. 30,015 to 30,007. thanks fot great work of our ladies helping us crack the end of the difference. clinton county, you don t think of thiss much. 32% to 22%. this county made the difference for governor romney tonight. if you pull out this map and look at the breath of this, you see a lot of purple. that s rig santorum doing a very well. a lot of comparison to the mike huckabee. ....