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Government experience prepares someone better for a job and those people are going for ron paul tonight. it's fascinating the way it's shaping up and what people thought as they head in for the evening. >> brett: martha, thank you very much. >> megyn: in terms of the numbers, it is a very, very tight race for the top spot. so far, latest numbers, santorum romney and paul all with 23%. look at how close those numbers are. ron paul, 6018. romney, 6060, santorum, 6,067 with 22% of the precincts reporting. it is neck and neck. this could still go any way according to the decision desk. just want t...

All right. we can make a projection, a projection of sort, not necessarily the kind of projection we normally make, but cnn now projects who will come in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh. we can't project who comes in first or second, because you saw how close it is between santorum and romney. but we do project here at cnn that ron paul will come in third, newt gingrich will come in fourth, rick perry will come in fifth, michele bachmann will come in sixth, and jon huntsman in iowa will come in seventh. we can't project who wins or who comes in second, because it is about as close as ...

We'll hear from them. it's interesting what's going, john. you know, it reminds me of some pretty close contests. somebody just e-mailed me and says, how does it feel that i can't project, that we at cnn can't project a winner after fall -- it feels great, because i love finding out the old-fashioned way. let them count the votes. >> what would you like for breakfast? >> they're coming in pretty quickly right now. >> we can say this with certainty. one word that will not be used by the winner tonight is decisive. there's no one who's going to say they won a decisive iowa victory. look at the m...

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 30,015 votes. rick santorum received 30,007 votes. congratulations to governor mitt romney, winner of the 2012 iowa caucuses. congratulations to senator santorum for a very close second place finis...

Government experience prepares someone better for a job and those people are going for ron paul tonight. it's fascinating the way it's shaping up and what people thought as they head in for the evening. >> brett: martha, thank you very much. >> megyn: in terms of the numbers, it is a very, very tight race for the top spot. so far, latest numbers, santorum romney and paul all with 23%. look at how close those numbers are. ron paul, 6018. romney, 6060, santorum, 6,067 with 22% of the precincts reporting. it is neck and neck. this could still go any way according to the decision desk. just want t...