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What republicans were hoping for. in fact, if you subtract the increase in turnout just for ron paul alone you would get a lower turnout than four years ago. so this is the time when all of america is supposed to be rising up against the owe pros sif rule of barack obama and the uprising will begin in iowa. it just didn't happen. >> well, it's not necessarily surprising that it's lower than four years ago because democrats were the party that were excited about the election four years ago and republicans weren't, particularly. i would disagree about romney just in the sense that a longer drawn...

Would make sense. numbers they say they gave to des moines to the republican leadership, it would have given romney a very, very narrow win in the state. but we will wait for the official numbers. >> they say here 14 votes. >> what you are saying is romney aides -- they say they have been notified that romney has won, is that what they are saying? >> they have been told. so i think notified is the wrong word. it is hard for me to track down at this point, we are trying to track down where it started. where they heard from. >> all right, candy, if you hear more let us know. let me go back it jo...

Speeches heard tonight from rick santorum and from mitt romney. results? >> both long. they can be shortened. romney a little more polished. santorum has a better tri. a popular story of the coal miner and what have you. i think so-to-a certain extent they'll both get more developed. santorum has a whole campaign to put together. and he had a campaign in iowa, volunteers. now, he has to put a national campaign together beginning in new hampshire. and there is and will be a real task. >> ed, what, you know, is a win a win? n.iowa? you say it's a tie. but whoever squeaks out a win tonight will h...

Positive campaigning. so if he is attacking romney, that doesn't make sense for gingrich. it seems vengeful. >> and the associated press reported twigs twis from a county official in story county, ames that they had this guy in a truck driving vote tallies to the site. a lot of people saying don't they have phones or computers? can't they give tallies that way? and we're trying to get to the bottom of it. associated press reported that twice about this so we're going to see. but that is one of the names out there. and there are hundreds of votes that decide this race. >> interesting question. ...

is getting ready to fly it texas to reassess whether he should bother, whether he should continue in new hampshire and south carolina. michele bachmann coming in sixth. she says she will continue but we will see if she does. jon huntsman in new hampshire. we are waiting it speak with the chair of the republican committee right now that is going to announce that one final precinct. we are going to speak to that precinct captain shortly. we will try to find out what is going on. has there been a snag, a snafu, a hanging chad. we don't know what is going on. but one precinct would color...