Written by - Jennifer Jacobs
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120120/NEWS09/301200034/1007/news05
Voters and candidates in Iowa have been wrestling over Santorum's discovered win in the Iowa caucus by thirty four votes. The election has become a competition over who will own the bragging rights for winning the first caucus. Santorum believes that if the small precincts who weren't certified were counted as well, he would've had an even greater advantage. Despite his thirty four point win, GOP officials discovered double digit percentage errors in 51 certified precincts. Because of these errors, the numbers counted from caucus night cannot be trusted. Santorum supporters are frustrated because the party won't officially announce Iowa as a win for their candidate. It's as if his hard work doesn't even count because it is not being acknowledged. William C. Brown says there is no such thing as a "split decision", where there is one official winner and one unofficial winner. A spokesman from the Santorum camp says that Santorum's win means Romney is not the inevitable candidate. The impact of the Iowa caucus is alive and well, because the four remaining GOP candidates were the ones who were top four in the Iowa caucus. With the upcoming South Carolina primary, this means that there is still hope for Santrum and the other anti-Romney candidates. The new results from Iowa show that he can be beaten, and a win in South Carolina is far from impossible. Hopefully, the virtual tie results from Iowa won't cause Santorum supporters to lose faith in their candidate and the process of choosing a GOP candidate. If something like this were to happen again, it wouldn't look good for the Republican party as a whole.
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