{"id":6651,"date":"2012-01-04T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2012-01-04T01:02:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:02:12","slug":"the-winner-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/the-winner-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winner Doesn’t Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"4Iowa\"<\/p>\n

Iowa is over, for all intents and purposes, and it did not matter who won.\u00a0 With 100% of the votes counted, the top two candidates are separated by only eight votes, so both will take six delegates in Iowa.\u00a0 Here are the final results:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iowa<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Goose Stepper<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Votes<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Percent<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Delegates<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Romney<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

30,015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

25%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Santorum<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

30,007<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

25%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Paul<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

26,219<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

21%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

4<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Gingrich<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

16,251<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

13%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Perry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

12,604<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

10%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Bachmann<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

6,073<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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5%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Huntsman<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

745<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1%<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Total<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

121,914<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ron Paul had the highest finish he will ever have and will quickly fade, even though his acolytes seem to think he\u2019s winning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rich Perry is suspending his campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann is that Bachmann is too stupid to know it\u2019s over.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, I\u2019d really like to crack a joke, but nothing that comes to mind could be more comical than the reality here.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the caucuses that matter, 25,000 Democrats turned out, even though they were uncontested.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iowa is over, for all intents and purposes, and it did not matter who won.\u00a0 With 100% of the votes counted, the top two candidates are separated by only eight votes, so both will take six delegates in Iowa.\u00a0 Here are the final results: Iowa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Goose Stepper Votes Percent Delegates Romney 30,015 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}