@RBReich Robert Reich

Waiting for the results the #iacaucus is like waiting at the airport for someone you don’t know, don’t care about, and believe is deranged. 11 hours ago

@BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz

The last time so few people decided a Presidential race they were all on the Supreme Court. #iacaucus 9 minutes ago

An eight vote difference. Heh.

REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES January 3, 2012

Closed caucuses, Same-day registration allowed

28 total delegates*

25 tied to January 3 caucuses, 3 unpledged RNC delegates

Romney 30,015 25% 7

Santorum 30,007 25% 7

Paul 26,219 21% 7

Gingrich 16,251 13% 2

Perry 12,604 10% 2

Bachmann 6,073 5% 0

Huntsman 745 1% 0

And the Twitterverse buzzes:

@jstrevino Joshua Treviño

Mitt Romney may not harm a human, or by inaction, allow a human to come to harm. 6 hours ago

@davidaxelrod David Axelrod

The sound Santorum is hearing right now is not the buzz of victory. It’s the whirring of Romney Super PAC, preparing to carpet bomb him. 7 hours ago

@Pres_Bartlet Josiah Bartlet

Mitt Romney has a history of job creation, that much is true. The problem is those jobs are in India, not Indiana. 6 hours ago

@andishehnouraee andishehnouraee

Left, right or center, I think we can all agree the real winner of the #IACaucus was Dan Savage. 25 minutes ago

Put it in perspective:

REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES January 03, 2008

Closed caucuses: 40 total delegates*

37 tied to January 3 caucuses, 3 unpledged RNC member delegates

[….]

Romney 30,021 25% 12

[….]

[emphasis added]

That’s a loss of six votes over four years. Think about all that money.

In 2008 the eventual republican nominee, John McCain, placed fourth in the Iowa caucus with 13%.

Newtmentum 2012!

Previously: What republicans are voting for in Iowa tonight (January 3, 2012)

No lessons learned, just change a letter…

Via Think Progress, Rick Santorum (r), the surging candidate in the Iowa caucuses, on Meet the Press this past weekend:

Rick Santorum (r): …Finally, I would be working openly with the state of Israel and I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open up those facilities, you begin to dismantle them and, and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes. And make it very public that we are doing that. The President has done none [crosstalk] of this…

David Gregory: So you would lay out a red line, and if they passed it, air strikes by a President San, Santorum.

Rick Santorum (r): Iran will not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.

David Gregory: Well, two previous presidents have said that. You would order air strikes if it became clear that [crosstalk] they were gonna…

Rick Santorum (r): Yes, I, that’s, that’s the plan. I mean, you can’t go out and say, this is, this is the problem with this administration. You can’t go out and say, this is what I’m for and then do nothing. You become a paper tiger and then people don’t respect our country and our allies can’t trust us. That’s the problem with this administration….

He’s insane.

Via Think Progress.

Texas Governor Rick Perry (r) on the stump in Iowa:

….”Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,” Mr. Perry said in Clarinda, earning a loud round of enthusiastic applause….

Enthusiastic applause? I don’t think anyone with half a brain believes that Canada is interested in gaining fifty new provinces. Think of the added stress on their national health care system.