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Rick Santorum Disputes Report That Says He Actually Won Iowa Caucus

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Did Rick Santorum really win the Iowa caucus? According to a notarized statement by Ron Paul supporter, Edward True, errors were made in the tallying, and Santorum may have, in fact, gotten more votes than Mitt Romney, after a 20-vote error in the caucus results from Appanoose County was discovered. Santorum, though, appeared on Fox News’ On The Record With Greta Van Susteren and actually countered this report by claiming there was also a 21-vote mistake in Romney’s favor from a different county:

“Here’s what I know — having talked to the chairman Matt Strawn, who is the chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa — that all these counties are going to be reporting in. They’re going to be certifying . . . that there was one county where there was a 20-vote mistake in my favor… but there was a 21-vote mistake in Romney’s favor — so it actually netted out to what I understand is a one-vote difference.

But that doesn’t really matter to me — I mean . . . this was a tie. And we came from, you know, 4 or 5 points two weeks before the election and ended up with 25 points. So I look at it this way: Let’s see what the polls look like in New Hampshire here by the end of the week.”

In short, this is a rare treat. A national candidate goes on a one of the highest-rated cable news programs in America, and counters reports that he won an election by sharing proof that he didn’t.

Still, National Review‘s Jim Geraghty provided Strawn’s official statement.

“Iowa GOP rules provide for a two-week certification process for each of the 1,774 precincts. The Iowa GOP will announce the final, certified results of the 2012 Iowa Causes following this process. Out of respect to the candidates involved, party officials we will not respond to every rumor, innuendo or allegation during the two week process. That said, Iowa GOP officials have been in contact with Appanoose County Republican officials tonight and do not have any reason to believe the final, certified results of Appanoose County will change the outcome of Tuesday’s vote.”

Watch Santorum downplay reports he actually won below the Iowa Caucus below, via Fox News:

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  • Gloves Mick Donahue

    Meghan McCain on the way to help. She can like totally count and stuff.

    Obama may be sending in the Chicago-trained Al Franken Accounting Company to assist, after he decides what the outcome should be.

  • Anonymous

    You really are a miserable SOB… I am so glad your life is so upside down about all of this. It is great seeing you so miserable. No one deserves it more.

  • Anonymous

    I left here for a month because I’d grown sick and tired of the same off-topic, fact-free, half-baked nonsensical talking points regurgitated by hacks like Gloves and Pablo and Stonepark and Michelle and I see that absolutely NOTHING has changed.

  • Tucsonense

    Oh you are right about 1 thing, They keep talking the same 
    fact-free, half-baked nonsensical talking points…….The difference is we ignore them.

  • Anonymous

    You know Gloves, if you ever laid a glove on an true or factual statement without lacing it with your usual anti Obama spin,  lies, or hyperbole etc you could actually contribute to an intelligent discussion.
     By posting such drivel all the time, you bring Mediaite comment threads down along with yourself. More people would stay here if and comment if posters like you actually tried intelligent discourse instead of stupid insults all the time.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “There is also another, more striking oddity in the turnout estimates in Appanoose County. One precinct there, Pleasant Franklin, is still being reported by the Iowa Republican Party as having had no turnout at all for the caucus. This is despite…
    In addition to Pleasant Franklin, there are seven other precincts throughout Iowa that are still being reported as having had no Republican turnout…
    Eight votes, however, is not a lot of ground for Mr. Santorum to make up, so the outcome could easily change before the vote is certified. For now, the caucuses are probably best thought of as still being too close to call.”
    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/winner-of-iowa-caucus-still-in-doubt/#more-22109

  • Anonymous

    What’s the problem….?
    The guy shows a little class and doesn’t try to relive a race that is already over and move on.
    The Iowa caucus was a statistical tie.
    What is Santorum supposed to do…?
    Is he supposed to start screaming “NO….I won…see I won. Call the media back because I won”  like he was Mortimer Duke…..?

    Is there supposed to be a big media recount like when all the lefties cried like little girls over losing Florida in 2000 to the guy who actually won….George Bush.
    Zing.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    He is a purchased agent of the right wing outrage machine from the b(l)ogs named Breitbart.  He wants to disrupt.  Don’t let him.  
    http://bigjournalism.com/author/sgrammatico/

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Actually, Michelle-in-Utah seems to have vanished, thankfully. Big Petty, who you call Gloves, was ripped apart and his fetid innards were left out for the buzzards yesterday. Paulie seems to have been neutered since Cain imploded. Nutsofast, who you call Stonepark, still pops up every other day or so with his vile, vulgar, valueless comments, but I think progress is being made.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I don’t understand what the news here is. Irregularities in a Republican election? Has there ever been anything but that?

  • Anonymous

    Son of the working man.  How many times have we heard that from pols.  Sure, it sounds good on the stump – but that is where it ends.  Since “losing” his Senate bid in 2006, he has become a millionaire.

    He has been compensated generously for a column he wrote for Philly.com, as a former consultant for Consol Energy and as a recipient of generous director feees from the King of Purssia based Universal Health Services – the same company the federal gov. sued in 2010 for medicaid fraud.

    And let’s not forget how he tried to get PennHills School district to foot the tuition bill for the education of his children, while living in VA.

    He lives in a $2 million home in Great Falls, VA. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    BTW, Rick, handled very nicely. I can only imagine the whines, the venting, the teams of lawyers were Willard the wronged party.

  • Hout Bosques

    Part of the reason that this isn’t raising any froth with Santorum is that the fine details of the outcome simply don’t matter.   

    The Iowa Caucuses are about selecting representatives to a later meeting of the state GOP, where the reps chosen Tuesday night will vote on the delegates that the Iowa GOP will send to the RNC in Tampa – & even those delegates aren’t irrevocably pledged to any candidate. The part of the Iowa Caucuses that involves indicating preference for a particular candidate as GOP presidential nominee is completely non-binding – LESS than a ‘beauty contest’.  

    Second, the difference between the two top vote-getters, whether it’s one vote or a hundred, no matter who ends up on top, is too little to make a difference in the allocation of delegate commitments even on a first-vote moral commitment basis.  

    This is nothing like a general election, where the plurality wins the seat because SOMEONE has to win. It’s not even like the other GOP state primaries, where the results end up translating into delegates who are pledged for a least one or maybe more ballots at the RNC.  

    I’m no fan of Santorum, to say the least, but he’s saying the correct thing here. And for all he knows now, there could be a whole bunch of adjustments between now & when the Iowa GOP primaries have to report the results on to the state GOP meeting of representatives – all of them totally meaningless in terms of allocating committed delegates to the RNC.

  • Anonymous

    And Rick Santorum did not win Iowa.  Mitt Romney did.  He can spin it any way he wants (same with Fox), and it will still come out the same way.  Romney won.  Go Romney.

  • Anonymous

    And is Pablo still parading around with his Cain avatar or has he finally accepted that he backed a total loser?

  • Centrist79

    Have to get Rick credit, he told the truth and was not playing the victim. How many other candidates would have taken his approach.

  • Gloves Mick Donahue

    You’re a strange old coot. Now that Obama is breaking the law on a regular basis, and dinks like you are defending him, at what point do you stand up like a man and defend the Constitution and the law?

    What will Barry pull next?

    Will he beef up his New Black Panther forces in time for the election?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Nein! Nein! Nein! He finally gave up the Cain avatar.

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes it’s not worth the effort to gnaw through the straps to get at the keyboard is it? Take more of those little blue pills.

  • Anonymous

    I hate it when the Santorum surges. What a mess!

  • Anonymous

    Wow, how can you get all those facts in through your tin foil hat?

  • Anonymous

    I’ll give him credit when he gives up on politics and opens up the megachurch of his dreams.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, we all know he won the state his brother was Governor of at the time. Suurrre, he did.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No, he is too busy working on reducing unemployment. Look at the December jobs gain/loss trends:

    December 2008: -619K (W/Republicans)
    December 2009: -130K
    December 2010: +152K
    December 2011: +200K.

    Wish it were stronger, but the devastating W job losses have ended.

    There is even growth in manufacturing jobs.

  • Jane

    Hi, there.    Please, go to Gratewire.com.   I’m Annie over there and can solve your problem with GW.    Yeah, I know how to do that.   Just send me a PM.     

    Take care.   We really miss you.    

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely right. There’s no benefit whatsoever to Santorum to make a stink. He only risks looking like a sore winner and gets a day or two of negative media coverage about being whiny. This way he sounds mature and stays on message.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    You are right and my question is, what do these hacks do, don’t they work or have families or social lives, they sit all day and make idiotic comments on every thread on Mediaite, they would get vetted on other sites, this one is the only one that they can say their really idiotic insulting statements.  And don’t forget Tina Tampon!

  • Anonymous

    They are not gone, just posting under new names!!

  • Anonymous

    You mean the two men who self identified as black panthers in Phillie.  Nuts like you have made them famous!!

  • Anonymous

    Hi Jane. I miss you and Zoo too. Don’t know what a PM is. Remember, I’m computer illiterate. We can talk on this site. CNN does not ban free speech like Ms. Van Susteren does. Good to hear from you. Tell Zoo to stop by.

  • Jane

    So good to hear from you.    Sign up at Gratewire.com.    I’m Annie over there.   You can then send me a private message and I’ll tell you how to get back on.   Guess what?    You’re not alone.   It happened to me and several others.      

    Zoo and I are really missing you.    In fact, she signed up over at Gratewire, just so we could talk about your disappearance.    I can walk you through the easy steps to get back on GW.   

    You’re a sweetie and I’m livid about what happened.   We miss you!   

    Take care!     

  • Anonymous

    It’s his Voices.  You are just jealous that they are speaking to him, and not to you.

  • Anonymous

    It’s his Voices.  You are just jealous that they are speaking to him, and not to you.

  • Anonymous

    It’s his Voices.  You are just jealous that they are speaking to him, and not to you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LURAM6LPYOGWDSVJUW3JYXYKDI Bob Segget

    Romney did lose. So, why are you supporting that empty suit again? He’s not going to win because Ron Paul supporters will never help a flip flopper like him.

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