New York Times:Iowa G.O.P. Declares Mitt Romney Caucus Winner

The Iowa Republican Party pronounced Mitt Romney the winner of the state’s caucuses Tuesday night by a margin of just eight votes over Rick Santorum, with Mr. Romney receiving 30,015 votes to Mr. Santorum’s 30,007.
 With Ron Paul coming in a not too distant third, the caucuses did not deliver a clean answer to what type of candidate Republicans intend to rally behind to try to defeat President Obama and win back the White House.

 Once at risk of finishing last in the caucuses, Mr. Santorum had a meteoric rise in the final weeks leading up to Tuesday’s vote. Appealing to social conservatives and evangelicals, Mr. Santorum staked his entire campaign on Iowa and had visited all 99 counties in the state by November. He will face a difficult challenge in New Hampshire, where he has spent little time campaigning.

 

Mitt Romney 30,015 votes  24.6% —

Rick Santorum 30,007 votes 24.5% —

Ron Paul 26,219 votes 21.4 % —

Newt Gingrich 16,251votes  13.3 % —

Rick Perry 12,604 votes 10.3 % —

Michele Bachmann 6,073 votes 5.0 % —






Others Show all 1,086 votes  0.9 %

Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination. The son of George W. Romney (the former Governor of Michigan) and Lenore Romney, Mitt Romney was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and later served as a Mormon missionary in France. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and thereafter earned Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration joint degrees from Harvard's law and business schools. Romney entered the management consulting business, which led to a position at Bain & Company, where he eventually served as CEO and brought the company out of crisis. He was also co-founder and head of the spin-off company Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm that became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation. The wealth Romney accumulated there would help fund his future political campaigns. He was very active in his church, serving as ward bishop and later stake president in his area. He ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to incumbent Ted Kennedy. Romney organized and steered the 2002 Winter Olympics as head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and helped turn the troubled games into a financial success. /Wikipedia

SNBs (Skönsmons Nyhets Byrå) analys, eller snarare gissning : Om Mitt Romney vinner ytterligare 3-4 nomineringsval blir han Republikanarnas presidentkandidat och Obama kan känna sig lugn. Att Rick Perry förmodligen (kanske redan klart?) säger "adjö" känns bra.