Thursday, January 5, 2012

About the Iowa Caucus

The Iowa Caucus was over a couple days back and before too much time passes here are some useful links detailing the results and trying to make sense of the event.

The NYT wraps up the event. Mitt Romney wins by 8 votes and the newest non-Romney, Rick Santorum, comes in second. Michelle Backmann drops out, Rick Perry does not.

Andrew Sullivan live-blogged it - so you can get a minute by minute account of how the event went, and how it was reported. He links to various reactions to the outcome here. Many point out that Romney won not only by the narrowest margin ever, but by the lowest percentage of the vote ever. Does this mean that Republicans are still searching for an additional candidate?