They can't even get the winner of the first contest right and we are supposed to trust and have faith in fraudulent elections?
"Iowa says official caucus results show no clear winner" January 20, 2012|Globe Staff
WASHINGTON - It took Iowa Republicans 16 days to decide they couldn’t tell for sure who won the Iowa caucuses, despite their earlier announcement that Mitt Romney had narrowly won. The nonconclusion highlights the potential pitfalls with party-run presidential nominating events.
The final, certified results announced yesterday in Des Moines by Iowa Republican chairman Matt Strawn had Rick Santorum 34 votes ahead of Mitt Romney. But Strawn said the party cannot declare a winner because the results are incomplete - eight of the state’s 1,774 precincts did not report their certified totals by Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline.
Strawn had announced hours after the Jan. 3 caucuses concluded that Romney had won by eight votes. Most news organizations relied on that party announcement, since the results were not officially collected by the state, while waiting final party certification of the vote....
Presidential nominating events for both Republicans and Democrats are a mix of party-run caucuses and primaries - like those held in Iowa and South Carolina - and officially sanctioned state primaries - like those in New Hampshire and Florida.
The main difference is that with state-run events, you always get a winner, even if it takes multiple recounts and court battles. Local election officials are required by law to meet certification deadlines, and if a race is really close, the law spells out the recount rules that ultimately determine how the winner is decided....
Common Cause president Bob Edgar said if Iowa wants to retain its status as the nation’s first presidential nominating event, both parties need to clean up their vote-counting acts.
“Given the millions of dollars the candidates invest in Iowa and the importance the state has assumed in choosing nominees, Republican and Democratic leaders alike owe it to Iowans and the nation to run a transparent process and provide a careful, accurate count,’’ Edgar said.
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"Perry exits; Santorum now No. 1 in Iowa" January 20, 2012|By Tracy Jan
Rick Santorum sought to leverage the news out of Iowa.
“There’s been two primaries held now, and we won one,’’ Santorum said....
Mitt Romney, whose campaign had trumpeted his historic feat of winning both Iowa and New Hampshire, ignored reporters’ questions about the revised Iowa numbers as he climbed into his SUV following a visit to his campaign headquarters yesterday.
Analysts, however, took note.
“The sad part for Santorum is that the election is really about narrative, and the narrative has already been cast that Romney won Iowa and he won again in New Hampshire,’’ said Linda Abrams, a political science and history professor at the Christian fundamentalist Bob Jones University in Greenville.
In other words, it is ALL SCRIPTED!
The change in Iowa results has no practical effect. The vote at the caucuses is symbolic....
I'm so sick of symbolism being so prominent in my "news."
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