Rick Santorum has now been certified the winner in Iowa after trailing Mitt Romney by 8 votes in the state’s initial caucus night count. But the state party is still calling it a “split decision,” prompting an outcry from Santorum’s Iowa campaign manager Cody Brown.
“It is peculiar that the Republican Party of Iowa would prematurely declare Mitt Romney the “winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses” when Romney led by eight votes without a single precinct certified (unofficial results),“ he told TPM. “It is even more peculiar that the RPI has not yet declared Rick Santorum ‘the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses’ after the certified results (official results) reveal that Rick Santorum defeated Mitt Romney by 34 votes. How can the RPI declare a winner using unofficial results and not declare a winner using official results? ”
