Video of Mitt Romney’s Shatneresque free-form lyric improvisation during the concession/victory speech.
In no particular order, my takeaways from tonight’s results. Read More
Look at this color map of the results so far out of Iowa, tells a strong regional story.
We’re seeing a possible trend out of Iowa. Santorum’s taking the west and Romney is doing better in the east. But since a greater portion of the vote is currently counted in the east, Santorum seems to have room to grow. So possible good sign to him. Too early to say with any certainty. We’ll update you again after the next round of votes.
Okay, as you can see in our live results we’ve got a very, very close race. At the moment, with 31% of the vote counted Mitt Romney is 4/10% ahead of Rick Santorum. And those three have traded the lead a few times tonight.
We’re going to be looking closely at the county by county results and see what more light we can shed on this very murky picture.
What counties are you watching? And what do you make of the results so far?
We’ll be reporting tea leaves from the county by county totals here at TPMLiveWire.
So you remember how I told you there’s an early and a late arriver wave in the entrance polls. Well, on CNN just now, Wolf Blitzer just announced they found a third wave. Awesome. Way to be on top of things. Anyway, the latest entrance numbers have Santorum moving up. Paul 24%, Romney 23%, Santorum 23%.
Okay we’ve got the second round of ‘entrance poll’ results now. They’re slightly different from the first round. The combination of early and late arrivers has Paul 24%, Romney 23%, Santorum 19%.
So those do seem to show Santorum isn’t making it. But again, these are far from an exact science. They’re not even as reliable as exit polls, which is a pretty low bar.
See our county by county results right here.