[sheikdetailfeather]

Breaking News: Rick Santorum Won Iowa

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/19/breaking-news-rick-santorum-won-iowa/

By 34 votes, Rick Santorum won Iowa. For the past two weeks we have heard Mitt Romney was the first non-incumbent to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. Wrong!

The Des Moines Register reports Rick Santorum won. More troubling for the Iowa GOP, the GOP reports it will never have a completely accurate vote count because the votes in some precincts have gone missing.

The only thing that can be said for sure is Rick Santorum is the real winner.

If Newt Gingrich now wins South Carolina, we are in for a heck of a ride.

[MrEdd]

The greatest result from this will be...Perry partisans demanding even more vociferously that Santorum withdraw from the race.

[newzjunkey]

Sorry. No ride. Santorum looks done come Saturday. No one but his supporters will care if he technically won Iowa or didn't. It won't be called a win by the party and any chance of building momentum was well over before now. Already well back, he's trending down in new SC polling and with Perry out Santorum is dead last; he fell behind Ron Paul.

If Newt can't hold on and take SC from Romney it's over when Mitt wins FL. Romney's the nominee and the worst primary ever process will be a rubber stamp through Feb onward.

Frankly, I don't expect Newt to survive the calculated onslaught.