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Romney barely wins Iowa, Santorum takes second

The Iowa Caucuses are over and Mitt Romney pulled out a ‘squeaker’ win. 8 points. His major opponent? Rick Santorum who came in second with Ron Paul in 3rd. Now we head to New Hampshire. But here is some of the news coming out of Iowa.

With Romney’s win in Iowa it is expected that John McCain will be endorsing him.

Rick Santorum will be putting his game face on for New Hampshire. Clearly he hasn’t given up hopes for this nomination. At this point it is still anybodies game.

Ron Paul, who came in third place will also head into New Hampshire with a positive note. He told his supporters:

“We have a tremendous opportunity to continue this momentum,” Paul added. “I’m looking forward to the day when we can say, ‘We’re all Austrians now!’”  (Source: Politico)

Newt Gingrich will be headed to New Hampshire as well. Will he change tactics? What will his focus be? Well, here’s a peek:

Gingrich’s parting words to the people there teed up the New Hampshire strategy he’s counting on to effort an unlikely nomination.

Wednesday morning, New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper subscribers were waking up to find a full-page ad bought by the Gingrich campaign. The former speaker told his supporters that in The Granite State, “We’re not going to go out and run nasty ads. We’re not going to run 30-second ‘gotchas.’ But I do reserve the right to tell the truth.” (Source: FoxNews)

Rick Perry will be heading back to Texas to reasses his campaign and to see where he wants to go from here.

Michelle Bachmann, who came in 6th place, will hold a news conference at 11 a.m est TODAY. I guess we will see where she goes from there.

A Look at the vote Results:

All Counties

Candidate Votes %
Romney 30,015 25% 
Santorum 30,007 25% 
Paul 26,219 22% 
Gingrich 16,251 14% 
Perry 12,604 11% 
Bachmann 6,073 5% 
Huntsman 745 <1% 
Cain 58 <1% 

Romney 2002: Progressive then, Progressive now? (Video)

You can read the full article at HotAir.com (h/t to them as well for the video!!)