Political Memo: Ridiculous Push votes as Iowa campaign Wraps

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DES MOINES — Mitt Romney has grown to rely on his Iowa prospects that Monday evening, he will be all submissive pretense and proclaimed, "We going to win this thing." At the same time, Rick Santorum claimed that the profit of his momentum runs within its own whiff.

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Iowa caucuses curious political ritual, which opens yet another race of the House of representatives on Tuesday, is the second part completes the profits of the knack turns to you. And they are the only one likely to produce losers — or to deal with surprises — they are the winner of the Conference of interpreter coronate.

To the attention of all of the Republican field in the frenzied burst, paid to the "Innocence" on the last day of campaigning seemed as if political Washington — of weight and the creation of the media here on Monday — the race only now, landed.

They recited as gospel, Mr. Romney and Mr. Santorum by Representative Ron Paul of Texas and at the top of the pack. If these statements are true, for each of the three rush submit New Hampshire go to the contest, as the profit.

Iowa caucuses results set up competition in the ring after the yearlong prelude, which has been off the charts for the influenza viruses.

Remember Sarah Palin bus travel when prompted to indicate with certainty that he runs the television pundit class?

Who's who, five months ago, is to predict the Herman Cain was going to hold the lead to a vote before evaporating? Newt Gingrich was on the up, down and then up again; now he is down again.

And Rick Santorum? Two weeks ago, he tried to get the reluctant insurance company for a group of employees in the middle of the city of Des Moines office building stick with him, when he spoke during a lunch break. He was in the room had a sweater vest, which is the only heat came to define him. Monday's events were so entangled in the overcrowded during the campaign Stop save supporter.

His campaign said it was now looking more than Iowa to strengthen support and given Mr. Romney, is a long time sought to fill the party the evangelical base, the position of the viable alternative to the conservative.

Four years ago, Mr. Paul was political Punch-line. What would be a rapid withdrawal of Afghanistan and the Republican Guard the Pentagon cuts? Appears to be the type who will take part in the Iowa caucuses, polls, which have shown that Mr. Paul or near the top in this field.

So one must be a fool to go too much out of the part to predict with certainty what will happen on Tuesday, and any outside — or expected does not have consequences is wrong. (Imagine that). Is still limited, a number of k??nteit?, which specifies whether the Republicans go to internal differences between the previous and tuoteuttamisesta President Obama soon.

Here is a look at some of the possibilities of Tuesday evening, as Republicans gathered at caucuses, 1,774 airport services wherever the President as a candidate in Iowa voters declared their primary meetings.

Iowa at the end of the Second Chance

Iowa was Mitt Romney gamble. And even if it does not pay the Conference interpreter in, his advisors already crowing that they were in better shape than they were once the item is expected to be in the nominating contest. There are two chief reasons: Mr. Gingrich and .gov Rick Perry in Texas, whose candidates are substantially was wounded.

It's not as if still Mr. Romney horizon does not have the warning signs — many conservatives see him hold my nose-front-runner — but her organization has always built stumbles along the way-cushion. As he was in the final days of the campaign crisscrossing Iowa in standby brigades, to extract the response forms were in Florida, absentee to his supporters highlight the Organization's depth and design of the mailboxes in any of his rivals is not able to match.

"We going to win this thing," Mr. Romney told the overflowing crowd Monday night during one of his stops dawn dusk day Iowa campaigning.

If he wins the caucuses in a firm, his immediate challenge is to avoid overconfidence. New Hampshire, voters all over the past year elevating [1] and the results of the Iowa-punishing lessons in the transition. But Mr. Romney lead is New Hampshire, so important to him, voting, that his rivals to be able to defeat him in the primary, the next Tuesday, only if they consolidate their support of the long string.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Patch: 2 January 2012

Earlier versions of this article incorrectly in Polk City, Iowa, the name of the Reising Sun-Cafe.

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