Santorum Wins Iowa

Surprise:

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum edged Republican front-runner Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses by 34 votes, but can’t be declared the winner because results from eight precincts are missing, officials said Thursday.

Romney was eight votes ahead of Santorum in the preliminary results of the Jan. 3 caucuses--the much-watched, first-in-the-nation presidential nomination contest.

But when the certified tallies were submitted to state GOP officials Wednesday, they showed Romney trailing, 29,839 votes to 29,805.

“Certified vote totals were unavailable for eight of Iowa’s 1,774 precincts,” the state Republican party said in a statement.

No explanation as to why the votes were missing was provided.

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