Too Little, Too Late? Santorum Declared Iowa Caucus Winner

The Takeaway

Friday South Carolina will hold the “First in the South” primary. Since 1980 the victor of the South Carolina primary has gone on to win the presidential nomination. But the Palmetto State is sharing the limelight this morning with the Hawkeye State as the miscount in Iowa has skewed the results of the first GOP caucus.  Rick Santorum is now declared the winner of the Iowa Caucus  by a small margin of 34 votes. But in the end does it really matter? Cody Brown is Rick Santorum’s Iowa campaign manager. Steffen Schmidt is a professor of political science at Iowa State University and a blogger for WNYC’s politics website It’s a Free Country.

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