Mitt Romney has won the Iowa Caucus, by a narrow range of only 8 votes. Who says voting doesn't make a difference? The most surprising thing, however, about the race was that Rick Santorum was the man he was tied neck and neck with. Santorum is an extremist.
Right up until the votes were counted, Santorum was still making outrageous claims about states having the right to ban birth control and sodomy. And then there is this jewel, where Santorum says welfare for low-income African Americans is apparently a bad thing, "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money."
Mitt Romney has been called the foregone conclusion in this circus called the Republican primary. And with Santorum's comments, it does not seem like he has much competition. And with Romney's win in Iowa, which has one of the most socially conservative Republican bases in the country, it seems highly unlikely Romney will not be the future Republican challenger to Barack Obama. More moderate primary voters in other states will nominate him in landslide wins.
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