being nimble. they ve been very nimble. they came in here and made a smart decision. they leave with the win. interesting thing about i think about romney s decision to come here and win is he he had pretty good momentum. he would ve lost this the caucuses if he hadn t also had the second best level of momentum at the end. bigger crowds and all that. mitt romney wanted to win this, and he did and that you can t take that away from him. no doubt about it. barely. we talk about the two winners. yes. let s talk about the two losers and they are clearly defined. oh, it s over for rick perry. i mean, he says it in a very couched way right now. he s going home to reassess. take a listen. i ve decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. and with a little prayer and reflection, i m going to decide
for rick santorum but they talked about the need to defeat president obama. in fact, last night they had the number of days until the end of president obama s term, 307. we ll be back her here live from java joe s. progresso. it fits! fantastic! [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y. okay??? i ve been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans.fit.
he ended up continuing to work in those mines until he was 72 years old. digging coal. i ll never forget the first time i saw someone who had died. it was my grandfather. and i knelt next to his coffin and all i could do at eye level is look at his hands. they were enormous hands. and all i could think was those hands dug freedom for me. wow. welcome back to morning joe. what a strong message. we re live at java joe s in des moines, iowa. caucus day has come and gone. joining us now to talk about what happened last night, mike barnicle. msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele, mark haleprin with us, as well. so we are looking at an
welcome back to way too early live this morning from java joe s in des moines n 2008, mitt romney left the state of iowa disappointed after a tough second place finish. last night he narrowly came out on top. the votes were identical to what it was four years ago. tell your friends that last night mitt romney received just six fewer votes in the iowa caucuses than did he in the 2008 contest. in 2008, mike huckabee won the state with 40,954 votes. i spent the night last night at the caulkies site in altoona, iowa, suburb bf 15,000 people some 20 minutes outside of des moines. altoona precincts one and two sat in separate parts of the gym and the gathered crowd listened to pitches for the candidates before casting their ballots very simply with a little slip of pape eastern mini number two