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welcome back to early start. we are at the cnn election center. have you been up with us all night? because it has been quite a nail-biter. eight votes actually separated these two men, mitt romney is declared the winner, 30,015 votes. rick santorum, 30,007. of course, they re both at 25%. santorum is being called the real winner here. our christine romans is working really hard for us this morning. you re the iowan. and if anybody knows iowa, it s you, my friend. there s a real breakdown on how people voted and we know this because we had entrance polls where we can ask people questions as they re walking in. why were they voting certain ways? look, we talked to people about what you re thinking and why you re casting this vote on the way in right before they did it. we asked them all of these questions. what kind of experience they were looking for? when did you decide to support?
health care was most important. on the economy, 42%. here s the budget deficit. here s abortion. you see who wins those categories? boom, boom, boom. interesting, right? i want to look at the economy and the budget deficit in particular. and sort of break those down a little bit. a little bit closer. and you can see as we walk over on the other side here, interesting, right? it s romney, paul, santorum, paul, romney, santorum. the same three get the highest marks for handling the money issues of this country, our burgeoning budget deficit, our national debt and fixing the economy. but it s romney who does much better on those, overall on the economy. i told you just a few minutes ago that it was romney who got the vote, 48% for being his experience in business being a big boon to people who are those gop iowa voters. so just some interesting nuances that we re finding in these entrance polls and trying to figure out what these undecided until the last minute iowa
party, that helped him get where he was by the middle of december. however, the television advertising took him out. if he wants to be viable again, he d better go after romney and santorum. if we could bring john avlon in. romney eked by. is this really a victory? john, what does this really mean? it s a really great and important question because people are using the phrase virtual tie. let s put this in larger context. romney won by eight votes. romney actually got six votes less than he got four years ago in iowa. he s still the only man yeah, and millions of dollars. he outspent, if you add the associated pac, he outspent santorum. the establishment favorite. the des moines register endorsement. to beat santorum who hadn t really been on the map by eight months is almost a moral victory for rick santorum.
impassioned speech to about 800 people who were not listening to him in the first 10 or 15 nutes. they were more busy trying to get their plate of food. and then he talked about his fait faith and how he had lost a child. and then he talked about how his child now was sick. and i ve got to tell you, all of a sudden the audience got captivated. and that s the type of voters we see here in iowa. we just got back from iowa. people in iowa participate in caulks. they re evangelicals. rick santorum had their levels. mark just brought up a great point, and that is that rick santorum has a very heavy foreign policy position. he s very anti-iran. at some point i wonder if i ll hear him invoke the words of senator mccain, bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran. i don t know if that s going to play over well or if he ll stick with his evangelical message as