captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. what a wild start to the gop presidential primary season. it was a long night, as close as they get, and perfectly in keeping with the wild swings of this campaign so far. and today, two different campaigns woke up to the ultimate good news/bad news equation in politics. the good news for mitt romney, he won in iowa. the bad news, it was just by eight votes and he couldn t crack 25%, just like four years ago and millions of dollars ago. good news for rick santorum, a huge second place finish for him. he came within eight votes of winning and now he s got to go compete with a fraction of the money and the staff of the bigger campaigns. it was such a wild night. it went so late the des moines register went through half a dozen dummy front pages for just about any outcome until we knew the outcome was going to hinge on eight votes and they could finally put out a morning paper front page. today the field of candidates
what a wild start to the gop presidential primary season. it was a long night, as close as they get, and perfectly in keeping with the wild swings of this campaign so far. and today, two different campaigns woke up to the ultimate good news/bad news equation in politics. the good news for mitt romney, he won in iowa. the bad news, it was just by eight votes and he couldn t crack 25%, just like four years ago and millions of dollars ago. good news for rick santorum, a huge second place finish for him. he came within eight votes of winning and now he s got to go compete with a fraction of the money and the staff of the bigger campaigns. it was such a wild night. it went so late the des moines register went through half a dozen dummy front pages for just about any outcome until we knew the outcome was going to hinge on eight votes and they could finally put out a morning paper front page. today the field of candidates got lighter by one and today the focus shifted to the east to